Come From Away is staying in Toronto a few months longer than expected. Mirvish Productions has extended the musical’s run through to March. Performances of the latest run, which started Sunday, had been scheduled to go until Dec. 22, but Mirvish says it’s extending the run for a second block of performances due to popular demand, with … Read more
The Current24:51China suddenly ends international adoptions A Quebec man and his wife are devastated after China suddenly stopped most international adoptions, dashing their hopes of adopting a little boy they’ve spent years getting to know. “We feel that we have a special connection with him,” said Pierre LeMay from Quebec City. “We receive pictures, we … Read more
Tupperware Brands, the company that revolutionized food storage decades ago, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Tupperware, based in Orlando, Fla., plans to continue operating during the bankruptcy proceedings and will seek court approval for a sale, “in order to protect its iconic brand,” the company said just before midnight on Tuesday. The company … Read more
Inside a bustling unit at St. Michael’s Hospital in downtown Toronto, one of Shirley Bell’s patients was suffering from a cat bite and a fever, but otherwise appeared fine — until an alert from an AI-based early warning system showed he was sicker than he seemed. While the nursing team usually checked blood work around noon, … Read more
A Canadian court has cleared the reorganization plan of Red Lobster that will see the seafood chain exit bankruptcy. Justice Peter Cavanagh of the Superior Court of Justice in Toronto on Tuesday granted an order that recognizes and gives force to the plan approved by a U.S. bankruptcy judge last week. The future of the … Read more
Doctors and nurses seldom learn in school how to tell a family that their loved one is not going to survive. Yet healthcare professionals face the immense burden of tragedy, illness, and dying in an intensely stressful setting as a routine, ongoing part of their jobs. Long before the COVID-19 pandemic, research was documenting rampant … Read more
During the COVID-19 pandemic, as businesses shuttered and economies faltered, a surprising trend emerged: a surge in female entrepreneurship. In both the US and the UK, many women turned the adversity of job loss into an opportunity to start their own businesses. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the number of women-owned businesses in the … Read more
Australia’s right-to-disconnect law has come into effect — giving employees the right to refuse contact if their employers reach out to them by phone or email after hours, a type of law that has popped up around the world. “What we’re simply saying is that someone who is not being paid 24 hours a day shouldn’t … Read more
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says senior Biden administration officials pressured Facebook to “censor” some COVID-19 content during the pandemic and vowed the social media giant would push back if it faced such demands again. In a letter to Rep. Jim Jordan, the Republican chair of the judiciary committee of the House of Representatives, Zuckerberg alleges … Read more
But in the run up to the game’s release, video streamers reported receiving a document from co-publishers Hero Games warning them to avoid topics including “feminist propaganda” or “politics” when they received a passkey to play the game, an email exchange showed. Gamers were also warned against any reference to “Covid-19”, “isolation” or “quarantine” – … Read more
