Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Ricardo Duque Gabriel et al. examine how the costs of austerity extend beyond the human toll of diminished well-being to include the undermining…
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Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Ed Yong writes about the need for people to keep caring for and protecting each other to make up for being abandoned…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Geoff Thompson reports on new research showing that the cognitive decline caused by COVID-19 is worse than previously known, while the European…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Dianna Chang et al. examine the correlation between social and political factors and COVID-19 spread and mortality. And Crawford Kilian discusses how Canadian…
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…
Inflation: austerity is not the solution, it’s the problem
SURELY WE HAVE ENOUGH TO worry about without renewed warnings about runaway inflation. But even amid all our various crises, inflation continues to make its way into the headlines: “Canada’s…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Nadine Yousif writes about the growing frustration people are experiencing as they’re told to manage their own risks in the midst of a…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Liz Szabo discusses how improved ventilation has plenty of additional benefits beyond limiting the spread of COVID – making it the COVID…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Adam Kleczkowski examines the effectiveness of COVID-19 interventions two years into the pandemic, while noting the importance of applying the precautionary principle…
Neoliberal failures expose the need to defund the police
Police cannot ever solve broad social and political problems created by the neglect of the neoliberal state. They will forever be locked in a chase to find more crime which…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – James Tapper reports on the UK’s soaring rates of long-term illness caused by COVID-19, while Tara Madden writes about the utter uselessness…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Andrew Nikiforuk distills the four myths which have resulted in Canada’s political leaders plunging us into multiple avoidable waves of COVID spread.…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Michaeleen Doucleff offers an FAQ on the causes and consequences of long COVID in its various forms. Guy Quenneville reports on the need…
Monday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to start your week. – Bruce Deachman discusses the new “normal” we’re approaching in which COVID continues to be a threat to people’s health on an ongoing basis.…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Bruce Arthur calls out Doug Ford for choosing (like other conservative premiers) to prioritize the “freedom” of uninformed anti-vaxxers to endanger everybody…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – The Canadian Medical Association calls for Scott Moe to finally reinstate public health rules to prevent Saskatchewan’s already-catastrophic fourth wave of COVID-19 from…
Saturday Evening Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Doug Cuthand highlights how we can’t afford to let our guard down against the dangers of COVID-19, while Allysha Howse notes that a…
#Elxn44 Roundup
The latest from Canada’s federal election campaign. – The Maple examines how the timing and format of the campaign chosen by Justin Trudeau could hardly have been designed for lower…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Maria Sarrhou talks to doctors about their frustrations treating COVID-19 in patients who chose not to be vaccinated. And Daniel Villareal reports…
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…