As some of you may know, the Canada Reads book challenge is on in March. The short list has been out since the end of January, which gives avid readers a couple of months to get through five books. My first pick was Michael Winter's Minister Without Portfolio, a story set in Renews, Newfoundland.
In this short but dense series of investigative pieces, journalist Scott Sherman reviews the latest round of attacks on the New York Public Library (NYPL), an institution well known in the city for its prized academic collections and as a community hub.
If you, like myself, hadn't heard much about the intriguing instrument called the theremin, then you're in for a treat. The winner of the 2014 Giller prize is Sean Michaels' Us Conductors, a tale about Lev Theremin and the instrument he invented in the 1920′s.
In 2013, February by Lisa Moore was the winner of Canada Reads. I only just caught up and had the chance to read it recently. It reminds us of an important part of Canadian labour history: the story of the Ocean Ranger, an oil drilling unit off the coast of Newfoundland that sank in 1982, killing the 84 men on board.
A book review of Raziel Reid's When Everything Feels Like The Movies.
A photo essay of the Black Lives Matter - Toronto Pride action, 2016. Photos by Paige Galette.
CUPE goes on strike at Wilfrid Laurier University; Open Whisper Systems Encryption Takes Over ; NATO: the supreme opportunists for war ; Chilcot Inquiry reminds us war should not be inevitable ; Left Noise this week
In theory, debt generated by asset recycling is paid back through private sector partners finding efficiencies or increased government revenue driven economic growth. While this may work in the private sector, it does not work for governments. In practice, asset recycling is similar to other privatization schemes – such as public-private partnerships – that cost governments and citizens more money than traditional public debt-financed investment.
