Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Brian Owens’ roundup includes reference to new research showing that excess deaths are the result of COVID-19 itself, not the lockdowns used to…
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Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – John Paul Tasker writes that Canada needs to push hard to increase the number of vaccinated people to prevent a fourth wave of…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Marlene Habib writes about the continued efforts of grocery workers to ensure we have access to food and supplies in the face of…
Big Brother Is Watching You – and Yes, It Matters
I talked to my boy in the car this past weekend about what to do when he drives, if he has any problems; and he talked to me about the…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Crawford Kilian draws from Alex de Waal’s New Pandemics, Old Politics to make the case that plagues and the associated responses are invariably…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Statistics Canada’s COVID-19 Immunity Task Force examines new data as to the spread of the coronavirus prior to the third wave – with…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Maria Sarrhou talks to doctors about their frustrations treating COVID-19 in patients who chose not to be vaccinated. And Daniel Villareal reports…
Monday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to start your week. – Josh Taylor reports on contact tracing which has revealed that “fleeting contact” can be enough to result in the spread of the COVID-19…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Jennifer Yang and Kenyon Wallace discuss how the Delta variant makes the COVID-19 pandemic far more dangerous than it had been before…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Ed Yong discusses the preventable dangers created by a shift in COVID-19 messaging from one of public protection to one of individual choice.…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Cameron MacLean reports that Manitoba is providing incentives to overcome vaccine hesitancy. But Guy Quenneville reports on the Saskatchewan Party’s refusal to…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Aaron Derfel writes about the threat posed by the Delta COVID-19 variant. The Leader-Post and Star-Phoenix editorial boards point out the Moe government’s…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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,…
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…
Reclaiming Democracy In Canada – And Around The World
In the 1960s, there was a cultural awakening which spread rapidly around the world, and Chomsky is right in calling it both a cultural awakening, and also, an outbreak of…