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Dec 3, 2021

Visualizing Corporate Plunder of the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy with Bullet Charts

In the first post in the DS4CS Learning Series, I shared the code used to produce my first story on the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy, which was a corporate feeding frenzy of historical proportions. In this post, I’ll be demonstrating how to produce the visuals for the CEWS story using…

Data Science

13 min read

Visualizing Corporate Plunder of the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy with Bullet Charts
Visualizing Corporate Plunder of the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy with Bullet Charts

Dec 1, 2021

Using R and Open Data to Check-in on the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy

This is the first in an ongoing series of educational articles where I show my code and work used to produce a prior analysis. I hope that this series will serve as a useful resource to those curious about using data to advance the agendas of labour and socialism. …

Data Science

21 min read

Using R and Open Data to Check-in on the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy
Using R and Open Data to Check-in on the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy

Jul 23, 2021

Canadian Fossil-Capitalism’s Hot Mess of Climate Contradictions (Part Two)

The Green Paradox of Canadian Climate Capitalism The writing is on the wall for either fossil capitalism or humanity. Nine hundred and eighty billion tonnes of CO₂ from 2020 onward stands between us and the best chance of preventing more than an already catastrophic two degree rise in average global temperatures. Foreseeing the pending demise of their…

Climate Change

12 min read

Canadian Fossil-Capitalism’s Hot Mess of Climate Contradictions (Part Two)
Canadian Fossil-Capitalism’s Hot Mess of Climate Contradictions (Part Two)

Jul 6, 2021

Canadian Capitalism’s Hot Mess of Climate Contradictions (Part 1)

Have you ever wondered why Canada exists as such a tangle of climate contradictions? We’re talking about a nation that is consistently a top 10 greenhouse gas emitter in the world, despite having under 0.5% of the global population. One that has literally never met a greenhouse gas emissions reduction…

Data Science

11 min read

Canadian Capitalism’s Hot Mess of Climate Contradictions (Part 1)
Canadian Capitalism’s Hot Mess of Climate Contradictions (Part 1)

Jun 15, 2021

Super-Exploitation: Capitalism Needs Racism and Patriarchy

On capitalism’s historical necessity for oppression Exploitation and oppression are the twin pillars of capitalism. In this analysis, I demonstrate that a patriarchal and racist labour market hierarchy is an indispensable component of Canadian capitalism. Using data from the Canadian Census, I propose a thought experiment and a simple statistical simulation to quantify, at least in…

Canada

7 min read

Super-Exploitation: Capitalism Needs Racism and Patriarchy
Super-Exploitation: Capitalism Needs Racism and Patriarchy

Jun 9, 2021

What is the Police and Prison Dividend?

What is the police and prison dividend? It’s quite similar in concept to the peace dividend, the proposal that diverting money and resources away from the military-industrial complex to civilian uses can yield great economic and social benefits. …

Police

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What is the Police and Prison Dividend?
What is the Police and Prison Dividend?

Jun 3, 2021

Excavating the Truth on Canadian Mining in Africa

You may have heard that the world needs more Canada, right? Many Canadians are not alone in the prevalent illusion about Canada as friendly, benevolent force for good on the world stage. Such patriotic daydreams usually feature vague appeals to peacekeeping, diplomacy, human rights, tiny Canadian flags sewn to backpacks…

Canada

6 min read

Excavating the Truth on Canadian Mining in Africa
Excavating the Truth on Canadian Mining in Africa

May 20, 2021

Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy: A scandalous gift to capital

To the capitalist class, a crisis that isn’t used to enhance profits and power, is a crisis wasted. Restoration and reorganization through crisis is a fundamental principle of capitalism. The practice of disaster capitalism, where both natural and human-made disasters are used by the ruling classes to leverage anti-social, pro-corporate…

Canada

6 min read

Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy: A scandalous gift to capital
Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy: A scandalous gift to capital
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