Assorted content to end your week. – Michael Toole and Brendan Crabb write that COVID’s impact on multiple types of cells and systems makes it particularly dangerous compared to the illnesses we’re used to confronting, while Juliane Samara asks why there’s no apparent anger and grief over soaring numbers of
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Accidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Ed Yong offers an important look at what long COVID’s “brain fog” means for the people suffering from it, while Peter Thurley discusses his personal experience with it. Mark Caro reports on the work being done – and the desperate need for
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Cats with company.
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This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Pratyush Dayal reports on the COVID outbreak which has infected every single resident of a Regina care home. And Dan Scheuerman reports on the effect the drug poisoning crisis is having on people’s health generally by further straining already-limited health care resources.
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib Mk. II: Devil Take the Hindmost
It’s been a while so let’s return to the subject of climate breakdown. There’s news. No, it’s mainly bad. Remember when we first heard about “tipping points”? Back then the narrative was these were “do not exceed” limits beyond which we risked waking the sleeping giant, nature, triggering runaway
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Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Laura Ungar reports on the message from experts that the COVID-19 pandemic is far from over. And Jon Kamp discusses the reality that COVID-19 remains one of the main direct causes of death in the U.S., while Neha Madaan reports that the main Omicron
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: The Transformation Is Complete
With Pierre Poilievre the newly anointed leader of the CPC, Canadians can take a step back and breathe a sight of relief – the masquerade is over. Ever since its formation in 2003, the CPC has been a hardline right wing ideologue party that cloaked itself in the moderate nature
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Miscellaneous material for your weekend reading. – Jim Naureckas discusses the absurdity of the New York Times (among other outlets) criticizing the idea of saving millions of lives from COVID rather than choosing to act in denial of it. Paige Ouimet points out the widespread long-term damage long COVID is
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ODESZA feat. Sasha Alex Sloan – Falls
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Assorted content to end your week. – Andrew Nikiforuk writes that what information we continue to receive about COVID shows that we can’t afford to stop working on preventing its spread. And Katherine Wu offers a warning as to what this winter’s flu season might bring based on the experience
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This and that for your Thursday reading. – Ontario’s COVID-19 Science Table has published a primer on long COVID (and the need for associated supports) just in time to be abolished for interfering with the Ford PCs’ message that everything is fine. Sri Taylor reports on a massive jump in
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Elizabeth II, 70 years Queen, has died at age 96.
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib Mk. II: The Uber-Rich and Have Their Own Climate Worries
How is a mere billionaire to cope with climate breakdown? The rich and powerful have sought answers to their angst from Douglas Rushkoff, media theorist, lecturer and author. His most recent book, “Survival of the Richest,” draws them to him as a light draws moths. Rushkoff writes of a
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib Mk. II: How Secure is Canada’s Bountiful Fresh Water Resource?
We think of Canada as a vast land studded with lakes assuring a bountiful supply of fresh water. Things change. Across the high north, lakes are vanishing – much faster than we had imagined. Arctic lakes are drying out nearly a century earlier than projected, depriving the region of a
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Megan Ogilvie and Kenyon Wallace interview public health experts about the steps they’re taking to stay safe as students return to school and another COVID wave crests. Dilshad Burman points out the increased risks to workers when isolation periods are eliminated, while Megan
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Centre of attention cats.
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This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Bruce Arthur laments the message being sent by Ontario’s government that there’s no need to care about other people in the face of an ongoing pandemic, while Norm Farrell discusses British Columbia’s sliding back into a neglect phase. Anne Flaherty reports on the
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Assorted content for your Labour Day reading. – David Macdonald offers a reminder that any difficulty employers are having finding workers is a result of their failing to pay wages to even match, let alone stay in front of, the cost of living. And Trish Hennessy takes a look at
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This and that for your Sunday reading. – Jasmine Kerrissy and Judith Stepan-Noris examine the state of the U.S. labour movement for Labour Day. And Gil McGowan points out the many basic freedoms which are lacking for Canadian workers and their unions. – Alex Himelfarb writes about the politics of
Continue readingA Canadian Lefty in Occupied Land: Social Media is Making Me a Worse Reader
I have realized in the last few days that social media – especially but not only Twitter – has made me a worse reader.I mean this in a specific way. For me at least, this is not about, say, social media use monopolizing time that I would otherwise use to
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