Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Glenn McConnell reports on New Zealand’s continued leadership in acknowledging and fighting the avoidable spread of COVID-19. Arwa Mahdawi discusses why nobody…
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Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Cecelia Smith-Schoenwalder discusses the imminent prospect of a majority of Americans suffering from long COVID as more and more dangerous variants are allowed…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Eric Topol discusses the ominous rise of the Omicron BA.5 COVID-19 subvariant. Katelyn Thomas reports that Quebec has joined the jurisdictions demanding…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Devi Sridhar writes that a responsible plan for the impending COVID wave would involve masking, improved ventilation, booster shots and a plan for…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Ryan Tumulty reports on Theresa Tam’s warning that Canada may be headed for another COVID wave this fall. CBC News reports on the…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Nathalie Schwab et al. study the results of autopsies, and find that COVID-19 appears to be the actual cause of death even for…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Jason Hannan discusses why the gaslighting campaign to get people to forget about the deadly disease being left to spread unchecked is…
#SKNDPLDR Candidate Profile – Carla Beck
On paper, Carla Beck’s track record covers nearly every group the NDP should be looking to attract into its fold. She’s a well-respected veteran member of the Legislature, with prior…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Kimberlyn McGrail examines the excess deaths caused by COVID-19 in Canada. Eric Berger discusses the continued lack of progress in diagnosing and…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Nicola Davis reports on new research showing that the effects of long COVID include sustained damage to organs including the heart, lungs…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – William J. Barber and Tope Folarin write that the U.S.’ grim milestone of one million COVID-19 deaths already serves as a searing indictment…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Ed Yong discusses how we may have created a “pandemicine” era by fundamentally changing how viruses are able to mutate and spread. The…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Phil Tank offers a reminder that Saskatchewan’s citizens shouldn’t follow the lead of its government in wrongly pretending the COVID-19 pandemic is over.…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Danny Halpin reports on new research showing that people who have suffered from long COVID are at far greater risk of blood…
Oil, guns and ethics
Promoters of the Alberta tar sands suggest customers for the product almost have a moral obligation to buy it. Their term is “ethical oil.” We hear the refrain from an…
More craziness from Texas
Many years ago, when I toiled in the oil patch, I lived in Houston, Texas for a couple of years. It was most enjoyable, especially the part about missing Canadian…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Elisabeth McClymont et al. study the risks COVID-19 creates for maternal and perinatal outcomes, while Jessica Widdifield et al. find that vaccines…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Mickey Djuric writes about the rising COVID-19 hospitalization numbers driven by unvaccinated people – but lest anybody treat past shots as an excuse…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Phil Tank writes that the Saskatchewan Party has only reluctantly held off on eliminating even what little information it still provided the…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Jennifer Rigby and Julie Steenhuysen report on the latest COVID-19 wave and its direct connection to the elimination of public health protections. Eric…