Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Pratyush Dayal reports on the COVID outbreak which has infected every single resident of a Regina care home. And Dan Scheuerman reports…
George Monbiot
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – The Globe and Mail’s editorial board writes that we’re being left to navigate an ongoing pandemic in the dark as governments choose…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Chas Danner writes about the arrival of the BA.5 COVID-19 surge in the U.S. Nora Loreto writes about the thousands of Canadians who…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Geoff Thompson reports on new research showing that the cognitive decline caused by COVID-19 is worse than previously known, while the European…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Jason Hannan discusses why the gaslighting campaign to get people to forget about the deadly disease being left to spread unchecked is…
Monday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to start your week. – The Associated Press reports on Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus’s warning that the COVID-19 pandemic is far from over. Mary Papenfuss discusses how people living…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Ed Yong discusses how we may have created a “pandemicine” era by fundamentally changing how viruses are able to mutate and spread. The…
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…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Dayne Patterson discusses the continued recognition among doctors that the COVID-19 pandemic is far from over (and indeed approaching another particularly dangerous phase).…
Wednesday Evening Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Gavin Yamey, Abraar Karan and Ranu Dhillon write that the COVID pandemic is far from over even in the U.S. where the Omicron…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Doug Cuthand writes that falsely pretending we’re “back to normal” in the midst of a pandemic does nothing but put people at needless…
Existential topics
English journalist George Monbiot published a Twitter thread on January 28 that resonates powerfully with me. The contents are reproduced…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Zak Vescera reports that the Moe government’s push toward privatizing COVID testing has turned into such a fiasco that even the for-profit operators…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – CBC News reports that Saskatchewan’s children’s hospital is among the health care facilities with an internal outbreak, while Laura Sciarpelletti talks to…
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…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Adam Miller highlights what we can do to limit the spread of COVID-19 over the winter to come. And Pratyush Dayal reports…
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…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – PressProgress offers a timeline of Saskatchewan’s fourth wave of COVID-19 (and the choices by Scott Moe which precipitated it), while Arthur White-Crummey reports…
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…
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…