Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Zak Vescera exposes how the Saskatchewan Health Authority warned Scott Moe’s government that it was extending a COVID wave, endangering lives and…
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Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Shiven Taneja writes about the glaring need to keep masking to avoid the spread of COVID-19 even if governments have abandoned their…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Stephanie Dubois reports on the growing body of research showing that the risk of COVID-19 reinfection is worsening due to the Omicron variants.…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – George Monbiot writes that rhetoric about “learning to live with it” has become the go-to excuse to allow preventable tragedies – including the…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Dayne Patterson discusses the continued recognition among doctors that the COVID-19 pandemic is far from over (and indeed approaching another particularly dangerous phase).…
Spending on health must get much larger
The long term fiscal and economic outlook released this week by Ontario’s Financial Accountability Office (FAO) shows that big increases in health care spending are required in the years ahead.…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Doug Saunders writes that Europe’s devastating new wave of COVID – like those elsewhere – can be traced directly to politicians pandering…
#Elxn44 Roundup
The latest from Canada’s federal election campaign. – Jim Stanford writes about the evolution of political and economic thought toward accepting deficits as a readily affordable price of supporting people…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – David Climenhaga discusses how Jason Kenney’s detachment from the reality of COVID is leading to disaster for Alberta. Marilou Gagnon and Damien…
The Ford PC government thanks hospital employees by telling them to work harder for less
With as much fanfare as it could muster, the Ford PC government has re-announced its Budget plan of $300 million for hospitals to deal with the backlog of surgeries and…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Apoorva Mandavilli reports on the CDC’s return to recommending that people wear masks indoors to try to avoid another COVID wave. Matt…
Is Bigger Better? In TVs, Maybe Not.
I read on several websites that for a distance of about 3.6 m (12 ft) from the screen to the viewer, the optimum size of a television should be 85…
Doug Ford and the PCs plan another decade of austerity — except even harsher this time
Ontario’s Financial Accountability Office (FAO) reports that the nominal health care funding increases planned by the Ford PC goverment between 2019/20 to 2029-30 fall well short of the nominal increases…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – John Michael McGrath makes the case for optimism about our potential to avoid further waves of COVID as long as COVID-19 vaccinations overtake…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Tonda MacCharles reports on David Naylor’s justified call for an inquiry into Canada’s pandemic response. And Peter Walker’s report on the rapid…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Michael Smart compares Canada’s fiscal response to the COVID crisis to the reaction to previous recessions – finding that benefits for people are…
Ford PC government plans years of cuts to hospital services
The pandemic led to a brief reprieve from the austerity that has bedevilled Ontario hospital care since the great recession. After decades of being on par with other provinces, hospital…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Fahad Razak, David Naylor and Arthur Slutsky discuss how it’s not too late to pull our health care system back from the brink…
What would a transformational budget look like?
Reactions to this week’s federal budget have been all over the map. Is it too much, too little? Is this the shock the country needs or a missed opportunity to…
‘I’ve heard that song before.’
It was a confused kindergarten teacher who once asked me why my daughter would tell her and the class that her mother went to hotels at night with men. She…