Accidental 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

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Accidental 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

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Northern 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,

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Northern 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

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Northern 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

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