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After months of frequenting the Kingston General Hospital, one mother says she’s concerned about a staff shortage at the hospital’s pediatric critical care unit after having to take on nursing duties for her sick child. Vanessa Ivimey’s daughter Ivy Murray has a gene mutation called SNC2A, known to cause early-onset epilepsy and …
Read More »B.C. teen’s harasser posed as child protection staff to family, Crown tells jury
A Crown attorney says British Columbia teenager Amanda Todd was lured, harassed and extorted with online messages demanding she perform sexual “shows,” or videos of her would be sent to her family and classmates. In closing arguments at the B.C. Supreme Court trial of Dutchman Aydin Coban, Kristen LeNoble told …
Read More »Unions representing 70,000 Ontario hospital workers demand action amid staff shortages
CMA President Dr. Katharine Smart on the state of the health-care system and political will to seek solutions to address what she calls a “crisis”. News Source link
Read More »Mom had no idea Indigenous daughter was in jail until staff told her she was dead, Ontario inquest told
WARNING: This story contains references to suicide. Selina McIntyre only learned daughter Delilah Blair was in a Windsor, Ont., jail when staff called to let her know the 30-year-old Indigenous woman had died, a coroner’s inquest was told Tuesday. A correctional officer found Blair without vital signs in her cell at the South …
Read More »As Elon Musk orders Tesla staff back to the office, many tech companies are doing the opposite
A sternly worded internal email, apparently sent by Elon Musk ordering Tesla employees to either return to the office or leave, is raising a lot of eyebrows at a time when employees are increasingly seeking flexible work arrangements. In a screenshot of the email, shared on Twitter, the richest man in the …
Read More »Manitoba premier rehires chief of staff who got $85K to part ways with government a year ago
Manitoba Premier Heather Stefanson has just done something her former boss called “not fair” and “not right” — rehired a chief of staff who received a severance payment from the province in recent memory. Stefanson confirmed last week that Philip Houde, who served as former premier Brian Pallister’s first chief of staff, …
Read More »UN says no international staff left in North Korea, Health News, ET HealthWorld
Seoul: A UN spokesman said the world body in North Korea has been left with no international staff, who are now working remotely. Despite claiming to be coronavirus free, North Korea has sealed off its borders as part of stringent anti-pandemic measures that also involved the departure of diplomats and …
Read More »Activision Blizzard says that it is merging its Vicarious Visions studio, which Activision acquired in 2005, and its ~200 staff into Blizzard Entertainment (Brendan Sinclair/GamesIndustry.biz)
Brendan Sinclair / GamesIndustry.biz: Activision Blizzard says that it is merging its Vicarious Visions studio, which Activision acquired in 2005, and its ~200 staff into Blizzard Entertainment — Long-time Activision Publishing studio will be “fully dedicated” to Blizzard titles going forward; former studio head Jen Oneal promoted to Blizzard leadership’s …
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