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…
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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…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Heather Scoffield examines the lessons we should be learning from the COVID-19 pandemic if it hadn’t been disappeared down the memory hole. And…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Andrew Nikiforuk discusses the looming prospect that COVID-19 infections will cause ongoing damage by exhausting people’s immunity, while Betsy Ladyzhets writes about…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Keenan Sorokan reports on the unprecedented number of students out sick from school in the Saskatoon area, while Karen Bartko reports on…
Friday Morning Links
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…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Andre Picard discusses how Canada is unprepared (by choice) for the effects of long COVID, while Jennifer Lee reports on warnings from Alberta…
Saturday Morning Links
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…
Thursday Afternoon Links
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…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Andrew Nikiforuk writes about immunologist Chris Goodnow’s belated recognition that COVID isn’t over only after he was hit with acute myocarditis, while Korin…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Pratyush Dayal reports on the COVID outbreak which has infected every single resident of a Regina care home. And Dan Scheuerman reports…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Megan Ogilvie and Kenyon Wallace interview public health experts about the steps they’re taking to stay safe as students return to school and…
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…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
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…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Anne Sosin and Ranu Dhillon write that it’s long past time to take the well-documented and devastating effects of long COVID into account…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Matthew Sitman writes about the fundamentally anti-social values being pushed by U.S. Republicans and their right-wing cousins – as well as the desperate…