Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Andrew Nikiforuk helpfully lists some of the most important facts which people need to keep in mind in evaluating COVID-19 risks (and…
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Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Marco Zuin et al. examine the connection between COVID-19 infections and subsequent heart attacks. And Felicity Liew et al. study the effect…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Rong-Gong Lin Il and Luke Money report on CDC findings showing that U.S. infants under 6 months had hospitalization rates as high…
The Alberta Sovereignty Act – First Thoughts
Yesterday, Danielle Smith tabled the “Alberta Sovereignty Act”. I haven’t read through it all yet, but like the rest of you, I’ve seen the commentary in the news, and to…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Cate Swannell discusses how research showing the multitude of harms which can result from COVID-19 infection. Calixto Machado-Curbelo, Joel Gutiérrez-Gil and Alina González-Quevedo…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Winnie Byanyima discusses the importance of cooperation and coordination in responding to a pandemic. But Michael Lee contrasts the consistent message from…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. – Robert Reich rightly questions why trickle-down economics are still being pushed even after decades of consistent failure to accomplish any goal other than…
What Is The Goal of the Alberta Sovereignty Act?
Since Danielle Smith first started advocating for the so-called “Alberta Sovereignty Act”, much digital ink has been spilled over how it’s unconstitutional, if not downright illegal under Canada’s laws today.…
On jurisdictional issues
Shorter Jason Kenney: For all my Ottawa-bashing bluster, even I have to admit it’s asinine to pretend provincial laws can nullify the existence of federal powers. Shorter Scott Moe: The…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Maggie Mills discusses how an antisocial public health policy in the midst of an ongoing pandemic is producing a disastrous human cost (particularly…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Matt Gurney examines the competing interpretations of what it means to say COVID is over, reaching the grim conclusion that we’re never going…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Fiona Small writes about the hope that one of the responses to COVID-19 will be a shift toward inhaled vaccines. But for those…
Right v. Left in Modern Politics
There’s a lot of palaver on social media about right v. left (or left v. right if you are so inclined), with webs of comments about the differences between these…
Monday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to start your week. – The Associated Press reports on Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus’s warning that the COVID-19 pandemic is far from over. Mary Papenfuss discusses how people living…
Two Days In Alberta Politics
It’s Friday – end of the week, and the last 2 days of politics in Alberta have been a whirlwind … on Wednesday, Kenney said he would step down after…
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…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – David Wallace-Wells examines the massive global toll of excess deaths from COVID-19 (likely far exceeding even the already-alarming official counts). Nele Brusselaers et…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Steven Woolf examines the inescapable connection between political choices and avoidable COVID-19 deaths between U.S. states. And Christopher Blackwell discusses how the pandemic…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Kit Yates discusses how the lifting of COVID-19 public health protections in the UK has predictably precipitated another wave of infections. Natalie…
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…