Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Richard Smith highlights how there’s no general connection between the cost of health care and patient incomes across different models of funding and delivery, but an obvious connection between profit motives and increased expenses which don’t produce improved outcomes. – Meanwhile, K.J. Aiello
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Cathie from Canada: Today’s News: Ratioed
To begin, I need to give a definition of “ratioed” – Merriam-Webster defines it as “A quantitative measure of how little they like your take.” A tweet is “ratioed” when only a few people “Like” it or “Re-Tweet” it, compared to the large number of people who are hitting “Reply” to
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Assorted content to end your week. – Sara Birlios examines the grim state of Saskatchewan – including the numerous areas where Scott Moe and the Saskatchewan Party are consciously choosing social murder over even the slightest concern for the well-being of non-donors. And the Globe and Mail’s editorial board calls
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This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Brad Plumer and Henry Fountain discuss the IPCC’s latest report confirming that some climate degradation is inevitable – but that we face the choice how much to accept. Adam Moreton notes that it’s all the more unacceptable to rely on accounting tricks
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Nora Loreto points out the thousands of deaths known to have been caused by the spread of COVID-19 in Canadian hospitals – and the virtual certainty that the numbers available to date represent a significant undercount. Allan Massie discusses the spread of COVID-19
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Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Crawford Kilian draws from Alex de Waal’s New Pandemics, Old Politics to make the case that plagues and the associated responses are invariably political. Adam Miller writes that there’s an opportunity for Canadian governments to build off of low COVID-19 case counts and keep
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Assorted content to end your week. – Michael Smart compares Canada’s fiscal response to the COVID crisis to the reaction to previous recessions – finding that benefits for people are being cut back to normal levels in the midst of an ongoing pandemic, while corporate profits continue to soar. And
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Assorted content for your weekend reading. – The Globe and Mail’s editorial board laments the choice of far too many provincial governments to sacrifice tens of thousands of lives rather than treating a pandemic with the seriousness and focus it deserves. Philip Pizzo, David Spiegel and Michelle Mello examine how
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This and that for your Thursday reading. – Ciara Nugent writes about Amsterdam’s embrace of doughnut economics focused on finding the sweet spot which accounts for human well-being and environmental sustainability. – Ross Belot discusses why the world doesn’t need Keystone XL, while Angus Reid notes that only the prairie
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This and that for your Tuesday reading. – The Globe and Mail’s editorial board asks whether Doug Ford will again fall painfully short in responding to the public health threat posed by COVID-19 – though at this point the questions appears to be entirely rhetorical. Murray Mandryk discusses the lives
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This and that for your Sunday reading. – Don Braid calls out Jason Kenney for allowing his government’s MLAs and officials to gallivant around the world on vacation while demanding that the rest of Alberta stay home to stop the spread of COVID-19. James Keller reports on new research showing
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This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Andre Picard writes about the cost of complacency in dealing with the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Matt Lundy examines Canada’s highly unequal recovery, with a stark dividing line between people making more than $22 per hour who have mostly been barely affected by
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The latest from Saskatchewan’s provincial election campaign as election day approaches tomorrow. – A new poll shows the race tightening significantly, including with the NDP holding a significant lead in Regina. But in case anybody thought the coverage of polling would be equal depending on what’s being found, this one
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Shopping Alberta’s Future: Boycott-loving UCP is shocked, just shocked, when the tactic is aimed at its supporters
Alberta’s United Conservatives: They can dish it out, but they can’t take it. Well, Premier Jason Kenney’s UCP wasn’t the first political party to discover turnabout is fair play, and it’s unlikely to be the last. United Conservative Party Caucus Deputy Executive Director Ryan Hastman in 2011 when he was
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Clifford Orwin argues in a Globe and Mail op-ed that both Republicans and Democrats are behaving hypocritically in their fight over filling the Supreme Court vacancy before the election. In today’s Letters section, I concisely defend the Democrats’ approach: It does not seem like hypocrisy for U.S. Senate Democrats to
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Clifford Orwin argues in a Globe and Mail op-ed that both Republicans and Democrats are behaving hypocritically in their fight over filling the Supreme Court vacancy before the election. In today’s Letters section, I concisely defend the Democrats’ approach: It does not seem like hypocrisy for U.S. Senate Democrats to
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Assorted content to end your week. – Carla Holinaty highlights how Saskatchewan’s teachers and students deserve a well-thought-out plan for their return to school – rather than the most negligent one in the country. – David Giles reports on the Saskatchewan NDP’s call for a continued rental eviction moratorium. But
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Assorted content for your weekend reading. – John Metta discusses how low-income workers have been barely treading water for decades even before the coronavirus collapse. The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives points out how we can take the failure of EI during the pandemic as a signal that we need
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Today’s Globe and Mail contains a letter to the editor from yours truly (second from the bottom) in response to an op-ed criticizing those who take offence at J.K. Rowling’s misguided views on trans people. I discuss one of my pet peeves in the current “free speech” wars — namely,
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Today’s Globe and Mail contains a letter to the editor from yours truly (second from the bottom) in response to an op-ed criticizing those who take offence at J.K. Rowling’s misguided views on trans people. I discuss one of my pet peeves in the current “free speech” wars — namely,
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