Sask Party Calls The Cops
Instead of meeting with healthcare workers who showed up at the Saskatoon Cabinet Office today to talk about some of their concerns, the Premier and Minister of Labour snuck out…
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On misleadership
When the COVID-19 pandemic was first declared, there was relatively little pushback against the most extreme (if necessary) steps which were taken out of a lack of knowledge of the…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Bruce Campbell makes the case for the federal throne speech to be ambitious in dealing with our concurrent crisis of public health, climate…
Unmaintainable
Particularly as parents face difficult decisions in determining how to handle a return to unsafe schools in the midst of a pandemic, it’s no surprise that the Moe government’s secrecy…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Linda Silas writes about the need to invest in improved care and better jobs in order to build a health society. And…
Monday Morning Links
Assorted content for your Labour Day reading. – Gregory Beatty discusses the class struggle as it’s playing out in the time of COVID. Jim Stanford offers a reminder as to…
Missing in action
Shorter Sask Party when it comes to using steel as an excuse for pipeline approvals: It’s vital that we uncritically cheerlead for EVERY SINGLE PIPELINE PROPOSAL for the sake of…
On selective normalcy
Shorter Government of Saskatchewan: It’s absolutely crucial for children’s development and mental health that their back-to-school experience be as normal as possible. Especially when it comes to being in classrooms…
Off target
In case there was any doubt how much of a gap there is between the Moe government’s propensity for making promises about COVID-19 control and its capacity to delivery, how’s…
Death by a thousand cuts
Others are rightly pointing out that we have a strong precedent as to what the Saskatchewan Party’s version of austerity actually means, in the form of the disastrous 2017 budget…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Jennifer Robson examines the lessons we should learn from EI’s failures which required a less-onerous and more-widely-available income support system to bail…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Joel Blit, Chuanmo Jin and Mikal Skuterud point out the importance of thinking ahead and being strategic in determining what activities are permitted…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Christina Maxouris and Alaa Elassar report on a new study showing the U.S. could save tens of thousands of lives by requiring…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Ed Finn writes about the need to shift away from capitalist domination before the next major crisis strikes. And Larry Elliott laments…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Michal Rozworski writes that we need to respond to the coronavirus pandemic with investment in the society we want to build for tomorrow,…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Paola Frelich writes about the uber-rich whose habit of being strictly isolated from anybody else has allowed for life to continue as…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Lori Fox writes that the COVID-19 pandemic reflects a fundamental break with what had been business as usual – making it essential…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – As the Libs continue to stall on announcing a promised transition from an expiring CERB to a revised employment insurance system, David Macdonald…
Tuesday Evening Links
This and that for your Tuesday evening. – Crawford Kilian examines the UN’s advice on how to keep school safe from COVID-19, while the Saskatchewan Medical Association and Saskatchewan College…
On risky responses
Plenty of people have taken note of the Saskatchewan Party’s “Kate” data collection scheme – and it’s given rise to much due mockery, as well as some important recognition of…