Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – BBC reports on the justified fears of medically vulnerable people that they’re being left behind by the UK Cons’ decision to eliminate…
Health Care
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Umair Haque writes about the reasons why the COVID pandemic is far from over – and indeed the worst may be yet…
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…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Gary Mason writes about the combination of fatigue and outrage which is producing a particularly toxic mix for anybody attempting to limit the…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – David Climenhaga writes about the need to investigate the U.S. funding which seems to have built the #FluTruxKlan’s profile, while Saba Aziz discusses…
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…
National Post Letter
The old poli sci major in me could not allow John Ivison’s column to stand. Please see the letters section in today’s National Post for my response to the argument…
National Post Letter
The old poli sci major in me could not allow John Ivison’s column to stand. Please see the letters section in today’s National Post for my response to the argument…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Claire Horwell highlights how masking and other continued public health measures to rein in spread to the extent possible are the only way…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – David Moscrop writes about the need for public policy which remedies inequality rather than exacerbating it – while recognizing that we’re falling…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Cory Neudorf asks that Saskatchewan not play Russian roulette with the Omicron COVID variant. Rahul Suryawanshi et al. find that any theory of…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Paul Kuodi et al. find some hopeful evidence that vaccinations may help to prevent long COVID symptoms as well as more acute…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Katherine Wu warns that the worst of the Omicron COVID wave may happen even after case counts have peaked as continued spread…
Intuitive Lessons from The Pandemic – A Fantasy
This post is not based on comprehensive research or particular expertise on my part. Rather it is more what we would have called “common sense” before Mike Harris completely destroyed…
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…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Katherine Wu calls out the wishful thinking (and deliberate neglect) behind any attempt to brand the Omicron COVID variant as “mild”. Evelyn Lazare…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Gloria Novovic writes about the desperate need to start planning ahead to control the damage done by the COVID pandemic, rather than…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Sarath Peiris discusses the Saskatchewan Party government’s utterly feckless pandemic response – which they’ve apparently decided to keep in place for the rest…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Charlie Smith highlights how attempts to minimize the ongoing pandemic have reduced the public credibility of both government and public health officials…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – John Michael McGrath writes that the Omicron wave of COVID may manage to be the most disruptive year, while Alex Press discusses how…