Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Stephanie Soucheray discusses how many patients whose senses of taste and smell have been affected by COVID-19 never fully recover, while the…
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A Word of Advice…
We’re still trying to make sense of this election. There’s no question Rachel Notley’s NDP made phenomenal gains against the UCP. They pulled in 776,000 votes (157,000 more than they…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Martin Sandhu writes about the development of degrowth as a viable economic organizing principle. And Kevin Drum offers a reminder that the…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Antoine Flahault et al. offer a reminder that we can’t afford to be complacent about an ongoing COVID pandemic which continues to…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Gregg Gonsalves writes that rather than spurring the development of more effective public health mechanisms, the COVID-19 pandemic has instead seen massive…
Gondek, Notley and Smith: An important conversation
Last week Calgary Economic Development presented its Report to the Community. The highlight of the event was Mayor Jyoti Gondek’s conversations with Rachel Notley and Danielle Smith. Gondek asked each…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Umair Haque writes about the implications of facing a deliberate decline in both environmental and economic well-being for the sole purpose of facilitating…
Frustrated Farmer Faults Feckless Finance Phony for Folly
Forgive me for being frank. Scott Moe’s government is going to do Eff all. Bottom line is our GHG emissions are rising at a time we desperately need to be…
Canada Readies Beneficial Ownership Registry
Canada’s reputation has a good place to launder money may soon come to an end. A good step to preventing organized crime from using the Canadian economy to “clean” their…
Budget ’23: The Same Old Razzle Dazzle (with sprinkles on top)*
I’m not sure what Trevor Tombe did that caused Danielle Smith to say he was becoming one of her favourite economists, but it certainly wasn’t this. In a recent article…
Without a Home, but Wins a Medal
I looked closely at the article hoping to see that McPherson had also been given a home, but he clearly hasn't. Wouldn't a home be better than a medal? (Or…
COVID-19 Pandemic Reflections and The Next Pandemic
Well the pandemic is over, at least according to most governments, science and medicine not so much. So now it is time to look back, and to look forward. Perhaps…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Scott Rivkees writes that COVID-19 denialism has come to dominate public policy around an ongoing viral threat, while Kelly Skjerven reports that…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Emma Beddington rightly questions the determination of the powers that be to pretend that COVID-19 never happened – though her attempt to…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – David Wallace-Wells writes about the continued excess mortality in the U.S. beyond the million-plus deaths already attributed to COVID-19. Blair Williams calls out…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Zhenguo Nie, Yunzhi Chen and Meifeng Deng study the relative merits of COVID precautions, finding upward ventilation and masking to be the most…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your New Year’s reading. – Bartley Kives reports on the most deadly year of the COVID-19 pandemic yet. And the BBC reports on the admonition that…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Madeleine Ngo discusses how Americans (particularly with lower incomes) have been forced to spend any nest egg they managed to build up from…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Max Fawcett writes that the willingness to accept avoidable illness in children is an inescapable sign of an overall sick society, while…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Umair Haque discusses why the 2020s are turning into a particularly bleak decade as people are buried under a perpetually larger mountain of…