Former Conservative Party leader Erin O’Toole said Wednesday that she was considering expelling a Conservative Party senator from his party’s caucus over concerns the senator was involved in foreign influence peddling. Testifying in Ottawa before the inquiry into foreign interference, O’Toole said one of his MPs had heard from a local mayor that a Conservative senator was actively working on …
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AI tool reduces unexpected hospital deaths by 26%, Canadian study finds
In a busy ward at St. Michael’s Hospital in downtown Toronto, one of Shirley Bell’s patients was suffering from a cat bite and a fever. He seemed fine otherwise, until an artificial intelligence-based warning system signaled that he was sicker than he seemed. While the nursing team typically ran blood tests around noon, the technology would alert them to incoming …
Read More »Smallpox vaccination program grows rapidly in Ottawa
Public health officials in Ottawa are ramping up a vaccination program to limit the spread of the mpox virus, with signs that the first infections have begun quickly. After announcing on Saturday that 36 spots had opened for vaccinations against the virus that causes the infectious disease formerly known as monkeypox, the Centretown Health Clinic MAX Ottawa reported Monday that …
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