Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Wednesday Morning Links

Miscellaneous material for your midweek reading.

- Rachel Mendleson reports on research showing that inequality is correlated to mortality rates within a particular city - with the sole exception of communities with a high proportion of immigrants. Which makes it awfully tempting to suggest that based on their combination of inequality-exacerbating and immigration-limiting policies, the Harper Cons should be considered objectively pro-death.

- And needless to say, Leona Agglukaq's continued efforts to derail any effort to limit sodium in Canadian food would only play into that image. A handy hint: if the fundamental flaw with a regulatory scheme is that companies would be tempted to opt out, then don't make it optional.

- Sixth Estate points out the connections between Con spokesflack Jason Lietaer and the funding that looks to have funnelled hundreds of millions of dollars into continued tobacco production in the name of ending it.

- Finally, Andrew Jackson points out a new study discussing tax evasion on a global scale.

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