Tuesday Morning Links

This and that for your Tuesday reading.

- Erin Seatter interviews Adam Lynes-Ford about Brian Day's latest attack on universal Medicare. And Ricochet's editorial board highlights how Day is ultimately fighting only to exacerbate inequality:

Discrimination against racialized and Indigenous patients fosters health disparities across our country and sometimes leads to death.

Poverty hurts Indigenous people in particular, and it’s understandable if you think the wide income gap between them and other groups in our country means privatized health care will leave them behind.

But fret not. Privatization will give them the kick they need to find their bootstraps. Want health care? Make money. Want a physician to check for diabetes instead of assuming you’re drunk? Hand over dollar bills, preferably the red or brown ones. Just throw yourself into the capitalist economy, and you’ll soon get past all that labour discrimination and be able to fork out the cash to be treated right.

Like Ali, and like the founding father of oppressive medicare, Tommy Douglas, Day used to be a boxer too.

“If you’re competitive and you think you’re right, you want to keep going until there’s a final outcome,” said Day.

That’s why he won’t stop until universal health care is down for the count.

- Oliver Milman discusses the climate effects of rapidly increasing ocean temperatures. And Merran Smith and Dan Woynillowicz comment on the need for Canada to pull its weight in shifting to clean renewable energy, while Jackie Wattles and Matt Egan point to Oklahoma's rash of earthquakes as yet another consequence of insisting on chasing fossil fuels against all rational analysis.

- But Ethan Lou reports that the Trudeau Libs are instead aiming to grease the skids for foreign-owned oil development.

- Tammy Robert exposes the Wall government's use of federal immigration funding (backed by provincial guarantees) to inflate a housing bubble. And the Leader-Post's editorial board questions why the Saskatchewan Party is picking the pockets of school divisions and health regions.

- Finally, Kiran Rana takes note of the difficult job market facing new university graduates.