A highly transmissible variant of the coronavirus is spreading through Canada, driving another wave of infections, even among those who have recently recovered from COVID-19. The Omicron subvariant BA.5, and to a lesser extent, BA.4, is largely behind the latest wave — the seventh of the pandemic and the third since the arrival …
Read More »Buying weed online in N.L.? Your data’s moving to the ‘Wild West’ of privacy protection, experts say
Cybersecurity researcher David Murakami Wood, seen in a file photo, said with the data transfer comes a loss of control. (Submitted by David Murakami Wood) Cannabis N.L. online customers have been asked to consent to having their data transferred from servers in Canada to servers in the United States — and …
Read More »Family shocked by daycare’s call to child protection without warning, question if discrimination at play
In the fall of 2021, Nathaniel Lowbeer-Lewis and Racquel Smith’s son was going to a community daycare near their home in Montreal’s Plateau neighbourhood. He seemed to be integrating well and Smith said the staff’s feedback about him was positive. So it came as a surprise when the centre called …
Read More »No ring dike, but why? How Peguis First Nation still has no permanent flood protection
Five times over the past 16 years, the Fisher River has spilled its banks at Peguis First Nation. The river channel is so small and the terrain in Manitoba’s northern Interlake is so flat, it doesn’t take much for floodwaters to spread far and wide across the Anishinaabe and Cree community. …
Read More »Covid Booster Shot Required, Protection Diminishes Within 6 Months After 2nd Dose Of Vaccine: Study
New Delhi: A new study of about 5,000 Israeli health workers, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, has found that there is a continuous decrease in protective antibodies during the six months after the second dose of the Covid-19 vaccine is administered. The research states that boosters are …
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