Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your 2023. – Shannon Hall discusses new research showing that the positive effects of COVID-19 vaccination include a reduction in long COVID in children. And Erin…
Assorted content to end your 2023. – Shannon Hall discusses new research showing that the positive effects of COVID-19 vaccination include a reduction in long COVID in children. And Erin…
Globally, Covid cases rose by over 50% in the past month! This article that reported the stats, mistakenly says the WHO “officially declared the end of the coronavirus pandemic worldwide…
This blog commences its 17th year of publication today, which makes it something of an institution in Alberta political commentary. The blogger in 2023 (Photo: Daniel St. Louis). On Christmas…
An excellent, important video was the inspiration for this short post (linked here, below) from a generally lackluster podcast. The musings arising after watching the video, however, I would say…
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Andrew Nikiforuk discusses the 10 inescapable laws of pandemics – and the grim future they portend in light of our pitiful response to…
Leader of the Official Opposition shared Fox News BS in Parliament. Premature PP blew it.He got tricked by far-right Fox News propaganda and declared a terrorist incident when a spectacularly…
The third part of the series in Collingwood Today asked members of council what “surprises they’ve experienced so far in their terms.” As a former councillor, I appreciate how stepping…
It was finally starting to sink in with Alberta commentariat yesterday in the aftermath of the United Conservative Party’s annual general meeting that the lunatics really are running the asylum,…
In an obvious effort to inoculate himself against being identified as an enemy of the Canada Pension Plan, federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre yesterday inserted himself into the open-letter uproar…
Why do some healthcare professionals still insist that herd immunity will work despite visual evidence to the contrary? A nicely explainer came out in Journal of Infectious Diseases March 2022:…
Like the political/media machine convinced citizens that invading Iraq was necessary, we’re being convinced to spread a virus that will come back to destroy our own lives. Yesterday, Arijit Chakravarty,…
After the terrible attack by on the good people of , we’re sending payers up to the victims. justin bieber posting “praying for israel” using a picture of a destroyed…
Want to be a respected news outlet? Stop writing horribly misleading headlines. An article in The Guardian is causing a stir, not because of what the article says, but because…
Because it’s harder than ever to discern fact from fiction means we have to work harder. Don’t give up! Definitely not an example of Art Deco. I once dated a…
There is compelling evidence that vaccines work, with few serious side effects, yet they’re still being demonized while media continues to suggest Covid ended. An Australian 8-year-old went into cardiac…
A brief but poignant thread by T. Ryan Gregory: It’s painful to think about how much damage these myths have caused. Myth #1: Droplet vs airborne transmission. Myth #2: Pathogens…
Image from this great Breach article Remember back when Harper was PM, and he opened Canada’s media to foreign ownership despite widespread protests? So now Poilievre all but owns Canadian…
Labour Day – the traditional end of the Canadian summer and supposedly the moment when we all get seriously back to work, or school, or whatever – has come and…
Alberta’s environment minister, Rebecca Schulz, is in Germany today, getting set to celebrate the opening of a large geothermal electricity-generating project that uses technology designed by a Calgary company. Alberta…
A JAMA article called out 52 medical health professionals who knowingly posted misinformation on social media. About a third of them are primary care physicians. It doesn’t name any names,…