Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Tracy Fuller talks to Emily Oster about the process people can follow in minimizing COVID risks in the absence of full information. And…
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Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Umair Haque discusses the tragic mistake governments in Europe and North America have made in refusing to make plans sufficient to wipe…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Marco Ranaldi and Branko Milanovic study the relationship between inequality of inputs and inequality of outcomes – finding in particular that countries with…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Adam Miller writes that it’s more important than ever to protect frontline workers as the prospect of a COVID-19 vaccine approaches. Pat…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Elaine Godfrey writes about Iowa’s disastrous COVID-19 spread as a prime example of what happens when a government chooses to do nothing about…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Rachel Gilmore reports on polling showing that Canadians recognize (contrary to the spin of right-wing politicians looking to deflect blame) that there’s…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Jim Stanford examines how a national child-care program would boost Canada’s post-COVID recovery and rebuilding. And Michael Roberts points out the value of…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Max Fawcett writes that equivocal posturing about personal responsibility (from Jason Kenney among others) has offered no resistance to the spread of…
Juxtaposition
The Saskatchewan Party government’s public health expectations for the mid-pandemic jet set willing to shell out for private testing: “It’s been challenging to provide timely results for asymptomatic travelers, especially…
The price of negligence
In case there was any doubt that COVID testing serves as the ultimate microcosm of the Saskatchewan Party’s mismanagement of health care, we’ve seen the endgame released today. Remember that…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Steven Lewis writes about the Sask Party government’s catastrophic refusal to act on the evidence that Saskatchewan needs to sharply curb the spread…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – David MacDonald, Lindsay McLaren, Katherine Scott and Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood each examine the Libs’ fiscal update and find that headlines about progressive priorities…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Daniela Gabor writes that there’s no reason to treat the spending needed to allow people to survive a pandemic-induced recession as an excuse…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – In the absence of leaders at any level of government willing to act on the scale needed to stop the coronavirus pandemic…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Michael Smithson examines data from 45 countries confirming that any attempt to play off COVID-19 suppression against economic activity is based on a…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Michael Fraiman discusses how far too many leaders have failed or refused to live up to the title when their authority was needed…
On anti-precaution
Jennie Russell and Charles Rusnell’s bombshell report offers an alarming – if perhaps not surprising – look at how Jason Kenney’s UCP has refused to do anything more than the…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Raj Chetty, John Friedman, Nathaniel Hendren and Michael Stepner study a myriad of issues about COVID-19 and its public reaction – with…
On limited consultations
While we’ll find out this afternoon what (if anything) the Moe Saskatchewan Party will do in terms of action against COVID-19, Jason Warick’s report on its consultation process doesn’t offer…
On shared obligations
There’s been plenty of attention paid to the Saskatchewan Health Authority’s list of the sites of known community spread of COVID-19, including questions as to both the categories used and…