This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Saima Iqbal discusses new research showing how much of the COVID-19 virus people emit while contagious. And Erica Edwards reports on the development of blood tests to help confirm the biological basis of long COVID. – Emile Torres warns that the chaotic
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Dead Wild Roses: Canadian Parents (Finally) Push Back Against Gender Cultism
Jonathan Kay writes on Canadians finally waking up to the harms of gender ideology and how it is in our institutions. It is a quick necessary read, go to the Quillette and read the whole thing. “The most obvious answer is that this movement does real, observable harm, by
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Stephanie Soucheray discusses new research showing how people with existing health problems are at substantially higher risk of long COVID. And Helen Floersh points out a new study on how different COVID-19 variants are adapting to evade immunity. – George Monbiot writes about
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: A Handy Guide for Not Indoctrinating Children
Transgender ideology aka the religion of the activist Left should have no place in schools.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: 1MillionMarch4Children – Let the ATA Know that Teaching Gender Ideology In Schools is Not Okay
Your DWR Public Service Announcement. Make your voice heard and speak for child safeguarding and age appropriate materials for students.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Mary Van Beusekom discusses new research showing that a quarter of COVID-19 survivors are still facing impaired lung function (among other health problems) a year after infection. And Prakash Nagarkatti and Mitzi Nagarkatti write about the CDC’s approval of new vaccines better targeted toward
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Tess Finch Lee writes about the importance of doing everything we can to protect children (and indeed the general population) from COVID-19. But Thomas Piggott laments that instead of taking a lesson in interdependence and the need for social care, we’ve been
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Sascha Pare reports on the growing recognition that methane emissions could trigger “termination” events which see tundra turn into tropical savannah. And Robson Fletcher reports on a drop in wheat production caused by drought which may make staple foods far more expensive. –
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Back to School: Courage is Habit – Safeguard Your Children
This is a toolkit based on what is happening in the American public school system. As the saying goes, if the US sneezes, Canada catches a cold. Stay ahead of the curve and get involved with your child’s learning environment sooner rather than later. “This new toolkit caters to a
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Climate Education – A Balance Perspective
Let’s look at the data and facts and see what happens. Find a quiet place in your consciousness away from some of the current climate alarmism and review some ideas that may not fall completely in lockstep with the narrative. This except from ‘How to Teach Children About Climate Change‘:
Continue readingThe Maple Monarchists - Blog: The Royal St. John’s Regatta
Photo Credit: Ken Eckert The Royal St. John’s Regatta is North America’s oldest annualsporting competition. It also has had interesting ties to themonarchy since its earliest days. 1818 The earliest records for the event date from 1816 but there iscredible conjecture that the event was held earlier. Ship crewswould often
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: When Education Becomes Perverted
“If you’re not straight, white, and conservative, it doesn’t feel safe” – Raineesha Day, California teacher. Having had a career as a teacher, I have always believed in educations’s mitigating effects: it can help bridge the gap between ignorance and critical thinking and can mean the difference between poverty and
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Why Definitions and Truth are important – Defining “Female”
Making shit up is a specialty of theirs apparently. Reality has an anti-woke bias.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: A Thirty Minute Explanation of Marxism – James Lindsay
Potentially illuminating. Worth a watch IMHO.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Trying to Have Conversations on a University Campus
Universities should be places where the hard discussions can be had. Contentious issues are what Universities are made for… or at least what they were made for. Once you meet the interloper please observe his tactics. He is attempting to provoke a reaction using mid level violence techniques. His goal,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Reality Versus Trans Ideology – Helen Joyce & Peter Boghossian
This interview is so good!
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Claire Pomeroy writes that the establishment’s refusal to stop the transmission of COVID-19 has created a desperate need to account for the widespread disability it’s causing. But Brody Langager reports that in Saskatchewan, a non-profit’s website is instead serving as the closest
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Emma Goldberg et al. study how the end of COVID-19 protections in China predictably gave rise to a swift and extensive outbreak. And Michelle Gamage reports on the push to ensure kids in British Columbia schools aren’t avoidably exposed this fall, while Mark
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