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Calls for Ontario Premier Doug Ford to undo new wide-ranging COVID-19 restrictions on outdoor recreational activities came Sunday, amid pledges of help from the federal government.
A political battle also appeared to be brewing amid word the province had proposed to shut the legislature down as early as Wednesday.
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The promise of federal aid came from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who made the promise two days after Ford’s Progressive Conservatives issued a nationwide appeal for support for Ontario’s overtaxed health-care system.
Expanded during pandemic, virtual medical care offers big climate benefits: researchers
Researchers have said there can significant benefits from online medical visits or telephone appointments for patients, as they reduce costs, travel time and can be quicker than in-person visits. Now some medical staff in B.C. and N.S. are looking at the environmental benefits of virtual care.
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The Globe and Mail Diane Jermyn Published April 19, 2021
As climate change challenges the world, Canadians know we must do better, particularly in business.
Canada’s Greenest Employers 2021, selected by Mediacorp Canada Inc. and celebrated here in this special competition for environmental leadership, have the kind of practical strategies that make a real difference. And as these Greenest companies show, sustainability and success do go hand in hand.
Under the stress of a global pandemic, not only have they continued to green their organizations in so many innovative ways – from electric vehicles to solar reflecting roofs to creating habit for honeybees – but increasingly demonstrate a formalized commitment supporting the global transition to a low-carbon economy.
The magic of caring for others in crisis: Q&A with UHN social worker Laurel Franks
Plus, what she hopes participants take away from UHN’s Give A Shift event
As a social worker in Toronto Western Hospital’s COVID unit, Laurel Franks says there is no such thing as a typical day. Working with an interdisciplinary medical team, Laurel addresses patient needs from the beginning through to the end of their hospital stay, and even making plans for discharge. “I work to find a way to really balance their psycho-social needs. Sorting their home care, preparing them for isolation and compiling applications for their rehabilitation hospital admissions after they have been in the ICU for a month.” It’s an all-hands-on-deck approach she credits as something she feels University Health Network (UHN), where she’s worked for more than four years, reinforces and supports.
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IMAGE: Optical microscope image of the implantable shanks (141 micron pitch) of a light sheet neural probe. Light is emitted by nanophotonic gratings on the shanks to form light sheets. view more
Credit: Sacher et al., doi 10.1117/1.NPh.8.2.025003.
Tools that allow neuroscientists to record and quantify functional activity within the living brain are in great demand. Traditionally, researchers have used techniques such as functional magnetic resonance imaging, but this method cannot record neural activity with high spatial resolution or in moving subjects. In recent years, a technology called optogenetics has shown considerable success in recording neural activity from animals in real time with single neuron resolution. Optogenetic tools use light to control neurons and record signals in tissues that are genetically modified to express light-sensitive and fluorescent proteins. However, existing technologies for imaging light signals from the brain have drawbacks