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These friends wrote letters for 70 years. With one pen pal gone, the other encourages connection

Victoria Ryczak

Victoria Ryczak and Kathleen Wallace first started writing letters in 1950 when they were 12 years old. Wallace died on Feb. 22, 2021, after 70 years of a friendship spent two provinces away.

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Lack of evidence-based medicine in debate around new MAID law should concern Canadians

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Medical history has shown that when well-meaning people bypass careful science to rush a treatment out before harms are properly understood, it can have disastrous consequences, writes Dr. Mark Sinyor.

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Government staffers fretted about the ‘optics’ of N95 mask donation for Korean War veterans: documents

Lee Yun-je

Federal Liberal government staffers were worried that a donation of medical-grade masks for Korean War veterans in Canada would send the wrong message as the country grappled with shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE) at the outset of the pandemic.

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Failed defence in Toronto’s van attack trial damaged the autism community, activists say

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Despite an judge finding the driver in Toronto’s deadly van attack guilty on all 10 counts of first-degree murder, there is concern among the autism community that the trial itself, which saw autism argued as a defence, further stigmatized those with the disorder.

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Canadian banks, insurance firms owe $1.2B in employee vacation pay, class actions allege

Leigh Cunningham

Five proposed class-action lawsuits have been launched against banks and insurance companies since early 2019 seeking a total of $1.2 billion for vacation pay that’s allegedly owed current and former employees.

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