Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Andrew Romano reports on Denmark’s explosion of COVID cases after it prematurely lifted public health protections. Ariana Eunjung Cha reports on the cardiac…
Privatization
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Umair Haque writes about the reasons why the COVID pandemic is far from over – and indeed the worst may be yet…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Robin McKie and Michael Savage write about the warnings of UK scientists that the reckless elimination of public health protections will lead…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Alexander Quon reports on the politicization of Saskatchewan’s COVID policy in the summer of 2021, with political staffers and commercial interests winning…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Zak Vescera reports that the Moe government’s push toward privatizing COVID testing has turned into such a fiasco that even the for-profit operators…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Katherine Wu warns that the worst of the Omicron COVID wave may happen even after case counts have peaked as continued spread…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Sarath Peiris discusses the Saskatchewan Party government’s utterly feckless pandemic response – which they’ve apparently decided to keep in place for the rest…
LTC Homes: Ownership Matters
Nancy Olivieri, Michael Hurley, Vivian Stamatopoulos, and Natalie Mehra explained Doug Ford’s sneaky passing of Bill 37 just before Christmas in today’s Toronto Star. They warn, “Hope to live out…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Bruce Arthur writes about the need for governments’ responses to COVID to adapt to the increased risk posed by the Omicron variant.…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Supriya Dwivedi writes about the Groundhog Day-style loop we’re trapped in due to a pandemic which is being allowed to continue and evolve.…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Stephanie Nolen examines (PDF) some of the inequality revealed and exacerbated by the COVID pandemic. Bonnie Allen reports on the tragic story…
More supportive housing for semi-independent seniors
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives asked me for a ‘big idea.’ I wrote about the need for more supportive housing for semi-independent seniors. Here’s my submission: https://nickfalvo.ca/more-supportive-housing-for-semi-independent-seniors/
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Helen Ward et al. discuss the work that needs to be done to respond to long COVID on a global scale, while…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Bruce Arthur offers a reminder that we know perfectly well how to limit the damage done by COVID-19 as long as a…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Bruce Arthur calls out Doug Ford for choosing (like other conservative premiers) to prioritize the “freedom” of uninformed anti-vaxxers to endanger everybody…
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…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Nazeem Muhajarine and Kathryn Green call out Scott Moe’s Saskatchewan Party government for causing readily-preventable suffering and death – both from COVID-19…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – The Canadian Press reports on the overwhelming public support for vaccine mandates and other public health rules – as well as the…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Don Braid discusses how Alberta’s health care system and polity are both collapsing under the weight of a UCP government which has utterly…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Doug Cuthand discusses how everybody is worse off as a result of the combination of government negligence and individual vaccine hesitancy. And Liam…