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
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Accidental Deliberations: Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Jessica Wildfire laments the great abdication of mutual responsibility which is resulting in countless preventable dangers being allowed to spread unabated. And Benedict Michael et al. study how COVID-19 is giving rise to sustained cognitive defects even as it’s being treated as a
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This and that for your Thursday reading. – Tess Finch Lee writes about the importance of doing everything we can to protect children (and indeed the general population) from COVID-19. But Thomas Piggott laments that instead of taking a lesson in interdependence and the need for social care, we’ve been
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This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Dawn Bowdish and Andrew Costa provide a reminder as to how to stay as safe as possible from COVID-19 (even as governments have abandoned any attempt to limit the spread of a dangerous disease). – Ryan Meili writes about the connection between the
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Crawford Kilian reviews two new books on the effects of an overheating planet. Damian Carrington reports on the science tracing unprecedented heat waves to climate change. And Jag Bhalla warns about the dangers of undue optimism about the state of our living environment – with the people with
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Andrew Dessler writes about the non-linear nature of the environmental effects of carbon pollution – with the result that we’re seeing cascading effects with each additional increase in temperature. And Sarah Kaplan discusses how we should be recognizing extreme weather events as alarm
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Mitchell Beer writes about the Canada Energy Regulator’s recognition that the future will involve far less fossil fuel use than the oil industry and its spokespuppets want us to believe. And Marc Fawcett-Atkinson discusses how biomethane is just another distraction intended to turn
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This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Piers Forster reports on new research showing that both greenhouse gas emissions and temperatures continue to push past all recorded records. Andrew Freedman adds sea surface temperatures to the list of indicators setting off alarm bells for anybody bothering to pay attention. And Shannon
Continue readingDefend Public Healthcare: The war on women’s wages and the war on broader public sector workers
Women comprise 74% of the Ontario education, health care, and social assistance workforce. A strong female majority is present in all three of these sectors but is especially marked in health care and social assistance, where 762,800 women work. These three industries account for 31% of all women employees in Ontario. So
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This and that for your Sunday reading. – Will Stone writes about the role viral reservoirs may be playing in both prolonging individual long COVID symptoms, and allowing for the development of new variants. Simran Purewal, Kaylee Byers, Kayli Jamieson and Neda Zolfaghari highlight the need for people talking about
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This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Alec Connon discusses how anger is an entirely appropriate response to the capitalist imperative to impose constant costs and burdens on people and the planet. And Alexandra Digby, Dollie Davis and Robson Hiroshi Hatsukami Morgan write that the collapse of First Republic Bank and
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Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Zak Vescera reports on the CCPA’s new research showing how an increasing number of jobs in British Columbia are precarious – with already-disadvantaged workers especially likely to be affected. Don Pittis points out the Bank of Canada’s continued attempts to hold wages below
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Assorted content to end your week. – Linda McQuaig calls out the Ford PCs for making it even more difficult to hold corporate health care operators to account for sub-par service. And Emma McIntosh, Fatima Syed and Denise Balkissoon discuss Ford’s latest sketchy step to turn farmland and industrial areas into
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This and that for your Thursday reading. – Hayden Klein reports on new research suggesting a connection between COVID-19 infection and increased cancer rates (particularly in younger people). And the Trade Union Council and Long COVID Support survey how workers with long COVID have been treated by employers – finding that one
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Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Tarun Sai Lomte discusses new research on the connection between structural brain changes and fatigue associated with long COVID. And Eric Topol examines the growing body of evidence on the increased risk of heart attacks and strokes after COVID infection. – Robert Reich
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This and that for your Thursday reading. – Kimberly Atkins Stohr discusses her experience with long COVID – along with the reality that others have suffered far worse when they’ve lost employment as a result of it. Jasleen Gosal writes about the “silent pandemic” on and around Stanford’s campus. And
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Liam Mannix examines how the scientists with the deepest knowledge of the risks of COVID-19 are protecting themselves from the ongoing pandemic. And Robson Fletcher writes about the attempts of Calgary parents to gather data on how to keep schools safe (in the
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Assorted content for your weekend reading. – William Anderson sets out a few of the most important realities about the Kraken COVID-19 variant and its place within the ongoing pandemic. Glen Pyle and Jennifer Huang confirm that infection results in a far greater risk of myocarditis than vaccination. And Julia
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This and that for your Thursday reading. – Kelsey Piper writes about the U.S.’ memory-holing of the successes of a vaccine program which resulted in exceptionally quick development and distribution of effective COVID vaccines (and should have set a precedent for future pandemic planning). – Dustin Cook and Mike Hager
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Assorted content to end your week. – Teresa Wright sets out the wish list of ER doctors who have been dealing with avoidable COVID waves for years. Tiffany Hsu discusses the dangers of COVID-19 misinformation both in the course of the ongoing pandemic, and in its spillover effects as to public perception
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