Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Adam Kleczkowski examines the effectiveness of COVID-19 interventions two years into the pandemic, while noting the importance of applying the precautionary principle…
economy
Spending on health must get much larger
The long term fiscal and economic outlook released this week by Ontario’s Financial Accountability Office (FAO) shows that big increases in health care spending are required in the years ahead.…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Andrew Romano reports on Denmark’s explosion of COVID cases after it prematurely lifted public health protections. Ariana Eunjung Cha reports on the cardiac…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – BBC reports on the justified fears of medically vulnerable people that they’re being left behind by the UK Cons’ decision to eliminate…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Arundhati Roy writes that pandemics may herald new political directions – though that reality makes the exploitation of compassion fatigue by corporate extractive…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Sabrina Eliason, Tehseen Ladha and Sam Wong highlight how the elimination of public health protections puts children at particular risk. And CBC…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Alexander Quon reports on the politicization of Saskatchewan’s COVID policy in the summer of 2021, with political staffers and commercial interests winning…
Intuitive Lessons from The Pandemic – A Fantasy
This post is not based on comprehensive research or particular expertise on my part. Rather it is more what we would have called “common sense” before Mike Harris completely destroyed…
Plague Update: Moevid
Plague Premier Moe has COVID-19. He spent the last few days improperly using a substandard mask in public crowds, wiping his bare nose, and coughing. Maskless 3 days ago at…
The Kids Go Back to School (it’s a matter of “balance”)
“We’re on the cusp of a generational catastrophe. We need to prioritise children. And yet, for some reason, children are never prioritised. They’re the afterthought of a pandemic.” – Dr…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content to start your year. – Alex McKeen discusses the implications of the more transmissible Omicron COVID variant – though contrary to the plans of your local murderclown, we…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Michela Antonelli et al. study the disease profile of post-vaccination COVID, concluding that full vaccination helps to reduce both the number and…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Marieke Walsh and Carrie Tait report on Canada’s grim milestone of two million COVID cases recorded – even as the medical system braces…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Andrew Nikiforuk distills the four myths which have resulted in Canada’s political leaders plunging us into multiple avoidable waves of COVID spread.…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Umair Haque is rightly frustrated that we haven’t learned and applied obvious lessons about how to fight COVID after two years, while also…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Eric Topol writes about the new wave of COVID-19 decimating Europe – and the level of denial required to pretend that the U.S.…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Steven Mackay writes about new research showing the different responses to the COVID-19 pandemic by gender – with the men who are disproportionately…
The Allan Report: Foreign Funding of Anti-Alberta Energy Campaigns
First, we had Steve Allan’s Report on the (not so public) public inquiry’s findings with respect to the role of foreign funding into Anti-Alberta Energy Campaigns. Then we had the…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Carol Off interviews Andre Picard about the cultural factors and policy choices that have led to an avoidable fourth wave of COVID-19 in…
Minister Toews and the AUPE: A Shift in the Balance of Power
“Strikes are only one measure of unrest.” Todd Vachon, an assistant professor and director of labor education at Rutgers University. Did you catch it, that shift in the balance of…