Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Kai Kupferschmidt discusses how the Delta variant has caused responsible governments to radically change their response to the COVID in the face of…
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Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – The editorial boards of the Leader-Post and Star-Phoenix discuss the individual math which makes the case for vaccination compelling – though it’s worth…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. – Jonathan Howard writes that the recognition of higher COVID-19 risks in adults has been used as a means of misleadingly minimizing the risks…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – The Globe and Mail’s editorial board recognizes that any responsible government would be continuing to apply public health rules to prevent a…
Deep thought
It’s an absolute mystery where Scott Moe and the Saskatchewan Party got the impression they’re entitled to dictate how they’re covered and what questions they’ll deign to answer.
On mood disorders
Summer is the time for reruns. And when your local political columnist keeps repeating the same patently false assertions about public opinion in the face of actual evidence, well… How…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Jennifer Lee reports on the debilitating lasting effects of long COVID. John Pavlovitz tells the story of his family’s experience suffering from COVID-19…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Dirk Richter and Lucy Foulkes point out how any mental health concerns arising out of public health rules would pale in comparison to…
Misreading the waves
How actual people (PDF) see the need for continued public health rules to prevent the spread of COVID-19: Do you think governments should lift all restrictions related to COVID-19 right…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Cameron MacLean reports that Manitoba is providing incentives to overcome vaccine hesitancy. But Guy Quenneville reports on the Saskatchewan Party’s refusal to…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Devon McKendrick reports on Manitoba’s announcement of a digital vaccine passport as a means of both incentivizing people to get vaccinations, and ensuring…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Aaron Derfel writes about the threat posed by the Delta COVID-19 variant. The Leader-Post and Star-Phoenix editorial boards point out the Moe government’s…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Matt Gurney questions how it is that Ontario (like other provinces) is continuing to avoid any meaningful planning in its pandemic response, with…
On unhealthy bias
Shorter Murray Mandryk: It’s important that we have compassion for everybody’s mental health concerns regardless of politics. And by that, I of course mean allowing partisan operatives from only one…
Plague Update: Cons Spin The Blame Bottle — Lands On Selves
You read this PPE shame before on my blog, but it was brought up in a mailing by local Conservative MP M. Kram. “Never-Ending Blunders – Tons of PPE from…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Alex Hemingway writes about the massive concentration of wealth among the richest few Canadians while most people have struggled through the pandemic. And…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Maxime Taquet, John Geddes, Masud Husain, Sierra Luciano and Paul Harrison study the broad and severe neurological impacts of the coronavirus. Pamela Downe…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Gary Mason writes that our leaders appear to have learned nothing as we face a third wave of COVID-19. Hasan Sheikh and Munir…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Jim Stanford weighs in on the need for increased worker input into economic decision-making – particularly as change is otherwise imposed by management…