Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – John Donne Potter discusses how an increase in reinfections is exacerbating the risk of long COVID. And Mark Kekatos reports that numerous…
Immigration
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Andrew Nikiforuk writes that the decision to stop doing anything to limit the spread of COVID-19 is opening the door for a forever…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Adeel Hassan reports on the dominance of the BA.4 and BA.5 Omicron strains in the U.S. Phil Tank reminds us of the folly…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Rohan Smith reports on new research showing how little of the coronavirus needs to be passed from one person to another to result…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – David Wallace-Wells discusses the alarming warning indicators from our still-developing understanding of the Omicron COVID variant. Nazeem Muhajarine writes about the importance…
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…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Nazaneei Ismail Ali discusses how public procurement can and should be a means of improving social and economic conditions, not merely a source…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Alisha Haridasani Gupta discusses why so many women have been excluded from the workforce during the course of the coronavirus pandemic. And Kathryn…
Refugees aren’t safe in the USA. Canada must help out.
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Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Jack Goldstone and Peter Turchin offer an introduction to what they anticipate will be the Turbulent Twenties, while noting the need for the…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Steven Greenhouse writes that COVID-19 may produce a wave of unionization as workers see how little they’re valued, and how cavalierly they lives…
Tuesday Evening Links
This and that for your Tuesday evening. – Crawford Kilian examines the UN’s advice on how to keep school safe from COVID-19, while the Saskatchewan Medical Association and Saskatchewan College…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Amanda Follett Hosgood reports on the environmental damage being done to Wet’suwet’en territory as (pointless) pipeline construction is again being given precedence over…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Iglika Ivanova examines who has lost jobs to COVID-19, and who needs public support to be able to return to the workforce.…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Mark Smolinski writes that wearing a mask to limit the spread of COVID-19 is best characterized as a sign of mutual respect. (But…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Lee Stevens writes that the coronavirus pandemic has exposed longstanding weaknesses in our social safety net which have caused large amounts of avoidable…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Simon Enoch studies how P3 projects result only in public money subsidizing private profits. And a new report from the Canadian Labour…
Friday Evening Links
Assorted content to end your week. – George Monbiot writes that the UK Cons are using their own botched Brexit as an excuse to set up a disaster capitalist’s paradise.…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Sheila Smith examines how private equity is hollowing out the real economy in the name of profit-taking. And Klaus Schwab suggests a “Great…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Duncan Cameron writes that while the COVID-19 pandemic has been catastrophic, we shouldn’t pretend that it’s at all surprising – or that…