Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Al Jazeera reports on the World Meteorological Organization’s analysis showing that greenhouse gas emissions reached yet another new high in 2022. Fiona…
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Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Steven Woolf examines the inescapable connection between political choices and avoidable COVID-19 deaths between U.S. states. And Christopher Blackwell discusses how the pandemic…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Ed Yong discusses how the field of public health has been marginalized by the false assumption that the task of keeping people…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Lynn Giesbrecht talks to Alexander Wong about the Moe government’s refusal to prepare for a fourth wave of COVID-19 that’s been readily obvious…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – ABC News reports on the risk that the Delta COVID-19 variant can be spread through “fleeting” exposure rather than prolonged proximity. Daniel Boffey…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Marcin Osuchowski et al. highlight the importance of updating our understanding of COVID-19 rather than presuming it behaves the same way as previously-studied…
Sliding Into Irrelevance: Pro-Censorship Stance Obliterates Careers – and Minds
The once-great Naomi Klein. I had great respect for her until she burned her very considerable credibility to the ground, by publicly and viciously attacking Glenn Greenwald recently – after…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Andrea Reimer examines the power dynamics at play in government responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, including the limits of formal political power…
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…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Lauren Dobson-Hughes discusses how we’re paying the price for the failure of governments to protect their citizens from the collective action problem…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – The Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness (via Behind the Numbers) examines how women are bearing the brunt of homelessness and insecure housing…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Radheyan Simonpillai discusses new polling showing how COVID-19 has caused stress on multiple levels. Al Etmanski writes about the importance of continuing to…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Ronan Burtenshaw discusses the British public’s strong support for a New Deal featuring higher wages and more fair tax contributions by the…
Appointment of conservative economist Jack Mintz to head Jason Kenney’s latest economic panel is not a good augury for Alberta
Come into my office, Alberta, and sit down. I’m sorry to have to tell you that your prognosis is not good. I’m not talking about coronavirus. That will be painful,…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Laura Flanders interviews Naomi Klein about the connection between the climate crisis and inequality – including her recognition that any attempt to address…
Friday Evening Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Grace Blakeley discusses how the financialization of the economy has enriched a few at the expense of everybody else. And Blakeley and Harry…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – The L.A. Times’ editorial board comments on the need for everybody to pitch in toward a just transition which preserves a habitable planet…
The Intercept-Naomi Klein and Greta Thunberg-The Right To A Future
The Intercept invites you to a special event in New York City hosted by senior correspondent Naomi Klein and headlined by trailblazing climate activist Greta Thunberg. Together with youth leaders…
Conservative mismanagement of health care, which we’re about to see return to Alberta, is a feature, not a bug
Last Thursday, Tyler Shandro advised Albertans that the promised United Conservative Party review of Alberta Health Services is rolling ahead. Well, he did once tell us that things tend to…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Chris Jackson presents a new Ipsos survey showing that the majority of American workers face stress issues at work. And Arthur White-Crumley…