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
In a former juice processing plant in Port Williams, a cluster of machines whir and hum as they process piles of wool. For now, the wool processed in this cavernous facility — home of Taproot Fibre Lab — goes into making yarn, either from Taproot’s flock of sheep or from people who want their own wool spun. But in Nova Scotia, much … Read more
About 800 Canadian employees are being laid off by Skip the Dishes and its parent company. The workforce reduction will affect approximately 100 Canada-based workerswith Skip the Dishes, the food delivery service’s chief executive, Paul Burns, said in a post on LinkedIn on Tuesday. Meanwhile, some 700 operations employees based out of Canada who work for its … Read more
Canada is selling its former Manhattan residence, which used to house its consulate general in New York. The 12-room, five-bedroom apartment located on Park Avenue was listed Thursday at over $13 million, which is expected to exceed the purchase of its new $9-million Manhattan condo located on Billionaires’ Row. Global Affairs Canada said the new … Read more
The Pacific Whale Watch Association (PWWA), which is made up of whale watching companies in B.C. and Washington state, says sightings of Bigg’s killer whales in the Salish Sea are up significantly this year, continuing a trend that has been observed for several years. The group says the sightings are consistent with an increase in Bigg’s … Read more
A serious warning has been issued to the European Union following a concerning rise in cases of the oropouche virus, commonly referred to as “sloth fever.” The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) has reported 19 confirmed cases of the virus within five European countries, all of which were imported from South America. … Read more
