Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- The Guardian discusses how Canada is on the frontline of Donald Trump's attacks on any concept of a rules-based international order. Franklin Foer writes…
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Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Ryan Meili discusses how we should define Canada as a country through an ethic of care - rather than through opposition to any foreign…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Ziyad Al-Aly offers a reminder of the immense body of evidence showing that COVID-19 leaves a lasting impact on the brain. And Hannah…
On harm exacerbation
Ryan Meili offers an important values-based critique of the Sask Party’s “do more harm” policy on addictions treatment. But it’s worth taking a closer look at who stands to benefit…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Ryan Meili discusses how a blinkered focus on austerian “efficiency” and exit strategies prevents the development of care systems capable of meeting…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Ed Broadbent discusses how economic equality is a precondition to freedom for the majority of the population. Chris McGreal reviews Angus Deaton’s book…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Dawn Bowdish and Andrew Costa provide a reminder as to how to stay as safe as possible from COVID-19 (even as governments…
#SKNDPLDR Candidate Profile – Carla Beck
On paper, Carla Beck’s track record covers nearly every group the NDP should be looking to attract into its fold. She’s a well-respected veteran member of the Legislature, with prior…
#SKNDPLDR Candidate Profile – Kaitlyn Harvey
The flip side of Carla Beck’s position as the ultra-establishment candidate – backed by most of the NDP’s existing organizational structure, and using that position to play to those with…
On unhealthy outcomes
Not surprisingly, Ryan Meili’s announcement that he’ll be stepping down as leader of Saskatchewan’s NDP comes as a major disappointment. To be clear, the decision is understandable both from a…
Better late than never
At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the running joke in Saskatchewan politics was that whatever NDP leader Ryan Meili pushed for, Scott Moe’s Saskatchewan Party government could be counted…
Episode 82: Best of Alberta Politics with Adrienne King and Matt Solberg
Adrienne King and Matt Solberg join the Daveberta Podcast for our year-end episode of 2021. We delve into Premier Jason Kenney‘s leadership challenges, the fireworks at the end of Alberta’s…
The difficult journey upstream
One of the signature messages of Ryan Meili’s work in activism and politics has been the concept of upstream thinking – described in extremely brief form here: To imagine a…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Emma Jackson highlights why we shouldn’t treat carbon pricing as anything more than a tiny piece of a plan to avert a climate…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Roger McNamee argues that online platforms need to be held to account for their role in fomenting political violence. And Rebecca Traister writes…
On non-goals
The combination of Paul Merriman’s appalling use of poll numbers as a measure of COVID success – followed by Scott Moe’s feckless response – has rightly been the subject of…
On missed opportunities
There has been plenty of commentary and analysis about the results of Saskatchewan’s provincial election – including some discussion on the theme of an overly risk-averse NDP campaign. But I’ll…
On bigger pictures
There are still plenty of important results to be finalized in Saskatchewan’s election campaign, and I’ll have more to say about specific aspects of the campaign generally. But for starters…
Sunday Afternoon #skvotes Links
The latest from Saskatchewan’s provincial election campaign as election day approaches tomorrow. – A new poll shows the race tightening significantly, including with the NDP holding a significant lead in…