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Category Archives: covid-19
Pandemics, authoritarianism and the coming storm
A lot of people bought Camus’ The Plague in 2020. With Monday’s presidential inauguration on the horizon, you might want to read it again. Continue reading
Posted in Canada-US relations, covid-19, Trump, Uncategorized
Tagged authoritarianism, covid, covid-19, politics
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Some smoke, no fire: Government’s pandemic response found to have protected Canadians’ privacy rights
Not really a catchy title, is it? Still, I think it’s worth highlighting the federal Privacy Commissioner’s report, published on May 30, that found that, “with some exceptions, that the measures implemented by the government during the pandemic complied with … Continue reading
Posted in covid-19, privacy
Tagged Canada, COVID politics, privacy, Privacy Commissioner, surveillance
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The Roaring Twenties
In early July, for our wedding anniversary, we spent eight days in New York. This was our first vacation since 2019, and pretty much our first time we’d travelled more than 200 km from our house since the pandemic began. … Continue reading
It’s about ethics in vaccine mandates: Welcome to Gamergate North, but with trucks!
Even as the trucker occupation of Ottawa ends its fifth day, the high-stakes game of interpreting what it all means has already begun. Today’s entry, from the Globe and Mail editorial page, goes with “mid-sized inconvenience.” The editorialists are comforted … Continue reading
Martin Regg Cohn and the mystery of the empty classrooms (Armchair quarterback edition)
In this morning’s Toronto Star, columnist Martin Regg Cohn presents us with a puzzler about the pandemic issue of the moment, university students and online teaching: How to explain the incongruity of packing thousands of students into university dorms — … Continue reading
Posted in covid-19, Uncategorized
Tagged COVID pandemic, COVID politics, Ford government, online teaching, Ontario universities
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