ICYMI: May 5-11
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Should Canada leave NATO?
Jake Landau is a progressive Liberal politico and author of the Jake Landau Is Getting Tired newsletter. We actually agreed on a lot more than I expected in this discussion. My position is that NATO plays a belligerent, needlessly provocative role in international affairs, largely at the behest of the U.S., and serves as an extortion racket for arms manufacturers.
How post-pandemic precarity altered the job landscape for Canadian women
Tl;dr A new report from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives shows that while job numbers for women have largely recovered from the pandemic, the overall quality of working conditions has diminished. Owing to…
Big Shiny Takes is back with a new episode, featuring Stephen Magusiak of PressProgress, in which we discuss a bizarre John Ibbitson column that argued housing density might cause infertility.
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