This and that for your Sunday reading. – Jason Warick reports on the concern of doctors that Scott Moe’s insistence on reducing protections against the spread of COVID-19 doesn’t take into account the health of older or less healthy residents. And Sheri Lecker notes that the social isolation imposed so
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Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Plague Update: Death For Dollars
The reckless and callous Sask Party prepares on Monday to start the calculated risk AKA killing process. Because golf is literally more important than some guy’s grandma, amirite? More than 400 sick health care workers in the biggest city west of our capital city. No biggie, I guess?#SlowMoe has killed
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Andrew Nikiforuk highlights where we stand in responding to the coronavirus – including the dangers of declaring victory at a point where there’s still every risk of waves of death. – Janice Braden writes that the Saskatchewan Party’s idea of reopening the province
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Heather Scoffield points out some of the people who have been systematically excluded from any discussion about what steps need to be taken next in response to the coronavirus pandemic, while Althia Raj focuses on self-employed Canadians in particular. Simon Enoch is
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On false choices
Needless to say, I’m not at all surprised to see what resulted from Scott Moe’s pre-announcement announcement and subsequent announcement about the additional risks he wants to take in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. But before digging into the details of what Moe plans to open up, let’s first
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Plague Update: Saskatchewan Prepares To Increase Infections
It’s no surprise to most reading this that I have a low opinion of Saskatchewan’s Premier. He’s an unlovable oaf. He’s never been elected by the general electorate to be Premier, and his party takes corrupt corporate donations. Yet he gets lots of media support from Rawlco and other big
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On historical patterns
It’s certainly understandable to try to maintain hope that a public address will produce some desperately-needed improvements to the lives of Saskatchewan’s essential workers. But let’s remember the track record involved here. So far, Scott Moe’s changes to working conditions as a result of COVID-19 include limiting the availability of
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Is Oil Profitable? Negative.
This has been obvious to me for most of the last decade, after it became clear that good information was never going to win over enough people, because disinformation had already corrupted too many. https://t.co/jbwxnjMkB2 — Saskboy from #SocialDistancing (@saskboy) April 20, 2020 Oil prices turn negative for first time
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Amadeus Narbutt discusses the uncertain effect of the coronavirus on the global balance of power. And Adam Tooze notes that the U.S.’ damaging response to COVID-19 included vetoing IMF support for governments around the globe. – Andrew Langille examines how workers with low
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On absenteeism
The U.S. has seen some of its state elections turned into anti-democratic abominations by the absence of effective absentee balloting – with the lack of effective voting serving as an explicit strategy by Republicans to exclude people from exercising their right to vote. Fortunately, Saskatchewan doesn’t have the extreme exclusions
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On antisocialism
Plenty of attention is rightly getting paid to the unabashed evil that is the Republicans’ insistence on holding previously-scheduled elections at a time when it was certain to make. But how much worse is it then for a politician to actually treat the spread of COVID-19 as an excuse to
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Duncan Cameron writes that while the COVID-19 pandemic has been catastrophic, we shouldn’t pretend that it’s at all surprising – or that the necessary responses are in doubt: Though it has taken the world by surprise, the COVID-19 pandemic is a white
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On stitches in time
It’s no secret that Canadians’ individual finances have been getting perpetually more precarious, with most people lacking the ability to fund even a single urgent expense. But the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed what happens when the fragile finances of large numbers of individuals shatter all at once. And while our
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Michael Valpy and Frank Graves take a look at public opinion in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis, and conclude that Canadians are rightly eager to see our leaders do whatever is necessary to ensure our survival and health. And Laila Yuile notes
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: FEEL THE COMPASSION!!!
Finally, a provincial announcement about how Saskatchewan’s most vulnerable can meet their basic needs in a public health emergency which is depriving thousands upon thousands of people of income… Individuals who have, or are suspected of having, COVID-19 and lack money to meet their basic needs should apply for any
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Brendan Kennedy reports on the massive job losses being caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Andrew Jackson offers his suggestions to provide immediate help to workers facing that urgent crisis today, while also laying the groundwork for a transition to a clean economy once
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Conventional Wisdom!
Deathly serious? Or downright hilarious? It would be rude to suggest the Saskatchewan Party government should be able to appropriately classify a pandemic. Meanwhile, Scott Moe’s entire economic plan for both the pandemic and recovery consists once again of having the federal government absorb the liabilities of the oil sector,
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Conventional Wisdom!
A public health emergency demands that we unite mindlessly behind the government which deliberately mocked it, utterly failed to prepare us, and is now prohibiting anybody from taking stronger action.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Civility Police, Arrest This Man
Sure, it’s common knowledge (at least among those not politically motivated to the contrary) that supervised consumption sites save lives. And it’s true that it’s a matter of government choice whether those sites get funded. But that doesn’t mean we can abide anybody pointing out that life-and-death choices – and
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On safety concerns
One of the great mysteries of Scott Moe’s tenure in power is how he’s evaded scrutiny for a personal track record which has demonstrated a gross lack of judgment – including getting convicted of impaired driving, causing a separate accident which killed another person, and filing for bankruptcy. In the
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