Why our dreams sometimes know us better than we do By Ron Cheong A festive, light-hearted look at the strange business our minds conduct after hours. With Christmas fast approaching, thoughts inevitably turn to A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens’ timeless tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, a man so tightly wound that even his dreams staged an […]
Report urges Nova Scotia to apologise for environmental racism A provincially appointed panel has delivered a draft report urging the Nova Scotia government to confront longstanding environmental racism through sweeping reforms, financial commitments and a formal apology to Mi’kmaw and African Nova Scotian communities. The document, submitted to the province earlier this year but still […]
Calgary’s Eritrean community is taking bold steps to confront a mental-health crisis that has weighed heavily on newcomers for years. In a city where more than 5,000 Eritreans are rebuilding their lives, community leaders are uniting around a simple but powerful goal: bring an Eritrean clinical psychologist to Calgary, someone who speaks their language, understands […]
Black surgeon Charles Drew was ‘father of the blood bank’ The story of Charles Richard Drew is returning to national attention with the publication of a new biography, “Genius Unbroken,” which revisits the life of the pioneering surgeon whose work reshaped emergency medicine and modern blood banking. The renewed focus highlights not only Drew’s scientific […]
The complex link between weight-loss drugs and pregnancy A new study highlights potential risks for individuals who stop taking weight-loss medications such as GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic before or during pregnancy, revealing higher rates of excess gestational weight gain, preterm delivery, and gestational diabetes compared with those who had not been prescribed these medications. The […]
Hurricane devastation heightens disease concerns in Jamaica Nearly a month after Hurricane Melissa tore across Jamaica, the country continues to confront widespread damage that has slowed recovery and strained basic services. Many neighbourhoods still bear the marks of the storm’s force, with splintered trees, crushed roofs and weakened structures scattered across once tidy streets. Pools […]
Universal Basic Income: a real solution to poverty Few ideas have inspired as much global debate as Universal Basic Income. The concept—that every citizen should receive a guaranteed, unconditional payment from the government—has been hailed as a bold answer to inequality and dismissed as an economic daydream. But as the gap between rich and poor […]
Restoring Hope After Hurricane Melissa By Anthony Joseph In the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa, as Jamaica struggles to rebuild, humanitarian Carol Picart and her Mia’Sarka Foundation are leading one of the island’s most vital recovery drives. The Foundation is restoring healthcare infrastructure, supplying critical medical equipment, aiding displaced families and strengthening rural clinics that serve […]
When Angeletta McKenzie left Jamaica for Newfoundland in 2013, she carried with her the weight of grief, fear, and hope. Her decision to leave her homeland followed the brutal killing of her younger brother, Dan, a construction worker murdered by a group of men who attacked him outside his job site. His death, one of […]
Children with disabilities rewrite their futures in Central African Republic Each morning in Bambari, a small town in the Central African Republic, fourteen-year-old Zénabou once stood by the roadside and watched other children head to school. Born deaf and unable to speak, she believed classrooms were places she could never enter. That belief has now […]
