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  • The elegance of broken dishes

    I get to thinking there's at least an opportunity, if not an explicit purpose, in our trajectory toward senescence. On bad days, it freaks me out and I enter my default existentialism that seems to have coloured most of my life, from frantically saving the dying insects on the surface of my childhood pool to contemplating the spirited air that must surround the hallways of our local hospice and its quiet lakeside dock.
  • Quebec invests $100 million in mental health care following fatal sword attack

    Junior health minister Lionel Carmant called the investment "unprecedented'' and said the announcement was moved ahead in response to the Halloween night attack that killed two people and injured five.
  • Illeism or sillyism

    Who would have thought that it might be good to talk about yourself in the third person? As if you weren’t you, but him? As if you weren’t actually there, and anyway, you didn’t want yourself to find out you were talking about him in case it seemed like, well, gossip? I mean, only royalty, or the personality-disordered, are able to talk like that without somebody phoning the police.
  • Canada approves first HIV self test in long awaited move to reduce screening barriers

    The principal investigator of a study that was submitted to regulators as part of their review says the approval of HIV self-testing could "open incredible doors'' to increasing access to life-extending treatments and preventing the spread of infection in Canada.
  • Rexall pausing flu vaccinations amid supply issues in Ontario

    The province said previously that it ordered 5.1 million individual doses of the flu vaccine this year, a 16% increase from 2019.
  • New MediSystem location to open in Edmonton

    Owned and operated by Shoppers Drug Mart, MediSystem pharmacies offer pharmaceutical dispensing and clinical pharmacy consulting services to the senior housing community and group home facilities.
  • Fighting for a hand to hold: Confronting medical colonialism against Indigenous children in Canada

    In the summer of 2017, I was the treating emergency physician involved in the care of two Inuit children from Nunavik who were transferred to the Montreal Children’s Hospital (MCH) by Évacuations aéromédicales du Québec (ÉVAQ), the provincially run medical evacuation airlift service. The first child was a preschooler who fell off a moving all-terrain vehicle earlier that morning and was transferred to us with a suspicion of injuries to the abdomen and head.
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