Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – The Canadian Medical Association calls for Scott Moe to finally reinstate public health rules to prevent Saskatchewan’s already-catastrophic fourth wave of COVID-19 from…
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Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Rod Nickel offers an international view of Saskatchewan’s spiraling COVID-19 crisis, even as Scott Moe clings to his delusional minimization of the…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Carol Off interviews Andre Picard about the cultural factors and policy choices that have led to an avoidable fourth wave of COVID-19 in…
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. – Monique Beals reports on Anthony Fauci’s recognition that attacks directed against him are based solely on denialists’ hostility toward the truth, while Mike…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Hannah Devlin asks why the UK is accepting a thousand lives a week as the price of incompetence in responding to the…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Amativa Banerjee writes about the cognitive dissonance involved in living through the COVID-19 pandemic. And Ian Sample reports on scientists’ recognition that…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Ian Sample and Peter Walker report on the Parliamentary inquiry which has found the UK’s response to COVID-19 to be one of…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Ricky Leong discusses the complete lack of any reasonable explanation for the UCP’s failure to protect the health of Albertans in the…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Adam Hunter points out the stark gap between public health officials emphasizing the need for protections against community transmission of COVID-19, and Scott…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Thomas Saunders discusses how COVID-19 transmission through schools is resulting in effectively a separate epidemic among children and parents. Kathy Eagar offers a…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Carrie Tait reports on the spate of readmissions of COVID-19 patients to Alberta hospitals, while Zak Vescera points out the large number…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Smriti Mallapaty reports on new research suggesting that vaccines provide only partial protection against the spread of the Delta variant of COVID-19. Sarath…
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…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Paul Nuki, Jennifer Rigby and Anne Gulland write about the refusal to acknowledge the airborne spread of COVID-19 which led to a continuing…
The difficult journey upstream
One of the signature messages of Ryan Meili’s work in activism and politics has been the concept of upstream thinking – described in extremely brief form here: To imagine a…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Lara Herrero offers a quick guide to what we know about the Delta variant – and how it should change our previous perspective…
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…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Ian Austen takes Alberta’s shame to the international stage by pointing out how the UCP’s “best summer ever” has given rise to…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Katherine Wu, Ed Yong and Sarah Zhang set out six rules which will shape how we handle the next wave of COVID –…