Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Umair Haque reminds us that the COVID pandemic is far from over, while Julie Bosman, Amy Harmon and Albert Sun discuss the escalating…
Health Care
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Bruce Arthur writes about the need for governments’ responses to COVID to adapt to the increased risk posed by the Omicron variant.…
COVID and Homelessness: Ten things to know
I was recently invited by the The Economics Society of Northern Alberta to speak at their 2022 Outlook Conference about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on homelessness. Here’s an…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Matt Gurney writes about what continues to be a woeful response to COVID in Ontario among other provinces, while Jason Herring reports…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Bruce Arthur examines what the spread of the Omicron COVID variant figures to mean for Ontario. Rachel Emmanuel reports on the National…
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,…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Ed Yong writes about the damage to people’s health as care workers flee their jobs in the wake of the COVID pandemic. Kenyon…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Nora Loreto writes about the need for governments to make COVID management plans which take into account pockets of anti-vaxxers who will…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Brian Goldman interviews Raywot Deonandan about the options available to limit the spread of COVID-19 through the coming fall and winter. But while…
More supportive housing for semi-independent seniors
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives asked me for a ‘big idea.’ I wrote about the need for more supportive housing for semi-independent seniors. Here’s my submission: https://nickfalvo.ca/more-supportive-housing-for-semi-independent-seniors/
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…
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…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Sarath Peiris rightly calls out Scott Moe and his government for making it a goal to punish the poor within Saskatchewan. – Marco…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Adam Hunter reports on the increasingly public campaign by Saskatchewan doctors to have public health taken seriously in the midst of the COVID-19…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – The Canadian Medical Association calls for Scott Moe to finally reinstate public health rules to prevent Saskatchewan’s already-catastrophic fourth wave of COVID-19 from…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Amativa Banerjee writes about the cognitive dissonance involved in living through the COVID-19 pandemic. And Ian Sample reports on scientists’ recognition that…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. – Blair McBride writes about the long-term medical crisis Alberta can expect as people are unable or unwilling to have normal diagnoses carried out…
The difficult journey upstream
One of the signature messages of Ryan Meili’s work in activism and politics has been the concept of upstream thinking – described in extremely brief form here: To imagine a…
Now Comes The Necessary Part
We can argue all we want over whether the election was necessary but what is definitely necessary is the government tackling the pressing issues of the day, issues that have…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – The Institut economique Molinari studies how COVID Zero strategies have not only kept populations healthier, but helped to preserve higher levels of…