Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Don Braid discusses how Alberta’s health care system and polity are both collapsing under the weight of a UCP government which has utterly failed to protect either from readily-preventable damage. And Emily Pasiuk reports on Jason Kenney’s continued excuses for letting COVID-19 run
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The latest from Canada’s federal election campaign. – Christo Aivalis discusses Jagmeet Singh’s much-needed willingness to take on the power of the rich to fight for a country that works for everybody. And Shelly Hagan writes about the resulting possibility of greater social contributions being required of those who can
Continue readingTHE CAREGIVERS' LIVING ROOM A Blog by Donna Thomson: Caring Families Need Help With Financial Planning – It’s Here
I absolutely love it when family caregivers turn their experience into a business opportunity after caring ends. And when they create a service that I know we caregivers really need, I blog about it! Today I’d like to tell you about a conversation I had about a company called CaregiverCapital . I
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This and that from the federal election campaign. – Canadians for Tax Fairness sets out its platform for a fair and equitable tax system. And Katrina Vandenheuvel makes the case for a tax on windfall pandemic profits in particular. – Sue Capon reports that Revera’s response to being required to
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Greg Jericho writes that the latest IPCC report confirms that we’re running out of time to avert climate breakdown, but still have a narrow window in which to do so. Damian Carrington reminds us that the cost of climate negligence is far
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This and that for your Thursday reading. – Brooks Fallis highlights why a strategy limited to vaccines won’t stop a fourth wave of COVID-19. The CP reports on the call by doctors (and others) to have the UCP reverse its declaration of surrender to the pandemic, while David Cournoyer points
Continue readingAccidental 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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This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Robert Hiltz warns against letting the leaders responsible for preventable COVID deaths off the hook as part of an attempt to turn loosened restrictions into a good news story. And Mickey Djuric talks to Nazeem Muhajarine about the dangers of prematurely lifting
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This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Robert Reich offers some lessons we need to draw from the coronavirus pandemic – including the recognition that while billionaires won’t save us from collective action problems, effective government can. – Renju Jose reports on Melbourne’s instant reaction to community spread of
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Murray Mandryk discusses how COVID-19 has highlighted and exacerbated existing inequality in Saskatchewan. And Aaron Wherry points out that Canada shouldn’t treat its privileged position in securing early access to vaccines as cause to ignore the pandemic which will continue to rage around
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – John Michael McGrath makes the case for optimism about our potential to avoid further waves of COVID as long as COVID-19 vaccinations overtake the risk of community spread. Brian Platt reports on Nova Scotia’s use of rapid testing to catch a substantial number
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This and that for your Thursday reading. – Matt Gurney discusses the need for public health planning to reflect the predictable reactions of people whose compliance affects the viability of any rules. Guy Quenneville reports on the federal government’s justified skepticism of Scott Moe’s plan to focus on vaccinations alone,
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Assorted content to end your week. – Mickey Djuric reports on the growing surgical backlog resulting from the Moe government’s willingness to let COVID-19 tear through Saskatchewan’s health care system. And Joel Dryden and Sarah Rieger report on the pattern of outbreaks at Alberta meat processing plants which have been
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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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Assorted content for your weekend reading. – A group of doctors and scientists offers an open letter calling for a strategy of maximum COVID-19 suppression. – Matt Gurney writes about the latest report documenting the utter failure of Ontario’s long-term care system. PressProgress notes that tens of thousands of violations
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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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This and that for your Sunday reading. – Rich Mendes reports on new research showing that the longstanding focus on physical distance as a means of avoiding the indoor transmission of COVID-19 has been misplaced. Erin Anderssen and Marcus Gee examine some of Canada’s hardest-hit intensive care units to show
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Assorted content to end your week. – Michael Mechanic discusses how the promise of noblesse oblige represents nothing more than an excuse for a system designed to encourage the greedy accumulation of wealth and power. Laura Davison reports on the IRS’ estimate that the U.S. is losing a trillion dollars
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Bill to hinder COVID-negligence suits against long-term-care firms will also protect Kenney Government from scrutiny
The Kenney Government would like you to think the bill it introduced yesterday to make it hard to sue long-term-care companies for negligence causing the death from COVID-19 of anyone in their care “strikes a balance between protecting those who have dutifully followed the rules with still permitting civil action
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This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Katie Raso describes the coronavirus pandemic as the neoliberal Chernobyl, having exposed how we’re not only unable to respond to a disaster in progress – though it’s worth adding the even more alarming reality that we’re even falling short of consensus as
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