Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Doug Cuthand writes that falsely pretending we’re “back to normal” in the midst of a pandemic does nothing but put people at needless risk. CBC Radio talks to experts about what we should be doing with vaccine passports, and finds that if any
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English journalist George Monbiot published a Twitter thread on January 28 that resonates powerfully with me. The contents are reproduced…
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Assorted content to end your week. – Zak Vescera reports that the Moe government’s push toward privatizing COVID testing has turned into such a fiasco that even the for-profit operators are calling for somebody to apply regulations to protect the public. Ninan Abraham et al. call out a Globe and
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This and that for your Thursday reading. – CBC News reports that Saskatchewan’s children’s hospital is among the health care facilities with an internal outbreak, while Laura Sciarpelletti talks to some of the parents begging the provincial government to limit transmission in schools. – Moira Wyton reports on British Columbia’s
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Assorted content to end your week. – Steven Mackay writes about new research showing the different responses to the COVID-19 pandemic by gender – with the men who are disproportionately likely to die of the coronavirus expressing substantially less fear of its effects. – Robert Reich discusses how the inflation being used
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This and that for your Sunday reading. – Adam Miller highlights what we can do to limit the spread of COVID-19 over the winter to come. And Pratyush Dayal reports on the Saskatchewan cancer patients who are rightfully angry at Scott Moe for falsely declaring the pandemic over and endangering
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This and that for your Thursday reading. – Christine Gibson writes about the need to start seriously fighting against the dangers posed by a climate breakdown, rather than merely hoping the problem goes away on its own. And George Monbiot observes that any plan which fails to account for the
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Assorted content for your weekend reading. – PressProgress offers a timeline of Saskatchewan’s fourth wave of COVID-19 (and the choices by Scott Moe which precipitated it), while Arthur White-Crummey reports that approval of the Sask Party’s pandemic response is half what it was four months ago. And Justin Ling highlights
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This and that for your Thursday reading. – Rod Nickel offers an international view of Saskatchewan’s spiraling COVID-19 crisis, even as Scott Moe clings to his delusional minimization of the pandemic (and his personal responsibility for its impact on the province) in the face of objective reality. – Meanwhile, Laura
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This and that for your Thursday reading. – Carrie Tait reports on the spate of readmissions of COVID-19 patients to Alberta hospitals, while Zak Vescera points out the large number of Saskatchewan diagnoses happening only in hospital as infected people fail to get tested until their symptoms are severe. And Arthur
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Lara Herrero offers a quick guide to what we know about the Delta variant – and how it should change our previous perspective on the fight against COVID-19. And Andre Picard highlights why parents shouldn’t be at all hesitant to get children vaccinated
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Guy Quenneville reports on the frustration of Cory Neudorf and other Saskatchewan doctors due to the Moe government’s decision to ignore all available science on COVID-19, while Alberta doctors have taken to providing the daily briefings the government has chosen to abandon. Cam
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Assorted content for your weekend reading. – The editorial boards of the Leader-Post and Star-Phoenix discuss the individual math which makes the case for vaccination compelling – though it’s worth noting the equation is even more obvious on the government level where Scott Moe is being allowed to get away
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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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Assorted content to end your week. – Miquel Oliu-Barton, Bary Pradelski, Philippe Aghion, Patrick Artus, Ilona Kickbusch, Jeffrey Lazarus, Devi Sridhar and Samantha Vanderslott examine how strategies aimed at eradicating COVID-19 – rather than aiming for it to spread at some non-zero level – produces better outcomes in terms of
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This and that for your Thursday reading. – Susan Michie, Chris Bullen, Jeffrey Lazarus, John Lavis, John Thwaites, Liam Smith, Salim Abdool Karim and Yanis Ben Amor highlight the desperate need for maximum suppression of COVID-19, rather than an attempt to present a false balance between lives and economic activity.
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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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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – George Monbiot writes about the COVID disinformation which is so dangerous as to need to be suppressed. Maggie Keresteci, Nili Kaplan-Myrth and Naheed Dosani highlight the need for equity to figure into our plans and messaging about vaccine distribution. And Dakshana Bascaramurty discusses
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Assorted content to end your week. – Michael Fraiman discusses how far too many leaders have failed or refused to live up to the title when their authority was needed to respond to the coronavirus pandemic. And Canada News Central reports on the findings of Ontario’s Auditor-General about Doug Ford’s
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This and that for your Thursday reading. – Umair Haque discusses the U.S.’ extreme aversion to public goods (based primarily on a desire to exclude large numbers of people from normalized society) – and the role that ideology has played in its failure as a state. – Erika Beauchesne reminds
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