This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Emily Anthes highlights what the people paying attention to COVID-19 (and particularly the Delta variant) have learned about the risks of transmission in schools – including the need for ongoing mitigation measures to avoid outbreaks. Simon Rella et al. study the spread
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Accidental Deliberations: Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – The Globe and Mail’s editorial board highlights the folly of declaring victory in the race to vaccinate Canadians against COVID-19 when we’re far short of anything remotely resembling a conclusion. Sarah Rieger reports that Alberta is seeing unprecedented spread as its fourth wave
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Assorted content to end your week. – Claire Pomeroy and the Financial Times each highlight the likelihood that survivors of long COVID will be affected for the rest of their lives by a disease which governments have decided to allow to spread. And a group of health experts in the
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This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Lauren Pullen reports on two outbreaks of the Delta variant of COVID-19 within a Calgary hospital. Emily Mertz reports on a push by Alberta doctors to have the province’s major cities retain mask mandates until more people are fully vaccinated after the
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Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Adam Miller writes about the race between vaccinations and COVID-19 variants. The Strategic COVID-19 Pandemic Committee of Edmonton Zone Medical Staff Association highlights why it’s reckless to be insisting on an end to public health regulations (and concurrent encouragement of potential superspreader events).
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Assorted content to end your week. – Matt Gurney questions how it is that Ontario (like other provinces) is continuing to avoid any meaningful planning in its pandemic response, with the problem now being a lack of guidance or direction in distributing second doses of vaccines. – Stephanie Taylor reports
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Grace Blakeley discusses how corporate handouts represent a major contributor to the concentration of wealth by the richest few. And CNN reports on the new billionaires created by the public development of COVID-19 vaccines. – Rachelle Younglai points out that generational wealth transfers
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Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Marcin Osuchowski et al. highlight the importance of updating our understanding of COVID-19 rather than presuming it behaves the same way as previously-studied diseases. Sandy Barnard writes that we can’t blame service workers for deciding they’re best off not risking their lives for
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This and that for your Thursday reading. – Leyland Cecco discusses how a combination of feckless government and decades of carefully-stoked anti-science sentiment has turned Alberta into North America’s COVID-19 hot spot, while Max Fawcett writes that Jason Kenney’s response has been the picture of cowardice. – Ediriweera Desapriya, Parisa
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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 for your mid-week reading. – Timothy Wilson reports on the emerging revelations of Enbridge’s paying to harass environmental activists. And Jeremy Appel offers the background facts as to W. Brett Wilson’s abandonment of wells operated by Forent Energy – leaving Alberta’s public to pick up the tab for
Continue readingAlex's Blog: What would a transformational budget look like?
Reactions to this week’s federal budget have been all over the map. Is it too much, too little? Is this the shock the country needs or a missed opportunity to set a new course? As expected, a number of headlines are preoccupied with the numbers – spending, deficits, debt –
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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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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 for your weekend reading. – Julia Wong reports on the building third wave of COVID-19 in Alberta. And Ricardo Tranjan examines how little the Ford PCs actually put into the education system to address the additional demands created by a pandemic. – Dana Nuccitelli discusses new research showing
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Miscellaneous material to start your week. – As we lay the groundwork for a COVID recovery and energy transition, Heather Scoffield comments on the importance of making sure resources go where they’re needed (rather than serving only to further distance the richest from the rest of us). And Yves Engler
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Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Duncan Cameron writes about the fundamental choice between austerity and full employment in developing the 2021 federal budget. And Noah Smith points out that while pipeline cancellations signal the imminent end of fossil fuels, they don’t need to have any impact on job
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Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Angela Stewart interviews Malgorzata Gasperowicz about the potential for Alberta to eradicate COVID-19 with a seven-week shutdown, rather than letting new and more dangerous variants run rampant in the months before vaccines can be widely distributed. Jillian Horton observes that premiers who have
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Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Anna McMillan reports on the disproportionate effect COVID-19 has (predictably) had on First Nations reserves in Saskatchewan. And Maan Ahmidi reports on the appearances and realities arising out of the Libs’ continued appeals against orders to stop withholding equal access to services from
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Jim Stanford explores how a just transition plan can ensure that workers have new opportunities in the midst of a needed shift away from dirty fossil fuels – and also highlights how a blinkered refusal to accept the decline of the oil
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