In a national investigation of gambling-related suicides in Canada supported by the Michener-Deacon Fellowship for Investigative Reporting, Newfoundland and Labrador was one of only two provinces that provided no data.
Ontario began trying to create integrated electronic medical records for patients in the early 2000s, but in 2009 the then-Liberal health minister was forced to resign after the auditor general said the eHealth agency had spent $1 billion but had little to show for it.
Danielle Smith’s United Conservative Party government introduced a bill that, if passed, would limit medical assistance in dying, better known as MAID, to those likely to die of natural causes within a year.
A meningitis outbreak in southeast England has led to the deaths of a university student and a pupil from a nearby school, prompting public health officials to quickly roll out medical interventions.
What I’ve come to realize is that anyone or anything can write the stories, especially AI. But not everyone can live the stories, and it is in the living that metrics and algorithms and data banks fail the test.
