Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Ivan Semeniuk writes about the changing COVID-19 pandemic as the primary threat becomes the spread of variants which weren’t known or accounted for…
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Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Robert Hiltz warns against letting the leaders responsible for preventable COVID deaths off the hook as part of an attempt to turn…
Monday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to start your week. – Bartley Kives discusses the Pallister PC’s failure to respond to warnings about a new COVID wave (which of course reflects a pattern among…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – John Michael McGrath highlights how the COVID-19 B.1.617 variant represents a serious threat to the prospect of safely relaxing restrictions over the…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Zeynep Tufecki warns that the deadliest phase of the coronavirus pandemic may be yet to come even after vaccines become widely capable of…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Matt Gurney questions how it is that Ontario (like other provinces) is continuing to avoid any meaningful planning in its pandemic response, with…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Ian Welsh calls out the latest example of deceptive use of COVID-19 data to minimize the risk people continue to face, as…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Robert Reich offers some lessons we need to draw from the coronavirus pandemic – including the recognition that while billionaires won’t save…
We’re Doomed. Doomed, I tell you.
While walking our dog recently, we encountered another couple “our age” (somewhere between 65 and 90) also walking their dog. While the two pets sniffed and frolicked, we chatted with…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. – Jenna Gettings et al. study the massive effect masking and improved ventilation have in reducing the spread of the coronavirus in elementary schools.…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Murray Mandryk discusses how COVID-19 has highlighted and exacerbated existing inequality in Saskatchewan. And Aaron Wherry points out that Canada shouldn’t treat its…
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…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Bruce Arthurt warns against letting up in our effort to fight COVID-19 just when a substantial victory is in sight. And Stephen Reicher,…
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…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Both Apoorva Mandavilli and Sara Mojtehedzadeh highlight how a failure to ensure air quality in workplaces to limit aerosol transmission has been one…
Sunday Evening Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Marianne Guenot reports on a World Health Organization-backed report confirming that political leaders could have averted the spread of COVID-19, but failed…
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…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Matt Gurney discusses the need for public health planning to reflect the predictable reactions of people whose compliance affects the viability of…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Duncan Cameron discusses how right-wing nationalism is contributing to the destruction of our planet and the exploitation of people. Don Braid highlights how…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Marcin Osuchowski et al. highlight the importance of updating our understanding of COVID-19 rather than presuming it behaves the same way as previously-studied…