Depopulation
Only 40 percent of homeless people provided federal aid successfully became householders, say auditors. The majority left the $3.7 billion Reaching Home program.
A Department of Social Development report found few homeless Canadians “placed in more stable housing” under the program were successful. Of 13,057 homeless who received federal aid in 2020 a total 5,323 individuals or 40 percent “remained housed or successfully exited the program” after a year.
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Read MoreA British former Olympic swimmer has tragically died suddenly at just 43 years old, her devastated family has revealed.
Helen Smart’s family announced that she passed away unexpectedly on Tuesday.
Smart represented Team Great Britain as a swimmer at the 2000 Sydney Olympics under her maiden name Helen Don-Duncan.
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Read MoreRishi Sunak yesterday accused Sir Keir Starmer of putting women and girls at risk with yet another U-turn over self-identification for trans people.
It came after the Labour leader used an event near Glasgow to say that he would not have blocked the SNP’s proposed gender recognition reforms.
Brought forward under former First Minister and SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon, they would have allowed people as young as 16 to self-declare their gender without the need for a medical diagnosis.
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Read MoreHawaii’s governor is trying to curb developers from purchasing destroyed lands in Maui as the island reels from the deadliest wildfires in the U.S. in over a century.
The big picture: Concerns are growing that newly built homes would attract wealthy buyers — exacerbating a housing crisis that has already driven Native Hawaiians and local-born residents out of their land, AP noted.
The death toll rose to 106 as of Tuesday, per AP.
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Read MoreAccess to the abortion pill mifepristone must be restricted, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Wednesday, ordering a ban on telemedicine prescriptions and shipments of the drug by mail, though the order will not immediately take effect.
The New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals stopped short of ruling that the drug must be pulled off the market altogether, as a lower court had done.
Mifepristone’s availability remains unchanged for now, following an emergency order from the U.S. Supreme Court in April preserving the status quo during the appeal.
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Read MoreDespite the obvious knowledge that infectious particles can be shared through respiration, whether other constituents of the nasal/oral fluids can be passed between hosts has surprisingly never even been postulated, let alone investigated. The circumstances of the present pandemic facilitated a unique opportunity to fully examine this provocative idea. The data we show provides evidence for a new mechanism by which herd immunity may be manifested, the aerosol transfer of antibodies between immune and non-immune hosts.
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Read MoreA Canadian trans powerlifter has set the unofficial world record in women’s powerlifting at Canada’s national championship, held in Brandon, Manitoba.
On Sunday, Anne Andres, a trans female athlete, competed at the Canadian Powerlifting Union’s 2023 Western Championship, beating out Michelle Kymanick and Sujan Gil in the Female Masters Unequipped category to win first place.
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Read MoreDoctors are warning popular drugs taken for weight loss, such as Ozempic and Wegovy, may include the risk of life-threatening complications under anesthesia.
Patients who take drugs like Wegovy or Ozempic for weight loss may face life-threatening complications if they need surgery or other procedures that require empty stomachs for anesthesia.
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Read MoreThe National Institutes of Health (NIH) says mothers and their newborns can benefit from COVID-19 vaccine boosters given during pregnancy after a study showed significantly higher antibody levels in the cord blood of babies born to women who received a booster during pregnancy compared with those who only received the two-dose primary series.
Yet the study cited had some major limitations. It used monovalent COVID-19 vaccines that are no longer available in the United States, did not assess the effectiveness of the vaccine against currently dominant COVID-19 variants, did not provide safety data for a third vaccine dose, and determined the vaccine would be protective based on neutralizing antibody levels alone.
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Read MoreIt’s easy to see why the NHS would gladly see any target dropped that shines a spotlight on this lethal state of affairs
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