Canadas

An urgent case for action on Canada’s health data

George Shafe 4 weeks ago

By Ewan Affleck and Vivek Goel

Canadian governments have invested greatly to progress the use of health facts, most typically without the need of a clear nationwide eyesight. As a consequence, an incoherent method for overall health data is hurting wellbeing outcomes, escalating sector fees, and increasing inequities.

We could understand a thing from Canada’s banking institutions, which came collectively in 1984 to establish a shared digital system called Interac, supplying shoppers of the competing businesses the capacity to have out primary transactions at any automatic teller. Your information and facts and capability to accessibility your cash follows you—irrespective of

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“Glitter is thicker than blood” for Canada’s Drag Race finalists

George Shafe 1 month ago

The year two finale of Canada’s Drag Race is close to and 3 contests keep on being: Icesis Couture, Pythia, and Kendall Gender.

Iccesis Couture from Ottawa introduced the style this period, winning the two of the style and design worries. Montreal-centered queen Pythia served campy theatrics and won the Rusical and makeover challenge in episode eight (nevertheless amazingly not a design challenge, thanks to Icesis). Kendall Gender who hails from Vancouver, brought bodysuits galore and charisma, successful the Brook Lynn Hytes roast problem in episode seven.

This Thursday night will determine Canada’s upcoming Drag Celebrity, successful a $100,000 funds

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Canada’s Drag Race: Adriana is happy to play the villain

George Shafe 2 months ago

Canada’s Drag Race is winding down, which means the therapeutic hideous-cry times are ramping up.

The 2nd season’s eighth episode was the makeover challenge, normally an affirming and cathartic time for the contestants who’ve been cooped up in the output bubble for months by this level. It is also a requirement for the audience—late in the year we’ve been so concentrated on the queens that obtaining new faces come into the Werk Place and shake up the dynamics feels like a welcome reprieve.

For a couple of brief times, we’re taken out of Drag Race’s careerist target and reminded

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Canada’s Drag Race queen Stephanie Prince on repping Jollibee and the cutthroat Calgary scene

George Shafe 3 months ago

The Prairies are not generally recognized for shade, but that altered when Calgary’s Stephanie Prince sashayed into the Werk Place on time 2 of Canada’s Drag Race.

The Philippines-born performer is the to start with contestant from a province other than Ontario, Quebec or British Columbia to contend on the fact franchise, and about 3 episodes she built an impression in her confessionals as a queen who will convey to you what’s what

Her entrance search paid homage to Filipino quickly-food stuff chain Jollibee, a person of the show’s most memorable seems to be to date—though an endorsement offer

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How Canada’s Drag Race queen Beth foretold her elimination

George Shafe 3 months ago

Immediately after a handful of months of powering-the-scenes chatter all around the second year premiere of Canada’s Drag Race, the display has returned and target has shifted back again to what’s happening in front of the digicam: appears, troubles, eliminations.

The to start with episode was equivalent to very last year’s year premiere, with the new crop of 12 queens competing in an about-the-prime mini-obstacle that noticed them diving into a pit of foam as guest judge and photographer Caitlin Cronenberg took snaps. The maxi-challange tasked the queens with developing unforgettable “lost and fierce” creations making use of still

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Drunken Birds selected as Canada’s submission for international film Oscar

George Shafe 4 months ago

Drunken Birds will symbolize Canada in the race for an Oscar nomination for most effective global attribute film.

Montreal’s Ivan Grbovic directed and co-wrote the drama, about a lovestruck Mexican drug cartel member who turns into a seasonal migrant employee in rural Quebec.

Sara Mishara co-wrote the movie, which has the French title Les oiseaux ivres, and stars Jorge Antonio Guerrero and Yoshira Escarrega.

Telefilm Canada claims a pan-Canadian committee of about 20 voting delegates chose the job — which involves dialogue in French, Spanish, English and Mandarin — out of a overall of 10 movies submitted for Academy

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Canada’s largest mobile electric-vehicle charger launched in B.C.

George Shafe 6 months ago

A portable electrical-vehicle (EV) charger that its manufacturer describes as “Canada’s major cleanse vitality cell EV charger” will be deployed in B.C.’s East Kootenay area this week.

The assignment—coordinated by two businesses, Teck Sources and Moveable Electrical (the charger’s maker), and a B.C. nonprofit, the Community Electrical power Association—will be, in accordance to a joint August 11 release, “a model for rural communities in North The usa to interact with residents on lower carbon transportation options and a carbon-free long term”.

The collaboration is absolutely funded by Teck, which purchased the equipment from Portable Elecftric and which is constructing on

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Environment Canada’s Lower Mainland heat alert upgraded to extreme by health authorities

George Shafe 6 months ago

It’s shaping up as a hoping weekend for Lower Mainlanders and many others as a rash of advisories have been issued for warmth and air quality in the course of the subsequent couple times.

Atmosphere Canada’s authentic heat warning for the Reduced Mainland and Fraser Valley this weekend—with temperatures in the minimal 30s thanks to a strengthening ridge of substantial pressure—has been upgraded to an excessive warmth notify as of currently (August 12), with daytime temperatures reaching as high as 35° C predicted until eventually Sunday.

Metro Vancouver also issued two air-quality advisories as of August 12: one particular for

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Canada’s Drag Race winner Priyanka launches Taste Test EP in Vancouver

George Shafe 6 months ago

A Canadian queen is ready to rule North The united states and the British Isles with her musical debut by letting audiences have her cake—and take in it way too.  

Crowned the winner of the inaugural time of Canada’s Drag Race, Toronto-dependent drag queen Priyanka, is now embarking on a tunes career. 

She currently launched her first solitary, “Cake”, on Might 28 and her 2nd, “Bitch, I’m Busy”, on July 14.

Online video of Priyanka – Cake (Official Video clip)

Priyanka has unveiled her debut visual EP Flavor Test on July 16, will is throwing an EP start social

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Canada’s LGBT+ Chamber of Commerce offers free global market workshop for B.C. businesses

George Shafe 11 months ago

With several enterprise proprietors figuring out means to adapt to changes and disruptions brought on by the pandemic, 1 thought or possibility has been seeking into achieving new markets.

For LGBT+ organization proprietors in British Columbia who are seeking to extend outside of Canada, there’s an approaching totally free on line session that addresses this particular topic.

Canada’s LGBT+ Chamber of Commerce (CGLCC) is supplying a collection of interactive online workshops for various areas throughout Canada that will help business owners re-examine running and expanding global actions, find out how to navigate the world wide marketplace all through the pandemic,

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