So, yesterday, a police officer in Ontario was killed. Inevitably, we get cries of “this could have been prevented”, largely on the basis that one of the accused in the murder was out on bail awaiting trial for a series of charges. There’s a problem here: the claim that
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Accidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Tom Frieden offers a primer on what we know about long COVID – and what we should be doing to avoid it. And Eric Topol interviews Linsey Marr about the importance of clean air to alleviate the spread of COVID-19 and other
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Zaina Hamza discusses new research showing how COVID-19 fatalities hit younger people and caused more loss of expected years of life in the second year of the pandemic than the first. Kenyon Wallace discusses why 2022 was the deadliest year of the pandemic
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This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Helen Branswell examines what experts were and weren’t able to anticipate about the COVID-19 pandemic – with the voluntary panic-neglect cycle looking to be one of the most damaging lasting impacts. And Andre Picard discusses what we have and haven’t learned from
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Migration in progress
After using Twitter as my main political social media outlet for years, I’ve joined the many in the process of shifting to Mastodon. You’ll find a link to my account in the right sidebar – and hopefully the new year will see the continued development of communities which better serve
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Assorted content for your Boxing Day reading. – Robert Reich discusses the dangers of relying on – and indeed building a political and economic system to favour – the social costs of extreme greed. And the Canadian Press reports on the Trudeau Libs’ plan to take foreign aid even further
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Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Emily Toth Martin and Marisa Eisenberg point out the obvious value of wearing masks to reduce the likelihood of catching and spreading respiratory illnesses. And Wanzhu Tu et al. find that people build stronger immune defences to COVID-19 by getting vaccinated than by
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Shallou feat. Colin – Count On
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Assorted content to end your week. – Phil Tank writes that the holidays will be anything but happy for families dealing with long COVID due to the Moe government’s choice to let it rip through the population, while Larissa Kurz reports that a year in which everybody decided to pretend
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This and that for your Thursday reading. – Andrew Nikiforuk helpfully lists some of the most important facts which people need to keep in mind in evaluating COVID-19 risks (and which have been dangerously downplayed by governments). Julie Wernau and Jon Kamp report on the U.S.’ jarring drop in life
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Julia Doubleday writes that we shouldn’t accept spin from any party which attempts to minimize the unacceptable dangers of exposing children to a virus known to cause lasting damage to people’s immune systems, while Terry Pender reports on the growing recognition that COVID-19 does just
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This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Marco Zuin et al. examine the connection between COVID-19 infections and subsequent heart attacks. And Felicity Liew et al. study the effect of mucosal defences which don’t arise from injected vaccines, but can be promoted through nasal ones. – Meanwhile, Consumer Reports finds that dark
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Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Blair Fix discusses how inflation reflects both instability in the overall system of prices, and a business strategy to turn that instability into an increased profit share. And Angella MacEwen writes that central banks are choosing to lend their authority to that strategy
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: A Deep Dive into WLN Toronto Member Andrew Benson
This past July I was doxxed. Well, not really. You see I had actually been doxxed in January 2020, but WLM Toronto appeared to have believed they got a "W" on this. You have probably seen WLN flyers posted in a number of cities in Canada and the United States
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This and that for your Sunday reading. – Greg Jericho rightly notes that the COVID pandemic showed beyond doubt that poverty is a policy choice – which makes it all the more maddening that the powers that be are so determined to inflict it on people as part of any
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Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Umair Irfan writes about the implications of COVID-19 having been allowed to spread and mutate to the point where monoclonal antibodies are ineffective against new variants. Joe Vipond, Lisa Iannattone and T. Ryan Gregory discuss the desperate need to reduce the levels of
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Serge Devant & Damiano feat. Camille Safiya – Fearing Love
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Assorted content to end your week. – Shiloh Payne reports on new numbers from the World Health Organization showing that COVID-19 is responsible for nearly 15 million excess deaths around the globe. Liji Thomas writes about the widespread harm caused by long COVID in the U.S. And Neetu Garcha interviews Sanjiv
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