Capitalism

02/03/25
Author: 
Martin Hart-Landsberg
Robot

 March 2, 2025  

The leading big tech companies are working hard to sell artificial intelligence (AI) as the gateway to a future of plenty for all. And to this point they have been surprisingly successful in capturing investor money and government support, making their already wealthy owners even wealthier. However, that success doesn’t change the fact that their AI systems have already largely exhausted their potential.

24/02/25
Author: 
Chris Hatch
Mark Carney is surrounded by supporters at a campaign event in Scarborough on Wed. Feb. 19. Photo by: Abdul Matin Sarfraz

Feb. 24, 2025

It’s been almost a decade since Mark Carney took the podium during a candlelit meal in the immense Underwriting Room at Lloyd's of London and threw a stink bomb at the black tied bigwigs of international finance.

“I’m going to give you a speech without a joke, I’m afraid,” Carney began. And then, after the requisite “grateful for the invitation” and up-buttering, Carney gave what’s been known ever since as the Tragedy of the Horizon speech.

22/02/25
Author: 
Harry Glasbeek
Tarriffs

Feb. 21, 2025

Former Canadian prime minister Pierre Trudeau once said that the Canada-US relationship resembled a mouse sleeping with an elephant: “No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.” — Quote from Jonathan Malloy, Inside Story, 13 July, 2018.

20/02/25
Author: 
Primary Author: Gaye Taylor
Pixabay

Feb. 20, 2025

Fossil fuel companies are influencing what Canadian students learn about climate change, funding and supplying educational materials that frame the issue to serve their interests, health and climate advocates warn in a new report.

16/02/25
Author: 
Susan Spronk, Karen Spring and Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood
climate crisis protestors

Website editor: Here in a nutshell is the problem: "....tackle the climate crisis by financing public goods instead of offering incentives to private firms."

Feb. 16, 2025

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