Here are 400+ great reads from 2022 handpicked just for you by NPR staff and trusted critics.
— Read on apps.npr.org/best-books/
This book list has the ability to open a link to your local library and you can borrow or put a book on hold including Ebooks. Or there are links to AMAZON. This is the book list I have been waiting for. Now they just need a link to Goodreads.
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A very long read. Published in June 2020 it follows on the early post I published on the ethical conflicts during COVID. This post is from a Canadian Think tank and polling company. It is helpful to understand the forces driving things like the Ottawa convoy and see international trends in public emotional responses to perceived and real events.
Perspective from The New England Journal of Medicine — What Covid Has Taught the World about Ethics
— Read on www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2210173
Wondering why everything to do with the pandemic triggered controversy? This article sums up most of the ethical am moral dilemmas.
Is this the end of another summer, or the end of summer as we know it?
— Read on www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-a-warming-planet/when-summer-becomes-the-season-of-danger-and-dread
If you’re buying a condo or townhouse in BC, it’s probably a strata. But, from fistfights and fines to a fence that divided a community, stratas have been marked by stories of disappointment and rage
— Read on www.capitaldaily.ca/news/your-home-is-not-your-castle-buying-into-a-strata-victoria-bc
This makes my issues small by comparison. I find strata ownership challenging. There are a lot of unknowns. It’s hard not to get emotional about it all. As this article suggests it’s a free for all. Better governance might improve the situation.
Helen Branswell, who has covered the Covid-19 pandemic from the start, reflects on what she has learned two years on.
— Read on www.statnews.com/2021/12/28/10-lessons-ive-learned-from-the-covid-19-pandemic/
And excellent review of what went wrong and right.
Did you hear the one about the land use planning authority that operates at less than 10% efficiency that has just been awarded nearly $400,000 to …
We can learn from our failures.
— Read on www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/02/how-public-health-messaging-backfired/618147/
“Manologues,” “mansplaining” and “manterrupting” are hallmarks of the conference room.
— Read on www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/02/18/men-interrupt-women-tokyo-olympics/
I was just out for a walk on the beach with 1 woman and 1 man and I could feel the mansplaining coming on.
Vaccination rollout efforts in Canada have been criticized for being slow to get under way. The results emerging from a national research study document the und
— Read on www.longwoods.com/content/26443/healthcare-quarterly/an-evidence-based-strategy-to-scale-vaccination-in-canada
This explains some possible factors in success/failure among Canadian provinces. Hard to statistically correlate factors with success. Nevertheless it is good to have someone capture system and structural factors the differ among provinces. Discussion of Quebec would strengthen theory.
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