The post-2008 economic recovery has been a recovery of the capitalists. Growth in employment and real wages has been sluggish whereas profits have rebounded well past pre-recession highs. However, the decline of the share of labour in GDP is not a localised post-crisis phenomenon. It is a global…

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I grew up in Minnesota, but moved away in 1998; today my connection to the state is not much more profound than following the local news and avidly watching Minnesota Twins baseball games. And yet as I watched the Wisconsin protests against Governor Scott Walker’s union-busting in early 2011, I felt…

On the list of places hosting important World Cup qualifying matches this year, there is Wembley in London, there is Estadio Azteca in Mexico City, and there…

The stories of certain Los Angeles neighborhoods seem easy to tell. Sometimes their geography, architecture, and apparent population practically tell it for…

One Sunday recently while staying in London, I took a stroll in the gardens of Temple, the insular clod of quads and offices between the Strand and the Embankment. It's kind of a luxury rent-controlled ghetto for lawyers and barristers, and there is a beautiful tailors, a fine chapel, established by…

Not a leader? Who looks like a leader? Where is the leadership today? Who do you know in the leader’s office? Today leadership is what Canadian political culture amounts to; the rest is window dressing. So what could be more useful than a tough, data-driven analysis of how Canadian political…

As a slow reader, I’m fascinated by those who go back to the novels they love. Trapped at the speed of my brain, I’ve only read my favourite books twice, for fear of wasting time that could be used on something new. Who are these people who return to their favourites, time and again? Which books do…

Mike McGinnis / Getty Images In the 1870s, just as professional baseball was getting its sea legs, there was an infielder named Ross Barnes who was really only good at one thing. At 5 feet 8 inches and 145 pounds, he had a smidge of pop in this deadest part of the dead-ball era, hitting six home…

kid-middle-finger Brian Phillips has written a terrific essay for Grantland on the culture of ritualized pain and intimidation in football, and the ways that…

hester Eli Horowitz is not particularly tech savvy, but he’s spent a lot of time thinking about what consumer technology can do. Until a few months ago, long…

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Henry Morgentaler, the family doctor who led the abortion movement in Canada, died of a heart attack at his Toronto home early Wednesday. He was 90. Dr. Morgentaler, who was the focus of both reverence and hatred, was one of the key players in the 1988 Supreme Court of Canada ruling that declared…

Opinion: ‘Free’ streets, highway network an illusion One researcher has determined there are at least 90 different ways to put a price on something we all need one way or the other: the road-based transportation network. Whether through flat fees, tolls, distance-charging or a myriad of variations,…

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford leaves his office at City Hall on November 19. (Reuters/Aaron Harris) Toronto has hit the big time. I mean, when Ron Burgundy sings Loverboy’s “Working for the Weekend” on Conan in honor of Mayor Rob Ford, let’s just say T-dot is on the map. Sure, it’s for all the wrong…

Thank you About Books Essays Interviews Blog Doctors Contact Kiese Laymon is a Black southern writer from Jackson, Mississippi. Laymon is the Libbie Shearn Moody Professor of English and Creative Writing at Rice University. Laymon is the author of Long Division, which won the 2022 NAACP Image Award…

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Sections Shows Video Support TV Schedule Search Donate Tending the Wild Tending the Wild shines light on the environmental knowledge of indigenous peoples across California by exploring how they have actively shaped and tended the land for millennia. New Series: Tending the Wild Watch Now The…

coin stack (Photo: Flickr/Creative Commons) How high should we set the minimum wage in Ontario? And what should determine how the minimum wage is increased? The…

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This article appears in the April edition of the Financial Post Magazine . Visit the iTunes store to download the iPad edition of this month’s issue. President…

Renting and relationships - everything changes // by Kristin Warkentin in @TheTyee http://t.co/mWw0jViWdp — Jackie Wong (@_jackiewong) November 27, 2013

Jeremy Clarkson If you are not a regular cyclist, you may ask why you should support proposals to boost investment in safe cycle routes. More than three…

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Understanding coders is more valuable than understanding code. I too will never learn to code. http://t.co/ItdWgVKYXI via — Anne Stefanyk (@eskimoYogi) November 26, 2013

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Pragmatic Centrism Is Crony Capitalism Neoliberal crony capitalism is driven by a grand coalition between the pragmatic centre-left and the pragmatic centre-right. Crony capitalist policies are always justified as the pragmatic solution. The range of policy options is narrowed down to a pragmatic…