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David Perle 202-483-7382 Washington – PETA is not letting recent events prevent it from welcoming the new administration with a dog-friendly and socially distant drive-in inaugural eve party at Washington, D.C.’s The Drive-In at Union Market that will celebrate animals and their champions in Congress as well as welcome Major, the first “ fi rst do g” (FIDO) to be adopted from an animal shelter. “COVID-19 didn’t stop us from working to protect animals, and we are no...

Province urged to shame code-red rule-breakers Ethics expert says people accused of violating COVID-19 orders should be named MIKAELA MACKENZIE / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS FILES Arthur Schafer, founding director of the Centre for Professional and Applied Ethics at the University of Manitoba “strongly” disagrees with the province’s choice to withhold the names of alleged offenders of pandemic restrictions. While the public has been encouraged to tattle on neighbours who hold parties in defiance ...

It feels good to help – Helen Gibbs (56-year-old vaccine trial participant) 31 December 2020 1:55 PM Share This: CapeTalk listener and vaccine trial volunteer Helen Gibbs gives John Maytham a call to share her experience of the process. On Wednesday, John Maytham interviewed Professor Anton van Niekerk (Centre for Applied Ethics at Stellenbosch University) to talk about the ethical arguments around vaccinating against Covid-19. Read: She shared her experience of the process. © goodluz/...

New Issues of Anthrop. & Dev., Nordic J. Appl. Ethics, JRS, RSF, SCIO, SCR 24 December, 2020 - 09:50 Anthropologie & Développement, no. 51 (2020) [delayed open access]- Features a dossier on "Perspectives ouest-africaines sur les politiques migratoires et sécuritaires européennes." Access to the complete texts will be available in June 2021. Etikk i Praksis: Nordic Journal of Applied Ethics, no. 2 (2020) [open access]- Special issue on "Justice of Others: Arbitrary Law-making in Contemporar...

People supporting President Donald Trump rally in Washington, D.C., Dec. 12, including people who believe the Nov. 3 election results were in his favor. (Newscom/TheNEWS2 via ZUMA Wire/Julia Mineeva) When thousands rallied in the nations capital Dec. 12 with a conviction that the Nov. 3 election had been stolen from President Donald Trump, among those headlining the event were a Texas Catholic bishop, a former papal nuncio to the U.S., several priests and a prominent Catholic ...

Font Size: While small businesses continue to struggle and, in many cases, permanently close across the country due to pandemic restrictions, large corporations are growing stronger, according to a Washington Post analysis of economic and earnings data. In most U.S. business sectors, big businesses and corporations have prospered despite the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and government restrictions, The Washington Post reported. But, small businesses have suffered seeing an overall decrease in r...

Power, privilege, and the COVID-19 vaccine With the vaccine comes the opportunity for even deeper divisions between the haves and have-nots. By Joan Vennochi Globe Columnist,Updated December 14, 2020, 4:51 p.m. Email to a Friend Who gets to jump to the head of the COVID-19 vaccine line? President Trump delayed initial plans, first disclosed by The New York Times, to fast-track distribution of the vaccine to most White House staff members, “unless necessary.” The scent of privilege for...

Article content While the supply of approved vaccines for the SARS-CoV-2 virus — the strain of coronavirus that causes COVID-19 — is limited, governments and health authorities are tasked with deciding who gets the vaccine first, second and last. A number of competing priorities are considered, including minimizing deaths, stopping the spread of the virus and preserving the functionality of the health-care system. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser,...

Share this article Share this article CHARLOTTE, N.C., Dec. 10, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- In his latest book, The New Being: Preparing for the Emergence of a New Humanity, award-winning author and former University Lecturer, Dr. Joel Bryant, Ed.D. challenges conventional wisdom by rejecting claims of human natures incorrigibility. En route, he razes our systems (religion, racism and politics), revealing how each hinders our ability to build a juster society. What results is a compelling sketch of a...

Trust in technology is declining globally. Report highlights organizational design principles that can drive more ethical behaviour in technology. As new technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI), quantum computing and blockchain become mainstream, and their practical uses more pervasive, myriad new business opportunities will be created. All too often, technology can have unintended implications; facial recognition software used inappropriately, or customer data sold for profit withou...