Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – David Wallace-Wells discusses how the U.S. is woefully unprepared to deal with the real prospect of another pandemic (particularly on top of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic which is the subject of a policy of denial). – Peter Frankopan writes that climate is a crucial
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Accidental Deliberations: Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Bed-ridden cats.
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This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Lucky Tran offers a reminder not to take seriously the anti-science cranks determined to claim that COVID-19 mitigation measures (including masking) should be dispensed with. And Joy Jiang et al. find that COVID vaccination helps to lower the risk of cardiac events
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Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Michael Kempa discusses Justice Paul Rouleau’s findings on federalism in his report on the use of the Emergencies Act – though the hope for province to provide better governance within their jurisdiction seems rather empty when so many of them are focused on stoking
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This and that for your Sunday reading. – Eric Reinhart discusses the importance of approaching public health from a collective perspective, rather than presuming health is simply a matter of individual-level choices. And Michael Hiltzik highlights the usual combination of dishonesty and ignorance behind yet another set of talking points
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Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Francesco Pierri et al. study the roots of COVID-19 vaccine denialism, with misinformation becoming more and more prevalent as the pandemic continues. And David Climenhaga discusses how Alberta (and many other Canadian provinces) are taking a new step in pandemic denialism by planning
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Gorgon City, DRAMA – Nobody
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Assorted content to end your week. – Eric Anderson writes that capitalism has been developed to exploit psychological vulnerability for profit. And Ludvig Weir and Gabriel Zucman highlight how the corporate profits shifted between countries for the purpose of tax avoidance approached a trillion dollars in 2019 (and likely soared past
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This and that for your Thursday reading. – Kimberly Atkins Stohr discusses her experience with long COVID – along with the reality that others have suffered far worse when they’ve lost employment as a result of it. Jasleen Gosal writes about the “silent pandemic” on and around Stanford’s campus. And
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Liam Mannix examines how the scientists with the deepest knowledge of the risks of COVID-19 are protecting themselves from the ongoing pandemic. And Robson Fletcher writes about the attempts of Calgary parents to gather data on how to keep schools safe (in the
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This and that for your Tuesday reading. – David Moscrop discusses how the Trudeau Libs have chosen to funnel money to cutthroat corporate consultants rather than building a functional public service. Alex Kerner follows up by pointing out how that choice reflects the class politics of a neoliberal state. And
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: He’s Living In The Past
For quite some time, I have suspected that Putin was living in the past – quite specifically, the Cold War. His "State of the Nation" speech today confirmed that. Most news outlets are pointing out two major features of the speech: 1. Putin blaming "The West" for the
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Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. – Mark Jacobson writes that we already have the technology needed to make a full transition to a clean energy economy – as long as we don’t allow fossil fuel interests to keep delaying the necessary and inevitable. James Price and Steve Pye discuss
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This and that for your Sunday reading. – John Launer offers his thoughts on how public health messaging around COVID-19 could have encouraged people to address risk management at both the personal and social level. And Clark Russell, Nazir Lone and J. Kenneth Baillie study the current evidence showing the
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I’ve just begun my outreach as I seek the role of VP Communications at the Ontario Liberal Party’s upcoming annual general meeting in Hamilton, and I’m gratified by all those who have pledged their support so far and have endorsed my candidacy. I truly appreciate their confidence and trust. If
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Over the last several weeks, there have been a series of stories about alleged “indecent exposure” incidents in public change rooms involving transgender women. Incident 1: January 27, 2023 https://thepostmillennial.com/canadian-parents-protest-after-trans-identified-male-allegedly-exposed-himself-to-young-girls-in-pool-change-room https:thestarphoenix.com/opinion/columnists/phil-tank-saskatoon-needs-dialogue-not-threats-on-change-room-nudity Incident 2: February 6, 2023 https://www.westernstandard.news/alberta/parent-furious-transgendered-men-allowed-into-girls-changing-room-at-calgary-pools/article_fb95136a-a638-11ed-bf71-5bf32c6f642b.html Incident 3: February 7, 2023 https://www.cheknews.ca/mother-reports-nanaimo-aquatic-centre-change-room-incident-to-police-1139751/ https://www.westernstandard.news/bc/bc-mother-says-man-wearing-wig-peered-at-daughter-in-womens-change-room/article_12e9ad10-a8c2-11ed-9a16-27b394d7418a.html *Note: Dates are first time that articles
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Assorted content for your weekend reading. – E. Wesley Ely discusses the developing – and worrisome – body of knowledge of how COVID-19 affects the brain, while Korin Miller reports on the link between COVID and diabetes. William Brangham and Dorothy Hastings talk to people living with long COVID about
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Andain – Promises
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: Thoughts On The War In Ukraine
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has now been slogging along for a year, with little real headway being made by Russia in what they clearly thought was going to be a 2 month “roll in, topple the government, install a puppet regime” action. On its own, the Ukraine war makes
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