This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Andrew Nikiforuk discusses how the pandemic denial of Boris Johnson, Jason Kenney, Scott Moe and others is only ensuring that more people suffer avoidable illness and death. And Merlyna Lim and Brandon Rigato examine how Canada’s far right has become a fertile breeding
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Accidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – BBC reports on the justified fears of medically vulnerable people that they’re being left behind by the UK Cons’ decision to eliminate all COVID protections, while Kendall Latimer takes note of the similar situation facing Saskatchewan’s seniors. Rohan Smith reports on the
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This and that for your Thursday reading. – Sabrina Eliason, Tehseen Ladha and Sam Wong highlight how the elimination of public health protections puts children at particular risk. And CBC News examines what we know so far – and still have yet to learn – about the ultimate impact of
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This and that for your Sunday reading. – Eric Topol charts how vaccines to date have continued to provide essential protection against the Omicron COVID variant, even as people with an actual interest in public health recognize that they don’t mean the pandemic is over. Ng Keng Gene discusses how
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This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Shree Paradkar laments the folly of making the same mistakes over and over again throughout the course of a continuing pandemic, while Crawford Kilian offers his own list of lessons we should have learned by now. And Andrew Nikiforuk provides some suggestions
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Assorted content to end your week. – Matt Gurney writes that the COVID pandemic has exposed – without ameliorating – our political leaders’ inability to respond to any real crisis. And in case anybody was under the illusion that we’re past the worst of COVID itself, Michael James and Christine
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Assorted content for your Friday reading. – Emma Buchanan writes about the restrictions on media access that have resulted in people being poorly informed about the damage done by COVID-19. Meredith Wadman reports on new research showing that the increased infectiousness of the Delta variant is the result of its
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Assorted content for your weekend reading. – The Globe and Mail’s editorial board discusses the need to consider whether to lift public health measures with care rather than stubborn anti-social ideology. Adam Miller writes that Alberta’s failure to do anything of the sort in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic
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Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Andrew Nikiforuk writes that it’s long past time for Jason Kenney to resign as utterly unfit for public office. The Globe and Mail’s editorial board discusses how the UCP made Alberta’s COVID-19 situation far worse by trying to deny it, while Alika Lafontaine
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This and that for your Tuesday reading. – J. Stacey Klutts offers a summary of the lessons we’ve already learned about the Delta variant – including the need to combine a vaccination strategy with public health protections, rather than pretending one is a full substitute for the other. Pete McMartin
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This and that for your Thursday reading. – Scott Larson reports on the continually rising number of active COVID-19 cases in Saskatchewan. Lauren Pelley discusses the likelihood that even fully-vaccinated people will be exposed to COVID infection – particularly if public health measures aren’t maintained or put back in place.
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Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Holly Yan examines the growing medical recognition that children need to be protected from COVID-19 (and particularly the Delta variant). David Holtgrave et al. highlight why we need to be increasing our testing and monitoring – not abandoning the effort as the UCP
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Devon McKendrick reports on Manitoba’s announcement of a digital vaccine passport as a means of both incentivizing people to get vaccinations, and ensuring that additional activity avoids unacceptable risks to the public. And Andre Picard writes about the merits of vaccination-based lotteries to
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This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Apoora Mandavilli warns about the looming prospect that the U.S. will be unable to reach herd immunity through vaccination due to right-wing cultural resistance to public health. Andrew Nikiforuk writes that Alberta’s place as the COVID hotspot of North America is the
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This and that for your Thursday reading. – Andrew Nikiforuk calls for us to learn from over a year’s worth of experience with COVID-19 and guard against aerosol spread to limit the development and transmission of variants. And Ian Sample reports on new findings showing that children are at risk
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Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Andrew Nikiforuk calls out the premiers who continue to spout talking points about “balance” while failing utterly to control the spread of deadly COVID-19 variants. Jillian Kestler-D’Amours discusses how Ontario’s medical calamity was entirely preventable, while David Moscrop makes the case for Doug
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This and that for your Sunday reading. – Andrew Nikiforuk writes about Canada’s contributions to the evidence showing how COVID-zero strategies have produced better results in terms of both health and economics – though sadly the Conservative-governed provinces are determined to keep up the harm from allowing the spread of
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Assorted content to end your week. – John Smith discusses the importance of recognizing and repairing the weaknesses in our social fabric which have been laid bare by the coronavirus pandemic. And George Monbiot discusses how the force of consumerism has warped the way we live. – Rachel Aiello reports
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This and that for your Thursday reading. – Christo Aivalis rightly points out that the NDP needs to be a party of labour and fight to ensure workers’ needs are central to Canada’s political discussion, rather than amplifying the rhetoric of the exploitative corporate lobby even when it’s in the
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Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Marieke Walsh reports on the new modeling from the Public Health Agency of Canada which shows how COVID’s variants will foreseeably result in massive numbers of cases if we don’t act to clamp down on viral spread. Andrew Nikiforuk highlights how the emergence
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