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Politics and its Discontents: Just A Victim Of Circumstances?
Fate can be cruel. It is not unheard of to be going about, minding one’s own business, when a person of unknown provenance accosts you and demands a photo with you. Results of such encounters can vary. There was, one may recall, an incident in 2002 when the Mayor of
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: That Kind of Change
Polls suggest that Canadians are in the mood for change. Michael Harris writes: Within its sample of 2,000 respondents, the same Abacus poll that showed an overwhelming majority wants a change in government also found 31 per cent of respondents didn’t like any of the politicians on offer. This group
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Ewen Callaway writes about the current state of the COVID-19 pandemic – with both a high baseline of cases, and frequent “wavelets” in comparison to seasonal diseases as new variants develop and spread with little resistance. – Tina Yazdani and Meredith Bond report on
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Evelyn Lazare discusses how the refusal of the powers that be to act to mitigate an ongoing pandemic is only ensuring that its effects will be worse and longer-lasting than they need to be. And Emily Moskal reports on a promising new type
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Ideological Soulmates
Well, it appears Pierre Poilievre, that would-be master disinformation-trafficker, has found his true soulmate in another man-child, Elon Musk. They have had a meeting of the minds when it comes to the CBC – dearest Elon has agreed to PP’s request that the publicly-funded networked be labelled “government-funded
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Angry Talking Heads
When I was a teacher, it used to bother me to no end that it only took one or two ignorant, badly-behaved kids to spoil the atmosphere and discourse in a class. For those who think it should have been a simple matter to silence those voices, well, let’s
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Lisa Schnirring reports on new research showing how infection with COVID-19 tends to lead to extended sick leave, while Helen Twohig et al. survey the prevalance and effects of long COVID among children. And Alec Salloum reports that workers and experts alike
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Umair Haque writes about the implications of facing a deliberate decline in both environmental and economic well-being for the sole purpose of facilitating the short-term extraction of profits. Daniel Gilbert, Todd Frankel and Joseph Menn report on Silicon Valley Bank’s choice to discard
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Dyani Lewis writes that we know enough to ensure clean indoor air if we care enough to work on limiting the spread of COVID-19 and other viruses. – Jane Philpott and Danyaal Raza observe that the Libs are endangering both the short-term affordability of
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – E. Wesley Ely discusses the developing – and worrisome – body of knowledge of how COVID-19 affects the brain, while Korin Miller reports on the link between COVID and diabetes. William Brangham and Dorothy Hastings talk to people living with long COVID about
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Poilievre In Quebec
You might think that a French Canadian, fluently bilingual leader might improve the Conservatives’ prospects in Quebec. Chantal Hebert writes that’s not happening: The latest Conservative leader has his work cut out for him. In Canada’s second largest province, Poilievre is not only much less popular than his main rivals,
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Blair Fix discusses how inflation reflects both instability in the overall system of prices, and a business strategy to turn that instability into an increased profit share. And Angella MacEwen writes that central banks are choosing to lend their authority to that strategy
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Do they Understand?
During the recent by-election in Mississauga-Lakeshore, Pierre Poilievre was nowhere to be seen. Michael Harris asks: Where was Pierre Poilievre when his candidate needed him? Perhaps he was on YouTube preaching to the converted. Or going for a stroll wearing his ‘Tarsands Strong’ hoodie. Maybe he was preparing a draft
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Harper Redux
Michael Harris was never impressed with Stephen Harper. He is equally underwhelmed by the man following in Harper’s footsteps — Pierre Poilievre: There were a lot of things wrong with Pierre Poilievre’s recent video on his bonkers drug policy. And they go much deeper than a single issue. For one
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Benjamin Veness writes that the best way to address the dangers of long COVID is to prevent spread of the underlying viruses. And Daniel Bierstone and Monika Dutt write that it’s never been important to make sure workers have sick leave available
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Jessica Wildfire sets out the realities of COVID which are apparent to people on top of the flow of scientific news – even if they’re not being reflected in public policy or government messaging. Larissa Kruz reports on the strain being placed on
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: An Angry Little Man
Pierre Poilievre is an angry little man. Bob Hepburn writes: To Pierre Poilievre, everything is broken in Canada — and it’s all the fault of Justin Trudeau and the Liberals. As the Conservative leader sees it, this country is a wreck, with inflation at a 40-year high, 35-year-olds living in
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Heather Scoffield examines the lessons we should be learning from the COVID-19 pandemic if it hadn’t been disappeared down the memory hole. And Delphine Planas et al. study the wave of newly-developed variants which looks set to render existing monoclonal antibodies obsolete. –
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Gwynn Guilford and Lauren Weber report on the recognition by economists that COVID-19 continues to be a mass disabling event – even as public health officials and politicians try to pretend the pandemic no longer exists. And Cory Franklin and Robert Weinstein discuss the
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