Month: May 2020

EDMONTON — Doctors at Alberta Health Services say people using hand sanitizer when they are out shouldn’t leave it in their cars for too long because it could lead to a fire. The advice comes in a daily COVID-19 newsletter distributed to physicians, volunteers and staff by AHS president Dr. Verna Yiu and senior medical…

OTTAWA — Canada’s contribution to peacekeeping has reached what is believed to be an all-time low, as the Liberal government makes its final push to secure a coveted seat on the United Nations Security Council. UN figures show there were 35 Canadian military and police officers deployed on peacekeeping operations at the end of April.…

DORAL, FL — A supervisor who worked for a Florida city just outside Miami has been accused of stealing nearly 1,000 N95 masks that were bought to protect his fellow essential workers and police officers from the new coronavirus. Forty-five-year-old Michel Merchan was charged Wednesday with grand theft and grand theft of medical equipment after…

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Les malades du coronavirus et les "personnes contacts" pourront se faire prescrire 14 masques chirurgicaux par semaine à partir du 11 mai, selon une note du ministère de la Santé, qui augmente aussi les quantités distribuées aux soignants libéraux. Les malades du coronavirus et les "personnes contacts" pourront se faire prescrire 14 masques chirurgicaux par…

Un essai clinique consistant à transfuser du plasma sanguin de personnes guéries du Covid-19 vers des "patients en phase aiguë de la maladie" démarrera le 7 avril en France, ont annoncé samedi les établissements chargés de le conduire. Un essai clinique consistant à transfuser du plasma sanguin de personnes guéries du Covid-19 vers des "patients…

Disponible en librairie le 6 octobre, “Tourner en 3D-relief” jette un coup de projecteur sur la 3D relief et ses techniques. Le livre est une invitation à découvrir cette nouvelle façon de tourner, de la préparation au tournage, de la postproduction à la diffusion… Depuis le succès d’ Avatar, la 3D relief a envahi les…

Les femmes brisent le tabou du post-partum. Depuis quelques jours, de nombreuses internautes se confient sur leur post-accouchement grâce au hashtag #MonPostPartum. Saignements, douleurs, dépression, les femmes racontent ce qu’elle auraient aimé savoir avant de donner naissance. Enfin la fin d’un tabou ? Sommaire Une publicité jugée trop crue La fin d’un tabou ? Depuis…

Daniel Ricciardo says the rage of losing the 2016 Monaco Grand Prix because of a botched pit stop was whitewashed only two years later by his 2018 triumph in the Principality. In 2016, driving for Red Bull Racing, Ricciardo had launched his Monaco Grand Prix from pole and taken a commanding lead at the start,…

Canadian consumers will face previously unheard-of levels of debt in the coming months as households grapple with shrinking incomes and mounting bills, the head of Canada’s government-run mortgage insurer says. There were virtually no silver linings in Evan Siddall’s testimony to the House of Commons finance committee Tuesday ― testimony Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre described…