Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Apoorva Mandavilli reports on the CDC’s return to recommending that people wear masks indoors to try to avoid another COVID wave. Matt…
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Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – CBC News reports on the research which is just starting to systematically identify and treat the worrisome symptoms of long COVID. Gabriel Scally…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – The Globe and Mail’s editorial board recognizes that any responsible government would be continuing to apply public health rules to prevent a…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Jillian Horton discusses the lack of any meaningful effort to make education safe at the point when provincial governments should be planning for…
Oil workers at the centre—getting transition priorities right
“They will not be left behind.” So said Natural Resources Minister Seamus O’Regan at a news conference this week. The “they” he was referring to are workers in the oil…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Claire Pomeroy and the Financial Times each highlight the likelihood that survivors of long COVID will be affected for the rest of their…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Statistics Canada’s COVID-19 Immunity Task Force examines new data as to the spread of the coronavirus prior to the third wave – with…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Patricia Treble discusses how the rise of the Delta COVID-19 variant is making it vital to hit higher vaccine targets than previously…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan highlight how inequitable access to vaccines around the globe increases the risk of variants which will hurt everybody.…
Alberta—boom or boon?
I opened the CBC website one morning this week to be confronted with the headline “High oil prices a potential boon for beleaguered Alberta.” I mistook “boon” for “boom” and…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – The Canadian Press reports on new Leger polling showing that over two-thirds of Canadians want to see COVID-19 protections remain in place…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Lauren Pullen reports on two outbreaks of the Delta variant of COVID-19 within a Calgary hospital. Emily Mertz reports on a push…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Adam Miller writes about the race between vaccinations and COVID-19 variants. The Strategic COVID-19 Pandemic Committee of Edmonton Zone Medical Staff Association highlights…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – David Olive rightly questions why big pharma has been gifted intellectual property monopolies and multi-billion-dollar profit streams over COVID vaccines developed through…
Big Oil’s bad week
As I have said elsewhere, I don’t do a lot of finger-pointing at oil companies when placing the blame for global warming. They produce the oil and gas because we…
Alberta’s Dilemma: When do we recognize that the world is changing?
Back in 2015, I started asking a simple question: is Alberta ready? Whenever I talked to politicians or entrepreneurs or thought leaders, I asked that same simple question. I asked…
Sunday Evening Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Marianne Guenot reports on a World Health Organization-backed report confirming that political leaders could have averted the spread of COVID-19, but failed…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Matt Gurney discusses the need for public health planning to reflect the predictable reactions of people whose compliance affects the viability of…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Miquel Oliu-Barton, Bary Pradelski, Philippe Aghion, Patrick Artus, Ilona Kickbusch, Jeffrey Lazarus, Devi Sridhar and Samantha Vanderslott examine how strategies aimed at eradicating…