Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Sara Mojtehedzadeh reports that the Ford government’s move to strip sick days away from workers was made without any attempt to consider the…
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New column day
Here, on how the U.S. midterms show the political risks of putting corporations over people – and how Saskatchewan citizens should take a hint as to who deserves to be…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Alexi White points out how tall tales about “welfare fraud” have been used as excuse to trap people in poverty. And the Star’s…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Gary Younge discusses how regardless of the outcome of the U.S.’ midterm elections, democracy is on the defensive against a Republican attack…
New column day
Here, on Scott Moe’s choice to pursue strongman politics indistinguishable from the Donald Trumps and Doug Fords of the world. For further reading…– D.C. Fraser reported on Moe’s willingness to…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Campbell Robb laments the persistence of in-work poverty in the UK – though it’s of course worth noting the reality that poverty…
New column day
Here, discussing the Price of Oil collaborative’s latest report on how the Saskatchewan Party is requiring provincial regulators to keep the public at risk in order to avoid having oil…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Robert Cribb, Patti Sonntag, Michael Wrobel, P.W. Elliott and Carolyn Jarvis examine the Saskatchewan Party government’s utter refusal to monitor or regulate pollution…
On necessary measures
I’ve previously linked to columns by Paul Wells and Jen Gerson on the coordinated right-wing attack on carbon pricing. (And even the Notley government has made a show of withdrawing…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Bandy Lee discusses the need to treat inequality as a social disease which calls for immediate treatment: Residents of countries with higher income…
New column day
Here, on how the Saskatchewan Party’s self-induced aversion to responsible climate policy may producing serious political and economic consequences. For further reading…– D.C. Fraser reported on the NDP’s Regina Northeast…
New column day
Here, on how the needless use of the notwithstanding clause is just one more of the ways in which Scott Moe’s Saskatchewan Party is dangerously similar to Doug Ford’s PC…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Thomas Walkom reminds us that the Libs’s supposed tradeoff of climate policy for pipelines is failing as much in producing the former…
Planning for failure
The Saskatchewan Party’s latest excuse for a climate change announcement passed last week with little more than a passing mention in the media. And on the merits, it certainly earned…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Jagmeet Singh observes that much of the festering hate stoked by right-wing parties can be traced back to economic injustice and insecurity: (I)f…
New column day
Here (via PressReader), on the Saskatchewan Party’s continued disregard for municipalities and other localized forms of governance – not to mention good government in general. For further reading…– Cory Coleman…
Friday Evening Links
Assorted content to end your week. – David Moscrop makes the case for a long-overdue inheritance tax in Canada: Over time, if left unchecked, capitalism facilitates the pooling of wealth…
New column day
Here, on how Saskatchewan may be in the eye of a global heat storm, but shouldn’t use that as an excuse to keep contributing to increasingly-dangerous climate change. For further…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Katie Dangerfield reports on new research showing that carbon pricing can be an economic benefit, while unrestrained climate change would be disastrous.…
New column day
Here, on how the Justice for our Stolen Children movement should spur Saskatchewan to action toward reconciliation – but is instead being met with a government determined to silence anybody…