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Accidental Deliberations: Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Chris Hedges discusses how the end of empire-based colonialism has only given way to an even more exploitative corporate version. And Cory Doctorow points out how surveillance capitalism inevitably turns its resources toward defrauding the people being monitored and manipulated. – Matthew Rosza
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This and that for your Thursday reading. – Thais Melquiades de Lima et al. study how the tonsils are a major site for COVID-19 persistence in children. And Penny Daflos reports on British Columbia’s restoration of mask mandates in health facilities as the ongoing pandemic persistently fails to go away
Continue readingJeff Jedras: Eating on the Hill: McDonald’s, Belgium and CPAC on the reception circuit
Parliament is back besides lots of headline-making news, the reception circuit is back in full force. I attended a few receptions this week and, while I am cutting back what I eat for health reasons, I did sample a few goodies for science and reportage. A highlight for many staffers
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Leonie Thorne reports on new data showing that COVID-19 was Australia’s third-leading cause of death in 2022 even as conventional wisdom decreed that the pandemic in progress be ignored. And Christopher Waddell examines (PDF) the lessons Canada should have recognized for future health
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Saima Iqbal discusses new research showing how much of the COVID-19 virus people emit while contagious. And Erica Edwards reports on the development of blood tests to help confirm the biological basis of long COVID. – Emile Torres warns that the chaotic
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Bruce Arthur discusses how last week’s rallies for bigotry are reflective of a broader social illness which is being encouraged by right-wing parties and politicians. And Charlie Angus writes about his experience on the receiving end of violent authoritarian rhetoric and personal threats.
Continue readingA Canadian Lefty in Occupied Land: The far right and its enablers are lying to you
It’s pretty clear that a lot of people don’t understand the way that more extreme elements on the right try to build support for their agenda of harm and violence and a base to pursue it by organizing things like the anti-queer/anti-trans actions across the country last week and the
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: "Save the Children East Meets West" on the move… so long as (a) their cars don’t break down, (b) they don’t run out of gas, or (c) someone can pick them up on the way.
First a quick update. It appears that there what have been described as convoys from Quebec today that began today. Norman Blanchfield, who began his drive in Alberta, is currently broken down on the roadside 17 hours away. Gordon Berry also seems to be struggling with car problems: Blanchfield also
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Assorted content to end your week. – Stephanie Soucheray discusses new research showing how people with existing health problems are at substantially higher risk of long COVID. And Helen Floersh points out a new study on how different COVID-19 variants are adapting to evade immunity. – George Monbiot writes about
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This and that for your Thursday reading. – Adele Waters writes about the large numbers of UK doctors who are suffering from long COVID as a result of their efforts to care for patients – but who have been abandoned to financial ruin as a result. Elizabeth Cooney examines the
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: The Spat With India
So, India is expanding its temper tantrum over Canada expressing concerns over the suspected role of the Modi government in the murder of Hardeep Singh Nijjar. To a certain extent, this is a “meh, so what?” kind of move, but on other fronts its more significant and an indicator of
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Chris Hedges interviews Matt Kennard about the hostile corporate takeover of democracy. And Adam King highlights how Canada’s oil industry is profiteering at public expense while using the harm done by their own greed to promote the right-wing politicians in their pocket. – Jennifer
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Exhausted cats.
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: One Faction of the "Save the Children" Convoy Set To Leave September 20, 2023
Most people (as well as the Canadian Anti-Hate Network) have been rightfully focused on the “1 Million March 4 Children” planned for September 20 as well as helping to drum up support to counter the anti-LGBTQ+ groups and individuals. At this point no one is really certain of the numbers
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This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Peter Borg discusses how the climate breakdown is compressing planetary changes which would normally take millions of years into individual lifetimes – even as petropoliticians seek to increase the damage we’re doing to our living environment. And Edna Mohamed writes that climate
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Will Stone discusses what’s still a limited state of knowledge around long COVID even as it continues to strike – and cause devastating effects – for ever more people. And CBC News reports on Evan Abene’s advocacy for continued masking to limit the COVID-19
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Musical interlude
Dayseeker – Homesick
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Assorted content to end your week. – Damian Carrington reports on a “scientific health check” showing that Earth’s life support systems are well outside what’s safe for humanity. But Jonathan Cook discusses how an obsession with growth over health and well-being is preventing us from taking any meaningful steps to
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