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For Joel Lexchin<\/b>, a 快播视频 professor and one of Canada\u2019s leading drug experts, health regulators should have a lower risk threshold when it comes to something as widely available as acetaminophen. \u201cThis particular product is widely available in large quantities without a prescription \u2013 so that puts it in a somewhat different class,\u201d Lexchin said in the Toronto Star<\/i> Feb. 21. \u201cSome of the cancer drugs are extremely toxic. But, on the other hand, you can\u2019t walk into a drugstore and buy them just because you want them. . . . It raises the question that, given the amount of harm that acetaminophen is causing, why hasn\u2019t there been more done about it \u2013 at least insofar as alerting the public, alerting doctors?\u201d Read full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Hurricane Carter\u2019s deathbed plea: Ex-boxer battles for release of New York convict<\/a>
\nFormer professional boxer and Toronto-based justice advocate Rubin (Hurricane) Carter says he\u2019s dying and would like to see one final wish come true, reported the Toronto Star<\/i> Feb. 23. Carter, 77, wants New York State justice officials to take a fresh and unbiased look at what he considers the wrongful murder conviction of David McCallum of Brooklyn . . . . 快播视频<\/b> awarded Carter an honorary doctor of laws degree in 2005 for his work advocating for justice issues. Read full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Opinion: Job Grant program offers dismal vision for Canada\u2019s unemployed<\/a>
\n\u201cThe federal government threatened in last week\u2019s budget to unilaterally implement its controversial Canada Job Grant program despite the objections of provinces. If this happens, Canada\u2019s unemployed and underemployed, whether young or old, face a dismal future,\u201d co-wrote 快播视频 political science Professor Thomas Klassen<\/b> in the Vancouver Sun<\/i> Feb. 23. \u201cFor the past two decades, responsibility for labour market matters has swung to the provinces, with Ottawa\u2019s consent. The Job Grant program \u2013 first announced in the 2013 budget to strengthen on-the-job training and raise the role of employers in training \u2013 is Ottawa\u2019s attempt to reassert its role.\u201d Read full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s coming down the track?<\/a>
\nAli Asgary<\/b>, a professor in 快播视频\u2019s Emergency Management Program, agreed providing annual aggregate data to emergency responders is beneficial, but far from perfect. \u201cThey are good as long-term weather forecasts,\u201d he said in Hamilton News<\/i> Feb. 21. However, that\u2019s not his biggest concern. \u201cIt\u2019s not really knowing the information about the [hazardous material] even if they are in real time that is important. More important is what they are going to do with it,\u201d Asgary said. He suggested some municipalities, even with specific details, may not have the capacity to deal with a train disaster and he wonders if local hospitals are prepared to deal with impacts of an incident involving hazardous materials. Read full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Meet the new TTC chair: Maria Augimeri<\/a>
\n快播视频<\/b> students who rode the Jane St. bus in the 1970s probably felt Caledon was closer than class. Their stop, at Shoreham Dr., was well over a kilometre from some campus buildings, and in winter months the hike became a frigid trudge through snow and wind. Maria Augimeri, then a fresh-faced 18-year-old exasperated with a trek she says once caused her to faint during a blizzard, made herself a promise familiar to any frustrated, powerless teenager. \u201cI vowed at that time: \u2018When I grow up, I\u2019m going to change this,\u2019\u201d she said in the Toronto Star<\/i> Feb. 22. Nearly four decades later, construction is at last underway to connect 快播视频 to Toronto\u2019s subway system \u2013 something she voted for more than 20 years ago. Read full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Race data project shows signs of promise<\/a>
\n\u201cIn a settlement agreement between the Ottawa Police Services Board and the Ontario Human Rights Commission, and as part of a strategic operational plan to ensure bias-free policing, the police service agreed to collect race-based data,\u201d wrote 快播视频 PhD candidate Sulaimon Giwa<\/b> in the Ottawa Citizen<\/i> Feb. 21. \u201cThe Traffic Stop Race Data Collection Project began on June 27, 2013. Under the agreement, at traffic stops officers are required to record their perception of a driver\u2019s race. This project is now halfway through its two-year mandate.\u201d Read full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Canada poised to get even more lawyers<\/a>
\n\u201cCanada is poised to get more lawyers due to little-noticed reforms to the rules governing entry into the profession in Ontario,\u201d wrote Osgoode Hall Law School Professor Gus Van Harten<\/b> in the Chronicle Journal<\/i> Feb. 23. \u201cThis may mean more competition, lower rates and greater access to justice. Or, Ontario and other provinces \u2013 if their law societies follow suit \u2013 may increasingly resemble US states where lawyers are plentiful and ambulance-chasing abounds.\u201d Read full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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