Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Tracy Fuller talks to Emily Oster about the process people can follow in minimizing COVID risks in the absence of full information. And…
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Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Carl Meyer writes about Denmark’s move to finally and fully shut down oil and gas production as part of a transition to clean…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Umair Haque discusses the tragic mistake governments in Europe and North America have made in refusing to make plans sufficient to wipe…
Jason Kenney’s ineffective COVID-19 strategy mirrors his failing response to world demand for cleaner energy
Memo to United Conservative Party issues managers: Your boss will need to take some time today away from defending his COVID-19 response to attack the New York State pension fund…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Marco Ranaldi and Branko Milanovic study the relationship between inequality of inputs and inequality of outcomes – finding in particular that countries with…
Will Jason Kenney risk cracks in his UCP coalition by enforcing new COVID-19 measures?
Better late than never, the Kenney Government sharply changed course yesterday and announced much tougher lockdown measures that have the potential to slow the spread of COVID-19. These will include…
Are any conservatives listening?
It is something of a wonder that Jason Kenney, premier of Alberta, Doug Ford, premier of Ontario, and Erin O’Toole, federal conservative leader, are members of the same political party.…
COVID-19 measures put in place two weeks ago insufficient to reduce infections, Deena Hinshaw admits
Chief Medical Officer of Health Deena Hinshaw admitted yesterday that Alberta’s current response to soaring COVID-19 infection rates is “not likely to be sufficient to bring down our numbers.” Fielding…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Elaine Godfrey writes about Iowa’s disastrous COVID-19 spread as a prime example of what happens when a government chooses to do nothing about…
Australian state’s four-point plan to eliminate COVID-19 worked; Alberta did the opposite on every count
A few Albertans may still remember Stephen Duckett, the remarkably undiplomatic Australian health economist hired by Premier Ed Stelmach’s Progressive Conservative government to run the then-just-created Alberta Health Services in…
Episode 64: Pandemic, Partisanship, and Post-Secondary Education in Alberta
Melanee Thomas joined Dave Cournoyer for a deep dive into Alberta’s politics during the COVID-19 pandemic, including the relationship between the provincial and federal governments, and how Albertans’ political self-identification…
Kenny: Rights and Responsibilities During a Pandemic
Last week when Alberta’s covid infection rate spiked to record highs, the positive-test rate climbed to 10.5%, and doctors across the province begged for more restrictive public health measures to…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Jim Stanford examines how a national child-care program would boost Canada’s post-COVID recovery and rebuilding. And Michael Roberts points out the value of…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Max Fawcett writes that equivocal posturing about personal responsibility (from Jason Kenney among others) has offered no resistance to the spread of…
Space, the UCP’s final frontier — taking catastrophe where no Alberta government has gone before!
Space, the final frontier … they even think Jason Kenney and his United Conservative Party Government are an interstellar disaster at Starfleet Command! Well, in fairness to the Alberta premier…
Latest leak shows AHS modelling forecasts Intensive Care Units packed with COVID-19 patients by mid-December
In the first unauthorized information leak of December, Alberta’s NDP Opposition revealed yesterday Alberta Health Services case modelling projects about 775 Albertans will be in hospital with COVID-19 in just…
With pandemic respiratory disease rampaging virtually unchecked in Alberta, Calgary faces oxygen rationing
In a development that is surely emblematic of the unchecked progress of the novel coronavirus under the United Conservative Party Government of Premier Jason Kenney, Albertans learned yesterday we are…
Oppositional by nature, the UCP acts as if Rachel Notley’s NDP was still the government
Perhaps because he’s the only United Conservative Party MLA in Edmonton, Justice Minister Kaycee Madu seems to have become the Kenney Government’s main spokesperson responsible for yelling at the NDP.…
Kenney’s ‘Data-Based’ Covid Restrictions
There are some leaders you’d follow to hell and back, and then there’s Jason Kenney. On Nov 24 Mr Kenney declared a second covid related public health emergency and outlined…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – In the absence of leaders at any level of government willing to act on the scale needed to stop the coronavirus pandemic…