Assorted content to end your week. – Carla Holinaty highlights how Saskatchewan’s teachers and students deserve a well-thought-out plan for their return to school – rather than the most negligent one in the country. – David Giles reports on the Saskatchewan NDP’s call for a continued rental eviction moratorium. But
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Accidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Chuck Collins asks why the billionaires who have seen their fortunes continue to grow during a pandemic aren’t giving anything back to their communities. And thwap points out that to the contrary, it’s been a non-negotiable demand that even the slightest bit
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Ed Yong examines how the coronavirus has been allowed to run rampant in the U.S. And the Globe and Mail’s editorial board warns that we can’t have much confidence that Canada is prepared to deal with pandemics either. – Paul Krugman discusses how
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Plenty of people are rightly wondering how the Saskatchewan Party could possibly have hyped up an announcement about what we’ll see as students return to fall, then unveiled what remains the least substantive excuse for a plan in the country. And while there’s no doubt that the lack of concern
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Feline hangouts.
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This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Vaughn Palmer discusses how British Columbia’s Site C megaproject had gone awry long before the coronavirus pandemic hit. And CBC News reports on new research showing that thousands of earthquakes can be traced to the province’s push toward fracking with no regard
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On ongoing failings
Andrew Leach has pointed out how Alberta’s economy has been the worst in the country since Jason Kenney took power. But it’s also worth noting which provinces have seen similar results: In other words, leaving aside the problems with Moe’s non-response to the COVID crisis, Saskatchewan’s GDP and employment situations
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Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. – Christopher Cheung examines the privilege involved in being able to stay home during the course of the coronavirus pandemic. And Kate Allen, Jennifer Yang, Rachel Mendleson and Andrew Bailey report on the stark gap between wealthier Toronto families who were able to avoid
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On preemptive action
Others have rightly pointed out Norlaine Thomas’ thread about the threat Stephen Harper and his acolytes pose to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. But I’ll take the opportunity to expand on the prospect of stopping that crusade in its tracks in Saskatchewan’s provincial election (which, to be clear,
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This and that for your Sunday reading. – Jen Gerson rightly argues that we should be closing bars – and otherwise limiting dangerous contacts within our communities – in order to ensure safer school environments for students this fall. And Jana Pruden discusses how the coronavirus pandemic has forced people
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On disproportional representation
Yes, it’s bad enough that fully 10% of the election candidates for the Saskatchewan Party have impaired driving convictions – including the Premier, and one individual who was convicted based on actions while he was in Cabinet. But it’s even worse when those numbers are compared to the Saskatchewan Party’s
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On denialism
To date, most of the response to Scott Moe’s multi-billion-dollar irrigation scheme has focused on the immense cost for uncertain return, as well as the lack of consultation with people who stand to be severely affected. But there’s another major problem worth noting with the Sask Party’s plans to dust
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Assorted content for your weekend reading. – John Metta discusses how low-income workers have been barely treading water for decades even before the coronavirus collapse. The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives points out how we can take the failure of EI during the pandemic as a signal that we need
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Dilly Dally – Desire
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This and that for your Thursday reading. – Thomas Powell makes the case for ensuring that families are able to maintain connections to loved ones in long-term care as part of our rules governing the COVID-19 pandemic. And Karen Wang argues that we need a national mask requirement in place
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Donald McNeil discusses how inconsistency in state-level policies and a lack of federal leadership have combined to result in the coronavirus epidemic manifesting in radically different ways across the U.S. And Karen Wang points out the ticking clock facing Canadian students, parents and
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This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Grant Robertson exposes how the Cons and Libs alike destroyed Canada’s pandemic warning and response system just when we could least afford it. Kelly Cryderman writes that we should be able to agree on a common goal of returning children safely to
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Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Zach Carter highlights how jurisdictions whose governments have rushed to reopen businesses in the wake of COVID-19 have been rewarded with nothing other than mass death. And Peter Hartcher calls out Australia’s for right-wing government for lacking any plan for a recovery. –
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This and that for your Sunday reading. – Murray Mandryk writes that any responsible government has to be willing to prepare for renewed restrictions on activity if the spread of COVID-19 requires it – though sadly, Scott Moe is falling short of that standard while reiterating his determination to prioritize
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