Ontario’s COVID-19 Disaster in Five Words
The Ontario government would like to blame the behaviour of Ontario’s citizens for this disaster implying somehow we are so much worse than the citizens of other countries, and even…
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Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Alex Hemingway writes about the massive concentration of wealth among the richest few Canadians while most people have struggled through the pandemic. And…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Robyn Urback criticizes the Ford PCs’ habit (matched by other conservative governments) of responding to COVID-19 with continued cycles of procrastination followed…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Toby Sanger points out how Canada could gain tens of billions of dollars annually by working with Joe Biden to apply a global…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Sam Cowie writes about the devastating effect of COVID-19 in Brazil, where a particularly dangerous viral variant is combining with the anti-social…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Anya Zoledziowski discusses how we’re only facing a third wave of COVID-19 due to avoidable political choices, while the Globe and Mail’s…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Maxime Taquet, John Geddes, Masud Husain, Sierra Luciano and Paul Harrison study the broad and severe neurological impacts of the coronavirus. Pamela Downe…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Susan Michie, Chris Bullen, Jeffrey Lazarus, John Lavis, John Thwaites, Liam Smith, Salim Abdool Karim and Yanis Ben Amor highlight the desperate…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Gary Mason writes that our leaders appear to have learned nothing as we face a third wave of COVID-19. Hasan Sheikh and Munir…
Tuesday Evening Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Aaron Wherry discusses how the pandemic response across far too much of Canada has been (increasingly) marked by political calculation and triangulation…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Eric Andrew-Gee reports on the likelihood that Canada’s current COVID casualty numbers are a significant underestimate. Sabrina Jones highlights how health professionals are…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Andrew Nikiforuk writes about Canada’s contributions to the evidence showing how COVID-zero strategies have produced better results in terms of both health…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – John Michael McGrath discusses how Ontario (like so many other jurisdictions) has walked directly into a third wave, resulting in people dying for…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Katie Raso describes the coronavirus pandemic as the neoliberal Chernobyl, having exposed how we’re not only unable to respond to a disaster…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Mariana Mazzucato responds to Boris Johnson by recognizing that capitalism has no viable answers for collective action problems such as the ones posed…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Alexandre Tanzi highlights how the 1% in the U.S. made out like bandits even as the country suffered through a pandemic year…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Julia Wong reports on the building third wave of COVID-19 in Alberta. And Ricardo Tranjan examines how little the Ford PCs actually put…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – John Smith discusses the importance of recognizing and repairing the weaknesses in our social fabric which have been laid bare by the coronavirus…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Andre Picard offers a look at what the arrival of a third wave of the coronavirus will mean. Morgan Lowrie reports on…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Tenille Bonogoure writes about the human costs of Canada’s choice to respond to a deadly infectious disease with polite deference rather than a…