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The expression on Kara Garcia’s face turned solemn after describing the well kept secret her family once harboured.
Fear of embarrassment and being shunned by the outside world prompted Garcia’s family to hide her great aunt’s bipolar disorder. Garcia’s great aunt is among three per cent of Canadian’s that suffer from bipolar disorder, a severe form of depression accompanied by cyclic episodes of mania.
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Peter Morgan considers himself to be a healthy man, but he’s increasingly short of breath these days.
Each morning, as the resident of Roncesvalles travels to his job, he notices how the commuter trains travelling north along the Georgetown rail corridor from Union Station affect his neighbourhood’s air quality. He breathes in as little of the noxious metallic fumes emanating from their diesel engines as possible and wonders what’s going into his body. (More …)
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Ontario Health Minister David Caplan fired eHealth Ontario CEO Sarah Kramer today after news of financial mismanagement surfaced recently at the provincial agency.
The allegations include questionable use of expense accounts by highly paid consultants, lavish bonuses for executives and $5 million in untendered contracts handed out by eHealth. (More …)
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A police escort intending to help with the flow of traffic during a Critical Mass bike ride this evening had some difficulty managing the cyclists as the group snaked through the city.
For the last Friday of every month for the past several years, the Critical Mass ride attempts to highlight the presence of cyclists in the city. While traditionally minimal, police presence has ramped up after the Critical Massers rode onto the Gardiner Expressway last May and stalled highway traffic. (More …)
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Toronto is stockpiling equipment and antiviral medications in anticipation of a worsening global pandemic of the H1N1 flu.
In the monthly Board of Health meeting at Toronto City Hall earlier today, Associate Medical Officer of Health Dr. Barbara Yaffe confirmed the city has accelerated measures in their ongoing Pandemic Influenza Preparedness plan. Purchases of personal protective equipment and infection control supplies, such as gloves, gowns, face masks and hand sanitizers, have increased. (More …)
