Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Jessica Wong et al. study the risk of hospitalization and death from the Omicron strain of COVID-19, and conclude (contrary to the spin…
Susan Delacourt
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Andre Picard writes that COVID-19 remains an imminent and severe threat to our health – no matter how many people are choosing to…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Dimitri Lascaris argues that while Donald Trump has lost the presidential election, the unfair society which allowed him to take power in the…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Eric Cadesky writes about the psychology behind adherence to – and deviation from – the social distancing rules needed to keep us all…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Bethany Lindsay reports on the start of B.C.’s inquiry into money laundering through casinos. And PressProgress offers a reminder as to how the…
My latest: Star, CBC no longer lead the way
How the media mighty have fallen. Way, way back, when this writer was a special assistant to opposition leader Jean Chretien, getting ready for the daily Question Period ritual was…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Lana Payne comments on the war being waged by Canada’s right-wing governments against workers. – Dion Rabouin writes about the product of decades…
Susan Delacourt gets it wrong. Again. Will she admit her error?
Several of you let me know that the Toronto Star’s Susan Delacourt was on CBC Radio yesterday. On a panel, she said that Lisa and I “are working with Jody…
The Committee to Re-Elect the Prime Minister: how to intimidate MPs, and how to get a newspaper to go along
THREAD. A member of the Team Trudeau campaign secretly follows around two former cabinet ministers on budget day, and takes photos of them when they meet with others. Without consent,…
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…
Irreconcilable differences? Gulf between the Alberta and federal NDP is wide, and could grow wider
The rift between Premier Rachel Notley’s Alberta New Democrats and the federal NDP led by Jagmeet Singh over the Trans Mountain Pipeline is wide and deep, but it is not…
11 days from the brink, and Rachel Notley’s dice roll brings back memories of Mulroney and Meech
Rachel Notley, Alberta’s tough NDP premier who has clearly concluded her government’s survival depends on there being shovels in the ground building a pipeline by the time she asks the…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Lee Drutman points out that Donald Trump’s presidency represents an entirely foreseeable result of a two-party, first-past-the-post electoral system: (C)ontrary to claims that…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Karl Russell and Peter Goodman note that lower unemployment rates in the U.S aren’t translating into higher wages. Alena Semuels points out the…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – David Leonhardt looks at the glaring growth of inequality in the U.S., while Matt Bruening charts how that trend is based entirely…
New column day
Here, on the first few steps of the federal NDP’s leadership race. For further reading…– CBC News reported on Peter Julian’s campaign launch, while Alex Ballingall covered Charlie Angus’ and…
New column day
Here, on the first few steps of the federal NDP’s leadership race. For further reading…– CBC News reported on Peter Julian’s campaign launch, while Alex Ballingall covered Charlie Angus’ and…
New column day
Here, on how Justin Trudeau is about the least plausible possible advocate as to the importance of building trust in leaders and public institutions. For further reading…– The text of…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Tom Parkin calls out the Libs’ latest laughable excuse for breaking their promise of electoral reform – being the threat that a party…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – The Star argues that a crackdown on tax evasion and avoidance is a crucial first step in reining in inequality. Susan Delacourt wonders…