Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Christina Maxouris and Alaa Elassar report on a new study showing the U.S. could save tens of thousands of lives by requiring…
public health
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Steven Greenhouse writes that COVID-19 may produce a wave of unionization as workers see how little they’re valued, and how cavalierly they lives…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Ed Finn writes about the need to shift away from capitalist domination before the next major crisis strikes. And Larry Elliott laments…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Paola Frelich writes about the uber-rich whose habit of being strictly isolated from anybody else has allowed for life to continue as…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Dan Guadagnolo calls out the spinmeisters trying to torque job availability numbers to portray workers receiving coronavirus relief as lazy rather than deserving.…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Lori Fox writes that the COVID-19 pandemic reflects a fundamental break with what had been business as usual – making it essential…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – As the Libs continue to stall on announcing a promised transition from an expiring CERB to a revised employment insurance system, David Macdonald…
Friday Evening Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Sara Mojtehedzadeh reports on the severe uncertainty facing far too many as the CERB is set to wind down with nothing but vaporware…
Wednesday Evening Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Nicole Lyn Pesce examines the growing evidence that people with even minor cases of COVID-19 may face neurological symptoms lasting for months. And…
Tuesday Evening Links
This and that for your Tuesday evening. – Crawford Kilian examines the UN’s advice on how to keep school safe from COVID-19, while the Saskatchewan Medical Association and Saskatchewan College…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – The Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness (via Behind the Numbers) examines how women are bearing the brunt of homelessness and insecure housing…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Andrew Nikiforuk writes about the public’s lack of familiarity with exponential growth which is proving lethal in its application to both COVID-19 and…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Chuck Collins asks why the billionaires who have seen their fortunes continue to grow during a pandemic aren’t giving anything back to…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Ed Yong examines how the coronavirus has been allowed to run rampant in the U.S. And the Globe and Mail’s editorial board warns…
Anything but normal
Plenty of people are rightly wondering how the Saskatchewan Party could possibly have hyped up an announcement about what we’ll see as students return to fall, then unveiled what remains…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Crawford Kilian examines a few crucial questions as to what Canada needs to keep, throw away and modify based on the lessons learned…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Allison Hanes reminds us that there is no escaping the reality of COVID-19 – and any attempt to take a vacation from the…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Scott Gilmore wonders whether we’ll use the lessons of COVID-19 to set up our own “tsunami stones” to prevent future crises. But Tom…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – German Lopez surveys the growing body of research showing how masks help to slow the spread of COVID-19. John Michael McGrath points…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – T.M. Scanlon analyzes the dangerous effects of wealth inequality. And Philip Alston discusses how COVID-19 has only exposed an existing pandemic of…