Assorted content to end your week. – Sarah Zhang discusses the absurdity of treating the COVID pandemic as being over when it’s causing more death and illness than ever, while Shanoor Seervai interviews Bob Pratcher about the need for people to keep working on reducing risk even while being told
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Accidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Maggie O’Farrell offers her experience as to the devastating effects of long COVID. And Jose Manuel Aburto et al. study the particularly insidious impact of COVID on minority racial and ethnic populations in the U.S. – Meanwhile, Dayne Patterson reports on the call
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: The Grecian Formula and mineral rights #nlpoli
In the late 1990s, the provincial government faced some tough financial times. The debt and the size of the economy were the same number. The government went through the usual rounds of layoffs and cuts, and the sorts of things they needed to keep the budget under control. One of
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: The Importance of Appearing Earnest #nlpoli
Once upon a time, not so very long ago, your humble e-scribbler noted the importance the provincial Conservatives placed on the appearance of things. The idea came together neatly in a celebrity interview not by someone in the private sector media but by a representative of the state-run broadcaster. “Government
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