MONTREAL Fifteen years after its creation, Quebec solidaire (QS) must prepare to take power in 2022, according to the party s very first deputy, Amir Khadir, who hung up his political skates in 2018. In an interview on Saturday, Khadir, who was at the forefront of the founding of QS, was delighted that his initially marginal political party has become the major alternative on the left in Quebec. In 2006, the Quebec solidaire party was founded following the merger between the Union des forces progressistes (UFP), for which Khadir was spokesperson, and Option Citoyenne, Francoise David s feminist party. In its first electoral test in the 2007 general elections, the party obtained less than 4 per cent of the popular vote and failed to elect an MNA.
THERE is a curious paradox in Scotland’s relations with Canada. It’s well known that, in our complex, often troubling, colonial history, we Scots have made a disproportionate contribution to the building of English-speaking Canada. However, in our political and cultural links with modern Canada, not least on the question of political independence, it often seems that our strongest relations are with the Francophone province of Quebec. In the artistic sphere, too, Scotland and Quebec have, for many years, been forging ties that bind. Nowhere is that clearer than in traditional music. As QuebecFest, an online concert filmed as part of the great Celtic Connections festival, attests, Celtic music is thriving in Quebec.
Astronaut David Saint-Jacques trades spacesuit for scrubs to help in fight against COVID-19
Quebec astronaut and medical doctor David Saint-Jacques is currently in training at the McGill University Health Centre. Now is not the time to let our guard down, even though we ve all had enough, he says.
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Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques, who is also a medical doctor, said he has been struck by the range of people working in the campaign against COVID-19. There is sadness, and we all can t wait for this to end, but we have to lead the fight, he said.(Submitted by David Saint-Jacques)
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A new modelling study has estimated that from 2000 to 2030 vaccination against 10 major pathogens - including measles, rotavirus, HPV and hepatitis B - will have prevented 69 million deaths in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs).
The study estimated that, as a result of vaccination programmes, those born in 2019 will experience 72% lower mortality from the 10 diseases over their lifetime than if there was no immunisation.
The greatest impact of vaccination was estimated to occur in children under five - mortality from the 10 diseases in this age group would be 45% higher than currently observed in the absence of vaccination, according to the research.
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