A cure for the gloom that’s gripped Edmonton since the oil economy tanked six years ago and was only made worse by more than a full year of COVID lockdown…
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Lots of different takes in Oil Country in the aftermath of Game 1 of the playoff series between Winnipeg Jets and Edmonton Oilers, many of which seem to involve tearing out one’s hair at the roots.
Not gonna take that route here; at my age I’m lucky to have the hair I’ve got.
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Here’s the thing: the Stanley Cup Playoffs are best-of-seven series, not best-of-one. If they were the latter, the Oilers wouldn’t have eliminated the Sharks in ’17, or the Red Wings in ’06, or the Stars in ’97, or the Kings in ’87. Or the Winnipeg Jets in 1990 for that matter.
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Leading scientists increasingly question whether the Wuhan Lab in China was the source of the coronavirus.
The hotly contested issue drives a number of hard questions: How likely are the laboratory leaks of deadly viruses? What is the risk of a man-made pandemic? Should scientists make deadly viruses even more lethal in lab experiments?
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Debate around this has been heated in scientific circles for decades. A number of scientists are deeply engaged, including Dr. David Evans of the University of Alberta, one of the world’s leading poxvirus researchers, who got worldwide attention in 2016 for synthesizing horsepox, a virus in the smallpox family. Evans has also been involved in biosafety inspections of the highest security labs in Russia and the U.S.