On unhealthy outcomes
Not surprisingly, Ryan Meili’s announcement that he’ll be stepping down as leader of Saskatchewan’s NDP comes as a major disappointment. To be clear, the decision is understandable both from a…
a healthy society
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Laird Cronk and Sussanne Skidmore offer their take as to how to ensure everybody benefits from British Columbia’s recovery plan. And Trish…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Jesse McLaren and Kate Hayman discuss how better treatment of workers can reduce the strain on a province’s health care system: As front-line…
New column day
Here, on Ryan Meili’s evidence-based policy – and particularly his thoughtful recognition of the issues where it’s better to seek out more expert advice than make promises in its absence.…
Leadership 2018 Links
The latest from the Saskatchewan NDP’s leadership campaign as the January 19 membership deadline approaches. – CBC and Colton Praill each reported on this weekend’s debate in Moose Jaw, with…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Gary Bloch writes about the costs of poverty (and the small-minded attitude toward public supports which allows it to remain): We also…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Owen Jones highlights the toxic stress and other health problems borne disproportionately by members of the LGBT community who face systematic discrimination.…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Andrew Leach's after-the-fact addendum to his review of Alberta's climate change policy offers an important reminder as to the costs of inaction on climate…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Ben Casselman writes that rather than looking to manufacturing jobs alone as a precondition to gains for workers, we should instead focus on the…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Ryan Meili writes that the spread of for-profit corporate medicine - including through the Saskatchewan Party's privatization of care - demonstrates the need for…
Friday Evening Links
This and that to end your week.- Serina Sandhu writes that everybody is worse off when inequality is allowed to run rampant. And Danny Dorling highlights the principles we'll need…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Chris Harper highlights a few of the factors necessary to help boost the long-term health of children:First, Antonovsky found that whatever stresses you…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Branko Milanovic writes about the connection between concentration of wealth and income inequality, making the argument that broader ownership of capital itself may…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Jim Stanford examines what Canada’s federal election says about our attitudes toward economic choices: (P)rogressives need to advance our own economic agenda,…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your election day reading. – Ed Finn discusses how neoliberalism is damaging Canada, and what we need to do to reverse its influence: Corporate influence on federal…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood highlights how the Trans-Pacific Partnership will do little but strengthen the hand of the corporate sector against citizens. Duncan Cameron…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – The Equality Trust reminds us that economic inequality leads to harmful health consequences even for the lucky few at the top of the…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Robert Reich argues that the spread of inequality and corporate abuses is the result of deteriorating public morality and the expectation that…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Alex Munter discusses the connection between public health and economic development, along with the need to take a far longer-term view of…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Jim Stanford highlights how the Cons are focused on exactly the wrong priority in pushing for cuts at a time when Canada’s…