Assorted content to end your week. – Fiona Small writes about the hope that one of the responses to COVID-19 will be a shift toward inhaled vaccines. But for those expecting that efforts will be made to address an ongoing pandemic, Melody Schrieber reports on new research showing the U.S.’s
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Accidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Sara Reardon discusses new research showing that vaccination has only a limited effect on the prevalance of long COVID among people who wind up getting infected, while Cindy Harnett offers a reminder that the best way to limit the likelihood of long-term
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Nicola Davis reports on new research showing that the effects of long COVID include sustained damage to organs including the heart, lungs and kidneys. – Neal Wilcott and Sean Cleary discuss why businesses would be smart to plan for a net-zero emission
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – William J. Barber and Tope Folarin write that the U.S.’ grim milestone of one million COVID-19 deaths already serves as a searing indictment of its policy choices and disregard for people living in poverty – and this before a combination of Republican cruelty
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: W Gaffes Again
The Republican Party didn’t become disgusting when Trump came to power, it’s been terrible for over 20 years. How can you tell? W Bush just confessed to knowing the Iraq War was wrong, during one of his infamous public speaking gaffes. Obama’s Democrats letting him skate away from responsibility for
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Mark Kline warns against accepting continuing denialism about the impact of COVID-19 on children. Andre Picard discusses Canada’s grim milestone of 40,000 (reported) COVID deaths. And Dennis Thompson notes the reality that long COVID may be a chronic condition requiring constant treatment, while Sky
Continue readingViews from the Beltline: Perhaps the party of Lincoln isn’t dead yet
The Republicans backing Trump again would be the definition of insanity. Who said that, you ask. A Democrat perhaps? Or a journalist? An academic? No, as hard to believe as it may be, the speaker was a prominent member of the Republican Party. He is, in fact, Larry Hogan, Governor
Continue readingViews from the Beltline: The GOP wanders right off the political spectrum
The polarization of political views now has many Americans rightly worried about the future of their democracy. At least those that care about democracy. Some almost seem to welcome its end. The polarization is reflected in the diverging and hardening of views of the two political parties. About all they
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Melody Schreiber discusses how the U.S.’ inequality and lack of support for workers has severely exacerbated the pandemic. And Eric Schwitzgebel examines what it means to be a COVID jerk – and how their ubiquity and prominence has made life worse for
Continue readingThe Maple Monarchists - Blog: Meme Monday #10
Prince William from two perspectives People say that a picture is worth a thousand words. What they don’t mention is that none of those words are necessarily the truth. Loyally Yours,A Kisaragi Colour
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to start your week. – Cory Neudorf writes about the need for layers of COVID-19 protection now to avoid extreme measures like lockdowns due to the collapse of our health care system. And CBC News reports on the necessarily appalled reaction by public health experts in response to
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Greg Jericho writes that the latest IPCC report confirms that we’re running out of time to avert climate breakdown, but still have a narrow window in which to do so. Damian Carrington reminds us that the cost of climate negligence is far
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Lauren Pelley examines the impact of the Delta variant in Canada. And Marieke Walsh notes that we’re facing an increasingly tight time frame to ramp up COVID-19 vaccinations to avoid it resulting in a fourth wave, while reports on U.S. research showing
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Claire Pomeroy and the Financial Times each highlight the likelihood that survivors of long COVID will be affected for the rest of their lives by a disease which governments have decided to allow to spread. And a group of health experts in the
Continue readingThe Maple Monarchists - Blog: Statement by Chairman Finch of the Monarchist League of Canada
REPUBLICANISM WILL NOT HELP WITH RECONCILIATION In the aftermath of the horrific discoveries of the bodies of Indigenous children at former residential schools across the country, Indigenous and non-Indigenous Canadians have rightly been asking themselves what more can be done to help achieve reconciliation. Recently, a school in Creston, BC removed its royal connection
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Assorted content to end your week. – Matt Gurney questions how it is that Ontario (like other provinces) is continuing to avoid any meaningful planning in its pandemic response, with the problem now being a lack of guidance or direction in distributing second doses of vaccines. – Stephanie Taylor reports
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Grace Blakeley discusses how corporate handouts represent a major contributor to the concentration of wealth by the richest few. And CNN reports on the new billionaires created by the public development of COVID-19 vaccines. – Rachelle Younglai points out that generational wealth transfers
Continue readingScripturient: A Conspiracy So Immense
It’s a common theme in today’s political analysis to argue that Donald Trump broke America. Looking at the ongoing dumpster fire that is the Repugnican Party, the rise of white supremacists, neo-Nazis, anti-science, pro-disease, misogynist, pseudo-religious, and anti-justice groups into the centre of the party’s power seems clear evidence of
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Jason Warick reports on how the lack of enforcement of public health rules has emboldened anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers to impose their disregard for community safety on the people around them. Guy Quenneville highlights the Moe government’s decision to do absolutely nothing in the
Continue readingThe Maple Monarchists - Blog: All three policy proposals concerning the monarchy that were submitted to the NDP policy convention
The NDP is having a policy convention this weekend (so are the Liberals in what must have been a scheduling snafu). The NDP membership has once again put forward policies concerning the Canadian Monarchy to be debated. The following is a summary of the good, the bad, and the ugly. The Good And no,
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