Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – David Macdonald and Martha Friendly examine how the COVID-19 pandemic has put even more strain on a Canadian child care system which was…
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Musical interlude
Psychedelic Furs – You’ll Be Mine
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Noah Ivers writes that people need to take the first COVID-19 vaccine available in support of everybody’s health, rather than assuming that consumerist…
Thursday Morning Links
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…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Bruce Arthur discusses how Doug Ford could prevent a third wave of COVID-19 in Ontario, but is choosing not to. John Michael McGrath…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Contented cats.
On priorities
For all the commentary Marco Rubio has managed to generate with his threat that Republicans may hate Amazon more than the workers seeking to organize it, nothing reflects the warped…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Kendall Latimer reports that epidemiologists are calling for far stronger public health measures as COVID variants have become the dominant strain –…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Rita Trichur writes that an attempt to boost the economy solely through monetary policy will predictably lead to even worse inequality – meaning…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Rachel Aiello reports on Dr. Theresa Tam’s observation that Canada has failed its most vulnerable residents in responding to the coronavirus pandemic.…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Adam Hunter talks to epidemiologists about Saskatchewan’s pitiful COVID-19 response and the avoidable disease and death that have resulted. Gary Mason warns that…
Friday Evening Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Alex Hemingway examines how a wealth tax could raise substantially more money than assumed by the PBO. And Caterina Lindman writes about the…
Musical interlude
Aly & AJ – Listen!!!
Thursday Evening Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Christo Aivalis rightly points out that the NDP needs to be a party of labour and fight to ensure workers’ needs are…
The Stammering Man
You don’t have to be a critic of Justin Trudeau to know he stammers. The disjointed cadence, the constant search for words. He does it, a lot. He does it…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Fluffy cats.
Tuesday Evening Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Stephanie Taylor reports on the Saskatchewan Health Authority’s warning that we can’t afford to loosen the province’s COVID-19 rules – which of…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Paul Krugman notes that hostility toward basic public health protection such as masks represents a stark example of conservatives sacrificing human lives to…
Is This the Event We Were Warned Of?
Two themes are emerging in reports on Covid-19. One is that the Western economies are being hard hit, plunging deep in debt to prop up/avert the collapse of their societies…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Mark Tenforde, Kiva Fisher and Manish Patel study the activities most likely to spread COVID-19 – with restaurants, gyms, bars and churches…