With BA.5 boosters, Biden officials herald the start of annual COVID shots

Enlarge / Syringes filled with COVID-19 vaccine sit on a table at a COVID-19 vaccination clinic on April 06, 2022 in San Rafael, California. (credit: Getty | Justin Sullivan) The updated COVID-19 boosters targeting the BA.4/5 subvariants now rolling out nationwide are meant to head off a surge of the disease this fall and winter—but […]

Blue Apron and Snap’s ‘busted’ IPOs herald judgment day for unicorns

ANALYSIS: A year that began with high hopes for a tech IPO revival has crashed into a wall of reality following sputtering public offerings from Snap and Blue Apron. The catastrophe that is Blue Apron was driven home in recent days thanks to multiple shareholder lawsuits claiming management misled investors. Less than two months after […]

Government, Indigenous leaders herald health agreement that will dismantle ‘colonial’ system

Canada’s health minister, the province of Ontario and the Nishnawbe Aski Nation have signed a deal on health care, a “landmark” agreement they say will begin the process of decolonizing the provision of care in the province’s north. CBC | Health News

Herald Deals With Prejudice & Inequality Aboard A 19th Century Ship

Devan Rensburg, “a man of mixed heritage” in the 19th century, finds himself dealing with the squabbles, prejudices, and hatred aboard the clipper Herald, dealing with people’s problems and hatreds however he (and you) choose in choice-based point & click game Herald: An Interactive Period Drama – Book I & II. The people aboard this […]

‘It could go on … forever’: Chronicle Herald strike hits 1-year mark

Last Jan. 23, 61 journalists with the Halifax Chronicle Herald walked off the job. Today, one year later, 55 remain on the picket lines. How long can the strike go on? And what lessons are there to be learned from the bitter history of Nova Scotia’s longest strike more than three decades ago? CBC | […]