Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Bill McGuire discusses why anybody with an understanding of climate science is terrified of a living environment that’s careening out of control. Carbon Brief notes that there’s plenty of public support for meaningful climate action. But Andre Mayer observes that while the wealthiest and most
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Accidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Emily Toth Martin and Marisa Eisenberg point out the obvious value of wearing masks to reduce the likelihood of catching and spreading respiratory illnesses. And Wanzhu Tu et al. find that people build stronger immune defences to COVID-19 by getting vaccinated than by
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We’ve known for quite a while about the dangers of fracking. Andrew Nikiforuk writes: In the past ten days, North America’s oil and gas industry rattled key geological formations with earthquakes in British Columbia and Texas. Damage from the U.S. quake, the third largest in Texas’s history, closed a major
Continue readingViews from the Beltline: All hands on deck to rig the oil market
The oil industry and the free market are not well acquainted. The price of oil has long been manipulated more by cartels than by free markets. Since the 1970s, the manipulator in chief has been the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and its collaborators (OPEC+). The recent collapse in
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. – Richard Warnica discusses the end of a summer in which we’ve been far too lax about limiting the foreseeable effects of COVID-19. Aaron Wherry writes that the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic will hurt all the more since we’ve learned – but
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This and that for your Thursday reading. – David Macdonald discusses the opportunity to transition from the temporary CERB to a permanently-improved income support system for Canadians – along with the danger that people relying on modest relief now will be left to drown if the old EI rules are
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This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Vaughn Palmer discusses how British Columbia’s Site C megaproject had gone awry long before the coronavirus pandemic hit. And CBC News reports on new research showing that thousands of earthquakes can be traced to the province’s push toward fracking with no regard
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Assorted content to end your week. – George Monbiot recognizes that our climate policy needs to be based on maximizing our shift to a sustainable society, not on trying to barely reach insufficient emission reduction targets: It’s not just the target that’s wrong, but the very notion of setting targets
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Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Dion Rabouin offers a reminder that corporate tax giveaways don’t do anything to help the economy beyond the interests of wealthy shareholders. And Nicole Aschoff discusses the importance of building a model for progressive globalism to counter the reach of international capital. –
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This and that for your Thursday reading. – Bernie Sanders and Rashida Tlaib discuss Donald Trump’s holiday menu of serving the rich and feasting on the poor, while Paul Krugman comments on the cruelty of a Trump Christmas. And Nick Purdon and Leonardo Palleja tell the stories of people facing
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This and that for your Thursday reading. – Ben Parfitt comments on the dangers of captured regulators such as B.C.’s Oil and Gas Commission who end up serving corporate “clients” rather than the public interest. And Bryan Walsh discusses the discounting effect which makes it all too frequent for people
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Assorted content to start your week. – Cédric Durand and Razmig Keucheyan highlight the return of economic planning as a widely-recognized public policy option – while pointing out the need for our democratic systems to allow for public direction of the planning process. And Lauren Townsend writes about the importance
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Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Lana Payne writes about the perilous future we’re leaving to future generations – as well as the hope we should draw from young activists demanding better. – Sven Biggs debunks a few of Justin Trudeau’s excuses for using public money to buy and
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Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Frank Graves and Michael Valpy discuss the contrast between Canadian voters who are rightly concerned about the gap in wealth and power between the rich and the rest of us, and the Lib and Con politicians who go out of their way to
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This and that for your Thursday reading. – Armine Yalnizyan comments on the need for a widespread and sustained challenge to the corporate powers which currently dominate political and economic decision-making: (P)ublic and private investments are the twin engines that propel shared prosperity. But where will the money come from
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This and that for your Thursday reading. – Tim Wu writes that the U.S.’ political system is serving to allow a privileged few to ignore the policy preferences and interests of the vast majority of citizens: About 75 percent of Americans favor higher taxes for the ultrawealthy. The idea of
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Yves Engler writes that the Libs’ SNC-Lavalin scandal represents a fully expected consequence of a foreign policy based on acquiescing in corruption: …Trudeau went to bat for SNC after the firm had either been found guilty or was alleged to have greased palms
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Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Dion Rabouin examines the U.S.’ unprecedented level of inequality and wealth concentration. And Orsetta Causa, Anna Vindics and James Browne highlight how worsening inequality around the globe has been the result of avoidable policy choices. – But David Dayen writes that Amazon’s failed
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’ annual report on CEO pay shows that executives are again being handed hundreds as much money as their employees – and that there’s also a gender gap even at the executive level. – The Economic Policy Institute
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Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Avi Lewis contrasts the real crises which demand our attention against the manufactured ones which are instead promoted by far too many of our political leaders: Even for those of us who have not yet experienced personal loss and trauma from climate catastrophe,
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