This and that for your Thursday reading. – Max Fawcett writes that equivocal posturing about personal responsibility (from Jason Kenney among others) has offered no resistance to the spread of the coronavirus. And Rebecca Haines-Sah calls out Kenney’s choice to treat lives as disposable in the face of COVID-19 as
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Accidental Deliberations: Juxtaposition
The Saskatchewan Party government’s public health expectations for the mid-pandemic jet set willing to shell out for private testing: “It’s been challenging to provide timely results for asymptomatic travelers, especially within the tight timelines required by airlines and international destinations,” Howey said in part. “[Quantum Genetix] have the technology to
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: The price of negligence
In case there was any doubt that COVID testing serves as the ultimate microcosm of the Saskatchewan Party’s mismanagement of health care, we’ve seen the endgame released today. Remember that it was just a few months ago that Scott Moe was trumpeting a plan to massively increase public capacity, while
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Steven Lewis writes about the Sask Party government’s catastrophic refusal to act on the evidence that Saskatchewan needs to sharply curb the spread of COVID-19. Julia Peterson reports on the Saskatchewan doctors making it clear that we can’t afford to let up over
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This and that for your Tuesday reading. – David MacDonald, Lindsay McLaren, Katherine Scott and Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood each examine the Libs’ fiscal update and find that headlines about progressive priorities mask the lack of much that’s specific or new. – Shamshad Ahktar, Kevin Gallagher and Ulrich Volz discuss the G20’s
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Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Daniela Gabor writes that there’s no reason to treat the spending needed to allow people to survive a pandemic-induced recession as an excuse for avoidable austerity. – Seth Klein comments on the need to treat climate change as an emergency rather than a
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: November 30, 2007 – November 29, 2020: Good Bye (For Now) and Thank You From Kurt and the Other Past and Present Writers of ARC
What I hope is at least a slightly more flattering photo than the one Keean Bexte used in his story about me back in January, though to be fair I would have done the same to him (and did do… often). Though I haven’t been back since January I thought
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – In the absence of leaders at any level of government willing to act on the scale needed to stop the coronavirus pandemic in much of Canada, Amir Attaran helpfully provides some minimum standards which could be applied across the country. And Nathaniel
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Michael Smithson examines data from 45 countries confirming that any attempt to play off COVID-19 suppression against economic activity is based on a false assumption, as the former is a must to allow the latter. – Leyland Cecco reports on the surge in
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Musical interlude
Remi Wolf – Hello Hello Hello (Polo & Pan Remix)
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Assorted content to end your week. – Michael Fraiman discusses how far too many leaders have failed or refused to live up to the title when their authority was needed to respond to the coronavirus pandemic. And Canada News Central reports on the findings of Ontario’s Auditor-General about Doug Ford’s
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On anti-precaution
Jennie Russell and Charles Rusnell’s bombshell report offers an alarming – if perhaps not surprising – look at how Jason Kenney’s UCP has refused to do anything more than the bare minimum to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. And naturally, Scott Moe’s habit of following Kenney’s every move makes it
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: Politics Over Public Health
I’m no fan of Premier Kenney in Alberta. I didn’t like him when he first emerged to run for MP, and his actions as an MP disgusted me most of the time. Then there are this morning’s revelations of political interference in the Chief Medical Officer of Health’s (CMOH) conduct
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This and that for your Thursday reading. – Raj Chetty, John Friedman, Nathaniel Hendren and Michael Stepner study a myriad of issues about COVID-19 and its public reaction – with a focus on how social insurance relieving against the effect of closures has accomplished far more (both for well-being and
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On limited consultations
While we’ll find out this afternoon what (if anything) the Moe Saskatchewan Party will do in terms of action against COVID-19, Jason Warick’s report on its consultation process doesn’t offer any reason for confidence. It’s bad enough that Moe is only consulting with groups who have an obvious motivation to
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On shared obligations
There’s been plenty of attention paid to the Saskatchewan Health Authority’s list of the sites of known community spread of COVID-19, including questions as to both the categories used and the action resulting from the information. But regardless of any argument about how exactly to define the boundaries of a
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Umair Haque highlights how European and North American states have failed to control the coronavirus compared to other developed countries. And Ian Austen discusses the prospect that Canada could get to the COVID-zero state achieved by Australia. – And in case there were
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Cats with companions.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Jason Warick reports on Steven Lewis’ blunt conclusion that Scott Moe and his government have been “really stupid” in taking “half-assed” steps in response to the fall wave of COVID-19. And Adam Hunter contrasts Moe’s refusal to consider any meaningful steps to
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