LA Times: Ambulance Crews Told Not to Transport Patients Deemed Unlikely to Survive
Can you imagine what it must feel like going home at the end of your shift with the reality that you had to choose who to leave, abandoned to their…
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Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Andre Picard warns not to expect the end of the COVID-19 pandemic (however distant that may be) to result in any particular…
Krugman: How the Republican Party Went Feral
Yes, the GOP has gone feral, but much of America has entered a Lord of the Flies fantasy-nightmare that could threaten the very survival of the Union. Like most democratic…
Why These Covid Scofflaws Matter. They’re Almost As Infectious As the Virus Itself.
A lot of Canadian pols got their tits caught in the wringer for taking holidays abroad at Christmas. It was the height of hypocrisy. A couple of these bastards even…
Can We Stop This Nonsense About "Assange the Martyr"?
Julian Assange has won a reprieve from efforts to extradite him to face charges in the United States. For many on the left, Assange is a great martyr, a defender…
It’s Not Exactly the Cuban Missile Crisis, But…
Donald Trump is clearly in mental freefall, what the shrinks call “decomposition.” If you were incapable of distinguishing belief from reality you might be in the same condition. For the…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – In the absence of any leadership from governments, a group of experts has put together a “Canadian Shield” strategy (PDF) to rein in…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Don Braid calls out Jason Kenney for allowing his government’s MLAs and officials to gallivant around the world on vacation while demanding…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Daisy Fancourt discusses how general non-compliance with public health orders and recommendations can be traced back to the perception that elites couldn’t be…
Musical interlude
Radical Face – Sunlight
Running Out of Beds Is Only Part of the Problem
With Covid-19 infections surging in several provinces, we’re being warned that hospitals are running out of ICU beds needed to treat severe cases. Some areas could be weeks away from…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to start your year. – Shawn Micallef highlights how the coronavirus pandemic has exposed the refusal by far too many people to follow a social contract – including…
Happy Birthday to a Fine Gentleman
It’s a huge “happy birthday” to legendary Hull, Que., police detective, Zotique Laframboise. 60 years on and he hasn’t aged a day. If you’re having a WTF moment, there’s some…
Today’s CPC Is Nothing Like Yesterday’s PC Party
Today’s conservatives do not represent what used to be understood as conservative. Especially not anyone who grew up in the 60s and 70s, when the political movement was considerably left…
The Clown Prince Throws Another Hissy
Donald Trump has been angrily blaming his election loss on just about everyone and everything he can imagine. Among his notable whipping boys are former A.G. Bill Barr, the entire…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Fran Quigley interviews Joanne Goldblum and Colleen Shaddox about the entirely feasible steps which could be taken to eliminate poverty in the…
Mystery of the missing macaroni – solved!
What the Hole Is Going On? The very real, totally bizarre bucatini shortage of 2020. Rachel Handler gets to the bottom of the mystery that has been troubling Americans all…
Mystery of the missing macaroni – solved!
What the Hole Is Going On? The very real, totally bizarre bucatini shortage of 2020. Rachel Handler gets to the bottom of the mystery that has been troubling Americans all…
Deep thought
No one could have predicted that somebody’s refusal to accept responsibility for causing another person’s death – and indeed insistence that they’re entitled to avoid any questioning about it –…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Noah Smith examines how even leaving aside such trifling considerations as human welfare, it’s a better economic proposition to provide money to people…