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NL Healthcare Reeling from Worst Cyberattack in Canadian History
Oct 29, 2024 · Newfoundland and Labrador is in trouble with a recent cyberattack that has impacted much of the province’s healthcare infrastructure—with Eastern Health operating on a paper-based system into Monday, slowly bringing some services back. “We are victims of a cyberattack,” announced Health Minister John Haggie last week.
The Power of Positive Thinking – The Independent
Apr 25, 2024 · Confronted with a perpetual motion machine of grief across so many cascading crises that instability is the only consistency we have—with nowhere to put the anger, no one to negotiate with, no stomach (or time) for sadness, and no hope of acceptance without fully losing our minds—everyone, collectively and individually, has gone all in on flights of fancy.
Thinking Outside the Crisis: A Great Big Bag of Hammers
May 14, 2024 · As part of the Independent’s “Thinking Outside the Crisis” series, I want to tie questions from my own research on how crises impact policy change to an explanation of why we may find it difficult to “learn” from what has happened and why we are likely to go on making the same mistakes, post-crisis. This crisis is a diagnostic event for many real world problems.
Basic income the answer to food insecurity – The Independent
Oct 7, 2024 · In 2021, Premier Andrew Furey acknowledged food security as “an important issue in Newfoundland and Labrador,” but since that time household food insecurity rates haven’t improved. Nearly one quarter of all households in the province experience food insecurity. Food insecurity in NL. The United Nations defines food insecurity as having “a lack of regular access to enough safe and ...
Health care in crisis: How do we move forward? - The Independent
Oct 21, 2024 · Photo: Department of Health and Community Services / X. In Canada, Newfoundland and Labrador has the highest rate of deaths from cancer, the second-highest from cardiac disease and the third highest for stroke. We have the highest level of complex health needs among children, the highest rates of obesity among adolescents, and the highest proportion of older people with three or more chronic ...
The shifting sands of family practice medicine
May 14, 2024 · Photo: Bongkarn Thanyakij / iStock. The most important doctor for most of us is not a specialist — it’s our family doctor. The thing is, many in Newfoundland and Labrador don’t have one — around 136,000 of us, in fact, or around 26 per cent of the population.. These staggering numbers are up seven per cent since spring 2022, showing just how bad the province’s doctor shortage has become.
“A recovery for everyone, not just the elite”: People’s Recovery NL
Sep 24, 2024 · A new report from the People’s Recovery NL grassroots coalition has laid out a policy approach to the province’s economic and fiscal crisis that its authors say can achieve what the Premier’s Economic Recovery Team (PERT) has proposed—but with less harm to people and communities in the process.. Like the PERT’s “The Big …
How Budget Day Changed When Media Picked the Attendees
May 14, 2024 · Changes in 2020. This year, due to social distancing measures, the budget day ‘lock-up’ process was conducted differently. Instead of government selecting and inviting a range of stakeholders from the community, each media agency was asked to submit the names of up to eight individuals or organizations to be invited to the ‘lock-up’ on ...
Is creativity overrated? On the arts in Newfoundland and Labrador
Mar 13, 2024 · Is creativity overrated? Oli Mould is a human geographer at University of London in the UK, and the title of his latest book—Against Creativity—might lead you to think so. The provocative argument Mould makes in his book is that “creativity is a barely hidden form of neoliberal appropriation. It is a regime that prioritises individual ...