Experts in addiction are asking for a national strategy to fight what they call “rampant prescribing of opioids” and to reduce the high number of related deaths. An estimated 2,000 Canadians died from opioid overdoses in 2015 and provinces are “on track”… »
Lynn Desjardins
Born and raised in Montreal, Quebec, Lynn has dedicated her working life to journalism. After decades in the field, she still believes journalism to be a pillar of democracy and she remains committed to telling stories she believes are important or interesting. Lynn loves Canada and embraces all seasons: skiing, skating, and sledding in winter, hiking, swimming and playing tennis in summer and running all the time. She is a voracious consumer of Canadian literature, public radio programs and classical music. Family and friends are most important. Good and unusual foods are fun. She travels when possible and enjoys the wilderness.
Health, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
Genes greatly affect ability to quit smoking
Quitting smoking is difficult, but is more difficult for some people than others. A person’s genetic makeup plays a large part in determining who will succeed by going cold turkey and could also help figure out what cessation program would… »
Montreal to spend millions to maintain skating
Climate change means warmer winters in the city of Montreal making it much more difficult to maintain outdoor skating rinks. So, the city is planning to spend $7.3 million over three years to try to make sure citizens can continue… »
Health, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
Competition best motivator for exercise: study
Many Canadians find it hard to get motivated to exercise and a new study suggests competition works far better than friendly support to get them to do it. “Our goal was to see how people’s online relationships affected their exercise… »
Government to reduce mandatory minimum sentences
The Liberal government elected in late 2015 is planning to roll back some of its predecessors tough-on-crime legislation including some mandatory minimum sentences. Judges used to have very wide discretion when sentencing people found guilty of most crimes, murder being… »
Judge slams spy agency for keeping data illegally
Federal Court Justice Simon Noel sharply criticized the domestic spy agency, CSIS, for illegally keeping electronic data on people even though they posed no security threat. Noel said the intelligence service was not truthful with judges who were called on… »
Leader says feds are not tracking journalists’ phones
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said today that reporters’ mobile phones are not being tracked at the federal level. He said he received assurances to that effect from the heads of the national police force, the RCMP, and the domestic spy… »
International, Politics, Society
Police spying on journalists a ‘radical attack on free press’
The outrage over news that police in Quebec province have gathered information from several journalists’ cell phones has grown to the point that the provincial government has mandated a public inquiry. Speaking to an overflow audience of McGill students via… »
Knife attack kills student, injures another
One student died and another is in hospital after they were stabbed at a high school in the western city of Abbotsford, British Columbia yesterday afternoon. The suspected attacker is not from the school and was likely not known to… »
Museum pays tribute to photographer Notman
Montreal’s McCord Museum will open an exhibition of work by Canada’s famous 19th century photographer, William Notman on November 4, 2016. Notman took portraits of landscapes from all parts of the country and they are said to have helped build… »
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