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29/03/2021

Many Indigenous communities are struggling to cope with dual states of emergency, thanks to the pandemic and its effects on those with mental illness and addictions.

25/03/2021

Prince Harry appears to be collecting job titles like they’re royal titles, after announcing on Wednesday that he will join a six-month study of misinformation in the U.S., in addition to his new gig at a mental health startup.

The Duke of Sussex will be one of 15 commissioners examining misinformation for the Aspen Institute, the organization announced Wednesday. He will join journalists, politicians, professors and philanthropists on the “Commission on Information Disorder,” which will try to find solutions to fake news and media polarization in today’s society over a six-month period.

🔗 https://globalnews.ca/news/7716133/prince-harry-second-job-fake-news/
📸: Aaron Chown/PA Images via Getty Images

21/03/2021

Amid uncertainty about B.C.'s COVID-19 vaccine timeline and rules around summer weddings, B.C. caterers say they're already seeing significant cancellations.

19/03/2021

The Conservatives would also increase mental health funding to the provinces and beef up domestic production of pharmaceuticals and vaccines, O'Toole said.

19/03/2021

Two weeks ago, Gilles Gosselin was watching Global News from his home near Quebec City when he was struck emotionally by the story of Deborah Bridgman. She’s a 57-year-old cancer patient who is desperate for a COVID-19 vaccine.

“My reaction was I thought it was unfair for her because I think she should have priority since she is ill,” the 70-year-old Gosselin said.

Bridgman suffers from advanced breast cancer. She wants the Quebec government to move cancer patients aged 16 to 59 higher on the vaccine priority list. Currently they rank number eight out of 10 categories, after people 60 and over get vaccinated.

Gosselin is 70 and in good health. His vaccine appointment is in early April. He’s never met Bridgman, but he wants to help her.

He contacted Global News, offering up his vaccine appointment to her.

🔗 https://globalnews.ca/news/7704944/senior-citizen-offers-vaccine-appointment-younger-cancer-patient/
📸: Gilles Gosselin

18/03/2021

Hiroshi Sasaki reportedly suggested that well-known entertainer Naomi Watanabe, who is heavy-set, could perform at the Games as an "Olympig."

18/03/2021

The states said Biden had overstepped his authority when he revoked the permit for the Keystone pipeline on his first day in office.

17/03/2021

The report released Tuesday from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence represents the most detailed assessment of the array of foreign threats to the 2020 election.

17/03/2021

In a series of tweets on Tuesday, Chief Medical Health Officer Dr. Theresa Tam said national case counts are "now on the rise, exceeding 3,190 daily cases over the past week."

16/03/2021

Moderna intends to enroll about 6,750 children in the United States and Canada for its COVID-19 vaccine study.

16/03/2021

The company's bankruptcy plan will require the company's Sackler family owners to contribute nearly $4.3 billion to the settlement of nearly 3,000 lawsuits.

15/03/2021

Only those who worked in health care, and their spouses or common law partners qualify though.

14/03/2021

Starting Monday, vaccinations will be open to people 20 years younger in Alberta than British Columbia. But B.C. has actually given out more doses. What's behind the difference?

14/03/2021

Hundreds defied coronavirus restrictions to gather and protest violence against women, but the event ended with clashes between police and those attending.

14/03/2021

The RCMP and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service approached their British counterparts to learn from their findings.

14/03/2021

13/03/2021

Rare Gorilla Encounter

On the second day of his 3-day trek around Uganda’s Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in search of mountain gorillas, nature photographer, conservationist, and biotech entrepreneur John King couldn’t believe his luck. Despite paying a fee of $600 a day with no guarantee of actually seeing the wi...

13/03/2021

FDA Curbs Livestock Antibiotics

The US Food and Drug Administration announced this week (January 2) that a certain class of antibiotics should only be used in farm animals under limited circumstances because of its likely contribution to antibiotic resistance in humans. The drugs, known as cephalosporins, are frequently used to tr...

13/03/2021

PETA Buys Chimp Lab Stock

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has purchased stock of a Maryland-based private research facility BIOQUAL, which conducts tests on great apes. The animal rights organization plans to raise a resolution at the next shareholder’s meeting to end testing on chimpanzees, according to...

13/03/2021

Monkeys Track Radiation

After taking measurements from the air, Fukushima University scientists are hoping to get a more detailed picture of radiation levels on the ground by recruiting the help of native wild macaques. The animals are outfitted with a device that reads the level of radiation, location, and distance from t...

13/03/2021

US Suspends New Chimp Research

The National Institutes of Health suspended all new chimpanzee research and accepted new guidelines limiting existing work. The announcement came just hours after an expert committee of the Institute of Medicine released recommendations that most research did not need chimpanzees. According to the n...

13/03/2021

13/03/2021