Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Mary Ziegler and Scott Lemieux both warn of the many other rights in imminent danger due to both the fact of the elimination…
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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.…
Trump Of The North
In his quest for the leadership of the Conservative Party, Pierre Poilievre is following Donald Trump’s playbook. Susan Delacourt writes: Show him an institution and Poilievre will knock it down…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Ross Barkan takes stock of the reality that the U.S. has allowed a million people to die of a disease whose transmission could…
About That Conservative Leadership Campaign
It would seem that the leading contender for the helm of the federal Conservatives, Pierre Poilievre, brings neither credit nor credibility to his party. H/t de Adder Bruce Arthur writes…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Yan Wang et al. examine the feasibility of a zero COVID policy, and find that the even the development of the Omicron…
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…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Abdullah Shihipar discusses why there’s every reason to resist the pressure from self-serving politicians and business groups to succumb to COVID-19. Hannah Flynn…
Stephen’s Ghost
The Conservatives are stuck. That’s the lesson behind Pierre Poilievre’s quest for the leadership of the party. Michael Harris writes: Poilievre’s camp is hitching his alleged vaulting popularity to the…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content for your Friday reading. – Gavin Yamey et al. observe that a push for vaccine equity – and the retention of public health measures until it can be…
Pierre’s Libertarian Economy
So, putative CPC leadership front runner Pierre Poilievre wants to rejig our economy and monetary policy to use cryptocurrency. In Poilievre’s mind, central banks have “too much power”, and expanding…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Winnie Wan Yee Tso et al. study the severity of the Omicron BA.2 COVID variant, and find that its rate of deaths and…
Our Unhealthy State
I am not one of those who chortles when political parties fall into embarrassments or controversy; such events only serve as fodder for opposing parties eagerly driven to earn more…
Will They Fall In Line?
I tend to think that, if the Conservatives choose Pierre Poilievre as their leader, they will wander in the political desert for quite a while. Chantal Hebert has a warning…
Take Him Seriously
Pierre Poilievre is a clown. Nonetheless, Susan Riley writes, it’s time to take him seriously: Random journalists, subject-matter experts, and others, try to counter Poilievre’s facetious boilerplate—“lets give Canadians back…
Leadership Under The Microscope
I need ammunition, not a ride – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky With those six words, the Ukrainian President has put leadership under the microscope. His is the kind of courageous…
A left-wing case against Justin Trudeau invoking the Emergencies Act
The central issue with invoking the Emergency Act is twofold: First, it is a step too far in consolidating state power against dissenting citizens. Second, police already had the tools…
Such A Quandary
With such a fluid situation in Ottawa, what are opportunistic demagogues to do? H/t Theo Moudakis Recommend this Post
Pierre Poilievre is no friend of the working class, despite his pro-worker ranting
Poilievre’s announcement to run as Prime Minister touches on working-class issues, with a mood of plausible, genuine sincerity. He even mentions the working class by name. Of course, Poilievre doesn’t…
The Conservative Party has become the political arm of the trucker’s convoy
The Conservative party has made a turn to the hard right. No doubt they want to swallow up lost voters further to the right that have turned to the PPC.…