Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Richard Smith highlights how there’s no general connection between the cost of health care and patient incomes across different models of funding and…
Education
Demographic Breakdown of Support and Opposition to the Monarchy Earlier This Month in Parliament
Late last month there was a motion introduced by MP Yves-François Blanchet of the Bloc Quebecois advocating for theabolition of the monarchy. I have been somewhat busy thismonth due to…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Jessica Wildfire sets out the realities of COVID which are apparent to people on top of the flow of scientific news – even…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Dave Yasvinski reports on the growing recognition that repeated COVID infections increase the likelihood of severe illness and death. And John Lorinc discusses…
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 Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – A panel of experts has offered a set of recommendations to deal with the current COVID-19 reality, including a particular focus on the…
How King Charles III Can Keep His Voice During His Reign
Earlier this month former British Prime Minister Liz Truss managed, during her very short time in office, to advise His Majesty not to attend the environmental gathering known as COP27.…
Unreasonable reasoning
If reason is that reliable, why do we produce so much thoroughly reasoned nonsense?
Saturday Evening Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Bob Becken discusses the use of “no smell” complaints about scented candles as a sad substitute for meaningful public reporting of ongoing COVID…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Mike Crawley reports on new research showing both the growing number of Canadians suffering from long COVID, and its tendency to result…
Educators and critical pedagogy: an antidote to authoritarianism
Photo by Alan Levine/Flickr The world in which we live has increasingly resembles a dystopian novel. The dream of a more democratic world is diminishing as the global assault on…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – David Axe reports on the spread of a new COVID-19 subvariant which pairs increased transmissibility with resistance to antibody therapies. And Andrew Gregory…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Sarah Zhang discusses the absurdity of treating the COVID pandemic as being over when it’s causing more death and illness than ever, while…
State of Monarchy in the Caribbean
Caribbean Realm Flags Not too long ago there was somecontroversy during the Cambridge’s tourof the Caribbean, although this was reallyabout some politicians and activists tryingto shake things up. Royal tourseverywhere…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Aria Bendix and Shannon Pettypiece report on the reality that due to a failure to contain it in its early stages, COVID-19 now…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Emily Alpert Reyes and Aida Ylanan discuss COVID’s continued toll in lives and health even as the people in power seek to…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Bruce Arthur laments the message being sent by Ontario’s government that there’s no need to care about other people in the face…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Martha Lincoln writes about the needless harm caused by public health messaging about being people being “tired” of pandemic precautions which many (if…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Liz Szabo examines how the COVID-19 pandemic has evolved – and the reality that the large number of infections in the Omicron wave…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Wency Leung asks how much more of a human toll we’re willing to accept in order to operate in denial of a…