Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Kevin Jiang reports on the reality that COVID-19 has resulted in a crash in life expectancy (which has already been stagnant due to the failure to reduce the harm of the drug poisoning crisis). And Victoria Wells points out that even ruthlessly selfish
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Accidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Aria Bendix examines the state of current knowledge as to how likely people are to suffer from long COVID after being infected – with a seemingly declining risk for any given infection being more than counterbalanced by the threat from repeated reinfection.
Continue readingViews from the Beltline: Conservatives and the CBC
Pierre Poilievre has trotted out a recurrent theme in Conservative election platforms—he will “defund” the CBC. (Is “defund” a steal from woke-speak?) This is hardly surprising. The CBC is the only national mass medium that isn’t owned by the corporate sector, a generally conservative and excessively influential entity. Here in
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Lucky Tran offers a reminder not to take seriously the anti-science cranks determined to claim that COVID-19 mitigation measures (including masking) should be dispensed with. And Joy Jiang et al. find that COVID vaccination helps to lower the risk of cardiac events
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This and that for your Tuesday reading. – David Moscrop discusses how the Trudeau Libs have chosen to funnel money to cutthroat corporate consultants rather than building a functional public service. Alex Kerner follows up by pointing out how that choice reflects the class politics of a neoliberal state. And
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: SaskPower Plots To End Drinking Water Availability
Not maintaining availability and quality of drinking water is an option? Cool. Cool, cool, cool. NOT COOL, @SaskPower. What happens if the slavering hordes decide in the poll that we don't need drinking water?! CC @CorbLund @JeffWaltersSask @emi_eaton — Saskboy from Saskatchewan (@saskboy) February 10, 2023 Corb Lund is among
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Defending Female Boundaries in Sport – It’s Happening in the UK!
Where is the Canadian Media, outside of Barbara Kay at the National Post on this war on females in Canadian Society? This excerpt from the Daily Mail Online edition. “Prominent British female Olympians have joined a revolt against controversial new plans that could mean they have to race
Continue readingAlex's Blog: Fault Lines
I was honoured to chair the Council Of Canadian Academies panel on misinformation. Our report, Fault Lines, is available here. https://cca-reports.ca/reports/the-socioeconomic-impacts-of-health-and-science-misinformation/
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Challenge accepted: Premier throws down the gauntlet with defamation accusation; CBC picks it up
On Wednesday, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith threw down the gauntlet, accusing the CBC of defamation and demanding that the corporation retract and apologize for its Jan. 19 report someone on her staff sent emails to the Alberta Crown Prosecution Service challenging how it was handling cases stemming from last year’s
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: ComeupPence
Pun is from a friend. What are all 3 of these ex-executive dorks doing with classified documents in their homes anyway??
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Postmedia closes 12 community newspapers in Alberta, vows ‘digital’ revenants will linger
The chronic but never quite fatal decline of Postmedia has to be slowest-motion trainwreck in Canadian history. The Herald Building as it appeared in 2019 – the newsroom was said to occupy the room that once housed the newsroom’s library (Photo: David J. Climenhaga). At this rate, the company will
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Unmasked People, Unmasked in Their Own Way
I think masks separate us like the families in Tolstoy’s famous opening line of Anna Karenina. You know the one: “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Everyone I’ve met who wears a mask does it for more or less the same reasons:
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Andrew Nikiforuk helpfully lists some of the most important facts which people need to keep in mind in evaluating COVID-19 risks (and which have been dangerously downplayed by governments). Julie Wernau and Jon Kamp report on the U.S.’ jarring drop in life
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Plague Update: Can’t Handle The Truth
One of the best doctors in the country, not only for the health services he provides, but for his outreach regarding the climate crisis, is Dr. Joe Vipond. Here he is explaining the current health crisis and what can be done about it, while many others in his field shirk
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Hammer Fox News
Fox News would like its viewers to think that political assassination is an everyday occurrence, and the perps walk the next day. i like how they're trying to call it random because they know they're partially responsible for spreading hatred for pelosi. this was not random. — Sherron Shabazz (@SherronShabazz)
Continue readingExcited Delirium: CBC: Engaging in Click Bait?
Click bait belongs to the likes of Fox News and the National Enquirer, not Canada’s public national broadcaster. The post CBC: Engaging in Click Bait? first appeared on Excited Delirium.
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: It Ain’t Over!!
Just a quick update on Ontario’s Covid numbers, currently: In the words of Colin Furness, MISt PhD MPH: “It’s clear politicians from all parties won’t act until there is public outrage. And there can’t be public outrage if the public is in the dark.” Covid is still disabling and deadly,
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Jennifer Ackerman reports on what Saskatchewan can expect from a COVID wave allowed to sweep across the province without precautions. Eva Ferguson points out that plenty of experts and parents alike are calling for protective measures in Alberta schools (to no avail in
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: An Ice Block Stunt
Here’s an interesting expedition to the equator. And a modern English presentation of the trip, which was basically a Wikipedia reading and dramatization, with a VPN ad at the end:
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