Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Nicole Grether writes about the hundreds of thousands of young people orphaned by COVID-19 in the U.S. alone, while Kyodo News reports on…
climate change
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Meara Conway examines the absolute frivolousness of the Saskatchewan Party’s Ottawa-bashing, while Stephen Magusiak offers a reminder of the oil-backed astroturf project behind…
The IPCC and the Alberta perspective
On March 20 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released the final instalment of its Sixth Assessment Report. The report resulted from the work of 234 scientists on the…
The IPCC and the Alberta perspective
On March 20 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released the final instalment of its Sixth Assessment Report. The report resulted from the work of 234 scientists on the…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Linda McQuaig discusses how the Biden administration is providing the Trudeau Libs with an example to follow in ensuring that the ultra-wealthy contribute…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Dave Hansen et al. discuss the attempt in progress by publishers to attack the Internet Archive in order to restrict access to…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – The John Snow Project calls out the dangers of labeling COVID-19 infection as an immune-boosting mechanism, rather than an unequivocal harm to individual…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Al Shaw, Irena Hwang and Caroline Chen discuss how forest loss and changing interactions between people and wildlife could be the trigger for…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Aria Bendix examines the state of current knowledge as to how likely people are to suffer from long COVID after being infected…
Trans Mountain: A $35+ billion fossil fuel subsidy
“There is a genuine possibility that within the coming century, we will hit temperatures that are deeply incompatible with the continued existence of human life.” Canadian industrialists, the Trudeau government,…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Camille Bains reports on Dr. Mona Nemer’s warning that long COVID represents a mass disabling event with potentially devastating social and economic consequences.…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Joshua Cohen writes that the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in the first sustained streak of declining global life expectancy in over 60…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Tarun Sai Lomte discusses new research on the connection between structural brain changes and fatigue associated with long COVID. And Eric Topol examines…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – David Wallace-Wells discusses how the U.S. is woefully unprepared to deal with the real prospect of another pandemic (particularly on top of the…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Michael Kempa discusses Justice Paul Rouleau’s findings on federalism in his report on the use of the Emergencies Act – though the hope…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Eric Reinhart discusses the importance of approaching public health from a collective perspective, rather than presuming health is simply a matter of…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Francesco Pierri et al. study the roots of COVID-19 vaccine denialism, with misinformation becoming more and more prevalent as the pandemic continues. And…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – David Moscrop discusses how the Trudeau Libs have chosen to funnel money to cutthroat corporate consultants rather than building a functional public…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Charles Schmidt reports on new research findings showing that repeat infections with COVID-19 result in substantially elevated risks of death, hospitalization and…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Ann Mallen offers a personal account of the effect of the continued COVID threat on people who are already immunocompromised, while Richard Woodbury…