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Wednesday Afternoon Links

Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett lament that inequality continues to get worse fifteen years after they warned of its myriad harms. And George Monbiot…

Tuesday Morning Links

This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Joe Vipond and Steve Bentley write about the need to treat the climate breakdown in progress as a serious problem requiring immediate…

Thursday Afternoon Links

This and that for your Thursday reading. – Michael Klare writes about the growing indications that the climate breakdown is pushing us toward a civilizational collapse. Jeff Renaud discusses new…

Saturday Afternoon Links

Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Andrew Nikiforuk writes about immunologist Chris Goodnow’s belated recognition that COVID isn’t over only after he was hit with acute myocarditis, while Korin…

Wednesday Afternoon Links

Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Aekkachai Tuekprakhon et al. study how the Omicron COVID-19 subvariants are evading both previous immunity and existing treatments. And Zak Vescera reports on…

Thursday Morning Links

This and that for your Thursday reading. – Eric Topol describes how COVID-19’s infectiousness has been steadily increasing with time even as so many governments have gone out of their…

Saturday Morning Links

Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Renee Graham writes that the elimination of masking protections as a matter of privileged people’s comfort in the midst of a pandemic that…

Friday Morning Links

Assorted content to end your week. – Arundhati Roy writes that pandemics may herald new political directions – though that reality makes the exploitation of compassion fatigue by corporate extractive…

Monday Morning Links

Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Umair Haque is rightly frustrated that we haven’t learned and applied obvious lessons about how to fight COVID after two years, while also…

Tuesday Morning Links

This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Alexander Quon reports on Alexander Wong’s call for far more public health measures to alleviate COVID’s unmanageable strain on Saskatchewan’s health care…

#Elxn44 Roundup

News and notes from Canada’s federal election campaign. – Alex Hemingway writes about the need to tax the rich far beyond even the “unlimited zeal” reflected in the NDP’s modest…

Tuesday Morning Links

This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Apoora Mandavilli warns about the looming prospect that the U.S. will be unable to reach herd immunity through vaccination due to right-wing…

Friday Afternoon Links

Assorted content to end your week. – Alex Hemingway writes about the massive concentration of wealth among the richest few Canadians while most people have struggled through the pandemic. And…

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…

Sunday Morning Links

This and that for your Sunday reading. – Owen Jones writes that the oft-repeated message that the public is responsible for the control (or spread) of COVID-19 serves mostly to…

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