Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Gabrielle Drolet discusses how essential workers have been left to bear the physical and emotional burdens of workplaces designed to prioritize the…
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Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Jerusalem Demsas discusses the strong popular support for affordable social housing even as governments continually fail to provide it. Daphne Bramham rightly asks…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Ciara Nugent writes about Amsterdam’s embrace of doughnut economics focused on finding the sweet spot which accounts for human well-being and environmental…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Simon Enoch traces the COVID-19 spending that’s taken place in Saskatchewan – finding that most of the support has come from the…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Grace Blakeley comments on the connection between neoliberal ideology, and the replacement of even the possibility of collective action with an assumption…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Anna McMillan reports on the disproportionate effect COVID-19 has (predictably) had on First Nations reserves in Saskatchewan. And Maan Ahmidi reports on the…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Jim Stanford discusses the reality that even from the standpoint of GDP and economic activity, we’re better off implementing strong enough measures…
On climate pollution
Martin Olzynski’s submission this week has called plenty of attention to the Kenney UCP’s funding of climate denialism through an inquiry attacking environmentalism. But let’s note that the response to…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Don Braid calls out Jason Kenney for allowing his government’s MLAs and officials to gallivant around the world on vacation while demanding…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Daisy Fancourt discusses how general non-compliance with public health orders and recommendations can be traced back to the perception that elites couldn’t be…
Use the war room to educate Albertans?
In December 2019, the Alberta government launched the Canadian Energy Centre. The new UCP government had fulfilled its election promise of an energy “war room” that would “fight fake news…
Contextualizing Racism
During the 2019 Alberta Election, a number of UCP candidates were tagged by opposition as having track records of peddling hate. Several of these candidates ended up stepping aside during…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – John Klein points out how Doug Ford’s combination of abject failure and laughable deflection in response to the avoidable spread of COVID-19…
Parsing Alberta’s oil industry
One could divide Alberta up in various ways. First, as in most provinces and elsewhere, there is town and country, the old story of liberal cities and socially conservative hinterlands.…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Andrew Jackson summarizes and discusses Lance Taylor and Ozlem Omer‘s new book showing how the combination of wage suppression and growing inequality…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Tracy Fuller talks to Emily Oster about the process people can follow in minimizing COVID risks in the absence of full information. And…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Thomson Reuters reports on the latest UN research showing that planned fossil fuel production far exceeds what we can afford if we want…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Max Fawcett writes that equivocal posturing about personal responsibility (from Jason Kenney among others) has offered no resistance to the spread of…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – In the absence of leaders at any level of government willing to act on the scale needed to stop the coronavirus pandemic…
On anti-precaution
Jennie Russell and Charles Rusnell’s bombshell report offers an alarming – if perhaps not surprising – look at how Jason Kenney’s UCP has refused to do anything more than the…