Tuesday Morning Links
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…
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Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Ed Yong writes about the need for people to keep caring for and protecting each other to make up for being abandoned…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Robin McKie and Michael Savage write about the warnings of UK scientists that the reckless elimination of public health protections will lead…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Melody Schreiber discusses how the U.S.’ inequality and lack of support for workers has severely exacerbated the pandemic. And Eric Schwitzgebel examines…
A Kenney Style Fireside Chat
On radio,
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Shree Paradkar laments the folly of making the same mistakes over and over again throughout the course of a continuing pandemic, while…
How capitalism made the pandemic worse, every step of the way
The internal logic of capitalism has tainted our government’s response to the pandemic. Corporate profits were preserved, while the interests of the working class were disregarded. Pandemic austerity and vaccine…
Kenney’s New Modus Operandi: Goodbye Peter Lougheed; Hello Donald Trump
There was a time when Jason Kenney pretended to be the modern-day manifestation of Peter Lougheed, notwithstanding his conviction that Lougheed’s programs were akin to “neo-Stalinist make-work projects.” He’s since…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Miquel Oliu-Barton et al. study the effects of different government approaches to COVID-19 – and find that elimination strategies have produced far superior…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Doug Saunders writes that Europe’s devastating new wave of COVID – like those elsewhere – can be traced directly to politicians pandering…
Gullible White Male Trump Voters
Although I am not a big fan of his novels, Don Winslow has been releasing some really interesting videos on Twitter. This is one of them: Recommend this Post
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Andrew Nikiforuk calls out the premiers who continue to spout talking points about “balance” while failing utterly to control the spread of deadly…
Who Invited This Guy?
For those planning their nuptials, here is a word of advice: make sure Donald Trump isn’t there to offer a toast. Recommend this Post
Eulogizing a Fallen Extreme Right-Wing Icon
And if your name is Donald Trump, you also take the opportunity to talk once again about how a corrupt system screwed you out of a second term. Recommend this…
While the World Watches.
It was hardly just Americans watching the fiasco of an impeachment in their senate last week. Canadians were only a small part of the international community watching the events. You…
On the right with U.S. Catholics?
And we thought Donald Trump was a problem. What gives with those politically right-wing Roman Catholic bishops in the U.S? It turns out that those guys are criticizing their own…
Don’t believe it can’t happen here.
There seems to be some arguments these days about whether Canadians have to suffer through the same political mistakes made by Americans. We hardly seem to have to wait long…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Damien Cave writes about the lessons Australia’s successful containment of COVID-19 offer to any other jurisdiction willing to listen and learn rather…
An Alternative To Impeachment
The chance of Donald Trump being convicted in his upcoming Senate trial is remote. There are far too many Republicans happy to forgive and forget (read that as fear of…