Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Alexander Martin reports on new research showing the cognitive effects of a severe COVID case can be similar to the effect of twenty…
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On set identities
While there’s been some attention paid to Environics’ polling on provincial identity politics, little of it seems to have noted just how little public interest there is in a highly…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Renee Graham writes that the elimination of masking protections as a matter of privileged people’s comfort in the midst of a pandemic that…
On mere opinions
There’s been plenty of attention – and indeed enthusiasm – in response to the Saskatchewan Liberals’ petition seeking a plebiscite on a COVID inquiry. So let’s take a look at…
On negative reinforcement
While there have been some aspects of the Saskatchewan NDP’s post-election review (PDF) which involved conflicting currents within the party, one of the few possibilities which seems to have been…
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…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Peter Kalmus discusses how climate scientists are increasingly turning to civil disobedience to try to alert people to the need for immediate…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – George Monbiot writes that rhetoric about “learning to live with it” has become the go-to excuse to allow preventable tragedies – including the…
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…
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…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Lauren Pelley and Adam Miller discuss the reality that Canada has never seen its previous COVID wave fully recede even as a…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – The Max Planck Society explores how COVID-19 has developed to hide out and mutate within the human body. Tami Luhby discusses how even…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Jacques Poitras talks to some of the at-risk people whose freedom will be undermined by the scrapping of public health protections. Phil…
Live Blogged: Progressive (re)Organizing In Sask
A long thread on Twitter of the Twitter Space hosted by Prairie Tara: Tara J suggests 3 options:New party, or change the NDP, or improve the SK Liberals. Joel now…
On unhealthy outcomes
Not surprisingly, Ryan Meili’s announcement that he’ll be stepping down as leader of Saskatchewan’s NDP comes as a major disappointment. To be clear, the decision is understandable both from a…
Wednesday Evening Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Gavin Yamey, Abraar Karan and Ranu Dhillon write that the COVID pandemic is far from over even in the U.S. where the Omicron…
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…
Burning question
Where could Scott Moe have possibly developed the idea he’s entitled to dictate what questions the media is allowed to ask?
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Claire Horwell highlights how masking and other continued public health measures to rein in spread to the extent possible are the only way…
Plague Update: Hide The Model
Leaked Saskatchewan disease modelling has hospitalizations headed for a record high next month. The SHA is asking the public to limit gatherings "in order to not overwhelm the health care…