The risk of a child dying from COVID is 6 to 9 times higher than the risk of a child dying from influenza, and kids can face long-term serious medical conditions even after initially only experience “mild” COVID symptoms.
Cholera didn’t stop ravaging the working poor of Europe until engineers improved water treatment and wastewater disposal, robbing it of its breeding ground.
The point is, we can’t expect a pandemic to just end in the very environment it thrived.
“As a journalist, my job is not to sugar coat reality, cheer lead for the status quo or defend the powerful.”
This week, a Tyee article went viral, accused of hyperbole and fear mongering. Today, Andrew Nikiforuk addresses the critics. #COVID19
.@djclimenhaga: If Alberta Premier Danielle Smith intends to defy an all-party, all-province, national consensus on how to respond to Donald Trump’s tariff threats, she should call a provincial election and get a mandate to do so.
“I’m going to be blunt. As a resident of Alberta and someone trained to recognize threats to democracy, I have an obligation to be.
“The UCP is an authoritarian force in Alberta. Full stop.
“I don’t come by this argument lightly.”
“I’m going to be blunt. As a resident of Alberta and someone trained to recognize threats to democracy, I have an obligation to be.
“The UCP is an authoritarian force in Alberta. Full stop.
“I don’t come by this argument lightly.”
@DrJaredWesley writes.
“I’m going to be blunt. As a resident of Alberta and someone trained to recognize threats to democracy, I have an obligation to be.
“The UCP is an authoritarian force in Alberta. Full stop.
“I don’t come by this argument lightly.”
@DrJaredWesley writes.
🧵: The Tyee rejects the claim our reporting was "misleading and factually inaccurate," a false allegation that has resulted in online abuse and threats based on the Vancouver Police Department's defamatory attack. (1/4)
.@PaulWillcocks: No one should be “happy” a 20-year-old suspect has been shot dead.
Especially a Conservative politician who supposedly believes in the rule of law and sanctity of human life.
#USPoli#CanPoli#TrumpRally
Experts have warned for years that disinformation campaigns directed by foreign actors could dangerously pollute democracies and polarize debate with low-cost internet campaigns.