Covid Journal, August 20, 2020
Public education is on the ropes and Ford and Lecce are delivering a two-bunch blow below the belt. The unions are AWOL. Boards are screwed.
Education
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Joel Blit, Chuanmo Jin and Mikal Skuterud point out the importance of thinking ahead and being strategic in determining what activities are permitted…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Kim Siever writes about the consistent choice of right-wing governments to use anti-tax rhetoric to goose corporate profits at the expense of the…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Christina Maxouris and Alaa Elassar report on a new study showing the U.S. could save tens of thousands of lives by requiring…
Covid Journal, August 22, 2020
Nature, food and cures.
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Steven Greenhouse writes that COVID-19 may produce a wave of unionization as workers see how little they’re valued, and how cavalierly they lives…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Ed Finn writes about the need to shift away from capitalist domination before the next major crisis strikes. And Larry Elliott laments…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Michal Rozworski writes that we need to respond to the coronavirus pandemic with investment in the society we want to build for tomorrow,…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Paola Frelich writes about the uber-rich whose habit of being strictly isolated from anybody else has allowed for life to continue as…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Dan Guadagnolo calls out the spinmeisters trying to torque job availability numbers to portray workers receiving coronavirus relief as lazy rather than deserving.…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Lori Fox writes that the COVID-19 pandemic reflects a fundamental break with what had been business as usual – making it essential…
Friday Evening Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Sara Mojtehedzadeh reports on the severe uncertainty facing far too many as the CERB is set to wind down with nothing but vaporware…
Wednesday Evening Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Nicole Lyn Pesce examines the growing evidence that people with even minor cases of COVID-19 may face neurological symptoms lasting for months. And…
Covid Journal, August 12, 2020
Back to School Based on Flawed Data Dr. Robert Bernstein writes in the Toronto Star that back to school plans for Ontario are based on flawed data. Ontario felt it…
Tuesday Evening Links
This and that for your Tuesday evening. – Crawford Kilian examines the UN’s advice on how to keep school safe from COVID-19, while the Saskatchewan Medical Association and Saskatchewan College…
Learning About Moral Philosophy Reduces Meat Consumption
A taste of a postsecondary level moral philosophy class can turn you off of tasting meat. It’s been debated for thousands of years if learning moral philosophy actually changes how…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – The Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness (via Behind the Numbers) examines how women are bearing the brunt of homelessness and insecure housing…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Andrew Nikiforuk writes about the public’s lack of familiarity with exponential growth which is proving lethal in its application to both COVID-19 and…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Carla Holinaty highlights how Saskatchewan’s teachers and students deserve a well-thought-out plan for their return to school – rather than the most negligent…
Covid Journal, August 6, 2020
I admit this is a full-on rant about what a mess our education system is, from the Premier to union to teacher to parent. We keep forgetting that kids are…