#The dominance of Doug Ford’s PC Party: 338Canada

#The dominance of Doug Ford’s PC Party: 338Canada

“#The dominance of Doug Ford’s PC Party: 338Canada” Philippe J. Fournier: A new Mainstreet poll has the PCs leading in every age group and Ford’s approval numbers over his handling of the pandemic still riding high New Ontario polling data released by Mainstreet Research shows Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservative Party still holds a commanding lead…

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#Canada’s condo amenity wars – Macleans.ca

#Canada’s condo amenity wars – Macleans.ca

“#Canada’s condo amenity wars – Macleans.ca” Vancouver House (Courtesy of Ema Peter/Westbank) The marketing material for Vancouver House listed 20 reasons to buy a home inside the residential skyscraper overlooking False Creek. Among them: use of a fleet of BMWs; access to a 25-m heated rooftop pool configured so it’s sheltered from the wind yet…

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#Capitalism’s connection to our ever-worsening mental health

#Capitalism’s connection to our ever-worsening mental health

“#Capitalism’s connection to our ever-worsening mental health” Andray Domise: Despite headlines constantly blaring that our standard of living is ever increasing, social stressors gnaw away at the foundations of our collective psyche In 2011, British writer and cultural theorist Mark Fisher penned an essay entitled The Privatisation of Stress, perfectly capturing the relationship between depression,…

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#Trudeau and Big Pharma: Not a love story

#Trudeau and Big Pharma: Not a love story

“#Trudeau and Big Pharma: Not a love story” On the bright side, when it comes to vaccines, so far Canada is actually doing better than Australia. That country bet big on a thriving domestic bio-sciences sector. It was making good progress on a made-in-Australia vaccine until December, when it had to scrap its vaccine program…

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#Is it possible to mix-and-match COVID-19 vaccines?

#Is it possible to mix-and-match COVID-19 vaccines?

“#Is it possible to mix-and-match COVID-19 vaccines?” Vaxx Populi: Some scientists think using different types of vaccines might confer more protection against variants of concern. A study could provide the evidence. “I think we’re having a global science lesson,” says Dr. Alan Bernstein, CEO of CIFAR, a Toronto-based global research organization. The pandemic has “made…

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#The tragic story of a Canadian vaccine trailblazer

#The tragic story of a Canadian vaccine trailblazer

“#The tragic story of a Canadian vaccine trailblazer” He was called a “savant” and a “savior,” thought a contender for a Nobel Prize and named alongside John Steinbeck as an American “genius whose work will live on through the centuries.” But he wasn’t American, he was Canadian, and by 1939—just four years after receiving international…

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