Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Danielle Hitch, Aryati Yashadhana and Evelyne de Leeuw write that long COVID is following the path of acute COVID-19 in having a…
Education
School’s Out
I was going to make this big ranty post about the SK provincial government’s attitude toward education, citing the absolute farce of our premier scolding school divisions for instituting or…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Allison Jones reports that Ontario is working on a new round of COVID booster shots for the fall (while so many other jurisdictions…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Bruce Arthur is rightly frustrated by an attitude of utter denial and amnesia toward a pandemic still in progress. And Fenit Nirappil, Craig…
2022 Conservative Party Leadership Race: Views on the Monarchy
This article is a collection of responses from candidates for the leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada regarding the monarchy. It will continue to be updated as more replies…
Conservative Leadership Candidates and the Monarchy: Jean Charest
Just yesterday I received a reply from Jean Charest to my survey of the tory leadership candidates regarding their views on the monarchy. Before getting into the survey answers I…
Prince Charles, His Detractors, and the Future of the Monarchy
Prince Charles Prince Charles has been sometimes criticised for the way he expresses his views on matters of personal interest to him such as environmental affairs. However, a monarch being…
Will students learn ‘financial literacy’ or corporate propaganda from Alberta’s $5M curriculum ‘investment’?
There’s nothing wrong with a little financial education, but is that what Alberta students will be getting from the grade school “financial literacy” program Alberta Education Minister Adriana LaGrange announced…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Beatrice Adler-Bolton discusses how the U.S.’ debate over the most basic of COVID-19 protections reflects fundamental choices as to whether people should…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – George Monbiot writes that rhetoric about “learning to live with it” has become the go-to excuse to allow preventable tragedies – including the…
Conservative Leadership Candidates and the Monarchy: Scott Aitchison
Another Conservative Party leadership candidate has replied to my survey. This time it is Scott Aitchison who is the MP for Parry Sound-Muskoka. As a refresher theseare the questions that…
Conservative Leadership Candidates and the Monarchy: Leona Alleslev
Once again there is a federal Conservative leadership race underway. As has become my practice I have sent surveys out to all ofthe leadership candidates to get their viewson Canada’s…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Winnie Wan Yee Tso et al. study the severity of the Omicron BA.2 COVID variant, and find that its rate of deaths and…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Noushin Ziafati reports on the continuing challenges facing people suffering from long COVID – particularly as governments attempt to pretend the pandemic which…
Make People Feel Ignorant So They Listen To Experts
Figure 1 from Cook, Ellerton, and Kinkead 2018. CC BY 3.0 The rise of disinformation by organizations big and small means the role of experts is even more important. We…
Failure to issue a medal marking the Platinum Jubilee just the most recent act in a troubling pattern of behavior by this government
On February 17th the Monarchist League of Canada finally received confirmation by the government that no medal would be produced to mark Her Majesty’s Platinum Jubilee. Now, given the number…
Oppressed by social justice
University of Toronto. Photo by Jon Bilous/Shutterstock. Right-leaning academics and many who have never set foot on a post-secondary campus will try to convince you that universities are bastions of…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Gregg Gonsalves writes about the continued dangers of responding to COVID with wishful thinking rather than realistic public health measures, while Meredith Wadman…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Jim Stanford discusses how Canada’s COVID response has been slanted toward handouts to corporations and demands of workers – and increasingly so as…
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…