Moncton lays groundwork to deal with cyanobacteria in water supply | CBC News
Cyanobacteria was
found in 2017 in the Turtle Creek watershed, the drinking water source
for Moncton, Dieppe and Riverview. Cyanobacteria, also known as
blue-green algae, can form blooms and produce toxins harmful to humans
and animals.
Ontario Set To Slash Health Services To Save $83 Million
The
changes announced Thursday stem from the first phase of recommendations
by a group that looked into restricting inappropriate or overused
physician services.
The committee, made up of members from the government and the Ontario Medical Association (OMA),
was created following an arbitration decision that resulted in a new
physician contract. It was tasked with recommending changes that could
result in $460 million in savings.
Big pharma pours millions into medical schools — here’s how it can impact education
This
is the third story in a four-part series about the pharmaceutical
industry and the hold it has on Canada’s health-care system — swaying
doctors’ opinions, funding medical schools and, ultimately, affecting
the type of drugs we are prescribed
Advocates fear meat from latest infected deer herd has entered Canada’s food supply | CBC News
“While
no human cases of CWD have been confirmed, scientists note that while
low, the risk is not zero — and it is evolving. Evidence suggests that
CWD conversion is more adaptive than bovine spongiform
encephalopathy [mad cow disease], and following efficient transfer to a
second species of non-human primates, Health Canada advised that ‘CWD
has the potential to infect humans,’” the letter reads.
Report: ‘No Evidence That Fracking Can Operate Without Threatening Public Health’
In June the nonprofits Physicians for Social Responsibility and Concerned Health Professionals of New York released the sixth edition of a compendium that summarizes more than 1,700 scientific reports, peer-reviewed studies and investigative journalism reports about the threats to the climate and public health from fracking.
The research has been piling up for years, and the verdict is clear, the authors conclude: Fracking isn’t safe, and heaps of regulations won’t help (not that they’re coming, anyway).
“Across a wide range of parameters, from air and water pollution to radioactivity to social disruption to greenhouse gas emissions, the data continue to reveal a plethora of recurring problems and harms that cannot be sufficiently averted through regulatory frameworks,” write the eight public health professionals, mostly doctors and scientists, who compiled the compendium. “There is no evidence that fracking can operate without threatening public health directly and without imperiling climate stability upon which public health depends.”