For many, International Women’s Day can feel like a bit of a whirlwind due to the many celebrations that take place in and around the global day of recognition of women in early March. That’s why it was nice to have one last hurrah during the waning days of March at an International Women's Month reception hosted by Liberal Ottawa-Vanier MPP Lucille Collard.
Through a $2-million donation from TD Bank Group, The Ottawa Hospital is creating the new TD Artificial Intelligence Medicine (AIM) Hub to accelerate the development and use of AI in health care.
Seattle was ideally suited during Prohibition. That is, to
violate
Prohibition.
It was a major port at which to smuggle in goods from the Pacific, a sea border with Canada that turned Puget Sound into a bootlegging turnpike of fast and stealthy rumrunning boats.
And it had an eager populace in an open town. A diverse town, too, with all kinds of appetites. You’ve heard of bathtub gin and stills turning out cheap whiskey. But have you heard of the Northwest’s sake moonshiners?
Washington went dry before the rest of the nation. Booze was restricted by 1916. During World War I, the government would not allow alcohol sales within 10 miles of a military installation, and Seattle had a number of those, like Fort Lawton.