Enlarge / Democrats vs. Republicans. (credit: Getty Images | Linda Braucht) Some supporters of net neutrality are focusing their attention on Congress and vowing to vote out lawmakers who won’t join a legislative effort to reinstate net neutrality rules. “If they don’t vote for net neutrality, let’s vote them out,” says the website launched yesterday […]
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New vaccine for ‘hideous’ shingles illness should be free for seniors, advocates argue
Advocates for older Canadians are calling on provincial governments to cover the cost of a new vaccine against shingles that will soon be available. Shingles is a painful illness to which seniors are more susceptible and advocates say vaccine coverage should be treated as a public health issue. CBC | Health News
New vaccine for ‘hideous’ shingles illness should be free for seniors, advocates argue
Advocates for older Canadians are calling on provincial governments to cover the cost of a new vaccine against shingles that will soon be available. Shingles is a painful illness to which seniors are more susceptible and advocates say vaccine coverage should be treated as a public health issue. CBC | Health News
Edmonton women’s prison failing Indigenous women, inmates with mental illness, advocates say
Poor treatment of Indigenous women and inmates with mental illness is behind the growing tension at the Edmonton Institution for Women, prisoner advocates say. CBC | Health News
Why Facebook And Google Are Clashing With Internet Freedom Advocates
How longtime allies of Google, Facebook and co. became sometime adversaries https://media.wired.com/photos/59c4421288b7276eccbab0f6/master/pass/ArrowsHP-800974578-%5BConverted%5D.jpg Feed: All Latest
Federal study on PTSD service dogs not sitting well with some advocates
First phase of study found nine positive effects of service dogs on symptoms of PTSD and two ‘major undesirable effects.’ CBC | Health News
Stop hiding 47,000 net neutrality complaints, advocates tell FCC chair
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Peter Dazeley) The Federal Communications Commission is being pressured to release the text of 47,000 net neutrality complaints before going through with Chairman Ajit Pai’s plan to eliminate net neutrality rules. The FCC has refused to release the text of most neutrality complaints despite a Freedom of Information Act (FoIA) […]
Toronto harm reduction advocates pushing for pop-up safe-injection sites
Harm reduction advocates in Toronto are calling on the city to allow pop-up safe injection sites amid a series of overdose deaths. CBC | Health News
Australia advocates weakening strong crypto at upcoming “Five Eyes” meeting
Enlarge / Australia’s Attorney General George Brandis (L) speaks at a press conference Australia’s Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull looks on in Sydney on December 30, 2015. (credit: Saeed Khan / Getty Images News) Two top Australian government officials said Sunday that they will push for “thwarting the encryption of terrorist messaging” during an upcoming meeting […]
‘Don’t want to be handcuffed to Minsk’: Tillerson advocates ‘flexibility’ on Ukraine crisis & Russia
The US should develop a “more flexible” approach to the Ukrainian crisis instead of just strictly tying anti-Russian sanctions to the implementation of the Minsk agreements, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said. Tillerson on Wednesday suggested that Moscow and Kiev could eventually find some other way to resolve the conflict in eastern Ukraine through […]