Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Crawford Kilian reviews Ryan Meili’s A Healthy Future as an important account of the insufficient political response to the COVID-19 pandemic, while David…
Lobbying
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Amy Goodman interviews Peter Kalmus about the need to start treating the climate breakdown as an emergency, while Joelle Gergis points out that…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Emma Goldberg et al. study how the end of COVID-19 protections in China predictably gave rise to a swift and extensive outbreak. And…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Jessica Wong et al. study the risk of hospitalization and death from the Omicron strain of COVID-19, and conclude (contrary to the spin…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Richard Murphy points out the stark contrast between the UK Cons’ attempt to pretend that the COVID-19 pandemic is over, and the tens…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Raywat Deondanan discusses some of the lessons which we should have taken from the COVID-19 pandemic (if it wasn’t being forcibly disappeared down…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Andrew Nikiforuk writes about the need for a revolution in ventilation practices to limit the spread of COVID-19 and other illnesses. Emmanuel…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – David Dayen discusses how manufacturing monopolies have produced the U.S.’ shortage of baby formula. And Alyssa Rosenberg recognizes that any reasonably-governed country would…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Smriti Mallapaty reports on new research indicating that a two-thirds of U.S. children short of vaccination eligibility have been infected with COVID-19.…
Exposing Exxon’s Elaborate Escapades in Eluding the Electorate
Exxon (and other oil companies) knew all about the harm their products cause to the environment 40 years ago, yet they kept making profits despite threatening all life on Earth.…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Kai Kupferschmidt discusses how the Delta variant has caused responsible governments to radically change their response to the COVID in the face of…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Erika Edwards reports on the increase in the number of children being admitted to hospital due to the spread of the Delta variant.…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Graham Thomson writes about Jason Kenney’s choice to base his governing strategy on COVID denialism. William Hanage expresses his disappointment at Boris Johnson’s…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – The Globe and Mail’s editorial board discusses the reality that the end of the age of oil is near no matter how…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Andre Picard discusses the need for governments to take direct action to stop the spread of the coronavirus, rather than merely sending…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Scott Aquanno writes about the role the Bank of Canada has played so far in responding to COVID-19, while also recognizing that a…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Bruce Campbell highlights how corporate greed isn’t limited by a public health emergency. And indeed, the Canadian Press reports on a record amount…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Mark Rowlinson points out how the obvious frailty of our current supply chains highlights the need to develop Canadian manufacturing. And Amanda Follett…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Noam Scheiber, Nelson Schwartz and Tiffany Hsu point out how the social isolation required in response to COVID-19 is only confirming and exacerbating…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Tom Blackburn writes about the UK’s rare opportunity to elect a government which is actually committed to empowering workers. – Don Pittis…