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The Facebook Communities Summit (FCS), a Facebook-led event that brings group and page admins together under one roof, is coming to Europe. Facebook announced the first FCS back in April, with the inaugural event taking place in Chicago a couple of months later. Now the social networking behemoth is hosting a follow-up summit in London […]
A DEADLY antibiotic-resistant superbug has left its hospital breeding grounds and is spreading into the community, research suggests. Daily Express :: Health Feed
Reddit has previously had success cleaning up its act by banning hate communities, and now it’s expanding those crackdowns. The social site has widened its policies on violent content to forbid material that “encourages, glorifies, incites or calls for violence,” and has used that to ban numerous subreddits that have celebrated racist violence. Some of […]
When kids from northern communities have to fly south to see a doctor, they’re sometimes scared by the tall buildings and bustling streets. A new book, translated into three Indigenous languages, is helping make the journey a bit more understandable. CBC | Health News
New research that studied 11 communities in Atlantic Canada has found high rates of food insecurity, difficulties accessing traditional foods and water contaminated with trace metals and pharmaceuticals. CBC | Health News
For the first time, the Canadian government is tracking the number of opioid overdoses on First Nation reserves, but the minister in charge says so far the data is incomplete and a struggle to obtain. CBC | Health News
LOS ANGELES – California lawmakers on Saturday sent a bill to the governor’s desk that would place statewide limits on local law enforcement cooperation with federal immigration authorities in a measure that would create a potent counterbalance to the Trump administration’s push against undocumented immigrants. In the early morning hours of Saturday, the state Senate […]
The extent of the opioid crisis sweeping Canada has been hard for researchers to quantify. It’s been especially hard to get any data on Indigenous communities, which experts say are among the hardest-hit. CBC | Health News
The deportation of a well-known Irishman on an expired visa sparked outrage from immigrant communities who fear federal immigration officers are now targeting all undocumented immigrants, not just those convicted of serious crimes. John Cunningham, 38, was deported to Ireland Wednesday night after US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers showed up at his home […]
This week Federal Health Minister Jane Philpott announced at the International Confederation of Midwives Congress that the federal government will launch new funding initiatives to improve access to midwifery services in First Nation and Inuit communities. CBC | Health News
