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There are few more divisive issues in this pandemic than keeping schools open.
Ontario’s decision to keep many of its students at home and learning remotely – setting it apart from the rest of Canada – is under the microscope as the debate intensifies around transmission rates among children and the harmful social and academic effects of school closures.
Ottawa, ON June 11, 2003 The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) has unveiled a three-part health research strategy on severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).
The strategy includes funding of C$1.7 million to four research teams, funding of about $1 million to support related public-health research, and the creation of a research consortium to coordinate, promote and support Canadian research in the area.
Leaders of the four teams funded to a total of $1.7 million are:
– Dr Mark Loeb (McMaster University), whose team will work to improve our understanding of the diagnosis, clinical course, epidemiology and immunopathogenesis of SARS;
– Dr Danuta Skowronski (University of British Columbia), whose team will carry out research leading to the development of a vaccine for SARS;
Autopsies usually point to a cause of death but now a study of brain tissue collected from people who committed suicide may explain an underlying cause of major depression and suicide.
The international research group, led by Dr. Michael O. Poulter of Robarts Research Institute at The University of Western Ontario and Dr. Hymie Anisman of the Neuroscience Research Institute at Carleton University, says that proteins that modify DNA directly are more highly expressed in the brains of people who commit suicide, they write in Biological Psychiatry.
These proteins are involved in chemically modifying DNA in a process called epigenomic regulation.
Chubb: Philip Bancroft To Retire After 19 Years
Chubb announced that Philip Bancroft, Executive Vice President of Chubb Group and Chief Financial Officer, plans to retire from the company on July 1 after 19 years of service.
Peter Enns has agreed to join the company on or before April 1 as Executive Vice President, Finance, Chubb Group and succeed Mr. Bancroft upon his retirement.
Mr. Enns has more than 30 years of finance and investment banking experience. He spent over 20 years with Goldman Sachs in various senior roles, including partner of the firm’s U.S. Financial Institutions Group based in New York, head of its Asia Financial Institutions Group based in Hong Kong, and chief executive of its business operations in Canada. More recently, Mr. Enns held a number of roles with HSBC, including his last assignment as Global Co-Head of Investment Banking Coverage based in Hong Kong.
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Michelle Deshaw’s 12-year-old son plays
Fortnite for two hours every day.
As he sits in his Vancouver home, his avatar runs across an island using a sniper rifle and other weapons to pick off players in a game of kill or be killed, all the while hanging out with friends, chatting together on an app called Discord from their homes scattered across the city.