Hour 2 of Ottawa Now for Fri. March 22nd, 2024
March 22, 2024
Since the start of COVID-19, the warts in Canada’s healthcare system have been magnified in ways we’d never expect. And in the midst of all those failures, a handful of innovations are aiming to change things for the better, like this new initiative happening right here in Ontario. The University Health Network, located in the GTA, introduced the E.D. Virtual Program during COVID’s second wave. Basically, it allows patients who are not experiencing life-threatening conditions to see a practitioner without having to set foot in a hospital. Dr. Sameer Masood explains how it works in Hour 2. Over in the United Kingdom, supporters of the Royal Family are holding their breath, as Princess Kate Middleton publicly announces her battle with cancer. And while she is doing well, she is still in recovery.
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Canada’s grocery code of conduct is a set of rules and guidelines that seek to improve fair dealings in the industry, especially between big grocers and their suppliers. These suppliers include both farmers, as well as producers of various kinds of processed foods.Loblaw Cos. Ltd., one of two large grocers that had held out on agreeing to comply with the code of conduct, announced Thursday that they were ready to abide by the rules set out in the code if other retailers such as Walmart also came on board.
May 16, 2024 - 22:22 | Akrit Michael | The Globe and Mail
Joan Carlisle was just 19, a student at Mount Allison University in Sackville, N.B., when she attended a family wedding in Nova Scotia. A brash young man, whom she had never met, approached her father to ask if he could take her to a postwedding party. Her father agreed and a puzzled Joan went off to the party that changed her life.She quickly learned that her ardent pursuer was Arthur Irving, a smooth-talking oil-company salesman in his mid-20s, who was considered the most eligible bachelor in New Brunswick. He was one of three sons of K.C. Irving, the most powerful tycoon in the...
May 16, 2024 - 22:10 | Gordon Pitts | The Globe and Mail
The former wife of a man who admitted to killing four First Nations women testified in a Winnipeg superior court on Thursday, recalling the lurid details of their abusive relationship, including how he violently attacked and sexually assaulted her on numerous occasions.The 44-year-old Métis woman, whom The Globe and Mail is not naming because she is a survivor of sexual violence, told Court of King’s Bench Justice Glenn Joyal that she met Jeremy Skibicki in early 2018 at the Siloam Mission shelter for vulnerable people in the city. She said she had been struggling with a methamphetamine...
May 16, 2024 - 21:51 | Temur Durrani | The Globe and Mail
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