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Accidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Jason Hannan discusses why the gaslighting campaign to get people to forget about the deadly disease being left to spread unchecked is so dangerous to democracy, while Daniel Chang reports that essential workers have borne the brunt of the damage of the
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: #SKNDPLDR Candidate Profile – Carla Beck
On paper, Carla Beck’s track record covers nearly every group the NDP should be looking to attract into its fold. She’s a well-respected veteran member of the Legislature, with prior experience as a school board trustee who can thus point to a history of collaborative government. And she can combine
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: #SKNDPLDR Candidate Profile – Kaitlyn Harvey
The flip side of Carla Beck’s position as the ultra-establishment candidate – backed by most of the NDP’s existing organizational structure, and using that position to play to those with the most wealth and power within the province – has been an obvious opening for an outsider candidate. And Kaitlyn
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Judy Melinek notes that the physical effects of long COVID include irreversible organ damage, while Rob Chaney discusses its devastating impact on people’s lives. But Brigid Delaney writes about the social death of a pandemic which is still very much a live threat to the
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Tom Brodbeck writes about the need to treat the victims of the COVID-19 pandemic as human beings, rather than mere statistics to be reported once and never thought of again. – Gabriel Favreau discusses how the pandemic (combined with a negligent government
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Matt Gurney examines the competing interpretations of what it means to say COVID is over, reaching the grim conclusion that we’re never going to reach a better outcome than one with people dying needlessly and governments refusing to take preventative action. And the
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The War On Drugs – Living Proof
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib Mk. II: Nikiforuk and the Death Cult.
It had to be said. We’re all going through a rough spell – soaring fuel and food costs, a mutating virus, a new and less stable Cold War, a steadily worsening and erratic climate, a breakdown of social cohesion and the rise of populism. What next? We imagine there’s a
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Fiona Small writes about the hope that one of the responses to COVID-19 will be a shift toward inhaled vaccines. But for those expecting that efforts will be made to address an ongoing pandemic, Melody Schrieber reports on new research showing the U.S.’s
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: #SKNDPLDR Roundup
The Saskatchewan NDP’s leadership campaign has followed a highly unusual path, with very little official activity (and only a few unofficial events and announcements) preceding last month’s membership deadline. And it’s only in the last week or so that the pace has begun to pick up – even as members
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Richard Sima examines how the steps needed to limit the spread of COVID-19 in indoor workplaces would also help address longstanding air quality issues. But Robert Pearl notes that rather than taking systemic steps to protect health from COVID as well as
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She’s a Canadian-born Christian evangelist. She’s married to an evangelist preacher. They live in Texas. Getting a picture in your mind? Katharine Hayhoe is also a leading and outspoken climate scientist. She can reconcile climate science with Christian dogma by arguing that neither her god nor yours (if you
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Benjamin Mueller and Eleanor Lutz discuss the increased number of deaths among the elderly caused the Omicron COVID-19 variant as compared to previous ones, while WorkSafeBC’s updated chart shows how 2022 has seen the largest claim counts for workplace COVID. And Gavin Leech et
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Kimberlyn McGrail examines the excess deaths caused by COVID-19 in Canada. Eric Berger discusses the continued lack of progress in diagnosing and treating a growing number of long COVID cases. Joshua Chong reports on the CCPA’s study showing that women continue to
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Bruce Arthur is rightly frustrated by an attitude of utter denial and amnesia toward a pandemic still in progress. And Fenit Nirappil, Craig Pittman and Maureen O’Hagan report on the deterioration of the U.S.’ response, including a dramatic increase over the case load
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Selena Simmons-Duffin writes about the large number of COVID cases going unreported – and thus unaccounted for in risk mitigation – due to the shift toward private, at-home testing. – Jessie Anton reports on Saskatchewan’s place as the worst jurisdiction in Canada
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Katherine Wu warns about the consequences of the powers that be deciding that people will be subjected to repeated COVID-19 infections. And Saba Qasmieh et al. examine the difference between reported case numbers and actual COVID prevalence, and find that the data now
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Jarryd James – Do You Remember
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