Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – A panel of experts has offered a set of recommendations to deal with the current COVID-19 reality, including a particular focus on the…
Assorted content to end your week. – A panel of experts has offered a set of recommendations to deal with the current COVID-19 reality, including a particular focus on the…
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Umair Haque discusses how the UK has become a failing state which lacks the capacity to provide either basic public services or…
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Ewen Callaway discusses the COVID-19 “variant soup” which we’ll be drowning in this winter due to the deliberate elimination of any public…
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Lara Herrero discusses how infection with COVID-19 can leave people more vulnerable to all kinds of other diseases. And the Canadian Press reports…
Assorted content to end your week. – Marc Fortier reports on the spread of the XBB COVID-19 variant which looks to be causing widespread reinfections where it’s been able to…
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Umair Irfan discusses the importance of getting COVID-19 booster shots – particularly the bivalent versions better targeted toward newer strains – in order…
This and that for your Thursday reading. – WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus examines how long COVID is producing disastrous social and economic effects. Helena Perez Valle interviews Deepti…
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – David Moscrop hikes how Canada’s financial elite is engineering a recession to ensure that workers don’t see wage increases to match the price…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Melody Schreiber writes about the perfectly awful timing of Joe Biden’s wrong-headed declaration that the COVID-19 pandemic is “over” even as a particularly…
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Ryan Tumilty reports on research showing how many Canadian lives may have been saved by COVID protection measures – making for a…
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Andrew Nikiforuk writes about the growing recognition that COVID-19 may have severe and long-term effects on the brains of people who get…
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Marina Hyde laments Liz Truss’ decision to hit the gas pedal on free money for the people who need it least while…
Assorted material to start your week. – Jeremy Faust laments the removal of the few remaining COVID public health recommendations when we’ve had ample opportunity to learn about the costs…
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Evan Xu, Yan Xie and Ziyad Al-Aly study the long-term neurological effects of COVID-19, finding elevated risks of numerous kinds of neurological…
Assorted content to end your week. – Andrew Nikiforuk writes that what information we continue to receive about COVID shows that we can’t afford to stop working on preventing its…
Assorted content to end your week. – Martha Lincoln writes about the needless harm caused by public health messaging about being people being “tired” of pandemic precautions which many (if…
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Kaylyn Whibbs reports on the entirely justified concerns of parents whose children have been unable to receive a COVID booster due to…
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Carolyn Johnson discusses how one’s initial development of an immune response to COVID may affect the impact of future vaccinations. Kim Constantino reports…
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Jonny Thomson writes about the philosophy of “lagom” as an alternative to perpetually demanding more. But Matt Gurney notes that on a…
Assorted content to end your week. – Jacques Poitras exposes how New Brunswick’s end to public health measures in response to COVID-19 was based on a single flawed study linked…