This and that for your Thursday reading. – Ed Yong offers an important look at what long COVID’s “brain fog” means for the people suffering from it, while Peter Thurley discusses his personal experience with it. Mark Caro reports on the work being done – and the desperate need for
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Accidental Deliberations: On jurisdictional issues
Shorter Jason Kenney: For all my Ottawa-bashing bluster, even I have to admit it’s asinine to pretend provincial laws can nullify the existence of federal powers. Shorter Scott Moe: The federal government has no jurisdiction to enforce its laws in the Glorious Republic of Lesser Fucktrudeauistan! It’s in the Magna
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Evening Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – CBS reports on the Walk to Remember intended to highlight the continued need for long COVID supports. And Elizabeth Thompson reports on the federal government workers who are rightly challenging the demand to return to offices for little apparent reason (and with no
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Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Sasha Warren reports on new research showing that people suffering from long COVID may not be fully clearing the coronavirus from their systems even after being treated as having recovered. Steven Findlay writes about the need for public health protections based on the
Continue readingThings Are Good: Best Tool to Fight Crime is Welfare
The best way to fight crime is to take away motivation to commit crime. It’s been proven time and time again that severe punishments don’t deter crime, so how can we creat conditions which ensure people don’t want to break the law. The solution is welfare. Economists have proven that
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Bad Driver or Hate Crime? RCMP says “impatient”
"[The driver] was shouting stuff out. He was being racist, using some racial slurs," said Garrett Dan. "We have a whole bunch of witnesses to what happened to my brothers." Please read this story, that probably should have published yesterday:https://t.co/nYF3dwaj0K — Akshay Kulkarni (@kul_akshay_) June 5, 2022 The RCMP put
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Plague Update: BoJo Caught Lying To Parliament, Again
https://t.co/s05SEJNIvH — Saskboy from Saskatchewan (@saskboy) May 23, 2022 This is not Boris Johnson’s first rodeo. His party excused him before, will they again protect him and MET police too? Do ducks love water? https://saskboy.wordpress.com/2022/04/20/plague-update-bojos-contempt-for-parliament/
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Smriti Mallapaty reports on new research indicating that a two-thirds of U.S. children short of vaccination eligibility have been infected with COVID-19. Hannah Farrow reports on the U.S.’ preparations for another wave this fall and winter (even as Congress refuses to fund
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Sheryl Gay Stoberg discusses how concerns about pharmaceutical profiteering and a lack of access in the developing world are developing for COVID-19 treatments just as they did for vaccines. And Cory Doctorow warns that the single positive-sounding story about stolen Ukrainian farm implements
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Sam Gindin discusses the need to push back against the narrative that inflation caused by supply chain disruptions and corporate greed will somehow be ameliorated by punishing the working class. And Adam King writes that the response to inflation represents just another
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On negative reinforcement
While there have been some aspects of the Saskatchewan NDP’s post-election review (PDF) which involved conflicting currents within the party, one of the few possibilities which seems to have been generally embraced is the development of a 24/7/365 campaign to counter the constant barrage of Saskatchewan Party spin. That’s well
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Umair Haque discusses how the corporate-driven surrender to COVID – like so many of the choices which value profit over well-being – reflects idiocy in the original sense of the word. Davide Mastracci discusses how we’re learning nothing more now than how to
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Caroline Chen discusses the reasons why we’re still waiting for COVID vaccines for children under 5 – leaving the people least able to protect themselves to bear the full weight of irresponsible declarations of surrender against the pandemic. Benjamin Ryan reports on the
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Kent Sepkowitz examines the many and severe symptoms of COVID-19 which are emerging long after initial infections have been treated as “mild”. – Gabriel Fabreau discusses how the overflow tent in emergency at the Peter Lougheed Centre (like other Canadian health care facilities)
Continue readingNorthern Currents –: Vancouver Police release highly militaristic copaganda recruiting ad
The Vancouver Police Department released a series of recruitment ads on March 1st. The VPD’s ad elevated one of the worst parts of policing – the high militarization of the VPD – in a blatant pro-police propaganda campaign.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Andre Picard discusses the reality that long COVID will result in lasting aftereffects even if we eventually manage to get the spread of new variants under control (which is of course itself a long way off). Thomson Reuters reports on new research
Continue readingNorthern Currents –: A left-wing case against Justin Trudeau invoking the Emergencies Act
The central issue with invoking the Emergency Act is twofold: First, it is a step too far in consolidating state power against dissenting citizens. Second, police already had the tools they needed to deal with the occupation in Ottawa but chose not to. If the police had exhausted all their
Continue readingNorthern Currents –: The Police Problem in Canada
The Emergencies Act sets a dangerous precedent- as does Bill 1 in Alberta, and we should not be encouraging their precedent-setting use. It is clear that the systems and leaders have not been listening. Legislation that allows the system to reproduce the same old issues is not going to bring
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Assorted content to end your week. – Arundhati Roy writes that pandemics may herald new political directions – though that reality makes the exploitation of compassion fatigue by corporate extractive forces all the more alarming. Gregg Gonsalves discusses the risks of declaring a premature end to a pandemic, while Dan
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Mike Mariani writes about the difficulty people suffering from long COVID have experienced trying to have their condition recognized and treated under governments looking to diminish or deny the existence of their disease. And Hannah Devlin and Nicola Davis discuss how scientific knowledge
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