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Goodbye to David Onley, champion of the disabled

TORONTO – He was the champion of the rights of disabled people and throughout his life he fought against ableism, that is, that particular racism towards people with disabilities. With him therefore goes a bulwark of those rights: former television journalist and twenty-eighth deputy premier of Ontario from 2007 to 2014, David C. Onley (in the pic above, from his Facebook page), died at the age of 72.

David Lametti: già da fine gennaio valutai l’ipotesi Emergencies Act

TORONTO – La decisione di fare ricorso alla legislazione d’emergenza per porre fine alla protesta non fu un’idea improvvisa dell’ultimo minuto. Al contrario, il governo federale nella persona dell’Attorney General David Lametti (nella foto) iniziò a soppesare questa delicata opzione già a fine gennaio, pochi giorni dopo l’inizio dell’occupazione del centro storico di Ottawa e dei blocchi ai valichi di frontiera con gli Stati Uniti… Read More in Corriere Canadese >>> 

It is alarm: political interference in science. David Fisman resigns from the Ontario Advisory Science Table

TORONTO – Dr David Fisman’s resignation from Ontario’s Covid-19 Science Advisory Table has sparked furious controversy: parties – from the NDP to the Liberals and Greens – are asking Prime Minister Ford to clarify his claims that politics “would seem to influence the final recommendations of the table”. The epidemiologist of the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto, publicly announced his resignation from the scientific committee on Monday with the publication of a notification letter on social media. “It is with mixed emotions that I decided to resign from the scientific and modeling committees of Ontario – tweeted Fisman (in the pic) – I wish every success to the colleagues who remain. Ontario needs a public health care system away from politics”.

Vancouver: un viaggio di scoperta e compassione in “Age of Innocence” di David C. Bellusci

(Fatti Nostri / Anna Foschi) L’ultima raccolta di poesie di David C. Bellusci accompagna il lettore attraverso la  profondità di un viaggio metafisico che comprende fasi della esistenza e della consapevolezza. Age of Innocence (Resource Publications, 2020) è composto da cinque segmenti, ognuno dei quali esplora da prospettive diverse un’ampia gamma di sentimenti umani, le differenze storico-culturali e il potere salvifico della natura… Read More in Fatti Nostri >>>