Aka ‘extortion’

Carney isn't just failing Canada, he's failing the world. If we don't stand for democracy and a rules-based international order, why would any other country come to Canada's defence when we need it?

Uh, Canada, you might want to say something definitive about respecting sovereignty of Arctic states sooner rather than later.

Carney's entire strategy is based on the assumption that the threat to Canada is purely economic. It's not. The US is a political, authoritarian, fascist threat. Economics is downstream from the political. Unless the political threat is addressed, no number of clever trade deals will protect us.

My pick for tops of 2025: butcherbrownmusic.bandcamp.com/album/letter...

Nothing artificial here…. rfi.my/CJCi

Why are some academics always trying to make up new words to describe what is going on in world politics and economics? IMHO stronger approaches to understanding world issues actually assess the terms that powerful people use, abuse, twist and stretch to advance their interests.

Some losers in West Africa are giving poor people false hopes about Canadian visas to swindle them out of all of their earthly possessions rfi.my/CIac

Launched at the 2018 Next Einstein Forum in Kigali, Elsevier’s flagship multidisciplinary journal for Africa is moving up. As an Executive Editor, I’m keen to see more submissions on #sustainability and development in 2026. www.sciencedirect.com/journal/scie...

I'm delighted to share the news that the University of Guelph History department is recruiting for a tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level in the History of the Middle East. Come work with us! careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-A...

The Corruption Diaries podcast Season 2 drops 2nd Jan: Richard Allen had his own record label, managing & touring with bands like Porcupine Tree but unexpectedly ended up taking on tax dodgers & the UK authorities from his garden shed. Available wherever you get your podcasts podlink.com/1721797109

Former Unilever CEO Paul Polman on @mark-carney.bsky.social’s fossil ‘strategy’ in today’s @FT. 20th Century ‘thinking’ criticized after PM ditches bracketed content from his ‘Value(s)’

Fucking incredible dystopian shit, comparing super rich people risking millions if not billions of lives just to make more money to people that risked their life actually building incredible things that would then make millions of dollars for super rich people.

Another case of irresponsible commodity production - demand better bananas! rfi.my/CG3P

Lunch w Daniel Drache today / he’s still got his fingers directly on the political pulse!

#BandcampFriday 🔥

A few of my favourite titles by my father, Tom Henighan, who died on Saturday, as a result of an accident, at the age of 91.

Another www.theicsdp.org podcast is out: David Peck sits down w Philippe Lassou and Teerooven Soobaroyen to explore the intersection of accounting, poor numbers and the SDGs www.youtube.com/watch?v=cA5Q...

Visited my farmer @tonymcquailndp.bsky.social this am for some sustainable local food. Support #organic producers and their big ideas!!

Tony @tonymcquailndp.bsky.social is live raising funds w grassroots green economy types www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOaa...

Check out Ruby Dagher’s conversation with David Peck and hear her thoughts on the need for an Independent Commission on the #SDGs to set the post-2030 Agenda youtu.be/CG_-9jHfdqE

Sven Wunder dropped some seriously transportative tunes this year....https://svenwunder.bandcamp.com/album/daybreak

How can we move the #EU beyond its fixation on destructive GDP growth as the answer to #poverty? Join me @baseickhout.bsky.social @marietouss1.bsky.social @mmbuchs.bsky.social @drmariannaleite.bsky.social @chloemiko.bsky.social & others in Brussels/online www.beyond-growth-2023.eu/about-the-co...

Another www.theicsdp.org podcast is out: David Peck sits down w Philippe Lassou and Teerooven Soobaroyen to explore the intersection of accounting, poor numbers and the SDGs www.youtube.com/watch?v=cA5Q...

This is fascinating and disturbing from @jburnmurdoch.ft.com on rise of 'financial nihilism' (cc @aminsamman.bsky.social !) in the asset economy www.ft.com/content/c17a...

The Carney/Smith #MOU is a climate dumpster fire. We knew it was coming, but boy howdy, it really sucks. THREAD

Check out Ruby Dagher’s conversation with David Peck and hear her thoughts on the need for an Independent Commission on the #SDGs to set the post-2030 Agenda youtu.be/CG_-9jHfdqE

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to tell you what happens when you delay anti-deforestation laws. The EU just decided to FAFO rfi.my/CDb6

#BREAKING: Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.

432 Park Avenue.. & the super tall, super-skinny towers for the super-rich. Architects Declare writes “For those that might still claim that skyscrapers are symbols of progress, the evidence is clear they now represent progress towards societal collapse.” lloydalter.substack.com/p/schadenfre...

Yes

If an attractive young woman a third my age didn't want to date me, then why did she ask me for feedback on an economics paper? by Larry Summers

Thank you my friends for helping with our final push to meet the nomination requirements!

So the Swiss🇨🇭have successfully bribed Trump w tacky gold crap + billions in promised investment for lower tariffs (for now). Wonderful to see the @wto.org host country bolstering the enshittification of global trade governance and failing to support collective solutions….

An extraordinary mapping of Big Food/Big Ag's influence at COP30, by @rachelsherrington.bsky.social and co at @desmog.com.

New from @marcfroese.bsky.social and Daniel Drache rabble.ca/economy/we-k...

Check out one of our greatest regenerative farmers campaigning for Canada's @ndp.ca leadership while citing @jasonhickel.bsky.social drive.google.com/file/d/1EXcz...

I just donated to the Tony McQuail Green-Progressive campaign: join our effort to put one of Canada's biggest sustainability voices front and centre on the national stage tonymcquailgreenprogressive.ca

Good to see David Pilling's take on Simandou...but there are huge gaps here. Read @jeuneafrique.com for more on Russia's ongoing surge into France's power vacuum, the rise of narcotrafficking, and massive governance backsliding (i.e. the essential story behind the story) www.ft.com/content/9fe8...

Excellent commentary from @stephenbrown.bsky.social on the McLeod Group Blog about Canada's ill-timed cuts to its global aid responsibilities: "The World Needs Less Canada?" www.mcleodgroup.ca/2025/11/the-...

My analysis of his year's Economics Nobel is out in EPW! What's wrong with the Economics Nobel this time around? I've written a little commentary arguing that the Prize rewards Eurocentric foundations for (innovation-driven) growth and supports a technology fetish. PDF: ingridhk.com/wp-content/u...

Imagine a world where sustainability goals were achieved at the pace that Greg Foat drops immersive, transportative albums.... gregfoat.bandcamp.com/album/6-days...

David Peck's documentary Broken Courage is heading to the Palais des Nations, the Hague and back to Cambodia - check it out and join @globalaffairs.canada.ca in supporting this crucial work on land mines www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpOb...

Lula keeps dropping meaningful truth bombs that get to the heart of the matter

NEW from me: Political hostility, high visa fees and (in the case of the UK) stagnant incomes are making the UK and US less attractive destinations for top international talent. That steep decline in the appeal of moving to the US after 2016 is 👀

It is indisputable that recent ‘elections’ in Côte d’Ivoire, Cameroon and Tanzania were either blatantly stolen or total shams. international officials should have the courage to call this authoritarian turn what it actually is.

More eyes on Tanzania please rfi.my/C8ti

An intriguing new book is coming out on the global political economy of French hip-hop complete w diplomatic passports, narco-trafficking, money laundering, authoritarians and the decline of the West rfi.my/C8VU

Donald Trump annonce une hausse de 10 % des droits de douane sur le Canada après la diffusion d’une publicité

One of our strongest Canadian organic farm heroes is running to bring the NDP and Greens together - check him out!! tonymcquailgreenprogressive.ca