Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Maxime Taquet, John Geddes, Masud Husain, Sierra Luciano and Paul Harrison study the broad and severe neurological impacts of the coronavirus. Pamela Downe and Jared Wesley survey how the public in Saskatchewan and Alberta views the response to COVID-19. And Jason Warick reports
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Accidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Gary Mason writes that our leaders appear to have learned nothing as we face a third wave of COVID-19. Hasan Sheikh and Munir Sheikh point out how the insistence of right-wing governments in taking ineffective half-measures rather than action which could actually provide
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Jim Stanford weighs in on the need for increased worker input into economic decision-making – particularly as change is otherwise imposed by management with little regard for the people most affected. – Nathaniel Erskine-Smith makes the case for a wealth tax to recoup
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Plague Update: Saskatchewan Government Delays Recommended Restrictions
#ReginaCircuitbreaker now. SK Gov should be announcing tomorrow morning that people should go home tomorrow night, and stay there. But the government in this province is rife with corruption and incompetence in the political ranks, so an outside force has to push them.#YQR — Saskboy from Saskatchewan (@saskboy) March 23,
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This and that for your Thursday reading. – Steven Lewis writes that the Saskatchewan Party’s mealy-mouthed messaging around the coronavirus looks to be a calculated political choice which is having devastating public health consequences: There has been a pattern in Saskatchewan’s communication about COVID-19 throughout the pandemic. The language is
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Plague Update: Moe & Ford, Worst Of Both Worlds
First of all, Doug Ford is a racist, incompetent, buffoon. Ontario NDP calls on Ford to apologize after wrongly accusing Indigenous MPP of vaccine queue-jumping https://t.co/vFyIUC6LeW — CBC Indigenous (@CBCIndigenous) March 11, 2021 CTV: “Premier Doug Ford has apologized after accusing a First Nations MPP who got a vaccine in
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Plague Update: Premier Responds, And Skips Work
A month ago I wrote the Premier, again asking him to resign due to his extreme incompetence. His response was to ignore that request and provide more examples of the same. Surprised to hear back from the Premier, but of course he included a lie about the public health measures
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Jason Hickel writes that on a global scale, poverty is the result of inequality and the misallocation of resources rather than underdevelopment. And Brittany Andrew-Amofah makes the case for a wealth tax to both reduce the existing concentration of wealth and power, and
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Here we are now, going to the bothsides
Shorter Murray Mandryk: Who can really say whether we should want to have more or less spread of a deadly disease? What we should focus on is compromising on a moderately disastrous pandemic that we can all be somewhat dissatisfied with.
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This and that for your Thursday reading. – Steven Lewis examines how Canada can and should learn from Australia’s success in controlling the coronavirus, while Robert Danich writes that conservative governments need to learn that they have responsibility for social health and well-being rather than pointing the finger at individuals.
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Caroline Chen discusses why opening restaurants and other indoor venues which involve prolonged contact is the worst possible choice if one wants to contain the spread of COVID-19. – Michal Rozworski argues that we shouldn’t see the relief efforts needed in the wake
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Plague Update: SK Gov Asks People To Watch NFL In Restaurants
Feb. 7, 2021 – emailed the Premier and my MLA. Dear Premier Moe: It’s no secret that your weak response to the pandemic has given us Canada’s most shameful second wave. Manitoba realized they were on track to be Canada’s disaster epicentre, and used an effective lockdown to return to
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – The Globe and Mail’s editorial board laments the choice of far too many provincial governments to sacrifice tens of thousands of lives rather than treating a pandemic with the seriousness and focus it deserves. Philip Pizzo, David Spiegel and Michelle Mello examine how
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Assorted content to end your week. – Andrew Nikiforuk takes a look at two proposals to get to COVID Zero – including one from Canada and one from Germany. – Mickey Djuric reports on Saskatchewan’s deceptive COVID-19 reporting – which results in a public announcement that people have “recovered” no
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Plague Update: Moe Says We Can Do This
Scott Moe says he thinks Saskatchewan can do this. What is this? It’s BS. He thinks we’ll buy his BS. And he’s probably right that at lesst half of the people will. Look at his consistent catch phrase: The only time Saskatchewan flattened the curve was with a lockdown and
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This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Simon Enoch traces the COVID-19 spending that’s taken place in Saskatchewan – finding that most of the support has come from the federal government, while Scott Moe has combined a refusal to lift a finger (and indeed a failure to make use
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On root causes
Shorter Scott Moe on threats against Dr. Saqib Shahab: I have no idea how these idiots got the idea that policy disagreement entitles you to engage in violent rhetoric and personal harassment. Shorter Scott Moe’s CO2Anon donor base: Environmentalists are child molesters! But the good news is that I think
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: #Petrostate of the Province
You know you live in a #petrostate when local city council exec votes to restrict fossil fuel sponsorship and 1) the Premier threatens the City’s budget and 2) the official provincial opposition has nothing to say about it. This is the #CultureOfSilence I have written about — Emily Eaton (@emi_eaton)
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: How Flawed A Leg
If the Sask Party split off a few MLAs to form a secondary Con party, they could fill the Official Opposition role also. This might put the NDP at an even greater disadvantage, since the questions would mostly go to a phony opposition leader’s fake party. This is part of
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Plague Update: Plague Of Pipelines
We have Canada's worst COVID handling, where's the Premier on that? — Saskboy from Saskatchewan (@saskboy) January 18, 2021 With Biden apparently poised to pause KXL into oblivion, Saskatchewan’s hapless Premier Moe lashes out at Trudeau. The meme, a modified Kenney cartoon, was available prior to Moe’s latest predictable bleating.
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