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Playwright Tomson Highway focuses on the lighter side of death in his musical one-woman show about a supernatural postmistress By: Randall King | Posted: 7:00 PM CDT Monday, Apr. 5, 2021
‘I’m probably the silliest man you’ve ever met in your life,” says Tomson Highway, kicking off a phone interview from his home in Gatineau, Que.
‘I’m probably the silliest man you’ve ever met in your life, says Tomson Highway, kicking off a phone interview from his home in Gatineau, Que.
The subject comes up immediately because the 69-year-old Cree playwright from Brochet about 350 kilometres north of Flin Flon wants it known he does like a good laugh. And these days, laughter is a valuable commodity.
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Waste? So far not, but plenty of want
As vaccine rollout ramps up, end-of-day surplus will become more of an issue for clinic and pharmacy staff; province hasn t issued formal guidelines By: Katie May | Posted: 7:00 PM CDT Monday, Apr. 5, 2021
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Four months in to the COVID-19 vaccine rollout, a lack of supply is still Manitoba s main concern, but the province has yet to announce a plan to prevent unnecessary waste.
Mass-immunization clinics don t use standby lists, which have been adopted in some other provinces to administer leftover vaccines at the last minute, and doctors offices and pharmacies developed their own protocols to dole out all of their vaccines before they expired. Wastage wasn t a concern, representatives for physicians and pharmacists said, because of the limited number of doses clinics and pharmacies initially received last month.
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There are times when the very act of writing scares rising Canadian novelist Laurie Elizabeth Flynn. And the source of that fear is herself.
It happened when she was writing books for young adults. And it happened again with her debut work of adult fiction, The Girls Are So Nice Here, a psychological thriller about a toxic female friendship.
“There’s always a time writing a book when it’s easier not to write it and easier to give up,” she confesses. She may discover that she’s entering risky fictional territory or leading the reader and herself into uncomfortably dark places. “But I think that when you feel that way, that you still need to continue.”
Approximately 40,000 children in the United States may have lost a parent to COVID-19 since February 2020, according to a statistical model.
The researchers anticipate that without immediate interventions, the trauma from losing a parent could cast a shadow of mental health and economic problems well into the future for this vulnerable population.
In the researchers’ model, for approximately every 13th COVID-related death, a child loses one parent. Children who lose a parent have a higher risk of a range of problems, including traumatic prolonged grief and depression, lower educational attainment, economic insecurity, and accidental death or suicide, says Ashton Verdery, associate professor of sociology, demography, and social data analytics at Penn State.
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