ARTICLES BY THIS AUTHOR
- 9/30/2020
Naked and vulnerable: what we lose when we can't embrace our neighbours and friends
For a short period of time, COVID-19 has taken handshakes, hugs, cheek kisses and words of greeting away from us. But, do you know what is really sad? We were already losing these very important culturally appropriate greetings, well before COVID-19. Their loss adds to our sense of loneliness and isolation and our feelings of being disconnected, vulnerable and unsafe. - 9/30/2020
Scotiabank launching physician wellness initiative in partnership with CMA, MD Financial
The f$15 million in funds will flow to provincial and territorial medical associations, as well as key medical organizations identified as being best attuned to the specific needs of physicians in various fields. - 9/30/2020
Group of Ontario doctors send letter urging Ford not to implement new COVID-19 lockdown
The letter comes as new modelling suggests COVID-19 case counts in the province could soon hit 1,000 per day. However, the doctors noted the shifting age demographics coming through in the latest numbers as once reason to take a different approach. - 9/29/2020
Walmart in US piloting drone delivery of home COVID-19 tests
The trial deliveries kicked off on September 22 in Las Vegas, with plans for deliveries to begin in Cheektowaga, NY in October. - 9/29/2020
Pharmacist leads therapeutic nutrition program for disease management
Virtual conference on October 3 to focus on the implications of therapeutic nutrition on Type 2 diabetes. - 9/29/2020
Ontario could hit 1,000 daily COVID-19 cases in weeks according to modelling
New projections show a recent upward trajectory in COVID-19, with Ontario's cases currently doubling every 10 to 12 days. - 9/29/2020
COVID-19 cases rising in Indigenous communities
Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller says Indigenous communities have been facing an alarming rise in COVID-19 cases during the last few weeks. Miller says 673 COVID-19 cases have been reported in First Nations communities in all, and about 130 of them are active cases now. - 9/29/2020
In the background of photographs
Every photo has a background. It holds the details hiding behind the main attraction: people walking by, engaged in their own conversations; piles of mail that have not been tidied; dishes in a sink; other people’s beach towels; storefronts and parking meters. These are the parts of a photograph you did not intend to capture, the accidental participants in your memory. This is the place where I exist.