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Lucene Earth Day EU seeks resolution of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict Canadian health policy and rare disease pt 2: Hunter Syndrome Canadian health policy and rare disease pt 3: Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura
 

Lucene’s Story

Lucene’s Story is a ten minute documentary following the struggles of Lucene Charles, a mother from Hamilton, Ontario, who is currently fighting against an order for deportation. If Lucene were to be deported, her three sons (all Canadian citizens) would be left to the foster care system while her youngest daughter would go with her to [...]

Earth Day

Over the past few years the news has been filled with stories regarding the natural environment and the way that humans abuse it. The fire devastation occurring in our rainforests, pollution in the eco systems and global warming are only a few of the events that have made headlines. In Halton, residents strive to do [...]

EU seeks resolution of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict

Today European parliament will vote on two draft resolutions seeking peaceful settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. These resolutions include serious reprimands against rising arms expenditure of Armenia and Azerbaijan with demands to demilitarize and calls all European Union member states to stop supplying these nations with weapons. 520 EU parliamentarians voted in favour of the [...]

Canadian health policy and rare disease pt 2: Hunter Syndrome

Simon Ibell stands  just 4’8, but his gentle dark eyes beam strength and intelligence that could command the respect of an emperor; his swollen gnarled fingers provide a peculiar but firm and confident handshake. Ibell 33 works for Right to Play an international organization that helps underprivileged children play sports; he is also a motivational [...]

Canadian health policy and rare disease pt 3: Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura

Appearances can be deceiving; with a beaming smile adorning high cheekbones and glistening cornflower blue eyes framed by meandering locks of radiant ginger hair Sydney Kodatsky displays health and youth. In 2008 Kodatsky was 28 years old newly married life after earning a Master’s degree when she suffered an ominous “migraine”. Kodatsky having experienced occasional [...]

I swear to tell…

27 April 2012

Drawing the line between the truth and too much information. Michael Rafferty is on trial, and reporters are doing their best to ensure the public is satisfied as more information comes to light. But when is ‘nothing but the truth’ just too much? Rafferty, on trial for the 2009 kidnapping and subsequent murder of Tori [...]

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Earth Day

22 April 2012

Over the past few years the news has been filled with stories regarding the natural environment and the way that humans abuse it. The fire devastation occurring in our rainforests, pollution in the eco systems and global warming are only a few of the events that have made headlines. In Halton, residents strive to do [...]

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EU seeks resolution of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict

18 April 2012

Today European parliament will vote on two draft resolutions seeking peaceful settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. These resolutions include serious reprimands against rising arms expenditure of Armenia and Azerbaijan with demands to demilitarize and calls all European Union member states to stop supplying these nations with weapons. 520 EU parliamentarians voted in favour of the [...]

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Canadian health policy and rare disease pt 2: Hunter Syndrome

18 April 2012

Simon Ibell stands  just 4’8, but his gentle dark eyes beam strength and intelligence that could command the respect of an emperor; his swollen gnarled fingers provide a peculiar but firm and confident handshake. Ibell 33 works for Right to Play an international organization that helps underprivileged children play sports; he is also a motivational [...]

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Canadian health policy and rare disease pt 3: Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura

18 April 2012

Appearances can be deceiving; with a beaming smile adorning high cheekbones and glistening cornflower blue eyes framed by meandering locks of radiant ginger hair Sydney Kodatsky displays health and youth. In 2008 Kodatsky was 28 years old newly married life after earning a Master’s degree when she suffered an ominous “migraine”. Kodatsky having experienced occasional [...]

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Canadian health policy and rare disease pt 1: Pulmonary Hypertension

18 April 2012

On a snowy February morning, Helen Britt swings open the festively painted door of her suburban bungalow home calling on her guest to park closer and step carefully. Her gentle smile and cheery blue green eyes at first mask the clear plastic tubing lining her nose and upper lip. Under a soft light gently lining [...]

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Luck in numbers

18 April 2012

A lucky couple from Red Bud, Illinois claimed their portion of the $656 million USD jackpot from the Mega millions draw in the United States today. They are sharing the money with two other winners from Kansas and Maryland. Mike Orkin, a statistician from California, said in an article published by the Los Angeles Times, [...]

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Protect your skin

18 April 2012

Summer is coming! Before you spend time in the sun make sure you know how to protect your skin from harmful UV rays.

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Kinder-Morgan pipeline expansion to Vancouver Inlet faces opposition

18 April 2012

Many Canadians are aware of the controversial Northern Gateway pipeline that Enbridge proposes to build from Alberta to Kitimat on the north coast of BC. But there is another pipeline plan in the works for BC that has gone unnoticed until now. Kinder Morgan has put forward a $5 billion pipeline expansion proposal for their [...]

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How social media is replacing traditional journalism as a news source

18 April 2012

Print publications, be they newspapers or magazines, aren’t dead yet like some are claiming, but they are certainly hurting. In order to survive, they’re going to have to reinvent themselves. Many are trying, and few are succeeding as witnessed by such sites as Newspaper Death Watch which claims to “Chronicling the Decline of Newspapers and [...]

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