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7:15 Right to Repair: Inside the movement fighting for all consumers John Fadel claims he can fix anything that plugs in. The inside of his shop, American Electronics, is a testament to that. The walls are lined with radios from the 1930s, speakers, VCR players, and desktop computers. On this …
Read More »‘We have to fix it faster’: 28 First Nations communities still under boil water advisories – Winnipeg
Wednesday marks World Water Day, a day raising awareness of the more than 2 billion people around the world living without access to safe water, including many First Nations communities in Canada. The federal government says 138 long-term drinking water advisories have been lifted since November 2015, although some short-term …
Read More »How one Ontario child welfare agency is fighting to fix a broken system
3:43 No group homes: Sarnia Children’s Aid Society’s bold approach to child welfare When Dawn Flegel took over Sarnia’s children’s aid society in 2012, she went on a listening tour about the child-welfare system that left her feeling appalled. At roundtables, kids described brutal conditions. Being stigmatized. Feeling isolated. One kid said …
Read More »Toronto apartment building faces 84 city complaints. But owner’s appealing order to fix it
The owner of an apartment tower dubbed one of the worst in the city by tenant advocates goes before a city panel Monday morning facing a list of property standards violations that is 15 pages long. Carolyn Krebs, who also goes by Carolyn Goodman and Marian Linton, has appealed to the Toronto and …
Read More »B.C.’s health-care crisis is unrelenting. What can be done to fix it?
Situation Critical is a series from CBC British Columbia reporting on the barriers people in this province face in accessing timely and appropriate health care. Vancouver Island resident Joy Williamson hasn’t had a family doctor for 10 years. During that time, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. While she’s undergoing treatment …
Read More »Why decriminalizing drug possession won’t fix Canada’s toxic supply
This is an excerpt from Second Opinion, CBC Health’s weekly health and medical science newsletter. If you haven’t subscribed yet, you can do that by clicking here. Canada’s toxic drug supply problem can’t be fixed by decriminalizing the possession of small quantities of drugs alone — a move that advocates say is a …
Read More »Facing up to a ‘polycrisis’ that the Bank of Canada may not have the tools to fix
The word “polycrisis” has been used before to describe an intersection of troubling economic and political events, but Jacqueline Best suggests we are living through an episode that may really warrant the designation. As the Bank of Canada struggled this week to quell anger at soaring prices with a half-point …
Read More »IOS 15.3, IPadOS 15.3 Released With Fix For Safari Security Flaw; ICloud Sync Fix Reportedly Also Released Details
New Delhi: Apple is rolling out fixes for a critical bug that hit Safari and other browsers, and other vulnerabilities via iOS 15.3 and iPadOS 15.3. This is the third major update for iOS 15 that was launched in September 2021. The latest updates to iOS and iPadOS that bring …
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