Category Archives: Science
Canada announces decriminalization plan for drug users in B.C. to fight overdoses
VANCOUVER — Drug users in British Columbia won't be arrested or charged for possessing up to 2.5 grams of illicit drugs starting next year as the province serves as a potential model to stem the overdose crisis across the country. The
A ‘terrible nightmare’: Treating Ukraine’s wounded civilians
POKROVSK, Ukraine (AP) — In wheelchairs and on stretchers, in ambulances and on train station platforms, they wait. Medical workers pull out ramps and wheel the patients onto the specially equipped train that will carry them westwards, away from the
Shanghai moves toward ending 2-month COVID-19 lockdown
SHANGHAI (AP) — Shanghai authorities say they will take major steps Wednesday toward reopening China's largest city after a two-month COVID-19 lockdown that has set back the national economy and largely confined millions of people to their homes.
B.C. starts Burnaby Hospital upgrade as rural hospitals face weekend ward closures
BURNABY, B.C. — British Columbia's hospital system is "teetering" and in need of more federal funding, Premier John Horgan said, as he addressed recent temporary ward closures at hospitals in rural communities. Such closures left residents "perplexed,"...
Yukon supervised drug consumption site upgraded to allow indoor smoking
WHITEHORSE — People who use illicit drugs may now smoke their substances at the supervised drug consumption site in Whitehorse, one of the first in Canada to allow inhalation indoors, the Yukon government announced Monday. A new room with an upgraded
Study struggles to explain why Quebec has high COVID death toll but low excess death
MONTREAL — Researchers are having a hard time explaining why Quebec had the country's highest official COVID-19 death toll despite a relatively low number of excess deaths between March 2020 and October 2021. A new study released Monday by the Canadian...
Recorded Future CEO on cybersecurity firm’s journalistic aim
SOMERVILLE, Massachusetts (AP) — The cybersecurity firm Recorded Future boasts some 1,400 clients and enjoys considerable respect. But the threat-intelligence business wasn’t enough for CEO Christopher Ahlberg. Two years ago, he created an online cyber...
Senegal police arrest 2 health workers after neonatal fire
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegalese officials have arrested two health workers from a neonatal unit where a fire killed 11 newborns last week. The nurse and
N. Korea moves to soften curbs amid doubts over COVID counts
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and other top officials discussed revising stringent anti-epidemic restrictions during a meeting Sunday, state media reported, as they maintained a widely disputed claim that the country’s first...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom tests positive for COVID-19
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom tested positive for COVID-19 on Saturday, a day after a high-profile meeting with the visiting prime minister of New Zealand.
