Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Sarah Zhang writes that the three factors which will determine the path of the COVID pandemic over the winter are our own immunity,…
Fossil Fuels
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Helen Ward et al. discuss the work that needs to be done to respond to long COVID on a global scale, while…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Bruce Arthur offers a reminder that we know perfectly well how to limit the damage done by COVID-19 as long as a…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content for your Friday reading. – Emma Buchanan writes about the restrictions on media access that have resulted in people being poorly informed about the damage done by COVID-19.…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Christine Gibson writes about the need to start seriously fighting against the dangers posed by a climate breakdown, rather than merely hoping…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Bruce Arthur calls out Doug Ford for choosing (like other conservative premiers) to prioritize the “freedom” of uninformed anti-vaxxers to endanger everybody…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Yasmine Ghania interviews Nazeem Muhajarine about the Saskatchewan Party’s choice to produce misleadingly low COVID-19 case numbers by stifling testing. And Kelly Provost…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – CBC News reports on the public health officers begging Saskatchewan’s provincial government to stop the spread of COVID-19 as our health care…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Ed Yong discusses how the field of public health has been marginalized by the false assumption that the task of keeping people…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Rod Nickel offers an international view of Saskatchewan’s spiraling COVID-19 crisis, even as Scott Moe clings to his delusional minimization of 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…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Monique Beals reports on Anthony Fauci’s recognition that attacks directed against him are based solely on denialists’ hostility toward the truth, while Mike…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Hannah Devlin asks why the UK is accepting a thousand lives a week as the price of incompetence in responding to the…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Michael Bang Pedersen argues that the COVID pandemic offers a prime example of the importance of telling hard truths to the public –…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Adam Hunter points out the stark gap between public health officials emphasizing the need for protections against community transmission of COVID-19, and Scott…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Carrie Tait reports on the spate of readmissions of COVID-19 patients to Alberta hospitals, while Zak Vescera points out the large number…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Nazeem Muhajarine and Kathryn Green call out Scott Moe’s Saskatchewan Party government for causing readily-preventable suffering and death – both from COVID-19…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Paul Nuki, Jennifer Rigby and Anne Gulland write about the refusal to acknowledge the airborne spread of COVID-19 which led to a continuing…
While the state arrests land defenders and the press, a new report highlights government apathy toward climate change
An all-to-familiar juxtaposition has arisen with the recent arrests of Indigenous land defenders and journalists by the RCMP. On the one hand, we have politicians like Justin Trudeau and John…