Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Cecelia Smith-Schoenwalder discusses the imminent prospect of a majority of Americans suffering from long COVID as more and more dangerous variants are allowed…
Cons
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Danny Altmann discusses how infection with COVID-19 tends to produce weakness and long-term illness rather than immunity, while Tom Livingstone likewise notes that…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Danielle Hitch, Aryati Yashadhana and Evelyne de Leeuw write that long COVID is following the path of acute COVID-19 in having a…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Belen Fernandez discusses how the reckless normalization of masklessness even in particularly dangerous portions of a pandemic is leading to avoidable suffering…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Allison Jones reports that Ontario is working on a new round of COVID booster shots for the fall (while so many other jurisdictions…
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…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Sam Gindin discusses the need to push back against the narrative that inflation caused by supply chain disruptions and corporate greed will…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Winnie Wan Yee Tso et al. study the severity of the Omicron BA.2 COVID variant, and find that its rate of deaths and…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – David Climenhaga writes about the need to investigate the U.S. funding which seems to have built the #FluTruxKlan’s profile, while Saba Aziz discusses…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Thomas Bollyky et al. examine the factors which have led to reducing the spread COVID-19 and resulting harm – with trust in fellow…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Ivan Semeniuk reports on the response to the Omicron COVID variant both globally and in Canada. But Eric Topol writes that the U.S.…
This is why we can’t have even minimally acceptable things
Here we go again. And somehow, the latest round of hysteria includes the Cons learning nothing from the failure of their attacks on coalitions or other forms of inter-party cooperation…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Yasmine Ghania interviews Nazeem Muhajarine about the Saskatchewan Party’s choice to produce misleadingly low COVID-19 case numbers by stifling testing. And Kelly Provost…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Ian Austen takes Alberta’s shame to the international stage by pointing out how the UCP’s “best summer ever” has given rise to…
On echoes
Plenty of commentators have pointed out the symmetry between this year’s election and that of 2008 in terms of low voter turnout and general dissatisfaction with the outcome on the…
#Elxn44 E-Day Links
News and notes as Canada’s federal election draws to a close. – David Moscrop discusses how a campaign nobody wanted is leaning toward grudging continuation of the status quo which…
#Elxn44 Roundup
The latest from Canada’s federal election campaign. – Victoria Nicolau reports on the Native Women’s Association of Canada’s campaign scorecard, showing the NDP well ahead of other parties in addressing…
#Elxn44 Roundup
News and notes from Canada’s federal election campaign. – Cam Fenton discusses how “strategic” votes for the Libs in the name of climate change figure to be anything but, while…
#Elxn44 Roundup
The latest from Canada’s federal election campaign. – D.T. Cochrane reviews the parties’ platforms and finds the NDP’s to be both the most progressive and the most fiscally responsible. And…
#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…