Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Ben Beckett interviews Max Desbris about the role a climate breakdown plays in exacerbating natural disasters, while Grace Livingstone and Ellen Tsang report…
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Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Kayla Kuhfeldt et al. study the effect of a combined vaccine and masking policy, and find that those basic public health measures were…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Thomas Walkom points out that most Canadians have far more reason to fear an austerity-fuelled recession than any foreseeable level of inflation.…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Mark Kline warns against accepting continuing denialism about the impact of COVID-19 on children. Andre Picard discusses Canada’s grim milestone of 40,000 (reported)…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – The Star’s editorial board weighs in on the reality that wishful thinking isn’t a substitute for responsible public health measures as another COVID…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Anthony Fernandez-Castaneda et al. examine the long-term neurological and cognitive damage caused even by “mild” cases of COVID. Sally Cutler discusses the implications…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Charlie Smith highlights how attempts to minimize the ongoing pandemic have reduced the public credibility of both government and public health officials…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Gary Mason writes that Saskatchewan and Alberta are tragically showing the rest of the country what a COVID-19 disaster looks like. CBC…
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…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Steven Lewis writes that the Saskatchewan Party’s mealy-mouthed messaging around the coronavirus looks to be a calculated political choice which is having…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Karl Leffme interviews Jake Lytle about the movement to unionize marijuana-related work in Chicago. And Jay Greene and Eli Rosernberg report on an…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Anna McMillan reports on the disproportionate effect COVID-19 has (predictably) had on First Nations reserves in Saskatchewan. And Maan Ahmidi reports on the…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Don Braid calls out Jason Kenney for allowing his government’s MLAs and officials to gallivant around the world on vacation while demanding…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Fran Quigley interviews Joanne Goldblum and Colleen Shaddox about the entirely feasible steps which could be taken to eliminate poverty in the…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Erica Alini reports on Canada’s K-shaped recovery on metrics including employment, debt and housing. And Bill Curry reports on polling showing that…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Charlie Smith talks to Robert Hare about the increasing concentration of corporate control – and deterioration of the public’s capacity to provide a…
Wednesday Evening Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Nicole Lyn Pesce examines the growing evidence that people with even minor cases of COVID-19 may face neurological symptoms lasting for months. And…
The economics of small nuclear reactors, touted by Jason Kenney as a ‘game changer,’ just don’t add up
When Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says small nuclear reactors “could be a game changer in providing safe, zero-emitting, baseload power in many areas of the province,” as he did Sunday…
Urgent need to squelch political fallout best explains Jason Kenney’s oddly timed nuclear announcement
A Friday in August sure seemed like a peculiar time for government like Jason Kenney’s to announce it had signed onto a multi-province effort to sell natural resources and encourage…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Linda McQuaig writes about the Libs’ choice to use infrastructure programs primarily to generate massive returns for private investors, rather than ensuring…