Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Anthony Fernandez-Castaneda et al. examine the long-term neurological and cognitive damage caused even by “mild” cases of COVID. Sally Cutler discusses the implications of the Omicron COVID variant remaining transmissible longer than previously assumed even as governments and employers are adamant about forcing
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Accidental Deliberations: Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Marieke Walsh and Carrie Tait report on Canada’s grim milestone of two million COVID cases recorded – even as the medical system braces for another wave to crest. And Betsy Powell reports on the push toward fourth vaccine doses in long-term care homes.
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: And The Answer Is …
Education. Well, it’s part of the answer anyway. And the question? How does society mount a serious effort to combat racism in its many forms, be it directed against Muslims, Asians, Jews, Blacks, Indigenous or anyone else who falls within the sights of the benighted and the evil? The stakes
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Now that the U.S. has announced its land borders will be open to vaccinated Canadians sometime in November, many, especially snowbirds, are exultant. There are, however, numerous reasons to temper that enthusiasm, including the poor rate of full vaccination south of us (only 57%), the ever-present threat of violence, and
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – David Fickling responds to the attempt by petropoliticians to blame high gas prices on limited climate action rather than the vagaries of commodity economics. Lisa Friedman reports on the agreement among 30 countries to slash methane emissions as a crucial short-term step in
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Systemic racism in Quebec health care is long-standing, doctor says [Montreal Gazette]
A pediatric emergency physician at Montreal’s Children’s Hospital, Samir Shaheen-Hussain has been fighting against discrimination in Quebec’s health care network for years. Photo by Allen McInnis /Montreal Gazette Systemic racism in Quebec health care is long-standing, doctor says Appalling treatment of Joyce Echaquan was, sadly, no surprise, says physician and
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Truth and Reconciliation Day Links
A few links and reports for the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. – Rose Lemay writes that reconciliation requires systemic change at the level of individual assumptions and awareness. Murray Sinclair notes that the proclamation of the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation is just one small step in
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Anti-Asian Hate & Resistance: Jackson Heights Immigration Solidarity Network Newsletter, August 7, 2021
[This post is mirrored from JHImmigrationSolidarity.Org, where it was originally published on August 7, 2021.] Dear friends, Warm greetings in late summer to all our generous readers. We begin with two pieces of good news. On July 29, the City Council finally passed legislation that protects over 300,000 domestic workers
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Ian Austen takes Alberta’s shame to the international stage by pointing out how the UCP’s “best summer ever” has given rise to the fourth wave of COVID-19. Adam Hunter points out how similarly disastrous pandemic mismanagement hasn’t yet produced the same political
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News and notes from the aftermath of Canada’s federal election. – Christo Aivalis is the latest to point out that nobody emerged from the election as a winner. And John Packer writes that there’s an ever-stronger case for a coalition government given the low level of popular support for the
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News and notes as Canada’s federal election draws to a close. – David Moscrop discusses how a campaign nobody wanted is leaning toward grudging continuation of the status quo which the Libs tried to discard. And Ryan Maloney reports on the technical problems arising largely out of a snap pandemic
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Assorted content to end your week. – Wallis Snowdon reports on what critical-care triage caused by a combination of COVID-19 and mismanagement will mean in Alberta’s ICUs (at a time when Saskatchewan is facing the same). Jason Warick highlights how Saskatchewan’s Chief Medical Health Officer has far more power to
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News and notes from Canada’s federal election campaign. – Alex Hemingway writes about the need to tax the rich far beyond even the “unlimited zeal” reflected in the NDP’s modest plans to secure additional revenue. And David Moscrop makes the case for far more discussion of systemic change in who owns and makes decisions
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Frank Addario asks how any politician can claim to be a leader while taking a mulligan on the COVID-19 pandemic. Amy Kaler writes that Jason Kenney’s decision to pay off non-vaccinated people while doing virtually nothing to limit community spread has only made
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The latest from Canada’s federal election campaign. – Jim Stanford writes that the direction of our rebuilding from and after the COVID pandemic is one of the core issues at stake. Anna Desmarais highlights how people are suffering from the arbitrary rules the Trudeau Libs attached to CERB with unmanageable
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: No Truth
Manitoba’s new Minister really put his foot in his mouth. The leader of the Official Opposition put him in his place. Here's the exchange between @WabKinew and Dr. Alan Lagimodiere, the new Indigenous Reconciliation and Northern Relations minister. pic.twitter.com/qV87piRT7E — elishadacey (@elishadacey) July 15, 2021 Why are Canadian Conservatives like
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Umair Haque discusses how the UK is headed for yet another avoidable wave of COVID-19 disaster. Sarah Rieger reports on the rising spread of COVID-19 in Alberta, while James Keller reports that Jason Kenney’s declaration of surrender has predictably convinced people not to
Continue readingViews from the Beltline: Intrinsic bias—friend or foe?
We are all tribal. We don’t have a choice. We are designed that way. Our architects—our genes—design us to be biased toward fellow members of our tribe as opposed to members of other tribes. Genecists are even identifying the genes that do the designing. We might compare ourselves to felines
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Zania Stamataki warns that we can’t afford to treat vaccines as a magic bullet against the dangers of the coronavirus when public health regulations remain needed to limit its spread and severity. Brishti Basu examines the reasons for both concern about the Delta
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: Doubling Down on Racism – The Chris Champion Edition
Over at the Dorchester Review, we find one Chris Champion doubling down on his position that the "Indian Residential Schools (IRS) really weren't all that bad". The dust-up on Twitter starts a few days ago, but culminates in a series of posts like this one, depicting students "having an
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