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CANADA: How COVID-19 stress creates perfect conditions for mental health crises for university students

CANADA: How COVID-19 stress creates perfect conditions for mental health crises for university students

Study suggests more female students indicate that the COVID-19 pandemic has been extremely disruptive to their stress and mental health, and that it has significantly disrupted their academic studies
ONTARIO: Father dies week after police-involved shooting that left infant son dead

ONTARIO: Father dies week after police-involved shooting that left infant son dead

SIU says 33-year-old man died in hospital last night
Students with disabilities should have the option of in-person learning during COVID-19 school closures

Students with disabilities should have the option of in-person learning during COVID-19 school closures

Remote learning doesn’t work for all children
COVID-19: Health Canada to make decision on Pfizer vaccine approval soon, feds say

COVID-19: Health Canada to make decision on Pfizer vaccine approval soon, feds say

Patty Hajdu described the United Kingdom's decision to authorize the vaccine made by Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech as "encouraging"
BEYOND LOCAL: What the public hopes and fears about the use of AI in health care

BEYOND LOCAL: What the public hopes and fears about the use of AI in health care

The growing use of artificial intelligence in health care should be driven by careful consideration of what is important to members of the public
COVID-19: Britain OKs Pfizer vaccine and will begin shots within days

COVID-19: Britain OKs Pfizer vaccine and will begin shots within days

Officials cautioned that several tough months still lie ahead even in Britain, given the monumental task of inoculating large swaths of the population
CANADA: Guidelines governing doctors' relationships with pharma companies under review

CANADA: Guidelines governing doctors' relationships with pharma companies under review

Over 90 per cent of Canadian doctors see pharmaceutical sales representatives
CANADA: Passenger complaints filed in pandemic won't start to be processed until 2021

CANADA: Passenger complaints filed in pandemic won't start to be processed until 2021

CTA chairman Scott Streiner says the agency is struggling to handle another 11,000 complaints it received between last December and March
CANADA: Fiscal experts warn of higher federal taxes post-pandemic

CANADA: Fiscal experts warn of higher federal taxes post-pandemic

"You can't have new spending programs without figuring out how you're going to pay for them," says former federal finance minister John Manley, part of a working group set up by the C.D. Howe Institute
ONTARIO: Human rights commission to look at anti-Indigenous racism in lacrosse

ONTARIO: Human rights commission to look at anti-Indigenous racism in lacrosse

The commission announced it will meet with Six Nations of the Grand River First Nation, the Ontario Lacrosse Association, and the Canadian Lacrosse Association in the coming months to discuss how to address systemic racism against Indigenous lacrosse players