Health and homelessness
I’m writing an open access textbook on homelessness, with a focus on high-income countries. Each chapter gets uploaded to my website as it is completed. The latest chapter, on health,…
Housing
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Karl Nerenberg writes about the Parkland Institute’s research showing how privatization has undermined Alberta’s health care system. And Mitchell Thompson warns that…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Jakub Hlavka and Adam Rose examine the $14 trillion just in direct economic costs of COVID-19 in the U.S. – making clear how…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Susie Madrak writes about the continued recognition by experts that the COVID pandemic is far from over. Chengliang Yang et al. examine how…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Dave Davies interviews Jason C. Jackson about the widespread damage from long COVID – and the lack of remotely sufficient efforts either to…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Gregg Gonsalves writes that rather than spurring the development of more effective public health mechanisms, the COVID-19 pandemic has instead seen massive…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Arielle Dreher reports on the findings of the U.S.’ COVID Crisis Group that the U.S. fell short of the mark in coordinating…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Trevor Hancock discusses the need to treat the economy as a means to human well-being, rather than an end worth sacrificing our health…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Jenna Cartusciello examines the connections between COVID-19 and gastrointestinal issues as yet another poorly-studied and potentially long-lasting effect of infection with a disease…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Evelyn Lazare discusses how the refusal of the powers that be to act to mitigate an ongoing pandemic is only ensuring that its…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Stephanie Soucheray discusses new research linking COVID-19 to subsequent sleep disturbances and dyspnea. And Linda Geddes reports on findings showing that a…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Jia Li et al. study the causal associations between COVID-19 and numerous types of cancer – finding generally that COVID is associated with…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Alex Fulton discusses the lessons we should be learning from the response to COVID-19 in preparing for the next pandemic. Richard Payerchin highlights…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Nina Lakhani reports on the latest data showing greenhouse gas emissions rising at an alarming rate. Bill McKibben discusses the math of…
What did Canada’s recent federal budget do for housing and homelessness?
I’ve written a blog post about what Canada’s recent federal budget did for housing and homelessness (which wasn’t very much). Here’s my analysis: https://nickfalvo.ca/canadas-2023-federal-budget/
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Linda McQuaig calls out the Ford PCs for making it even more difficult to hold corporate health care operators to account for sub-par…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Lisa Schnirring reports on new research showing how infection with COVID-19 tends to lead to extended sick leave, while Helen Twohig et…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – IOS Press discusses new research showing that COVID-19 accelerates the cognitive decline in people already living with dementia. F. Perry Wilson examines how…
Subsidized rental housing and homelessness under Alberta’s first UCP government
I’ve written a book chapter on subsidized rental housing and homelessness under Alberta’s first UCP government. My ‘top 5’ overview of the chapter is available here: https://nickfalvo.ca/subsidized-rental-housing-and-homelessness-under-albertas-first-ucp-government/
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – The John Snow Project discusses how government minimization of the ongoing risk of COVID-19 – including the removal of what few policies remained…