Last month, my 8-year-old sister came home from school deflated and torn. Thankfully, her school took the incident seriously, and the boy ended up writing a letter of apology to my sister, saying he was «sorry for being mean» and that he «will work harder at being a better friend». […]
Bitcoin continues to be the investment industry’s swaggering upstart, derided by some, not trusted by many but undoubtedly making its volatile mark. The swings are a reminder of its notorious volatility, with its price nevertheless having more than quadrupled over the past year. The cryptocurrency’s market capitalization of around US$575 […]
By Christine Massey, M.Sc., exclusively for People For Justice Canada Further down this page you will see a screenshot of a Freedom of Information (FOI) request that was submitted to the Public Health Agency of Canada and many other Canadian institutions requesting evidence that is absolutely essential (but not on […]
The instrument of this dumbing down in Nineteen Eighty-Four was Newspeak, the official language of the English Socialist Party . Newspeak was a sort of Totalitarian Esperanto that sought gradually to diminish the range of what was thinkable by eliminating, contracting and manufacturing words. Nineteen Eighty-Four was written in 1949. Meanwhile, […]
It’s often said that time is money, but I don’t think that’s precise enough. The way I see it, energy is money. The more you can accomplish in a certain amount of time, and the more “hustle” you have in general, the more you can get done and the more […]
Here’s why the boost could be disappointing You can’t go anywhere these days and not hear about the pent-up demand «V-shaped» recovery that awaits us once we all get vaccinated . The really big spending items in the services area are rents, utilities and health care, which make up nearly 40 […]
In 1995, Katalin Karikó was at her lowest ebb. A biochemist at the University of Pennsylvania , Karikó had dedicated much of the previous two decades to finding a way to turn one of the most fundamental building blocks of life, mRNA, into a whole new category of therapeutics. More often […]
‘It’s not a panacea’ is not a valid argument against rapid testing — or anything else « Last month only 0.31 per cent of Covid19 cases in Ontario were related to travel». Mind you, here is the sort of thing Liberals said in March when opposition critics called just for targeted border restrictions. If […]
Among the 367 U.S.-based mutual funds with 60% of their $5 billion in American equities, her ARK Genomic Revolution ETF, ARK Innovation ETF and ARK Next Generation Internet ETF are far ahead, reaping bonanzas of 203%, 159% and 157%, respectively. Wood left her closest competitor trailing by 60 percentage points. , […]
‘It’s going to take about 10 to 14 days for you to start to develop protection from the vaccine,’ said an infectious disease specialist Matthew W., 45, a nurse at two different local hospitals, said in a Facebook post on December 18 that he had received the Pfizer vaccine, telling […]