Category Archives: Lifestyle
Medical experts urge more masking, distancing for schools planning to reopen
TORONTO — Experts at a leading children's hospital say schools need to ramp up COVID-19 testing and masking in order to have all kids return safely to the classroom as soon as possible. The guidance comes a day after Ontario said
Biden signs burst of virus orders, requires masks for travel
WASHINGTON — With a burst of executive orders, President Joe Biden served notice Thursday that the nation's COVID-19 response is under new management and he's demanding progress to reduce infections and lift the siege Americans have endured for nearly ...
Biden revokes Trump report promoting ‘patriotic education’
President Joe Biden on Wednesday revoked a recent Trump administration report that aimed to promote “patriotic education” in schools but that historians mocked and rejected as political propaganda. In an executive order signed in his first day in offic...
For a splintered nation, a delicate moment of continuity
When it gazes into the mirror, the United States does not generally see a land of process and procedure. It sees what it has wanted to see since the beginning — a place of action and results and volume. The
Inauguration fashion: Purple, pearls, American designers
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris showcased American designers at their inauguration Wednesday, and Harris gave a nod to women's suffrage, Shirley Chisholm and her beloved sorority in pearls and purple. Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton and Laura Bush also don...
Ontario doctors urge domestic drug manufacturing over fears of pandemic shortages
TORONTO — The Ontario Medical Association has released a white paper outlining fears that rising COVID-19 cases and hospital admissions could limit drug supplies in coming weeks. OMA president Dr. Samantha Hill said chronic drug shortages have worsened...
Patient hopes Canada will introduce regulations for treatment with ‘magic mushrooms’
As the first terminally ill cancer patient in Canada to legally use so-called magic mushrooms to treat anxiety, Thomas Hartle is hopeful that more temporary approvals from the federal government signal a permanent regulatory regime may be in the works....
‘At 6 p.m., life stops’: Europe uses curfews to fight virus
PARIS — As the wan winter sun sets over France's Champagne region, the countdown clock kicks in. Labourers stop pruning the vines as the light fades at about 4:30 p.m., leaving them 90 minutes to come in from the cold, change
Cafe, croissant, worms? EU agency says worms safe to eat
ROME — The vaunted Mediterranean diet and French gastronomy are getting some competition: The European Union's food safety agency says worms are safe to eat. The Parma-based agency published a scientific opinion Wednesday on the safety of dried yellow ...
Irish PM sorry for ‘profound wrong’ of unwed mothers homes
LONDON — Ireland’s prime minster issued a formal state apology Wednesday to the thousands of unmarried women and their children who endured pain, shame and stigma at church-run institutions, saying his government was determined to start righting the co...
