Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Jason Furman discusses how Donald Trump's economic obsessions are in fundamental conflict with one another - meaning that the only result of trying to…
Surveillance
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Robert Reich argues that the overriding theme of the new Trump regime is ineptitude, with Paul Krugman's observation that he's staking the U.S. economy…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your election day reading.- David Moscrop discusses the dangers of allowing the Libs to claim the mantle of "left" while under corporate control. Martin Lukacs warns that…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Toby Buckle notes that the most accurate predictions for Donald Trump's second term have been the ones which warned about the worst (and even…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Melissa Hanson writes about life as a climate refugee from what was billed as a relatively safe area - making for a particularly painful…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Andrew Nikiforuk discusses the immense economic and human cost of COVID-19 denial as another wave surges. And Matthew Frank et al. study how COVID…
Wednesday Evening Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Li Cohen discusses how the Earth has experienced 12 months of record heat in a row - but is on track to see today's…
Wednesday Evening Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Li Cohen discusses how the Earth has experienced 12 months of record heat in a row – but is on track to see…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Rumtin Sepasspour and Courtney Tee write that it’s impossible for governments to prevent and prepare for catastrophic risks when they’re deliberately operating…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Claude Lavoie examines the problems with the far-too-rarely-questioned assumption that public policy needs to be oriented toward top-end economic growth at the expense…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Chris Hedges discusses how the end of empire-based colonialism has only given way to an even more exploitative corporate version. And Cory Doctorow…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your weekend reading. – Alejandro de la Garza writes about the devastation continuing to be wrought by COVID-19 in Lamb County, Texas even as the powers that…
Big Box Stores Remove Products Used to Violate Human Rights
Two of the largest retail chains in the United States have stopped the sale of Chinese-made surveillance products used by the Chinese government to violate human rights. This move to…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Michael Bang Pedersen argues that the COVID pandemic offers a prime example of the importance of telling hard truths to the public –…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Nazeem Muhajarine and Kathryn Green call out Scott Moe’s Saskatchewan Party government for causing readily-preventable suffering and death – both from COVID-19…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Don Braid discusses how Alberta’s health care system and polity are both collapsing under the weight of a UCP government which has utterly…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Guy Quenneville reports on the frustration of Cory Neudorf and other Saskatchewan doctors due to the Moe government’s decision to ignore all available…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Scott Larson reports on the continually rising number of active COVID-19 cases in Saskatchewan. Lauren Pelley discusses the likelihood that even fully-vaccinated…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Mickey Djuric reports on Saskatchewan’s alarmingly high rate of positive COVID-19 tests as students prepare to return to school. And Heidi Atter reports…
Big Brother Is Watching You – and Yes, It Matters
I talked to my boy in the car this past weekend about what to do when he drives, if he has any problems; and he talked to me about the…