Who puts children in cages?Not men assured living wages.A #FightforFifteen?A quaint little dream,While American Dreams shrink in stages.#WhereAreTheChildren?#ChildrenConcentrationCamps.This started when?President Orange Gramps.* *Obama and Bush share some blame. — John…
Well, who knew that activating a new WordPress account for research purposes would unlock a long-forgotten old relic from the past like this? Five plus years ago suddenly seems like…
https://earthgauge.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/mixdown-18-06-11.mp3 A weekly Canadian environmental news podcast featuring stories from across Canada and around the world. Join me here every week or subscribe to the podcast. On the show this…
Balancing Users, Platforms, and Buy-in Strategies for National Digital Teams This week, digital HKS is partnering with Public Digital to convene digital services units from around the world. We will…
Donald Trump – the sexist, racist, xenophobic, dictatorial, megalomaniac leader of the free world – has finally accomplished something that no other American president has ever done. Trump has single-handedly…
Is Jim Carr, Minister of Screwing Up Industry talking about Bombardier or Kinder Morgan? It’s a trick question, he said that about both. Last year McParland wrote the following hilarity…
Doug Ford’s candidates. Nearly one-in-four is a potential criminal. Great.
Part 1: hypothesis & goals Context This summer, digital HKS is excited to launch an experimental pilot that will help MPP and MPA students at the Harvard Kennedy School of…
Last month I had the pleasure of interviewing Ben Scott about is great New America report “Digital Deceit: The Technologies Behind Precision Propaganda on the Internet” at a Brookfield Institute…
A short video that the awesome Taylor Gunn and Civix Canada made with me about social platforms, journalism and democracy, for use in Canadian classrooms, focused on grade nine students:
A douchebag that will park in a handicap spot so he doesn’t have to walk more than 20 feet to pitch his snake oil:
Vote NDP. Don’t be fooled by Wynne’s last plea. We must stop Ford.
On May 28th, 61 Canadian economists (myself included) signed the following letter urging the federal government to instruct the Bank of Canada to consider full employment and not only inflation…
This past weekend was a nightmare was a grand finale for the Liberal Party of Ontario. As many people know, Kathleen Wynne bailed on the party this weekend and is…
The populist answer to Italy’s woes? Bring back the technocrats https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/03/populist-answer-to-italian-woes-more-teechnocrats?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_WordPress
Many citizens — although not In-Sights readers — will be shocked to learn that credits owed natural gas producers soared by more than $1 billion from April to November 2018.…
Unemployment at the Heart of Italy’s Economic Crisis — Read on therealnews.com/stories/unemployment-at-the-heart-of-italys-economic-crisis
Either we are all ‘from here’ or none of us are. If academics and government can refer to our first nations as indigenous then they must have changed the meaning…
Three of the four official parties have submitted fully costed plans for their promises in the 2018 election. What makes the Ford crew immune from this kind of scrutiny?
For a very long time, religious institutions have thrived off public support in the form of tax-free status for property, incentives for food programs and deductions for donations made by…
