Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way chart the likely road ahead in the U.S.' journey from democracy to authoritarianism, while Hamilton Nolan's interview with Stephanie…
drug policy
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Whizy Kim writes about the rise of the overt use of wealth and associated fame to overwhelm the U.S.' political system. Jason Sattler discusses…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week.- The University of California, Irvine examines the connection between air pollution and spontaneous preterm births. And Attracta Mooney and Jana Tauschinski discuss how the…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Will Hutton discusses how the growing gap between the rich and everybody else is eating away at Britain's collective well-being, while Phillip Inman…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Paul Abela writes that the continual concentration of wealth is patently unsustainable. Alex Himelfarb discusses how neoliberalism has laid the groundwork for the…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Robert Rohde surveys yet another month of record-high temperatures from July 2024. And Richard Heinberg examines what a real energy transition would look like…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Emilia Belliveau makes the case for the fossil fuel sector to start paying for the harm it causes through carbon pollution, rather…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Joan Westenberg discusses how to fight back in the war against knowledge, while Julia Doubleday calls out the lengths to which the…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Rachel Fairbank discusses how a patient-led research collaborative is filling in the gaps in long COVID research and treatment. – Re.Climate examines…
On Drug Policy
Alberta in particular continues to ride the “War on Drugs” policy train from the 1980s. In fact, in many ways the current UCP government has doubled down on it with…
On Drug Policy
Alberta in particular continues to ride the “War on Drugs” policy train from the 1980s. In fact, in many ways the current UCP government has doubled down on it with…
On harm exacerbation
Ryan Meili offers an important values-based critique of the Sask Party’s “do more harm” policy on addictions treatment. But it’s worth taking a closer look at who stands to benefit…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Nathalie Grandvaux writes about the causes and impacts of a triple epidemic of respiratory viruses. And Erin Goerlich et al. study the cardiovascular…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Ajit Niranjan reports on the Copernicus Climate Change Service’s findings that 2023 is on pace to be the hottest year on record, with…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – William Ripple et al. offer a new and alarming state of the climate report. And Damian Carrington delves into their findings as…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Jamey Keaten and Seth Borenstein report on the World Meteorological Association’s finding that we’ve just had the hottest summer in recorded history. And…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Beth Mole writes about the work being done to better define, diagnose and treat long COVID – even as different symptoms appear to…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – The Canadian Health Coalition weighs in on the recent study showing that privatized surgeries in Quebec cost more than twice what public procedures…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Stephanie Soucheray discusses new research linking COVID-19 to subsequent sleep disturbances and dyspnea. And Linda Geddes reports on findings showing that a…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Kenyon Wallace writes that the only reason we’re not observing large COVID waves is that we’ve been pushed to accept a perpetual…