This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Brishti Basu reports on the ill effects of WorkSafeBC’s decision to push people back to work while they continue to suffer from long COVID. And Alex Skopic calls out the CDC’s choice to direct people back to work while they’re still infected
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eaves.ca: Connie Eaves, mother in life and science
A trailblazer who eschewed politics, identity and recognition in favour of a tenacious pursuit of life’s secrets Like many women of her age, Dr. Connie Eaves’s career in science was filled with barriers— some that come with the discipline, others of her era. In 1970, when she first walked into
Continue readingThe Maple Monarchists - Blog: Should the Provincial Loyalist Days be Celebrated on the Same Date?
The Loyalists usually only get the briefest of mentioned when the history of Canada is discussed. This is a tad unfortunate as the arrival of the Loyalists forever altered the trajectory of British North America and laid a solid groundwork for a uniquelyCanadian take on governance. They really should be discussed more. That said, this article
Continue readingViews from the Beltline: Trans enters the culture wars
Pierre Poilievre states that biological men should not be allowed to compete in women’s sports. I agree. But then I’m not aware of any biological men attempting to compete in women’s sports. Some transwomen are, but transwomen are … well, women, not biological men. According to my layman’s understanding, these
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Gender Affirming Care is NOT Evidence Based
Letter to the PM and Premier Doug Ford on the danger of “gender affirming care”. Share widely.
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Plague Update: Exploding Measles Threat
No, the latest measles don’t make you explode, I meant the threat is rising thanks to anti-waxxer ignorance spreading across the globe. And war, that’s infamously good at helping disease take hold of the population. Many of the people in charge of stopping health ignorance and control of diseases, have
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Roland Fryer on Adversity, Race, and Refusing to Conform
Speaking the truth can be disastrous for your academic career. Lying to appease the ‘acceptable’ narrative costs you your integrity and soul.
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Infection Control Measures Work
A Lancet study found that there’s little Covid transmission in schools WHEN infection control measures were in place. Since we stopped all mitigation efforts, hospitalizations for Covid in Ontario have increased year-round. We don’t need lockdowns for Covid, but we do still need N95s until we can clean the air.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to end your week. – Amy Peng et al. examine the profound positive impact of mask mandates in reducing the spread of COVID-19 in Ontario. And Sheena Cruickshank warns about the avoidable harm we can expect as so many respond to the political and social signals to abandon
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: The Motivating Annoyance of Willful Ignorance
I’ve been thinking about my old students today as I read the news. I taught about the Israeli occupation in Palestine for a good 20 years, under the media bias and propaganda curriculum section of my course. I had been reading about genocidal types of activity since my professor told
Continue readingThe Maple Monarchists - Blog: In Defence of the Nutmeg Crown
On February 7th Grenada celebrated its 50th year since independence. This was briefly mentioned in my last post but I wanted to return to the topic as there was one other notable event concerning the monarchy that occurred; a group of Grenadians have come together to form a monarchist league. Back in 2016 I noted a lack of
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Cordell Jacks writes about the need for an economic model which evolves beyond the short-term exploitation of people and the planet. And Jessica McKenzie interviews Charlotte Kukowski about the importance of reprioritizing in the context of readily-apparent feedback loops between inequality and the
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Operational Preparation of the Political Environment – How the Activist Left Works.
The Maple Monarchists - Blog: Which Country will be the First to Restore its Monarchy in the 21st Century?
Since the end of decolonization in the 1960s the number of monarchies in the world hasn’t changed all that much. While the expectation of modernists has been for the slow disappearance of monarchy as a government form it hasproven to be surprisingly resilient (to the modernists, if no one else). The 20th century saw
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: We Need Policy Based on Evidence, not Vibes
Survival of the fittest doesn’t mean the strongest survive, it means whomever can best adapt to the conditions of life will survive. Adapting doesn’t mean tolerating what’s happening and ignoring it; it means changing when the conditions of life change. So, in a pandemic, it means changing the way we live
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Anything I Disagree with is “Far Right” – Douglas Murray
We need to be able identify thought terminating cliches and deal with them appropriately. We need to encourage not suppress speech in society.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Moms For Liberty – Let’s Bring Back Discernment in Public School Libraries.
This is a frustrating clip to watch. The host is constantly talking over the guest as she tries to respond to the attempted ‘gotcha’ questions being posed. I think we need to be clear here. There is no need to “Experts” to weigh in on keeping sexually explicit and pornographic
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Teachers Prepared To Strike For Smaller Class Sizes
In recent years, many teachers are dealing with 40 kids, in unsafe classrooms, while the Sask Party Education Minister posts about a mining company on the day the strike is announced. Why did he talk about this mining company? He’s boasting about the corruption his government is getting away with,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Academic Freedom is Not a Self-Justifying Good – Greg Weiner
“Academic freedom is not a self-justifying good. It must be oriented to some end that merits the support of those who finance it. One end of liberal education is the advancement of knowledge, which requires diverse opinions and the freedom to challenge orthodoxy. But another is to preserve and transmit
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