The Globe and Mail David Moscrop Published April 17, 2021
Author: Catherine Fogarty
Publisher: Biblioasis
Pages: 312
In 2019, the federal government committed to ending solitary confinement in federal prisons. At the time, critics warned the effort was insufficient. Senator Kim Pate, the former executive director of the Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies, called the change a mere “rebranding.” Their concerns have proven correct. A 2021 report by Ryerson’s Dr. Jane Sprott and the University of Toronto’s Dr. Anthony Doob for the John Howard Society of Canada found that two years after the government promised an end to solitary confinement, the practice continued. Not only is it ongoing, some instances met the United Nations definition of torture due to the length of time inmates were kept in segregation.
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Modelling an important factor in COVID-19 public-health decisions The use of data is vital in making the best and most informed decision in the public-health world. And while health units in Ontario are subject to the province’s decisions, the modelling used at the more local level has helped guide recommendations and resources as COVID-19 cases both increase and decline.
Author of the article: Greg Colgan
Publishing date: Feb 12, 2021 • February 13, 2021 • 3 minute read • This undated electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in February 2020 shows the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, orange, emerging from the surface of cells, green, cultured in the lab. Also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus causes COVID-19. The sample was isolated from a patient in the U.S. Photo by SUPPLIED /The Canadian Press
Modelling an important factor in COVID-19 public health decisions The use of data is vital in making the best and most informed decision in the public-health world. And while health units in Ontario are subject to the province’s decisions, the modelling used at the more local level has helped guide recommendations and resources as COVID-19 cases both increase and decline.
Author of the article: Greg Colgan
Publishing date: Feb 12, 2021 • February 13, 2021 • 3 minute read • This undated electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in February 2020 shows the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, orange, emerging from the surface of cells, green, cultured in the lab. Also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus causes COVID-19. The sample was isolated from a patient in the U.S. Photo by SUPPLIED /The Canadian Press
January 20, 2021
America’s higher education system is sick, and that sickness is spreading. Political rancor, cultural divisiveness, even violence shadow daily life, as civil unrest has turned to rioting across the country that has now even touched our Capitol. Depression and suicide amongst our young have increased, and it’s the ideologically driven curricula and repressive “cancel culture” most universities disseminate that are the source of this despair.
Critics have been sounding the alarm for decades, yet nothing has changed. Conservatives, especially, have been prolific in their laments. From William F. Buckley’s “God and Man at Yale” to Allan Bloom’s “The Closing of the American Mind” to Alan Charles Kors’s essay “On the Sadness of Higher Education,” for more than a century there have been biting diagnoses accompanied by merely tinkering around the edges.