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More than seven years ago, I had a young woman and her dad on my morning show where she talked about the terrible cyberbullying she had been through. Then, Taylor Sutherland was a Grade 9 student at Winston Churchill High School. Her dad Todd has stayed in touch with me over the years and this past Wednesday, for Pink Shirt Day, I called him up to see if she might be willing to come on the radio for an update and to chat again about bullying. She agreed and it was another wonderful moment in my broadcasting career that began almost 40 years ago. Her story choked me up then and again the other day. Taylor is now in her early 20s and after graduating as a veterinary office assistant from college, she took a job in Beausejour where she lives with her boyfriend. She sounds happy now and I believe her experiences in high school, as horrible as they were, probably made her stronger. Thatâs the way it was for me too. But for so many young people, who get bullied, it go
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February 25, 2021
The atrium of the new Kinder Building at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Photo by Peter Molick. Image courtesy MFAH.
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Germany struggles to bring infection rates down
Scientists call for stronger measures
Tuesday s meeting comes just after a group of scientists pleaded with state leaders to tighten restrictions, and warned of a rapid spread of new mutations of the virus.
Rolf Apweiler, director of the European Bioinformatics Institute in Cambridge warned that the new, highly infectious UK strain, called B117, was responsible for six to eight times as many cases per month than the conventional virus. He called for a sharp lockdown, a rapid vaccination program and widespread gene sequencing to detect variants of the virus.
However, if the political will to implement stronger measures is lacking, even the best testing strategies will be of no use, said Apweiler.