Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Allison Gill offers a reminder that every aspect of the U.S.' descent into fascism can be traced back to the increasing power of an…
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Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Andrea Thompson reports on the record-breaking heat wave in the southwest U.S. as another stark example of a climate breakdown in progress. But…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Ian Welsh discusses how institutions under the thrall of neoliberal ideology are incapable of achieving any end other than the further enrichment…
Monday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to start your week. – The Climate Change Performance Update’s latest update shows Canada tumbling to the bottom of the world’s development countries in climate performance – even…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – David Macdonald highlights yet another record-breaking year of Canadian CEO income compared to the pay of the average worker. – Lisa Young’s…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – The Honest Sorceror points out the obvious unsustainability of exponential growth in resource extraction when the mass of inanimate man-made objects already exceeds…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – The Canadian Health Coalition weighs in on the recent study showing that privatized surgeries in Quebec cost more than twice what public procedures…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Kendra Pierre-Louis discusses the need for journalists to cover the massive health risks posed by COVID-19 even as (or even because of)…
Demetrios Nicolaides’ red-tape plan for post-secondaries is about dominating free speech on campus, not defending it
Notwithstanding the inevitable rhetoric about defending “free speech” on campus, it’s worth remembering that’s not the reason for Advanced Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides’ planned homework assignment for Alberta’s post-secondary institutions.…
Firing at Athabasca U suggests there are now two classes of public board members in Alberta – those appointed by the UCP and those not
Writing in The Tyee Thursday, Alberta-based investigative journalist Charles Rusnell reported that Athabasca University’s president was fired Wednesday without a vote of the institution’s entire board of governors. Athabasca University…
Athabasca University President fired after long-running disagreement with UCP over institution’s role in Athabasca Town
After months of scrapping with the United Conservative Party government over the role Athabasca University should play in economic development for the Town of Athabasca, university president Peter Scott has…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Chinta Sidharthan discusses new research on COVID-19 reinfections, showing that subsequent infections tend to produce similar immediate effects to a first one but…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Pratyush Dayal reports on the COVID outbreak which has infected every single resident of a Regina care home. And Dan Scheuerman reports…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Carolyn Johnson discusses how one’s initial development of an immune response to COVID may affect the impact of future vaccinations. Kim Constantino reports…
Minister’s demand substantially unchanged on move of Athabasca University executives, many staff, to town 145 kilometres north of Edmonton
Advanced Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides indicated yesterday he hasn’t changed his mind about requiring Athabasca University’s nine top executives to move to the town of Athabasca. The Town of Athabasca,…
Alberta is calling, again: Top-notch education at the U of A! (Never mind how we’re trying to bring it down a notch or two …)
The Alberta is Calling vanity advertising campaign featuring the voice of the province’s soon-to-be-retired premier continues to tout benefits for would-be newcomers to Alberta that Jason Kenney’s United Conservative Party…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Jason Gale reports on new research showing how COVID-19 can cause impacts on the brain for a period of years (with no…
Athabasca University president rips UCP for ‘1980s thinking’ that puts institution on ‘path to ruin’
In a video message posted yesterday morning, Athabasca University President Peter Scott ripped the United Conservative Party Government’s plan to force the institution to dramatically increase its presence in its…
Funding threatened by advanced education minister, battle over Athabasca University’s future continues
What’s up with Athabasca University, where Advanced Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides has threatened to cut off much of the 52-year-old Alberta institution’s funding if it won’t drop plans to move…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Mary Ziegler and Scott Lemieux both warn of the many other rights in imminent danger due to both the fact of the elimination…