2026 New Democratic Party Leadership Race: Views on the Monarchy
As has become my custom I have once again surveyed anotherbatch of leadership candidates running to lead a party. This time its the NDP. The last time they were surveyed…
Yves Engler
On changed realities
Readers may have noted that I've set up a reference page for the 2026 NDP leadership election, which will be updated with both reference information and my own posts on…
An opportunity for Canada’s New Democratic Party
Canada’s New Democratic Party (NDP) long ago abandoned the radical roots of its founding ancestor, the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation which, famously, pledged in 1933 that “No CCF Government will rest…
NDP Leadership Candidates and the Monarchy: Yves Engler
Source: Yves Engler's Campaign Page The NDP leadership race is going to be a long one with it not set toconclude until 2026. Even so thereare two candidates alreadydeclared. As…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Ryan Meili discusses how we should define Canada as a country through an ethic of care - rather than through opposition to any foreign…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – David Moscrop discusses how the Trudeau Libs have chosen to funnel money to cutthroat corporate consultants rather than building a functional public…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – David Moscrop writes about the need for public policy which remedies inequality rather than exacerbating it – while recognizing that we’re falling…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Sarah Rieger reports on the experts pointing out that Jason Kenney (among other right-wing demagogues) is wrong in bleating incessantly that the…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Jeremy Samuel Faust, Harlan Krumholz and Rochelle Walensky write about the false – and dangerous – assumption that COVID-19 would pose few risks…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Matthew Yglesias discusses how the Republicans avoid having to answer for antisocial plans (such as wanting to limit access to health insurance…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Yves Engler discusses how Canadian corporations have shown a consistent pattern of pursuing profit with no consideration of the public good. –…
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…
Left, Right — Marching to the Beat of Imperial Canada
Winnipeg, October 17, 2018: Yves Engler discusses his latest book with an audience at the Université de Saint-Boniface. Photo: Paul S. Graham Some authors are so prolific you can set…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Charles Smith writes about the importance of a living wage as a matter of fairness and justice. But Stephanie Taylor reports on…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Ed Finn discusses how employment and unemployment rates are among the economic indicators which are all too often misleadingly substituted for shared…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Brian Wakamo notes that Kirsten Gillibrand is pushing for postal banking in the U.S. as an alternative to predatory lenders in underserved…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Dana Brown and Thomas Hanna discuss the possibility of a public option for access to medication in the U.S. And while the…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Janine Jackson interviews Sarah Anderson about the lack of any public return on massive U.S. corporate tax breaks. And Greg Jericho discusses…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Jerry Dias writes that corporate greed is the common thread in numerous stories about Canadian workers being left without jobs or support.…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – The Center for Economic Performance finds (PDF) that increased inequality and concentration among firms in an industry exacerbates disparities in wealth while…