Items of Interest - 16 July 2023
Jul. 16th, 2023 10:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dewline1. Scientific American: Moral Injury Is an Invisible Epidemic That Affects Millions - published in 2022. This is a thing that politicians with kind intentions might be dealing with, too...
2. Canadian Press via CBC News: Foreign interference means Canada should get serious on media literacy, advocate says - published in 2023. A concern of every nation at this point, yes?
3. CBC News - Is the Bank of Canada making things worse? - published in 2023. Central bank bosses seem to be missing the points of much of the wider public right now, don't they?
4. CBC News - Construction labour crunch leaves Canada in need of boosting ranks of home builders - published in 2023.
5. Post News - COVID-19 Update for July 2023: Risks Are Low But Rising, and Too Many Are Ignoring Longer-Term Risks by Augie Ray
2. Canadian Press via CBC News: Foreign interference means Canada should get serious on media literacy, advocate says - published in 2023. A concern of every nation at this point, yes?
3. CBC News - Is the Bank of Canada making things worse? - published in 2023. Central bank bosses seem to be missing the points of much of the wider public right now, don't they?
4. CBC News - Construction labour crunch leaves Canada in need of boosting ranks of home builders - published in 2023.
5. Post News - COVID-19 Update for July 2023: Risks Are Low But Rising, and Too Many Are Ignoring Longer-Term Risks by Augie Ray
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Date: 2023-07-16 09:23 pm (UTC)We've spent so much time, effort, and cold cash on pushing people into university. Many of them don't belong there, and many of them graduate with actually useful, or even nominally useful skills. At the same time, we are shorter and shorter on skilled labor (plumbers, HVAC, welders, plasterers, repair technicians, etc).