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31. <title>After a weekend northern lighting show, nonetheless there&#8217;s a likelihood to look them this night</title>
32. <link>https://godfear.in/after-a-weekend-northern-lights-display-still-there-is-a-chance-to-see-them-tonight/</link>
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40. <description><![CDATA[The weekend was a powerful geomagnetic storm, resulting in beautiful performances of northern lights from Canada to America and there is a possibility that colorful curtains in the sky may appear once again on Monday night. Northern lights, or Arora Borelis, occurs when particles from the sun are transported by rapid solar wind. It is [&#8230;]]]></description>
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43. <p dir="ltr">The weekend was a powerful geomagnetic storm, resulting in beautiful performances of northern lights from Canada to America and there is a possibility that colorful curtains in the sky may appear once again on Monday night.</p>
44. <p dir="ltr">Northern lights, or Arora Borelis, occurs when particles from the sun are transported by rapid solar wind. It is often caused by a coronal mass ejection, or CME. It is a major expulsion of particles from the sun that travels faster than normal on the solar air.</p>
45. <p dir="ltr">One of these CME hit Prithvi on Saturday, resulting in Aroras worldwide.</p>
46. <p dir="ltr">The show continued on Sunday during the daylight in Canada, but then decreased. But we are still realizing the effects of CME, which talks with our magnetic field, which means we can still find a show.</p>
47. <p dir="ltr">A geomagnetic storm is measured using the strength <a href="https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/planetary-k-index" target="_blank" rel="noopener">KP index</a>From one to nine. The higher the number, the stronger the storm will be. </p>
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49. <p dir="ltr">On Sunday, the KP index exceeded eight, but it increased to five in early Monday. Although this has fallen, it does not mean that the show is over. But it is likely that it will not be powerful or intense as this weekend performance.</p>
50. <p dir="ltr">As Chris Ratzlaf, a veteran Aurora Chaser from Aircraft, Alta, and ever popular Alberta Arora Chaser said, &#8220;There is a lot of ability (and) a lot of uncertainty.&#8221;</p>
51. <p dir="ltr">&#8220;The possibility is not much because CME&#8217;s tail is uncertain about the structure of the end,&#8221; he said. &#8220;If the conditions in the end of the tail of CME are favorable, our obstacles for Arora will improve.&#8221;</p>
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53. <p dir="ltr">It is very difficult to forecast northern lights. There are many situations that need to be fulfilled, in which the air is moving forward and whether the Orral Oval &#8211; with which these particle interact with molecules that produce light colors &#8211; tips in our side in our side.</p>
54. <p dir="ltr">Further holes fall in the south, further south Arora is seen. And, by Monday afternoon, Orral Oval was pointing to the south in our favor.</p>
55. <p dir="ltr">To see them, you should look north. In Canada, it is best to have a clear line of vision for the northern horizon in the front south, such as in the south -western Ontario.</p>
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57. <p dir="ltr">The second thing is that many Canadian people may have to deal with, which can disrupt any possibility of looking at northern lights, it is smoke that is covering many parts of the country because western Canada has a forest fire spread.</p>
58. <p dir="ltr">If the northern light appears tonight, do not expect an unreliable performance from last May or last October. If this happens, it will probably be weak.</p>
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68. <title>Pores and skin Crowing Wonder: Alberta Lady says the tenting travel used to be ruined by means of dozens of ticks</title>
69. <link>https://godfear.in/skin-crowing-surprise-alberta-woman-says-the-camping-trip-was-ruined-by-dozens-of-ticks/</link>
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77. <description><![CDATA[A Calgary woman says that the journey of a provincial campground turned into a &#8220;nightmare&#8221;, after finding out that her family was included in about 30 ticks. In May, Garry Kunneke, her husband Lloyd Rose, and her two dogs visited the Gooseri Lake Provincial Park in East Alberta, to set up a camp in their [&#8230;]]]></description>
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80. <p dir="ltr">A Calgary woman says that the journey of a provincial campground turned into a &#8220;nightmare&#8221;, after finding out that her family was included in about 30 ticks. </p>
81. <p dir="ltr">In May, Garry Kunneke, her husband Lloyd Rose, and her two dogs visited the Gooseri Lake Provincial Park in East Alberta, to set up a camp in their trailer, about 290 km south -southeast of Edmonton. </p>
82. <p dir="ltr">The next day, Kunneke and her husband took their dogs for a walk in the park. </p>
83. <p dir="ltr">&#8220;We decided that we really wanted &#8230; Get closer to the lake and just see what birds (were) there.&#8221; </p>
84. <p dir="ltr">He said that by the route, he went into long grass, but said that he was in a brush for only a few minutes. </p>
85. <p dir="ltr">Later that night, on his trailer, Kunneke&#8217;s husband told him that he felt something in his hair, and asked him to find him. </p>
86. <p dir="ltr">&#8220;I got up, (and) as I went to him, he told me, &#8216;Oh my, you have found something in your face, it&#8217;s a tick&#8217; &#8230; on my cheek,&#8221; Kunneke said. </p>
87. <p dir="ltr">And that feel that in her husband&#8217;s hair? It was also a tick. </p>
88. <p dir="ltr">&#8220;This is really a bad dream &#8230; every time you feel something on your skin, you think it&#8217;s one of them more creep,&#8221; Kunneke said. </p>
89. <p dir="ltr">&#8220;Even after hours I got something on my back and low and staring, it was another tick that was embedded in my back.&#8221; </p>
90. <div dir="ltr">
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92. <div class="placeholder"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" alt="Woman wearing sunglasses and a dog hat on a path surrounded by trees. " srcset="https://i.cbc.ca/1.7547596.1748557156!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/gerri-kunneke-at-gooseberry-park.jpg?im=Resize%3D300 300w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7547596.1748557156!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/gerri-kunneke-at-gooseberry-park.jpg?im=Resize%3D460 460w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7547596.1748557156!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/gerri-kunneke-at-gooseberry-park.jpg?im=Resize%3D620 620w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7547596.1748557156!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/gerri-kunneke-at-gooseberry-park.jpg?im=Resize%3D780 780w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7547596.1748557156!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/gerri-kunneke-at-gooseberry-park.jpg?im=Resize%3D1180 1180w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 300px,(max-width: 460px) 460px,(max-width: 620px) 620px,(max-width: 780px) 780px,(max-width: 1180px) 1180px" src="https://i.cbc.ca/1.7547596.1748557156!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/gerri-kunneke-at-gooseberry-park.jpg?im=" style="aspect-ratio:1.6619718309859155" data-cy="image-img"/></div><figcaption class="image-caption">Garry Kunneke her dog walking in Goseberry Lake Provincial Park, where she says about 30 ticks were found between her, her husband and her two dogs. <!-- --> <!-- -->(Presented by Gerry Kunneke)</figcaption></figure>
93. </div>
94. <p dir="ltr">The phenomenon of the provincial park surprised a tick specialist, who states that the area of ​​Alberta is usually not known for a large tick population.</p>
95. <p dir="ltr">&#8220;Usually at this time of the year, I expect ticks towards the mountain of Alberta, so it was quite shocking for me to find out that he was bad in a provincial park towards Suskechewan in Alberta,&#8221; Janet Sparling said, the chairman of Lime Disease Canada. </p>
96. <p dir="ltr">&#8220;Suskechewan has places where it has been a problem for a long time, but &#8230; it was really surprising to hear that Gozberry Provincial Park had such a big tick problem.&#8221; </p>
97. <p dir="ltr">In a statement to the CBC, the office of the Minister of Forestry and Parks said, &#8220;Alberta is the house of several species of Ticks that can be found in the entire province within the provincial parks.&#8221; </p>
98. <h2 dir="ltr">Gesture </h2>
99. <p dir="ltr">Ticks in preference, say sparling, thrive in wet climate, and parasites are able to avoid cold winter. </p>
100. <p dir="ltr">She says that the population of tick is likely to stop a ride with either migratory birds, or deer in the Guoberi Lake Provincial Park. </p>
101. <p dir="ltr">Sparling said, &#8220;I knew that Ticks were coming from Suskechewan, but I did not realize that they had come in large numbers,&#8221; Sporting said, who says the large tick population in southern Alberta is more common. </p>
102. <h2 dir="ltr">Warning to camper </h2>
103. <p dir="ltr">What happened in Goseberry Lake Provincial Park, Kunne wants to install warning signs for campers during the province peak tick season, which spreads from April to June. </p>
104. <p dir="ltr">&#8220;It shakes your confidence, this is so, why I was not warned about it? &#8230; I could be on the lookout, but no one is saying a word about it,&#8221; Kunneke said.</p>
105. <p dir="ltr">&#8220;(A tick) was walking on my face and he attached herself there, I felt nothing and I am a well educated, aware person.&#8221; </p>
106. <div dir="ltr">
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108. <div class="placeholder"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" alt="Small white and brown dog. " srcset="https://i.cbc.ca/1.7547605.1748555591!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/kunneke-s-dog-penny.jpg?im=Resize%3D300 300w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7547605.1748555591!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/kunneke-s-dog-penny.jpg?im=Resize%3D460 460w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7547605.1748555591!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/kunneke-s-dog-penny.jpg?im=Resize%3D620 620w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7547605.1748555591!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/kunneke-s-dog-penny.jpg?im=Resize%3D780 780w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7547605.1748555591!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/kunneke-s-dog-penny.jpg?im=Resize%3D1180 1180w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 300px,(max-width: 460px) 460px,(max-width: 620px) 620px,(max-width: 780px) 780px,(max-width: 1180px) 1180px" src="https://i.cbc.ca/1.7547605.1748555591!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/kunneke-s-dog-penny.jpg?im=" style="aspect-ratio:1.3333333333333333" data-cy="image-img"/></div><figcaption class="image-caption">Garry Kunneke found about 15 ticks on her dog&#8217;s pennie, which is a while after a while through the Goseberry Lake Provincial Park. <!-- --> <!-- -->(Presented by Gerry Kunneke)</figcaption></figure>
109. </div>
110. <p dir="ltr">Sparling says that campers should be equipped with bug spray and a tick removal kit, and they should be covered. She says that camper with special clothes treated with bug spray can further protect themselves. </p>
111. <p dir="ltr">&#8220;If you bite, remove that tick immediately because you are reducing the chance it is actually transmitting anything.&#8221; </p>
112. <p dir="ltr">She says that to bury the tick into your skin, and take it to a laboratory to test.</p>
113. <p dir="ltr">&#8220;They can test for diseases you will expect in that tick, and it really helps you and the doctor know what you are doing.&#8221;</p>
114. <p dir="ltr">Sparling says that the level of lime disease in Alberta Tick is not super high, but in Nova Scotia, Ontario and Quebec, more than 50 percent of ticks carry lime diseases. </p>
115. <p dir="ltr">The province says that &#8220;Alberta Parks include the message in educational programming, how to check the ticks and how to safely,&#8221; urged the campers to check the provincial website to get more information.</p>
116. </div>
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125. <title>Vishal Sahara Mud Badal Smiley Caribbean N Marg for The usa</title>
126. <link>https://godfear.in/vishal-sahara-dust-badal-smiley-caribbean-n-marg-for-america/</link>
127. <comments>https://godfear.in/vishal-sahara-dust-badal-smiley-caribbean-n-marg-for-america/#respond</comments>
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130. <pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2025 17:36:59 +0000</pubDate>
131. <category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
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134. <description><![CDATA[A large cloud of dust from the Sahara Desert on Monday blanted most of the Caribbean in this year&#8217;s biggest incident as it moves towards the United States. Badal extended about 3,200 km from Jamaica to Trinidad and Tobago in the south, about 1,200 km from Turks and Kaikos islands in Northern Caribbean, in East [&#8230;]]]></description>
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137. <p>A large cloud of dust from the Sahara Desert on Monday blanted most of the Caribbean in this year&#8217;s biggest incident as it moves towards the United States.</p>
138. <p>Badal extended about 3,200 km from Jamaica to Trinidad and Tobago in the south, about 1,200 km from Turks and Kaikos islands in Northern Caribbean, in East Caribbean and North Caribbean.</p>
139. <p>&#8220;It is very impressive,&#8221; Alex Dasilva said, lead a storm specialist with Accuweather.</p>
140. <p>With sneezing, coughing and enraging the eyes of the Caribbean, local forecasts warned that people with allergies, asthma and other conditions should stay indoors or wear face masks when they are out.</p>
141. <p>The concentration of dust was high, at 0.55 aerosol optical depth &#8211; the highest amount so far this year, Yidiana Jayas said, San Juan, an forecast with the US National Meteorological Service at Puerto Rico.</p>
142. <p>Aerosol optical depth measures how direct sunlight is prevented by the particles, according to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric administration.</p>
143. <p><em><strong>Look When Sahara Sand, dust was blown in UK in 2014:</strong></em></p>
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149. <div class="thumbnail-wrapper"><img decoding="async" src="https://i.cbc.ca/ais/1.2596456,1717156260049/full/max/0/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%280%2C1%2C620%2C348%29%3BResize%3D620" srcset="" alt="" class="thumbnail" loading="lazy"/></div>
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152. <p class="video-item-title">Sahara sand, dust runs in Britain</p>
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159. <p><span class="media-caption">Gayle force winds did particles in more than 3,000 kilometers north</span></span></div>
160. <p>Dasilva said that this plum is expected to hit Florida, Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi in the end of this week and weekend. However, plums usually lose most of their concentrations in Eastern Caribbean, he said.</p>
161. <p>&#8220;More effects are seen in the islands, more than a concentration where it can actually remove the sun a little bit,&#8221; he said.</p>
162. <div>
163. <figure class="imageMedia image full">
164. <div class="placeholder"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" alt="A woman's silhouette on a hill with a dusty moon or sun" srcset="https://i.cbc.ca/1.7549934.1748879784!/cpImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/puerto-rico-sahara-dust.jpg?im=Resize%3D300 300w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7549934.1748879784!/cpImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/puerto-rico-sahara-dust.jpg?im=Resize%3D460 460w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7549934.1748879784!/cpImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/puerto-rico-sahara-dust.jpg?im=Resize%3D620 620w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7549934.1748879784!/cpImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/puerto-rico-sahara-dust.jpg?im=Resize%3D780 780w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7549934.1748879784!/cpImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/puerto-rico-sahara-dust.jpg?im=Resize%3D1180 1180w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 300px,(max-width: 460px) 460px,(max-width: 620px) 620px,(max-width: 780px) 780px,(max-width: 1180px) 1180px" src="https://i.cbc.ca/1.7549934.1748879784!/cpImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/puerto-rico-sahara-dust.jpg?im=" style="aspect-ratio:1.5031847133757963" data-cy="image-img"/></div><figcaption class="image-caption">On June 23, 2020, a cloud of Sahara dust hangs in the air in Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico. The size and concentration of the plum was not seen in half a century, inspiring the forecasts to nickname &#8216;Godzila dust cloud&#8217;.<!-- --> <!-- -->(Carlos Gisty/Associated Press)</figcaption></figure>
165. </div>
166. <p>According to NOAA, October to October from April to October makes dry and dusty air known as Saharan air layer in Sahara Desert from across the Atlantic Ocean. It also prevents tropical waves during the Atlantic storm season, which runs from 1 June to 30 November.</p>
167. <p>Dasilva said that June and July typically have the highest concentration of average dust, with plums traveling anywhere from 1,500 m (5,000 ft) to 6,100 m (20,000 ft).</p>
168. <p>In June 2020, a record-breaking Badal of Sahara Dust smoked Caribbean. The size and concentration of the plum was not seen in half a century, which inspires the forecasts to nickname the &#8220;Godzila dust cloud&#8221;.</p>
169. </div>
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178. <title>Constitution is being heard in Problem Court docket for BC&#8217;s Psychological Well being Act</title>
179. <link>https://godfear.in/charter-challenge-bc-mental-health-act-deemed-consent-1-7549197cmprss/</link>
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183. <pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2025 13:26:16 +0000</pubDate>
184. <category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
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186.  
187. <description><![CDATA[A charter challenge for the BC&#8217;s Mental Health Act, on a provision that groups say that patients refuse to consent to treatment, now BC is being heard almost a decade after being filed in the Supreme Court for the first time. The challenge filed by the Canadian Council with disability and other plaintiffs was first [&#8230;]]]></description>
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190. <p>A charter challenge for the BC&#8217;s Mental Health Act, on a provision that groups say that patients refuse to consent to treatment, now BC is being heard almost a decade after being filed in the Supreme Court for the first time.</p>
191. <p>The challenge filed by the Canadian Council with disability and other plaintiffs was first made on the Act in 2016 <a href="https://www.bclaws.gov.bc.ca/civix/document/id/complete/statreg/00_96288_01#section31" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;Deemed Consent&#8221; Provision</a>Which states that any person with involuntary status under the law agrees for psychiatric treatment.</p>
192. <p>The first hearing day was Thursday, and people involved say it is likely to continue for several weeks.</p>
193. <p>Supporters of the challenge say that sensible consent removes safety measures that ensure that a patient is being treated humanly, and violates the rights of charter for life, freedom and security for all.</p>
194. <p>They argue that BC is a provision of consent, which makes it unique between Canadian provinces and courts worldwide, and it deprives patients with the right to control what is done for their own body &#8211; including potentially, electroconaval treatment or provision of medicine.</p>
195. <div>
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197. <div class="placeholder"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" alt="The doctor holds the hand of an old patient." srcset="https://i.godfear.in/1.6916473.1735943148!/cumulusImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/shutterstock-large-file.jpg?im=Resize%3D300 300w,https://i.godfear.in/1.6916473.1735943148!/cumulusImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/shutterstock-large-file.jpg?im=Resize%3D460 460w,https://i.godfear.in/1.6916473.1735943148!/cumulusImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/shutterstock-large-file.jpg?im=Resize%3D620 620w,https://i.godfear.in/1.6916473.1735943148!/cumulusImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/shutterstock-large-file.jpg?im=Resize%3D780 780w,https://i.godfear.in/1.6916473.1735943148!/cumulusImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/shutterstock-large-file.jpg?im=Resize%3D1180 1180w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 300px,(max-width: 460px) 460px,(max-width: 620px) 620px,(max-width: 780px) 780px,(max-width: 1180px) 1180px" src="https://i.godfear.in/1.6916473.1735943148!/cumulusImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/shutterstock-large-file.jpg?im=" style="aspect-ratio:1.4993646759847523" data-cy="image-img"/></div><figcaption class="image-caption">In BC, a patient committed to involuntary care is believed to give consent to the treatment they receive &#8211; some advocates argue that they and their family are denied the agency&#8217;s family.<!-- --> <!-- -->(Shutterstock)</figcaption></figure>
198. </div>
199. <p>&#8220;It&#8217;s time to modernize, and it is time to ensure that the law is brought to compliance with the charter of rights and freedom, which I think we all reside in Canada now respect and feel great as a part of our Canadian culture and feel,&#8221; Yavon Peters said, Yavon Peters said, the co-operation of the Cowcressle of Cancer of Canadian with disability.</p>
200. <p>A spokesman for Health Minister Josi Osborne refused to comment on the case as it is in front of the courts.</p>
201. <div>
202. <figure class="imageMedia image full">
203. <div class="placeholder"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" alt="A white woman with short hair and circle is seen in a mike." srcset="https://i.godfear.in/1.7435720.1741308428!/cumulusImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/new-bc-ndp-government-cabinet-members-josie-osborne.jpg?im=Resize%3D300 300w,https://i.godfear.in/1.7435720.1741308428!/cumulusImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/new-bc-ndp-government-cabinet-members-josie-osborne.jpg?im=Resize%3D460 460w,https://i.godfear.in/1.7435720.1741308428!/cumulusImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/new-bc-ndp-government-cabinet-members-josie-osborne.jpg?im=Resize%3D620 620w,https://i.godfear.in/1.7435720.1741308428!/cumulusImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/new-bc-ndp-government-cabinet-members-josie-osborne.jpg?im=Resize%3D780 780w,https://i.godfear.in/1.7435720.1741308428!/cumulusImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/new-bc-ndp-government-cabinet-members-josie-osborne.jpg?im=Resize%3D1180 1180w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 300px,(max-width: 460px) 460px,(max-width: 620px) 620px,(max-width: 780px) 780px,(max-width: 1180px) 1180px" src="https://i.godfear.in/1.7435720.1741308428!/cumulusImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/new-bc-ndp-government-cabinet-members-josie-osborne.jpg?im=" style="aspect-ratio:1.5012722646310432" data-cy="image-img"/></div><figcaption class="image-caption">Health Minister Josi Osborne refused to comment on the case.<!-- --> <!-- -->(Mike McArther/CBC)</figcaption></figure>
204. </div>
205. <h2>Loved ones should join: supporters</h2>
206. <p>The Charter Challenge has received support from several groups including the BC Division (CMHA-BC) of the Canadian Mental Health Association.</p>
207. <p>CMHA-BC CEO Johnny Morris says that removing the deemed consent provision will give people more control over dignity and care.</p>
208. <div>
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210. <div class="placeholder"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" alt="A bald man with glasses looks serious." srcset="https://i.godfear.in/1.6109239.1746142176!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/jonny-morris.jpg?im=Resize%3D300 300w,https://i.godfear.in/1.6109239.1746142176!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/jonny-morris.jpg?im=Resize%3D460 460w,https://i.godfear.in/1.6109239.1746142176!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/jonny-morris.jpg?im=Resize%3D620 620w,https://i.godfear.in/1.6109239.1746142176!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/jonny-morris.jpg?im=Resize%3D780 780w,https://i.godfear.in/1.6109239.1746142176!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/jonny-morris.jpg?im=Resize%3D1180 1180w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 300px,(max-width: 460px) 460px,(max-width: 620px) 620px,(max-width: 780px) 780px,(max-width: 1180px) 1180px" src="https://i.godfear.in/1.6109239.1746142176!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/jonny-morris.jpg?im=" style="aspect-ratio:1.7771084337349397" data-cy="image-img"/></div><figcaption class="image-caption">Johnny Morris, CEO of Canadian Mental Health Association BC Division, says that loved ones and family members should be involved in deciding when it comes to involuntary mental health care.<!-- --> <!-- -->(Mike McArther/CBC)</figcaption></figure>
211. </div>
212. <p>&#8220;We hope that there is a world in which the Mental Health Act is modernized so that the understood consent is replaced with evidence-based security measures,&#8221; he told CBC News.</p>
213. <p>He said, &#8220;If the person wants his family members to be part of the decision -making, if they cannot take the decision, that family members have been included &#8230; and people have one in their treatment if they have the ability to decide,&#8221; he said.</p>
214. <p>Morris stated that, in addition to family members, he wants to involve a patient&#8217;s reliable neighbors, friends or other colleagues in decision making as part of the Act.</p>
215. <p>Victoria resident Celeste MESICIS was committed to taking care of under mental health work as a teenager, and has worked as a career for those who have dealt with the mental health system.</p>
216. <p>She says <a href="https://www.godfear.in/news/canada/british-columbia/james-zimmer-death-1.6831535" target="_blank">Not even informed</a> When his loved one is discharged from care.</p>
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219. <div class="placeholder"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" alt="A blonde woman speaks behind her in a room with art." srcset="https://i.godfear.in/1.7549204.1748719928!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/celeste-macevicius.jpg?im=Resize%3D300 300w,https://i.godfear.in/1.7549204.1748719928!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/celeste-macevicius.jpg?im=Resize%3D460 460w,https://i.godfear.in/1.7549204.1748719928!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/celeste-macevicius.jpg?im=Resize%3D620 620w,https://i.godfear.in/1.7549204.1748719928!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/celeste-macevicius.jpg?im=Resize%3D780 780w,https://i.godfear.in/1.7549204.1748719928!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/celeste-macevicius.jpg?im=Resize%3D1180 1180w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 300px,(max-width: 460px) 460px,(max-width: 620px) 620px,(max-width: 780px) 780px,(max-width: 1180px) 1180px" src="https://i.godfear.in/1.7549204.1748719928!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/celeste-macevicius.jpg?im=" style="aspect-ratio:1.7851739788199696" data-cy="image-img"/></div><figcaption class="image-caption">Celeste MESISICIS argues that when people are committed under the Mental Health Act, they lose dignity, autonomy and their own spirit.<!-- --> <!-- -->(CBC)</figcaption></figure>
220. </div>
221. <p>He said, &#8220;To the extent to which people suddenly lose dignity and agency and autonomy and their own spirit, when they put under the Mental Health Act, it is disastrous,&#8221; he said.</p>
222. <p>&#8220;Even if a person is a risk for himself or a risk for someone else, it should not mean that then the psychiatrist who will be forced to follow the psychiatrist &#8211; who is known for four hours &#8211; thinks they think they should follow it.&#8221;</p>
223. <h2>Province review act</h2>
224. <p>Last month in view of a tragedy, in which a man <a href="https://www.godfear.in/news/canada/british-columbia/accused-festuval-killing-mental-health-1.7521867" target="_blank">On &#8220;extended holiday&#8221;</a> His mental health team allegedly fired a car among the people present in the Lapu-Lapu Day Festival in Vancouver, 11, BC Premier David EB <a href="https://www.godfear.in/news/canada/british-columbia/b-c-premier-reviews-mental-health-legislation-1.7523191" target="_blank">Announced a review</a> Of Mental Health Act.</p>
225. <p>The EB said that Osborne and his team would begin review of the Act. Dr. Daniel Vigo, Psychiatry, BC&#8217;s Chief Scientific Advisor for toxic drugs and concurrent disorders would be part of the review, the premiere said. He did not provide a time -line for reviews. </p>
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228. <div class="placeholder"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" alt="A teddy beer with a signal that reads, 'politicians, please stop the mental health crisis' carefully with a pile of flowers in the background. " srcset="https://i.godfear.in/1.7524357.1746139907!/cantoImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/lapu-lapu.jpg?im=Resize%3D300 300w,https://i.godfear.in/1.7524357.1746139907!/cantoImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/lapu-lapu.jpg?im=Resize%3D460 460w,https://i.godfear.in/1.7524357.1746139907!/cantoImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/lapu-lapu.jpg?im=Resize%3D620 620w,https://i.godfear.in/1.7524357.1746139907!/cantoImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/lapu-lapu.jpg?im=Resize%3D780 780w,https://i.godfear.in/1.7524357.1746139907!/cantoImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/lapu-lapu.jpg?im=Resize%3D1180 1180w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 300px,(max-width: 460px) 460px,(max-width: 620px) 620px,(max-width: 780px) 780px,(max-width: 1180px) 1180px" src="https://i.godfear.in/1.7524357.1746139907!/cantoImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/lapu-lapu.jpg?im=" style="aspect-ratio:1.4993646759847523" data-cy="image-img"/></div><figcaption class="image-caption">BC&#8217;s premiere says that his government will review the Mental Health Act in the light of a tragedy last month, in which a person allegedly drove a car in festivals under mental health supervision, killing 11.<!-- --> <!-- -->(Ben Nelms/CBC)</figcaption></figure>
229. </div>
230. <p>For mental health and addictions, BC Orthodox Critic Claire Ratte said that the provision of consent in the Mental Health Act was not in line with the best practices, and a collaborative approach to care was a better approach.</p>
231. <p>She is arguing that, while the Mental Health Act is a good piece of law, the province is failing to support people with mental health and challenges of addictions, including people with brain injuries repeatedly from drug overdose.</p>
232. <p>&#8220;I am more concerned about the lack of services that are out to support people with mental health and drug addiction,&#8221; he said. </p>
233. <p>&#8220;And this is really where we are looking at these big failures, these big cracks are falling.&#8221;</p>
234. <div><strong><em>Look What two lawyers want to see in review of the Mental Health Act: </em></strong><span><span class="mediaEmbed"></p>
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249. <p><span class="media-caption">Premier David EB has announced a review of the province&#8217;s mental health law in the light of Lapu-Lapu Day Festival TradD. Two lawyers with comprehensive professional experiences, Laura Johnson and Kevin of health justice joined us to share their experiences with community legal aid with community legal aid society and do not want to make and see what they make and see.</span></span></span></div>
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268. <description><![CDATA[Price Carter is planning to die in this summer. The 68 -year -old has revealed stage 4 pancreatic cancer. He knows that it will eventually take his life; Before doing this, he intends to die on his own terms with his family in his side. &#8220;I was initially told,&#8221; This is a solid care, there [&#8230;]]]></description>
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270. <div>
271. <p>Price Carter is planning to die in this summer.</p>
272. <p>The 68 -year -old has revealed stage 4 pancreatic cancer. He knows that it will eventually take his life; Before doing this, he intends to die on his own terms with his family in his side.</p>
273. <p>&#8220;I was initially told,&#8221; This is a solid care, there is no cure for it. &#8221; So that it became easier, &#8220;he said in an interview from his home in Keloona, BC</p>
274. <p>Carter said that he always knows that medical aid in dying would be an option &#8220;If I can, I will exercise.&#8221;</p>
275. <p>He has that option, in large parts, because of his mother.</p>
276. <div>
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278. <div class="placeholder"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" alt="A white woman with a short hair speaks while a tall man looks behind her." srcset="https://i.godfear.in/1.3549179.1748727013!/cpImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/assisted-death-20160421.jpg?im=Resize%3D300 300w,https://i.godfear.in/1.3549179.1748727013!/cpImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/assisted-death-20160421.jpg?im=Resize%3D460 460w,https://i.godfear.in/1.3549179.1748727013!/cpImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/assisted-death-20160421.jpg?im=Resize%3D620 620w,https://i.godfear.in/1.3549179.1748727013!/cpImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/assisted-death-20160421.jpg?im=Resize%3D780 780w,https://i.godfear.in/1.3549179.1748727013!/cpImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/assisted-death-20160421.jpg?im=Resize%3D1180 1180w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 300px,(max-width: 460px) 460px,(max-width: 620px) 620px,(max-width: 780px) 780px,(max-width: 1180px) 1180px" src="https://i.godfear.in/1.3549179.1748727013!/cpImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/assisted-death-20160421.jpg?im=" style="aspect-ratio:1.4390243902439024" data-cy="image-img"/></div><figcaption class="image-caption">Kay Carter&#8217;s daughter Lee Carter, Doctor -Assisted Death Logation, speaks at a press conference on C -14, while her brother, Price Carter, hears the Parliament Hill in Ottawa in April 2016. Lee and Price led the fight after his mother&#8217;s death in Switzerland.<!-- --> <!-- -->(Patrick Doyle/The Canadian Press)</figcaption></figure>
279. </div>
280. <p>K. Carter is named in the case of Canadian Landmark Supreme Court, which empowered Canadian people to choose a medically aided death a decade ago.</p>
281. <p>Price has completed the first assessment of its eligibility for the process and said that he hopes that the second assessment will be completed this week, which will clear their way to end their lives. He spoke openly and peacefully about his last days and his decision.</p>
282. <p>&#8220;I am on peace with this, I am really, and I was years ago,&#8221; he said.</p>
283. <div>
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285. <div class="placeholder"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" alt="A white man speaks in front of a purple banner." srcset="https://i.godfear.in/1.3618624.1748727189!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/price-carter.jpg?im=Resize%3D300 300w,https://i.godfear.in/1.3618624.1748727189!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/price-carter.jpg?im=Resize%3D460 460w,https://i.godfear.in/1.3618624.1748727189!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/price-carter.jpg?im=Resize%3D620 620w,https://i.godfear.in/1.3618624.1748727189!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/price-carter.jpg?im=Resize%3D780 780w,https://i.godfear.in/1.3618624.1748727189!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/price-carter.jpg?im=Resize%3D1180 1180w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 300px,(max-width: 460px) 460px,(max-width: 620px) 620px,(max-width: 780px) 780px,(max-width: 1180px) 1180px" src="https://i.godfear.in/1.3618624.1748727189!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/price-carter.jpg?im=" style="aspect-ratio:1.7771084337349397" data-cy="image-img"/></div><figcaption class="image-caption">Price Carter was detected by pancreatic cancer, which he has stated that it is incurable. He is seen in 2016.<!-- --> <!-- -->(CBC)</figcaption></figure>
286. </div>
287. <p>It has been almost a year because the price first started experiencing the symptoms and received a diagnosis. Till a few months ago, he said, he was swimming and crying. He and his wife Daniel recently golfing, playing the best ball.</p>
288. <p>&#8220;He pulled me down the course,&#8221; he said with laughter.</p>
289. <p>But his energy is starting to fade. He knows how he wants the next step.</p>
290. <h2>Family fought for mother</h2>
291. <p>It was a price over 15 years ago, with his sisters Mary and Lee and his brother -in -law Hallis, the price made his way to Switzerland to live with his mother on his last day.</p>
292. <p>The 89-year-old, living with spinal stenosis and selected to go into a non-profit facility abroad, who provided medical aided death. She became the 10th Canadian to do so.</p>
293. <p>At that time, Assisted Death in Canada was illegal.</p>
294. <p>Kay Carter wrote a letter explaining his decision and his family helped prepare a list of about 150 people, which to send it after death. She could not already tell them her plans because the risk would try to prevent her from going to Switzerland due to risk, or sued family members who helped her.</p>
295. <div>
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297. <div class="placeholder"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" alt="A long white man and a short white woman looks short haired woman." srcset="https://i.godfear.in/1.3587436.1748727121!/cpImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/assisted-death-20160421.jpg?im=Resize%3D300 300w,https://i.godfear.in/1.3587436.1748727121!/cpImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/assisted-death-20160421.jpg?im=Resize%3D460 460w,https://i.godfear.in/1.3587436.1748727121!/cpImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/assisted-death-20160421.jpg?im=Resize%3D620 620w,https://i.godfear.in/1.3587436.1748727121!/cpImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/assisted-death-20160421.jpg?im=Resize%3D780 780w,https://i.godfear.in/1.3587436.1748727121!/cpImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/assisted-death-20160421.jpg?im=Resize%3D1180 1180w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 300px,(max-width: 460px) 460px,(max-width: 620px) 620px,(max-width: 780px) 780px,(max-width: 1180px) 1180px" src="https://i.godfear.in/1.3587436.1748727121!/cpImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/assisted-death-20160421.jpg?im=" style="aspect-ratio:1.542483660130719" data-cy="image-img"/></div><figcaption class="image-caption">Price and Lee made a long journey after the death of her mother in 2010.<!-- --> <!-- -->(Patrick Doyle/The Canadian Press)</figcaption></figure>
298. </div>
299. <p>When she reached the Dignitas convenience, she finalized the paperwork, settled in a bed and chased the barbiturate that would stop her heart with Swiss chocolate.</p>
300. <p>&#8220;When she died, she slowly turned back,&#8221; Price said.</p>
301. <p>After a few minutes, one of the convenience went to the door, &#8220;and the curtains out, and she says,&#8221; there, his soul is independent, &#8220;he said.</p>
302. <p>&#8220;If I was writing the film, I will not change it.&#8221;</p>
303. <p>He said that Smriti cries him today, although not sad. Cancer, and treatment, have made her emotional &#8211; experience was beautiful.</p>
304. <p>&#8220;I wish for my children to see my death like I had my mother,&#8221; he said. He wants his wife, Daniel and her children stay there for their final moments. </p>
305. <p>Their children live in lanes, Gracon and Jena &#8211; Ontario. They are all busy, they said, so when the time is right, he will try to find a date that works for everyone.</p>
306. <p>For now, he is reading a lot.</p>
307. <p>&#8220;I&#8217;m just day -day, and enjoying my daniel.&#8221;</p>
308. <h2>Long road after 2010</h2>
309. <p>The Carter family had a long road after the death of Kay in January 2010.</p>
310. <p>His eldest daughter Lee, the driving force behind taking the case to the Supreme Court, issued a unanimous decision in early 2015, killing the sections of the criminal code, which made someone illegal to help end their lives.</p>
311. <p>In 2016, the federal government passed the law which formed the country for medical assistance in dying and made it legal for those whose death was &#8220;properly visionary&#8221; to apply for an evaluation.</p>
312. <p>Following the 2019 verdict in the Quebec Superior Court, it was found that it was unconstitutional to assemble to die, whose death was perfectly removing, the liberal government updated the law in 2021.</p>
313. <p>The update consisted of a controversial section that people are considered to be eligible for only a supportive death from a mental disorder. The proposed change caused widespread concern between the provinces and some mental health professionals, and is now delayed by March 2027.</p>
314. <p>Meanwhile, health is studying Canada what cannadai think about allowing people to ask for medical help in dying through an advance request.</p>
315. <div>
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317. <div class="placeholder"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" alt="The protesters have given indications that read 'I supported assisted dyeing' and 'allow me to choose'." srcset="https://i.godfear.in/1.2946705.1748728062!/cpImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/scoc-dying-with-dignity-20141015.jpg?im=Resize%3D300 300w,https://i.godfear.in/1.2946705.1748728062!/cpImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/scoc-dying-with-dignity-20141015.jpg?im=Resize%3D460 460w,https://i.godfear.in/1.2946705.1748728062!/cpImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/scoc-dying-with-dignity-20141015.jpg?im=Resize%3D620 620w,https://i.godfear.in/1.2946705.1748728062!/cpImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/scoc-dying-with-dignity-20141015.jpg?im=Resize%3D780 780w,https://i.godfear.in/1.2946705.1748728062!/cpImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/scoc-dying-with-dignity-20141015.jpg?im=Resize%3D1180 1180w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 300px,(max-width: 460px) 460px,(max-width: 620px) 620px,(max-width: 780px) 780px,(max-width: 1180px) 1180px" src="https://i.godfear.in/1.2946705.1748728062!/cpImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/scoc-dying-with-dignity-20141015.jpg?im=" style="aspect-ratio:1.3409090909090908" data-cy="image-img"/></div><figcaption class="image-caption">Supporters ralled outside the Supreme Court of Canada on the first day of hearing in 2014 as to whether Canadians had the right to help end their lives.<!-- --> <!-- -->(Adrian Wiel/the Canadian Press)</figcaption></figure>
318. </div>
319. <p>Advance requests will allow people to apply and decide that they want to eliminate their lives with Alzheimer&#8217;s, dementia, or other degenerative conditions.</p>
320. <p>Price said that change is &#8220;so simple to do so.&#8221;</p>
321. <p>He said, &#8220;We are leaving a large number of Canadian people from a maid option because they can have dementia and they will not be able to decide in three or four or two years. How frightening, how much anxiety will be,&#8221; he said.</p>
322. <p>He admitted to feel disappointed at the pace of change, although he said that he knew that his &#8220;license-fair&#8221; attitude towards death is unusual.</p>
323. <div><strong><em>Look In advance request for maids in Quebec now: </em></strong><span><span class="mediaEmbed"></p>
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327. <div class="video-item video-card-overlay" title="Quebec now allows advance requests for medical assistance in dying">
328. <div class="thumbnail-wrapper"><img decoding="async" src="https://i.godfear.in/ais/bd35dd29-b84b-4b52-96c6-a0cebfd3f626,1730333813958/full/max/0/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%280%2C0%2C1919%2C1079%29%3BResize%3D620" srcset="" alt="" class="thumbnail" loading="lazy"/></div>
329. <div class="video-card-overlay-container">
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331. <p class="video-item-title">Quebec now allows advance requests for medical aid in dying</p>
332. </div>
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334. </div>
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337. </div>
338. <p><span class="media-caption">The federal government says it will not interfere in the new law of Quebec, allowing people to make advance requests for medical assistance in dying (maid), although some doctors in the province are opposing. </span></span></span></div>
339. <p>Dyeing president Helen Long with the series Canada said that several federal consultations have shown that dating back in 2016 for advance requests, wide support.</p>
340. <p>&#8220;We are continuing to advocate and ask our new government &#8230; to make advance requests legal for Canadian people,&#8221; he said.</p>
341. <p>Quebec has passed the law to allow people with severe and incurable diseases to apply for a supportively aided death in the event that they disable through an advance request. </p>
342. <div>
343. <figure class="imageMedia image full">
344. <div class="placeholder"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" alt="A woman read an oath on a book on a book, which is an oath organized by a man in a suit." srcset="https://i.godfear.in/1.7533948.1747163900!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/cabinet-shuffle-20250513.JPG?im=Resize%3D300 300w,https://i.godfear.in/1.7533948.1747163900!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/cabinet-shuffle-20250513.JPG?im=Resize%3D460 460w,https://i.godfear.in/1.7533948.1747163900!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/cabinet-shuffle-20250513.JPG?im=Resize%3D620 620w,https://i.godfear.in/1.7533948.1747163900!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/cabinet-shuffle-20250513.JPG?im=Resize%3D780 780w,https://i.godfear.in/1.7533948.1747163900!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/cabinet-shuffle-20250513.JPG?im=Resize%3D1180 1180w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 300px,(max-width: 460px) 460px,(max-width: 620px) 620px,(max-width: 780px) 780px,(max-width: 1180px) 1180px" src="https://i.godfear.in/1.7533948.1747163900!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/cabinet-shuffle-20250513.JPG?im=" style="aspect-ratio:1.4993646759847523" data-cy="image-img"/></div><figcaption class="image-caption">Federal Health Minister, Marjori Mitchell deferred a question whether the federal government would allow advance requests for medical assistance in dying.<!-- --> <!-- -->(Christine Smile/The Canadian Press)</figcaption></figure>
345. </div>
346. <p>Marjori Mitchell, recently named Health Minister in Prime Minister Mark Karney&#8217;s new government, said in an interview that it was a question of balance.</p>
347. <p>&#8220;This is very personal for the people, and I think in some provinces, they are not there yet,&#8221; he said.</p>
348. <p>But when asked if the government was planning to allow advance requests, he postponed his colleague in the Department of Justice. A spokesperson of Justice Minister Sean Fraser said that Mitchell would be given the best place to respond.</p>
349. <p>Health Canada is ready to release a report with major conclusions with its consultation on the matter in this spring.</p>
350. <p>Medical aid in dying in Canada is becoming more common. In 2023, the latest year for which national statistics are available, 19,660 people applied for the process and more than 15,300 people were approved.</p>
351. <p>More than 95 percent of the people were people whose death was considered to be perfectly away.</p>
352. <p>Price Carter said that he wants to talk about his situation because he wants Canadian to talk about death, as uncomfortable.</p>
353. <p>He said, &#8220;The more conversation we can revolve around the kitchen tables, the better.&#8221;</p>
354. <p>&#8220;We are all going to die. This is part of the living situation. And yet we ignore it, for our crisis.&#8221;</p>
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364. <title>How the destiny of a herd of ostriches on a small B.C. farm stuck the eye of the Trump management</title>
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373. <description><![CDATA[Edgewood, B.C. isn&#8217;t usually the sort of place that would be on the radar of high-ranking White House officials.  On the west shore of Lower Arrow Lake and surrounded by the Monashee Mountains, it&#8217;s a roughly 200-kilometre drive from Kelowna, B.C., on a winding road. An unincorporated community, the latest census put it at a population [&#8230;]]]></description>
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376. <p>Edgewood, B.C. isn&#8217;t usually the sort of place that would be on the radar of high-ranking White House officials. </p>
377. <p>On the west shore of Lower Arrow Lake and surrounded by the Monashee Mountains, it&#8217;s a roughly 200-kilometre drive from Kelowna, B.C., on a winding road. An unincorporated community, the latest census put it at a population of 235 people working in farming, forestry and tourism.</p>
378. <p>But since December 2024, it&#8217;s been making international headlines over the fate of a group of ostriches living on one particular farm near the end of a rural road: Universal Ostrich, owned by Karen Espersen and Dave Bilinski and whose spokesperson is Katie Pasitney, Espersen&#8217;s daughter.</p>
379. <p>In December, Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) officials were tipped off that some of the large birds on the farm had died, with tests confirming the presence of avian flu. That resulted in a cull order, which the farm has fought, picking up high-profile allies along the way and a court ruling allowing the cull to move forward.</p>
380. <p>Among the farm&#8217;s supporters are U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., former TV host  and current administrator for the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Dr. Mehmet Oz, and U.S. billionaire John Catsimatidis, all of whom who have now publicly urged Canadian officials to allow the ostriches to live.</p>
381. <div><em><strong>WATCH | U.S. officials seek to reverse ostriches&#8217; fate:</strong> </em><span><span class="mediaEmbed"></p>
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389. <p class="video-item-title">Dr. Oz, U.S. billionaire offer to take B.C. ostriches ordered killed</p>
390. </div>
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395. </div>
396. <p><span class="media-caption">An embattled B.C. ostrich farm is getting support from south of the border. As Brady Strachan reports, a couple of high-profile officials within the U.S. administration have met with Canadian authorities and asked them to preserve the ostriches for scientific research. </span></span></span></div>
397. <p>Meanwhile, the CFIA argues that as difficult as the decision is, the cull must move forward to protect public health and Canada&#8217;s agriculture industry.</p>
398. <p>On May 30, the agency said the farm <a href="https://www.canada.ca/en/food-inspection-agency/news/2025/05/update-on-the-cfias-actions-at-an-hpai-infected-premise-at-a-british-columbia-ostrich-farm.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">has been fined $20,000 for its failure to report the initial infection and deaths of birds</a>, and for its later failure to adhere to quarantine and cull orders.</p>
399. <p>And at the centre of it is a farm full of ostriches in a tucked-away part of the province.</p>
400. <p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve taken years to be able to pet these guys, walk among these guys,&#8221; Espersen said in a Facebook video, surrounded by her birds, in early May.</p>
401. <p>&#8220;If we don&#8217;t stand for this … then what kind of world have we become?&#8221;</p>
402. <p>Here&#8217;s what you need to know about this story, so far:</p>
403. <h2>The avian flu context</h2>
404. <p>The government of Canada, as well as other governments worldwide, are currently monitoring an outbreak of a strain of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) known as H5N1. Though it mainly infects birds, it can spread to other animals and humans, which typically happens through direct contact with infected birds or contaminated environments, the government says.</p>
405. <p>While human infection is rare, the fatality rate is &#8220;approximately 52 per cent&#8221;, the government says, though it cautions that number may be an overestimate &#8220;given that mild infections can go undetected and under-reported.&#8221;</p>
406. <p>The first human case of H5N1 contracted in Canada was reported in B.C. in November 2024.</p>
407. <p>Avian flu&#8217;s primary impact has been seen among domestic birds, particularly chickens. Because poultry live together in close quarters, the virus can spread quickly among the flock, leading to high mortality rates and potential mutations. The disease has been blamed as a primary factor for high egg prices in the United States as laying hens were killed.</p>
408. <p>In response to the virus, the CFIA has a &#8220;stamping out&#8221; policy which requires all domestic birds in a flock to be killed even if the virus is detected in just one bird. Thousands of birds have been culled under this policy.</p>
409. <div><em><strong>WATCH | H5N1 concerns:</strong> </em><span><span class="mediaEmbed"></p>
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413. <div class="video-item video-card-overlay" title="What you should know about the H5N1 strain of avian flu">
414. <div class="thumbnail-wrapper"><img decoding="async" src="https://i.godfear.in/ais/d1674660-62b5-409c-a2e8-cabdb3217b8c,1731966391200/full/max/0/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%280%2C0%2C1920%2C1080%29%3BResize%3D620" srcset="" alt="" class="thumbnail" loading="lazy"/></div>
415. <div class="video-card-overlay-container">
416. <div class="video-info-container">
417. <p class="video-item-title">What you should know about the H5N1 strain of avian flu</p>
418. </div>
419. </div>
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423. </div>
424. <p><span class="media-caption">Public health officials reported earlier this month that a B.C. teenager is the first person in Canada to contract the H5N1 strain of the virus. Dr. Melissa Lem with UBC&#8217;s Faculty of Medicine tells BC Today host Michelle Eliot how the virus spreads and the rare instances of humans acquiring it.</span></span></span></div>
425. <p>&#8220;Allowing a domestic poultry flock known to be exposed to HPAI to remain alive allows a potential source of the virus to persist,&#8221; the CFIA  <a href="https://inspection.canada.ca/en/animal-health/terrestrial-animals/diseases/reportable/avian-influenza/latest-bird-flu-situation/investigations-and-orders/british-columbia-ostrich-farm/judicial-review" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said in a statement</a>.</p>
426. <p>&#8220;A human case of H5N1 in B.C. earlier this year required critical care, and an extended hospital stay for the patient, and there have been a number of human cases in the United States, including a fatality.&#8221;</p>
427. <h2>Disease detected at Universal Ostrich</h2>
428. <p>According to <a href="https://decisions.fct-cf.gc.ca/fc-cf/decisions/en/item/528164/index.do#_Toc198034606" target="_blank" rel="noopener">court documents</a>, in early December 2024 the farm was home to about 450 ostriches, some more than three decades old. Partway through the month, several ostriches on the farm developed &#8220;flu-like&#8221; symptoms, which started about a week after 300-500 ducks landed on the premises.</p>
429. <p>The farm says that from Dec. 14, 2024 to Jan. 14, 2025, &#8220;69 young male and female breeders died, most of them under four years old.&#8221;</p>
430. <p>On Dec. 28, the CFIA investigated following an &#8220;anonymous report of multiple ostrich deaths&#8221; at the farm, the court document says, and a quarantine was ordered the same day four more ostriches died.</p>
431. <p>Samples were collected from two of the dead ostriches and by Dec. 31 they had tested positive for avian flu at the Canadian Animal Health Surveillance Network laboratory in Abbotsford, B.C.. On Jan. 3 the National Centre for Foreign Animal Disease in Winnipeg confirmed H5N1.</p>
432. <p>The order to cull the flock was given on Dec. 31.</p>
433. <h2>Quarantine orders not followed</h2>
434. <p>Inspectors also noted the ostriches were in open pens, allowing for free access by wild birds and animals, and that staff at the farm shared equipment and &#8220;moved freely among open pens&#8221;, posing a biosecurity hazard when the disease was present.</p>
435. <p>Even in January, after quarantine orders were in place, inspectors noted wild animals were still freely interacting with the ostriches and other safety measures weren&#8217;t being followed.</p>
436. <p>&#8220;The record also shows that the Applicant&#8217;s farm also exhibited sick ostriches being moved to treatment pens in contravention of quarantine requirements, dead ostriches dragged through pens populated with living ones without robust separation measures, and unauthorized individuals walking inside the infected zone,&#8221; the judge wrote.</p>
437. <p>In its May 30 statement, the CFIA wrote that the farm&#8217;s failure to quarantine its birds increased the chance of transmission and &#8220;reflect a disregard for regulatory compliance and animal health standards.&#8221;</p>
438. <h2>Claims of herd immunity</h2>
439. <p>When the cull order was given on Dec. 31, 2024, the farm was given a compliance deadline of Feb. 1, 2025.</p>
440. <p>They used that time to try and build a case for the ostriches to be spared.</p>
441. <p>According to the court case, the farm&#8217;s operators began raising the ostriches in the mid-1990s, and Espersen and Bilinski say they incorporated Universal Ostrich Farms, Inc. in 2001 with a focus on &#8220;ethical breeding and care.&#8221;</p>
442. <p>In court, the farm&#8217;s lawyer says that the farm&#8217;s operations include selling breeding stock, raising birds for slaughter and meat and agri-tourism.</p>
443. <div>
444. <figure class="imageMedia image full">
445. <div class="placeholder"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" alt="Two people wearing masks stand outside with ostriches." srcset="https://i.godfear.in/1.7447864.1744663374!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpeg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/universal-ostrich.jpeg?im=Resize%3D300 300w,https://i.godfear.in/1.7447864.1744663374!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpeg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/universal-ostrich.jpeg?im=Resize%3D460 460w,https://i.godfear.in/1.7447864.1744663374!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpeg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/universal-ostrich.jpeg?im=Resize%3D620 620w,https://i.godfear.in/1.7447864.1744663374!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpeg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/universal-ostrich.jpeg?im=Resize%3D780 780w,https://i.godfear.in/1.7447864.1744663374!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpeg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/universal-ostrich.jpeg?im=Resize%3D1180 1180w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 300px,(max-width: 460px) 460px,(max-width: 620px) 620px,(max-width: 780px) 780px,(max-width: 1180px) 1180px" src="https://i.godfear.in/1.7447864.1744663374!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpeg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/universal-ostrich.jpeg?im=" style="aspect-ratio:1.3333333333333333" data-cy="image-img"/></div><figcaption class="image-caption">Dave Bilinski and Karen Espersen of Universal Ostrich pose with a portion of their flock of birds after learning a deadline to have them killed over avian flu concerns has been put off by a federal judge on Jan. 31, 2025.<!-- --> <!-- -->(Brady Strachan/CBC)</figcaption></figure>
446. </div>
447. <p>However, the farm also says it <a href="https://saveourostriches.com/press-releases/official-statement-from-universal-ostrich-farms-inc-may21-2025/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pivoted during the COVID-19 pandemic</a> to focus instead on research, specifically on trying to use ostrich eggs to produce antibodies for COVID-19 or other viruses. &#8220;Meat processing ceased in the summer of 2019,&#8221; it said in a statement.</p>
448. <p>The farm says it partnered with Yasuhiro Tsukamoto of Kyoto Prefectural University in Japan for this work.</p>
449. <p>Neither Tsukamoto nor the university have responded to CBC News in relation to the story but the researcher, known in some circles as &#8220;Dr. Ostrich,&#8221; has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/10/scientists-ostrich-cells-glowing-covid-detection-masks" target="_blank" rel="noopener">previously made headlines for his work with ostrich eggs and COVID-19</a>.</p>
450. <p>CBC News also heard from a researcher who has confirmed his work with Universal Ostrich.</p>
451. <p>&#8220;Dr. Yasuhiro Tsukamoto and I are Co-CEOs of Ostrich Pharma USA (OPUSA),&#8221; said Stuart Greenberg in an email.</p>
452. <p>&#8220;OPUSA has been tasked with commercializing the specialized ostrich antibodies produced by Dr. Tsukamoto and his research team in Japan. We have been working with Universal Ostrich in B.C. to develop the techniques for large-scale production of ostrich antibodies derived from the yolks of their eggs,&#8221; the email continues.</p>
453. <p>&#8220;Our focus has been on the production of antibodies against human digestive enzymes to produce a dietary supplement for weight loss.&#8221;</p>
454. <p>Tsukamoto has not confirmed his work in this area.</p>
455. <p>Additionally, Universal Ostrich maintains that all of the birds that died due to avian flu were acquired &#8220;after 2020.&#8221;</p>
456. <p>This is important to them because they say that in March 2020, a flu-like disease infected their herd which they believe gave the survivors &#8220;natural and eventual herd immunity,&#8221; and say that since January the remainder of the ostriches are &#8220;happy and healthy&#8221; showing no sign of sickness.</p>
457. <h2>Exemption denied</h2>
458. <p>According to the court case, the farm first raised the possibility that its ostriches had developed immunity to avian flu during a Jan. 2 phone call with a CFIA case officer, who explained the process for receiving an exemption to the cull order.</p>
459. <p>In followup emails, the officer provided the forms and documentation that would be needed to make the case that the birds should not be killed, and the farm made its application.</p>
460. <p>However, by Jan. 10 the exemption was rejected.</p>
461. <p>According to the courts, the CFIA concluded the farm &#8220;failed to demonstrate the existence of any distinct epidemiological unit,&#8221; that was not likely to be exposed to avian flu, nor had it submitted &#8220;sufficient evidence to support its claims of genetic rarity and value qualifying the flock for an exemption,&#8221; the latter of which could be proven through breeding books, recognition from breed associations, or genomic testing.</p>
462. <div>
463. <figure class="imageMedia image full">
464. <div class="placeholder"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" alt="A herd of ostriches is seen in a snowy field." srcset="https://i.godfear.in/1.7429422.1736719334!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/universal-ostrich-farm-edgewater.jpg?im=Resize%3D300 300w,https://i.godfear.in/1.7429422.1736719334!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/universal-ostrich-farm-edgewater.jpg?im=Resize%3D460 460w,https://i.godfear.in/1.7429422.1736719334!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/universal-ostrich-farm-edgewater.jpg?im=Resize%3D620 620w,https://i.godfear.in/1.7429422.1736719334!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/universal-ostrich-farm-edgewater.jpg?im=Resize%3D780 780w,https://i.godfear.in/1.7429422.1736719334!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/universal-ostrich-farm-edgewater.jpg?im=Resize%3D1180 1180w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 300px,(max-width: 460px) 460px,(max-width: 620px) 620px,(max-width: 780px) 780px,(max-width: 1180px) 1180px" src="https://i.godfear.in/1.7429422.1736719334!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/universal-ostrich-farm-edgewater.jpg?im=" style="aspect-ratio:1.7771084337349397" data-cy="image-img"/></div><figcaption class="image-caption">About 450 ostriches lived at the farm in December 2024, with 69 dying by mid-January.<!-- --> <!-- -->(Submitted by Katie Pasitney)</figcaption></figure>
465. </div>
466. <p>The May 30 statement from the CFIA also said the farm failed to provide &#8220;research documentation&#8221; and that the farm lacks facilities &#8220;suitable for controlled research activity or trials.&#8221;</p>
467. <p>The court case also noted that there has only been one exemption to the &#8220;stamping out&#8221; policy granted in Canada during the current H5N1 outbreak, in the case of a turkey farm infected in 2022 that was able to demonstrate the complete separation, including biosecurity measures, of turkey flocks where some birds had been infected.</p>
468. <p>Not only were the spared birds kept in separate barns from the infected animals with distinct ventilation and a &#8220;shower in/shower out&#8221; procedure, but the facility was also able to demonstrate the birds had &#8220;rare and valuable genetics&#8221; used for &#8220;high value pedigree birds.&#8221;</p>
469. <p>The CFIA also refused the ostrich farm&#8217;s request that it do follow-up testing on its surviving birds.</p>
470. <h2>Legal courts and court of public opinion</h2>
471. <p>The farm went public with its plight early, with Pasitney first speaking to CBC News on Jan. 9.</p>
472. <p>The story was also covered by local outlets and was later picked up as a campaign by the Ezra Levant-owned website the Rebel, which in a Jan. 24 post encouraged readers to begin emailing the CFIA and other officials, claiming the cull was in part because of the influence of major pharmaceutical companies.</p>
473. <p dir="ltr">Also involved is B.C. Rising, a group with a website that includes a section arguing that COVID-19 was part of a United Nations-led plot to take control of vast swaths of land and that 15-minute cities, an urban planning tool aimed at creating walkable neighbourhoods, is actually a plot to trap people in individual sectors of their city.</p>
474. <p dir="ltr">The site now has a section titled &#8220;Save Our Ostriches&#8221; and helped organize a &#8220;convoy&#8221; of people to visit the farm and show their opposition to the kill order.</p>
475. <div dir="ltr">
476. <figure class="imageMedia image full">
477. <div class="placeholder"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" alt="A poster showing pictures of ostriches that reads 'Save Our Ostriches.'" srcset="https://i.godfear.in/1.7446799.1744663577!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/save-our-ostriches-convoy.jpg?im=Resize%3D300 300w,https://i.godfear.in/1.7446799.1744663577!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/save-our-ostriches-convoy.jpg?im=Resize%3D460 460w,https://i.godfear.in/1.7446799.1744663577!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/save-our-ostriches-convoy.jpg?im=Resize%3D620 620w,https://i.godfear.in/1.7446799.1744663577!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/save-our-ostriches-convoy.jpg?im=Resize%3D780 780w,https://i.godfear.in/1.7446799.1744663577!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/save-our-ostriches-convoy.jpg?im=Resize%3D1180 1180w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 300px,(max-width: 460px) 460px,(max-width: 620px) 620px,(max-width: 780px) 780px,(max-width: 1180px) 1180px" src="https://i.godfear.in/1.7446799.1744663577!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/save-our-ostriches-convoy.jpg?im=" style="aspect-ratio:2.570806100217865" data-cy="image-img"/></div><figcaption class="image-caption">A poster advertises a convoy to Universal Ostrich to protest the ordered cull.<!-- --> <!-- -->(Facebook/B.C. Rising)</figcaption></figure>
478. </div>
479. <p>The farm welcomed supporters, while also posting a disclaimer stating it did not necessarily agree with all of the material being circulated by those who had taken up the cause of saving the ostriches.</p>
480. <p dir="ltr">&#8220;We&#8217;re just trying to do what&#8217;s right,&#8221; Pasitney said.</p>
481. <p>In the meantime, the farm contracted a lawyer to apply for the cull to be stayed until the case could be heard by the courts, arguing Universal Ostrich would suffer &#8220;irreparable harm&#8221; should it move ahead.</p>
482. <p>That stay was granted, and the case went to federal court for two days of hearings on April 14 and 15.</p>
483. <h2>Legal and scientific debate</h2>
484. <p>During the hearings, Universal Ostrich pleaded its case for an exemption, reiterating many of its previous claims about herd immunity and the scientific value of its birds.</p>
485. <p>It also called on three individuals who argued that the stamping-out policy used by the CFIA was not required, at least in the case of the ostriches.</p>
486. <p>Those individuals were Steven Pelech, a UBC professor and biochemist with training in immunology and virology, Bryan Brindle, an immunologist at the University of Guelph and Jeff Wilson, a former senior epidemiologist and manager at the Public Heath Agency of Canada.</p>
487. <p>Collectively, the trio made the case that ostriches should be treated as different from hens or other poultry due to a combination of their long lifespan (three to five decades) and the fact that they don&#8217;t live in as densely populated conditions as hens.</p>
488. <p>They also argued that the CFIA should have been open to further testing of the surviving birds after the initial deaths occurred.</p>
489. <p>But the CFIA pushed back.</p>
490. <div>
491. <figure class="imageMedia image full">
492. <div class="placeholder"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" alt="People stand around a campfire in the middle of the snow." srcset="https://i.godfear.in/1.7447787.1744663522!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/universal-ostrich.jpg?im=Resize%3D300 300w,https://i.godfear.in/1.7447787.1744663522!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/universal-ostrich.jpg?im=Resize%3D460 460w,https://i.godfear.in/1.7447787.1744663522!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/universal-ostrich.jpg?im=Resize%3D620 620w,https://i.godfear.in/1.7447787.1744663522!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/universal-ostrich.jpg?im=Resize%3D780 780w,https://i.godfear.in/1.7447787.1744663522!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/universal-ostrich.jpg?im=Resize%3D1180 1180w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 300px,(max-width: 460px) 460px,(max-width: 620px) 620px,(max-width: 780px) 780px,(max-width: 1180px) 1180px" src="https://i.godfear.in/1.7447787.1744663522!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/universal-ostrich.jpg?im=" style="aspect-ratio:1.7771084337349397" data-cy="image-img"/></div><figcaption class="image-caption">Supporters camp out at Universal Ostrich on Jan. 31, 2025. Some came from cities as much as 400 kilometers away to show their support.<!-- --> <!-- -->(Brady Strachan/CBC)</figcaption></figure>
493. </div>
494. <p>&#8220;Whether or not the birds recover and appear healthy is not the concern when implementing a cull policy,&#8221; said Paul Saunders, the agency&#8217;s lawyer. </p>
495. <p dir="ltr">&#8220;That concern also includes the potential for the mutation of the virus among healthy birds&#8230;. an infection in birds could be a precursor to a human flu pandemic. Regardless of how likely that is, once it happens, it&#8217;s happened, so that is a concern motivating the CFIA&#8217;s response.&#8221;</p>
496. <p>The CFIA also relied on a report from Shannon French, a veterinary epidemiologist trained in epidemiology, virology and poultry health management, outlining the international scientific standards that inform its decision-making.</p>
497. <div>
498. <figure class="imageMedia image full">
499. <div class="placeholder"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" alt="A white wooden sign on sparse green grass outside, an ostrich enclosure that has ostriches in it says Save our Ostriches in hand lettering with a drawing of an ostrich beside the lettering. " srcset="https://i.godfear.in/1.7542902.1748374140!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/save-our-ostriches.JPG?im=Resize%3D300 300w,https://i.godfear.in/1.7542902.1748374140!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/save-our-ostriches.JPG?im=Resize%3D460 460w,https://i.godfear.in/1.7542902.1748374140!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/save-our-ostriches.JPG?im=Resize%3D620 620w,https://i.godfear.in/1.7542902.1748374140!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/save-our-ostriches.JPG?im=Resize%3D780 780w,https://i.godfear.in/1.7542902.1748374140!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/save-our-ostriches.JPG?im=Resize%3D1180 1180w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 300px,(max-width: 460px) 460px,(max-width: 620px) 620px,(max-width: 780px) 780px,(max-width: 1180px) 1180px" src="https://i.godfear.in/1.7542902.1748374140!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/save-our-ostriches.JPG?im=" style="aspect-ratio:1.49746192893401" data-cy="image-img"/></div><figcaption class="image-caption">A sign stating Save Our Ostriches at the Universal Ostrich farm in Edgewood, B.C. in May, 2025.<!-- --> <!-- -->(Camille Vernet/Radio-Canada)</figcaption></figure>
500. </div>
501. <p>The agency&#8217;s legal team also attacked the trio of scientists put forward by the farm, stating none have ever worked with ostriches, and that much of their testimony was &#8220;speculative&#8221; and &#8220;well outside mainstream peer-reviewed literature.&#8221;</p>
502. <p>Likewise, the farm&#8217;s lawyers attacked French for not being impartial given her professional association with the CFIA.</p>
503. <p>&#8220;Unsurprisingly, each side seeks to narrow the evidentiary footprint of the other, and asks this Court to rely on the opinion of their experts should opinions diverge,&#8221; Justice Russel Zinn wrote, ultimately declaring it would be inappropriate for him or any other judge to do so.</p>
504. <p>Instead, he focused on the fact that the CFIA was the agency in Canada tasked with managing the complex scientific and technical decisions in relation to avian flu.</p>
505. <p>&#8220;When Parliament leaves technical or scientific assessments to specialized administrative bodies, it signals that those bodies, not the courts, are best positioned to make judgments on complex, expertise-driven matters,&#8221; he wrote, allowing the cull to proceed.</p>
506. <h2>A difficult decision</h2>
507. <p>Both Zinn and the CFIA noted the emotional and economic toll any cull takes on farmers.</p>
508. <p>They also noted that the cull is not punishment but instead based on the public good, which is also why farms receive financial compensation when they take place — up to $3,000 per animal in the case of the ostriches.</p>
509. <p dir="ltr">&#8220;While compensation may not offset the emotional toll of depopulation, it can provide resources to recover and reestablish operations,&#8221; CFIA said.</p>
510. <p>But that&#8217;s not feasible for Universal Ostrich, Pasitney said. Her mother is in her 60s, her business partner in his 70s, and they don&#8217;t feel they can start over with a new set of birds, especially ones as finicky as ostriches.</p>
511. <p dir="ltr">&#8220;They&#8217;re in the pecking order,&#8221; Pasitney said. &#8220;They know them.&#8221;</p>
512. <div dir="ltr">
513. <figure class="imageMedia image full">
514. <div class="placeholder"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" alt="A woman with an ostrich." srcset="https://i.godfear.in/1.7535390.1747265929!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/espersen.jpg?im=Resize%3D300 300w,https://i.godfear.in/1.7535390.1747265929!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/espersen.jpg?im=Resize%3D460 460w,https://i.godfear.in/1.7535390.1747265929!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/espersen.jpg?im=Resize%3D620 620w,https://i.godfear.in/1.7535390.1747265929!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/espersen.jpg?im=Resize%3D780 780w,https://i.godfear.in/1.7535390.1747265929!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/espersen.jpg?im=Resize%3D1180 1180w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 300px,(max-width: 460px) 460px,(max-width: 620px) 620px,(max-width: 780px) 780px,(max-width: 1180px) 1180px" src="https://i.godfear.in/1.7535390.1747265929!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/espersen.jpg?im=" style="aspect-ratio:1.7771084337349397" data-cy="image-img"/></div><figcaption class="image-caption">Universal Ostrich co-owner Karen Espersen posted a plea on Facebook for supporters to come &#8216;surround&#8217; her farm in an effort to stop her birds from being culled.<!-- --> <!-- -->(Facebook/Karen Espersen)</figcaption></figure>
515. </div>
516. <p>Scientists not involved in the court case say the CFIA and Universal Ostrich are trying to navigate a difficult position.</p>
517. <p>Jean-Pierre Vaillancourt, a professor at the University of Montreal&#8217;s veterinary school, says Canada has <a href="https://inspection.canada.ca/en/animal-health/chief-veterinary-officer/woah" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed a treaty</a> with the <a href="http://www.woah.org/fileadmin/Home/eng/Health_standards/tahc/current/glossaire.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">World Organisation for Animal Health</a>, which means it has agreed on certain specific measures, like culls, when it comes to controlling avian flu.</p>
518. <p>&#8220;We try to extinguish the fire — so essentially the virus can&#8217;t feed and replicate if it has other birds around,&#8221; he said.</p>
519. <p>J. Scott Weese, a professor at the Ontario Veterinary College, told CBC News in an email that a decision to cull animals at a farm is a cost-benefit decision, where the costs and benefits can&#8217;t be quantified easily.</p>
520. <p>&#8220;In general, culling makes more sense when there&#8217;s widespread infection, risk to people around the animals, limited other exposure risk, where disease is more severe and where there&#8217;s less value — economic, conservation, human-animal bond — of the animals,&#8221; he said.</p>
521. <p>But Weese added that H5N1 is now well established in Canada, and there may be less justification for culling from the standpoint of controlling disease.</p>
522. <p dir="ltr">&#8220;An individual group of birds is a drop in the bucket now,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Culling probably has little population benefit.&#8221; </p>
523. <p dir="ltr">He added, though, that from a &#8220;risk aversion standpoint,&#8221; a cull is the &#8220;easiest thing&#8221; to do.</p>
524. <div dir="ltr">
525. <figure class="imageMedia image full">
526. <div class="placeholder"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" alt="Signs saying, Stronger Together, and an inflatable ostrich lean against a wire fence." srcset="https://i.godfear.in/1.7542899.1748460049!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/ostrich-farm.JPG?im=Resize%3D300 300w,https://i.godfear.in/1.7542899.1748460049!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/ostrich-farm.JPG?im=Resize%3D460 460w,https://i.godfear.in/1.7542899.1748460049!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/ostrich-farm.JPG?im=Resize%3D620 620w,https://i.godfear.in/1.7542899.1748460049!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/ostrich-farm.JPG?im=Resize%3D780 780w,https://i.godfear.in/1.7542899.1748460049!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/ostrich-farm.JPG?im=Resize%3D1180 1180w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 300px,(max-width: 460px) 460px,(max-width: 620px) 620px,(max-width: 780px) 780px,(max-width: 1180px) 1180px" src="https://i.godfear.in/1.7542899.1748460049!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/ostrich-farm.JPG?im=" style="aspect-ratio:1.49746192893401" data-cy="image-img"/></div><figcaption class="image-caption">Signs and a prop put up by supporters of Universal Ostrich.<!-- --> <!-- -->(Camille Vernet/Radio-Canada)</figcaption></figure>
527. </div>
528. <p>And Fiona Brinkman, a professor at Simon Fraser University&#8217;s department of molecular biology and biochemistry called the spread of avian flu &#8220;a tragedy,&#8221; saying that she had hoped the CFIA would conduct new tests of the ostriches while she also recognized the worry that they could be reinfected or asymptomatic, passing the flu back and forth with wild birds.</p>
529. <p>&#8220;There&#8217;s a real problem with the birds not being able to be sheltered,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Poultry, for example, you can put them in a barn. That&#8217;s not appropriate for ostriches.&#8221;</p>
530. <p>And rights group Animal Justice has become involved, arguing that rather than mass culls, Canada should focus on improving conditions at large-scale poultry farms where birds are kept in more confined conditions.<br /> </p>
531. <div><em><strong>LISTEN: Professor weighs in on ostrich cull order:</strong></em> <span><span class="mediaEmbed"></p>
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535. <p><span class="media-showName">Daybreak South</span><span class="media-duration">7:44</span><span class="media-title">B.C. professor thinks CFIA should collect more data before enforcing an order to cull a herd of ostriches</span></p>
536. </div>
537. </div>
538. </div>
539. <p><span class="media-caption">Fiona Brinkman is a professor at Simon Fraser University&#8217;s department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry. She weighs in on the order to cull a herd of ostriches in southwest B.C.</span></span></span></div>
540. <h2>Political pushback</h2>
541. <p>Despite the ruling, B.C.&#8217;s premier has expressed frustration with the CFIA for not showing more &#8220;flexibility&#8221; in its decision making.</p>
542. <p>&#8220;We understand the importance of containing the bird flu and the important role that agency plays,&#8221; he said following the court ruling. &#8220;What&#8217;s hard to watch is a lack of discretion and ability to evaluate case-by-case scenarios.&#8221;</p>
543. <p>He said putting the specifics of the ostrich case aside, it&#8217;s a &#8220;consistent experience the province has had with federal agencies.&#8221;</p>
544. <p>Conservative MP Scott Anderson has visited the farm, which is in his riding, and says he has asked the CFIA to &#8220;hold off&#8221; on the cull and be open to other solutions.</p>
545. <p>Another politician to visit is independent MLA Jordan Kealey of Peace River North, who is a farmer himself.</p>
546. <p>He told CBC News the case had struck fear into many independent farmers who worry that with avian flu so prevalent among wild birds, it will be nearly impossible to avoid exposure and, ultimately, will lead to the loss of animals.</p>
547. <p>Meanwhile, the Regional District of Central Kootenay voted to not accept the carcasses of any killed ostriches at local landfills unless followup testing of the birds was done, and the results made public. That meeting was attended by nearly 300 supporters of the farm via Zoom.</p>
548. <h2>Threats, deaths and RCMP involvement</h2>
549. <p>Since the ruling, a few dozen supporters have camped out at the farm, at the encouragement of its owners, with Espersen encouraging them to &#8220;come surround the farm&#8221; and &#8220;don&#8217;t let them do this to these beautiful animals.&#8221;</p>
550. <div><em><strong>WATCH | Supporters gather at Universal Ostrich:</strong> </em><span><span class="mediaEmbed"></p>
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558. <p class="video-item-title">Supporters back ostrich farm fighting cull despite past cases of avian flu</p>
559. </div>
560. </div>
561. </div>
562. </div>
563. </div>
564. </div>
565. <p><span class="media-caption">The remote community of Edgewood, B.C., is now ground zero for a fight to save 400 ostriches. Protesters have descended on Universal Ostrich Farm this weekend, defying an avian flu cull order. Radio-Canada&#8217;s Camille Vernet was there this week, exploring why people are so deeply invested in this flock&#8217;s fate.</span></span></span></div>
566. <p>The farm has urged its supporters to be peaceful and spoken out against threats of violence that have been made by some opposed to the cull.</p>
567. <p>The union representing CFIA workers says it has fears over some of the rhetoric being posted online, including death threats against members.</p>
568. <p>&#8220;Nobody likes to see their flocks culled, and we certainly don&#8217;t take any pleasure in doing it, but &#8230; it is our jobs, it&#8217;s our mandate for the safety of Canadians to ensure that we carry out our job,&#8221; said Milton Dyck, the president of the Agriculture Union, in an interview with CBC News.</p>
569. <p>In its May 30 statement, the CFIA said the farm owners and supporters had gathered in &#8220;an apparent attempt to prevent the CFIA from carrying out its operations at the infected premises.</p>
570. <p>&#8220;This has delayed a timely and appropriate response to the HPAI infected premises, resulting in ongoing health risks to animals and humans,&#8221; the statement read.</p>
571. <p>On the other side, Universal Ostrich says two of its birds have been shot, one on the night of March 21 and the other on the night of May 23.</p>
572. <p>RCMP has not confirmed the cause of the deaths but says it is investigating both instances.</p>
573. <p>RCMP liason officers have also been paying regular visits to the farm in what they describe as an effort to maintain safety for everyone involved.</p>
574. <p>Universal Ostrich says it supports the RCMP&#8217;s presence.</p>
575. <h2>RFK Jr. and Dr. Oz weigh in</h2>
576. <p>In the meantime, word of the ostriches&#8217; fate has continued to grow through dedicated coverage from independent streamers and websites dedicated to pushing back against what they view as government overreach.</p>
577. <p>One of the most high-profile supporters to jump on the cause has been U.S. billionaire John Catsimatidis, who told CBC News he had been following the story through a website called Broken Truth.</p>
578. <div>
579. <figure class="imageMedia image full">
580. <div class="placeholder"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" alt="A composite of two men in a suits, and an ostrich." srcset="https://i.godfear.in/1.7545132.1748374374!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/kennedy-oz-ostriches.jpg?im=Resize%3D300 300w,https://i.godfear.in/1.7545132.1748374374!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/kennedy-oz-ostriches.jpg?im=Resize%3D460 460w,https://i.godfear.in/1.7545132.1748374374!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/kennedy-oz-ostriches.jpg?im=Resize%3D620 620w,https://i.godfear.in/1.7545132.1748374374!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/kennedy-oz-ostriches.jpg?im=Resize%3D780 780w,https://i.godfear.in/1.7545132.1748374374!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/kennedy-oz-ostriches.jpg?im=Resize%3D1180 1180w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 300px,(max-width: 460px) 460px,(max-width: 620px) 620px,(max-width: 780px) 780px,(max-width: 1180px) 1180px" src="https://i.godfear.in/1.7545132.1748374374!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/kennedy-oz-ostriches.jpg?im=" style="aspect-ratio:1.7771084337349397" data-cy="image-img"/></div><figcaption class="image-caption">U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., left, and U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz, right, have both called on Canadian officials to reverse a Canadian Food Inspection Agency order to have a group of ostriches on a B.C. bird farm killed after two dead birds tested positive for avian flu.<!-- --> <!-- -->(Julia Demaree Nikhinson/The Associated Press, Camille Vernet/Radio-Canada, Lauren Victoria Burke/Associated Press)</figcaption></figure>
581. </div>
582. <p>That website, published through the Substack platform, describes itself as a network aimed at &#8220;exposing fraud and corruption, particularly in medicine and beyond,&#8221; and says it has its roots in pushing back against public health policies stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic. </p>
583. <p>Catsimatidis then used his platform, which includes a radio show on a New York-based station he owns, to bring the topic up to other leaders, including Kennedy. During an April episode of his program with the health secretary, Catsimatidis claimed the ostriches were being killed because of corruption and pharmaceutical companies, with Kennedy responding that it was a &#8220;huge mistake.&#8221;</p>
584. <p>Kennedy then followed up with a letter posted X on May 23, stating that he had met with the president of the CFIA and was requesting that Canada consider not culling the herd but rather work with the United States to research them.</p>
585. <p>The U.S. health secretary has previously suggested in interviews that <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/health/kennedy-bird-flu.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">farmers should allow avian flu to &#8220;run through&#8221; their flocks</a> in order to &#8220;preserve the birds that are immune to it&#8221; — a significant departure from Canadian, U.S. and international health guidelines that has received widespread criticism from those tasked with controlling the disease.</p>
586. <p>Additionally, former TV host Dr. Mehmet Oz, who is now the administrator for the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, has offered to take the ostriches in at his ranch.</p>
587. <p>The farm has rejected the offer but said it appreciates the support.</p>
588. <p>&#8220;They see the science, they see the potential,&#8221; Pasitney said in an interview with CBC News.</p>
589. <div>
590. <figure class="imageMedia image full">
591. <div class="placeholder"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" alt="Several ostriches are seen behind a fence. " srcset="https://i.godfear.in/1.7531194.1747265959!/cpImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/avian-flu-ostrich-20250508.jpg?im=Resize%3D300 300w,https://i.godfear.in/1.7531194.1747265959!/cpImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/avian-flu-ostrich-20250508.jpg?im=Resize%3D460 460w,https://i.godfear.in/1.7531194.1747265959!/cpImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/avian-flu-ostrich-20250508.jpg?im=Resize%3D620 620w,https://i.godfear.in/1.7531194.1747265959!/cpImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/avian-flu-ostrich-20250508.jpg?im=Resize%3D780 780w,https://i.godfear.in/1.7531194.1747265959!/cpImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/avian-flu-ostrich-20250508.jpg?im=Resize%3D1180 1180w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 300px,(max-width: 460px) 460px,(max-width: 620px) 620px,(max-width: 780px) 780px,(max-width: 1180px) 1180px" src="https://i.godfear.in/1.7531194.1747265959!/cpImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/avian-flu-ostrich-20250508.jpg?im=" style="aspect-ratio:2.2222222222222223" data-cy="image-img"/></div><figcaption class="image-caption">The exact fate of the ostriches remains unknown.<!-- --> <!-- -->(Katie Pasitney/Canadian Press)</figcaption></figure>
592. </div>
593. <h2>Fate unknown</h2>
594. <p>Through all this, the CFIA has remained steadfast in its policy to have the flock culled, saying stamping out is a necessary policy needed to protect public health and Canada&#8217;s argriculture industry.</p>
595. <p>It says the cull will be done humanely, and under veterinary supervision, but that it will not be sharing details of the operation — including when it might take place — in advance.</p>
596. <p>But on May 28, Canada&#8217;s minister of agriculture indicated the birds will &#8220;not necessarily&#8221; be killed.</p>
597. <p>&#8220;We&#8217;re in a process,&#8221; Heath MacDonald, the minister of agriculture and agri-food, said. &#8220;We&#8217;re taking all facts into consideration. And we&#8217;ll move forward on the best possible solution for everybody involved.&#8221;</p>
598. <p>Asked directly if the birds would be killed, he said, &#8220;The process is in place. And not necessarily.&#8221;</p>
599. <p>And Universal Ostrich is hoping to go back to court, having filed an appeal of the earlier court ruling on May 26.</p>
600. <p>According to the Canadian Press, the farm&#8217;s appeal claims the court made &#8220;multiple reversible errors&#8221; in its earlier ruling upholding the cull order, and that its own lawyers provided &#8220;ineffective assistance&#8221; that &#8220;amounted to incompetence, and resulted in a miscarriage of justice.&#8221;</p>
601. <p>The farm&#8217;s appeal says &#8220;prior counsel had a financial stake in the destruction of the appellant&#8217;s ostriches, resulting in a blatant conflict of interest.&#8221;</p>
602. <p>Lee Turner, one of the farm&#8217;s former lawyers, told The Canadian Press he &#8220;certainly did not&#8221; have a conflict of interest, and his co-counsel Michael Carter did a &#8220;a remarkable job with the short window of time that he had.&#8221;</p>
603. <p>The appeal has not yet been accepted.</p>
604. </div>
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613. <title>The health center alleged that its vacation spot isn&#8217;t flat, report a $ 100M case towards the builder</title>
614. <link>https://godfear.in/humber-river-hospital-floors-lawsuit-1-7546364cmprss/</link>
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618. <pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2025 13:10:29 +0000</pubDate>
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621.  
622. <description><![CDATA[Hamber River Health is sueing the contracted consortium to make and maintain its Toronto Hospital for $ 100 million, alleging that negligent design and construction is causing health and safety problems for patients and employees. In the trial filed in early April, it is alleged that the &#8220;larger part&#8221; of the hospital floor is not [&#8230;]]]></description>
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624. <div>
625. <p>Hamber River Health is sueing the contracted consortium to make and maintain its Toronto Hospital for $ 100 million, alleging that negligent design and construction is causing health and safety problems for patients and employees.</p>
626. <p>In the trial filed in early April, it is alleged that the &#8220;larger part&#8221; of the hospital floor is not flat or flat and some floors are deteriorating themselves. </p>
627. <p>&#8220;Floor levelness is an important operating and safety issue,&#8221; Humber reads the claim of River Health, filed in the Ontario Superior Court. </p>
628. <p>&#8220;Non-level floor makes it difficult for employees to move patients on equipment, supply, food, and wheel transport devices. Often, the wheel vehicles should be placed behind rubber stoppers to prevent trains from slipping out of the situation.&#8221;</p>
629. <p>The claim statement stated that the floor status has led &#8220;and will continue to lead for health and safety issues for patients and employees. It also states that the stability problems with the floor are having a major operating effect as&#8221; important rooms &#8220;and the hospital areas are unavailable due to maintenance. </p>
630. <p>Touched as the first fully Digital Hospital in North America, construction at Hamber River Hospital began in 2011 and opened in October 2015. The feature was built through a public-private partnership with a plane health care partnership. The Ontario government signed a planery to design, construction, finance, operation and maintain the hospital for 30 years.</p>
631. <div><em><strong>Look Why is this hospital sueing the consortium that has made it: </strong></em><span><span class="mediaEmbed"></p>
632. <div class="player-placeholder-ui-container  " data-cy="player-placeholder-ui-container">
633. <div class="player-placeholder-video-ui" title="Toronto hospital sues builder for $100M claiming uneven floors create safety issues" style="--aspect-ratio:1.7778" role="button" tabindex="0">
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635. <div class="video-item video-card-overlay" title="Toronto hospital sues builder for $100M claiming uneven floors create safety issues">
636. <div class="thumbnail-wrapper"><img decoding="async" src="https://i.godfear.in/ais/25de62d5-d2f3-4d19-b865-4b8dbb520edf,1748623192428/full/max/0/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%280%2C0%2C5280%2C2970%29%3BResize%3D620" srcset="" alt="" class="thumbnail" loading="lazy"/></div>
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638. <div class="video-info-container">
639. <p class="video-item-title">Builder claims security issues claiming uneven floors for $ 100M at Toronto Hospital</p>
640. </div>
641. </div>
642. </div>
643. </div>
644. </div>
645. </div>
646. <p><span class="media-caption">Hamber River Hospital has alleged guilty design and its floor construction is affecting the level of care that can provide it.</span></span></span></div>
647. <p>In a statement, the spokesperson of Hamber River Health, who said that the hospital is &#8220;implementing all the necessary measures to ensure the best experience for our patients, employees and community&#8221; while it works to solve these problems.</p>
648. <p>The Planery Health Care Partnership has not yet made a statement of defense. Due to constructive obligations, the Consortium told CBC Toronto that it could not comment.</p>
649. <h2>Not the first lawsuit</h2>
650. <p>The floor suit is the latest in a series of claims filed over the years regarding the alleged issues with the design and construction of the Northwest Toronto Hospital. Since 2023, a total of four other cases of at least $ 10.4 million have been filed against the contractor by the Planery Health Care Partnership and various subcontinents are hired for hospital design and construction. </p>
651. <p>According to the court, claims are looking for compensation for property damage from floods due to valves and breaker leaks and for the flaws of design with its domestic water system, which affects warm and cold water in the patient&#8217;s rooms within the first year, the hospital opened the hospital according to the court. The leaks included one above the roof of the hospital&#8217;s cancer care unit.</p>
652. <div>
653. <figure class="imageMedia image full">
654. <div class="placeholder"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" alt="Ariel drone shot of Hamber River Hospital." srcset="https://i.godfear.in/1.7546386.1748468726!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/humber-river-hospital-wide-drone-shot.JPG?im=Resize%3D300 300w,https://i.godfear.in/1.7546386.1748468726!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/humber-river-hospital-wide-drone-shot.JPG?im=Resize%3D460 460w,https://i.godfear.in/1.7546386.1748468726!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/humber-river-hospital-wide-drone-shot.JPG?im=Resize%3D620 620w,https://i.godfear.in/1.7546386.1748468726!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/humber-river-hospital-wide-drone-shot.JPG?im=Resize%3D780 780w,https://i.godfear.in/1.7546386.1748468726!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/humber-river-hospital-wide-drone-shot.JPG?im=Resize%3D1180 1180w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 300px,(max-width: 460px) 460px,(max-width: 620px) 620px,(max-width: 780px) 780px,(max-width: 1180px) 1180px" src="https://i.godfear.in/1.7546386.1748468726!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/humber-river-hospital-wide-drone-shot.JPG?im=" style="aspect-ratio:1.7771084337349397" data-cy="image-img"/></div><figcaption class="image-caption">The hospital was built through a public-private partnership with a plane health care partnership. The Ontario government signed a planery to design, construction, finance, operation and maintain the hospital for 30 years.<!-- --> <!-- -->(Kane Townsand/CBC)</figcaption></figure>
655. </div>
656. <p>Contractor and subcontinent have filed statements of defense in some cases. They deny the allegations and any obligation claimed by the consortium. </p>
657. <p>Two cases related to issues with leaks and water systems have given rise to third-party claims of subcontinent, which claims another third-party suborients that they should be held responsible in their place if the courts determine.</p>
658. <p>CBC Toronto contacted Ontario&#8217;s Health Ministry to comment on whether it is concerned with a public hospital about these alleged construction and design issues that are just 10 years old and on the effects of problems on the operation of the hospital and patient care.</p>
659. <p>In a statement, a spokesperson said the ministry cannot comment as the matter is in front of the courts.</p>
660. </div>
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669. <title>The ETFs are overtaking the mutual finances in spite of the marketplace volatility. Are the crooks retail buyers in peril?</title>
670. <link>https://godfear.in/the-etfs-are-overtaking-the-mutual-funds-despite-the-market-volatility-are-the-crooks-retail-investors-at-risk/</link>
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674. <pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2025 09:19:43 +0000</pubDate>
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677.  
678. <description><![CDATA[Canadian investors are putting their money in the exchange-traded funds (ETFs), according to recent data, even US-led trade war Rocks as Rocks Rocks Global Stock Markets, and some experts say that crooks are at high risk. A basket of net sales-stock of exchange-traded funds that can be purchased and sold throughout the trading day-according to [&#8230;]]]></description>
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680. <div>
681. <p>Canadian investors are putting their money in the exchange-traded funds (ETFs), according to recent data, even US-led trade war Rocks as Rocks Rocks Global Stock Markets, and some experts say that crooks are at high risk. </p>
682. <p>A basket of net sales-stock of exchange-traded funds that can be purchased and sold throughout the trading day-according to a CIBC report published earlier this month, mutual funds in Canada, especially are overtaken the mutual funds among retail investors. </p>
683. <p>Mutual funds, which are stardier investment products that have higher embedded fees and reduced benefits, yet canadian investment creates a large part of the portfolio. They are usually actively managed by a professional and are exposed to low intraday market swing as they trade once every day after getting closer to the market.</p>
684. <p>Nevertheless, ETFs have increased three times the rate of their old cousins ​​over the last five years, indicating a change of how both retail investors and professional are getting closer to their investment strategies. At the beginning of inflation crisis, sales for both of them fell dramatically in 2022.</p>
685. <p>Dan Hallet, vice -president of research for the Highview Financial Group, said, &#8220;People have been disappointed with long (mutual fund) performance, and historically, most people have invested more in mutual funds than ETFs.&#8221;</p>
686. <p>&#8220;More people are focusing on costs that are embedded in their investment and the ETF structure is typically a lower -cost vehicle than mutual funds, especially on the retail side,&#8221; he said. &#8220;But this is also happening at the advisory level.&#8221;</p>
687. <p>In fact, ETF property (the price of cash held in all equity and funds) reached all time of $ 518 billion in 2024, <a href="https://www.sima-amvi.ca/wp-content/themes/ific-new/util/downloads_new.php?id=30189&amp;lang=en_CA" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a report</a> Show from Canada&#8217;s Investment Fund Institute. Those assets have run a balloon about seven times in the last decade.</p>
688. <p>Retail investors are making a huge contribution to that growth, both reports stated, as more people choose to take their investment in their hands rather than paying the fees of a professional financial advisor to manage their portfolio.</p>
689. <p>But there are concerns about the risk. South Korea is concerned about the crook retail investors who are buying exchange-traded products (including ETFs), taking advantage of the loan, offering an hourly training for those managing their own investment.</p>
690. <div>
691. <figure class="imageMedia image full">
692. <div class="placeholder"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" alt="A TV monitor shows a person speaking at the desk as other monitors show financial data." srcset="https://i.cbc.ca/1.7503438.1743987736!/cpImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/aptopix-germany-stock-market.jpg?im=Resize%3D300 300w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7503438.1743987736!/cpImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/aptopix-germany-stock-market.jpg?im=Resize%3D460 460w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7503438.1743987736!/cpImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/aptopix-germany-stock-market.jpg?im=Resize%3D620 620w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7503438.1743987736!/cpImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/aptopix-germany-stock-market.jpg?im=Resize%3D780 780w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7503438.1743987736!/cpImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/aptopix-germany-stock-market.jpg?im=Resize%3D1180 1180w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 300px,(max-width: 460px) 460px,(max-width: 620px) 620px,(max-width: 780px) 780px,(max-width: 1180px) 1180px" src="https://i.cbc.ca/1.7503438.1743987736!/cpImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/aptopix-germany-stock-market.jpg?im=" style="aspect-ratio:1.4993646759847523" data-cy="image-img"/></div><figcaption class="image-caption">US President Donald Trump appears on a television screen in the stock market in Frankfurt, Germany on 2 April.<!-- --> <!-- -->(Michael Probest/Associated Press)</figcaption></figure>
693. </div>
694. <h2>Impact on investor results</h2>
695. <p>In the US, investment management company Mohra&#8217;s Wu S&#038;P has become one of the world&#8217;s best -selling ETFs by bundling the highest performance shares from the index.</p>
696. <p>The company&#8217;s own risk scale, which measures the possibility of losing money on investment, puts Wu at the level of risk of four, for products that are &#8220;roughly diverse, but subject to widespread ups and downs in share prices.&#8221; This recommends this for long -term investors.</p>
697. <p dir="ltr">The head of Wangard Canadian product, Cell de Angelo, says ETF uptake has increased significantly in the last several years.</p>
698. <p dir="ltr">Both retail investors and professional portfolio managers are going into low cost options; There is more interest in sequencing, a passive investment strategy that corresponds to the best performing shares of an index rather than trying to defeat the development of the index; And normally ETFs are more retail investors.</p>
699. <div dir="ltr"><strong><em>Look What does bond market celloff mean:</em></strong><span><span class="mediaEmbed"></p>
700. <div class="player-placeholder-ui-container  " data-cy="player-placeholder-ui-container">
701. <div class="player-placeholder-video-ui" title="How the U.S. bond market made Trump blink | About That" style="--aspect-ratio:1.7778" role="button" tabindex="0">
702. <div class="player-placeholder-ui">
703. <div class="video-item video-card-overlay" title="How the U.S. bond market made Trump blink | About That">
704. <div class="thumbnail-wrapper"><img decoding="async" src="https://i.cbc.ca/ais/3d3de2ea-535c-4c61-9cf9-4dac46fdb798,1745530242093/full/max/0/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%280%2C0%2C1920%2C1080%29%3BResize%3D620" srcset="" alt="" class="thumbnail" loading="lazy"/></div>
705. <div class="video-card-overlay-container">
706. <div class="video-info-container">
707. <p class="video-item-title">How the American Bond Market made Trump a blink. About that</p>
708. </div>
709. </div>
710. </div>
711. </div>
712. </div>
713. </div>
714. <p><span class="media-caption">The US Treasury Bond has shown cracks in recent weeks. The Major Cell-off has trusted that an investment has been considered a safe shelter for a long time. Andrew Chang explains that all people of financial experts &#8211; possibly taking US President Donald Trump &#8211; notices, and what it may indicate to the role of America in the global economy.</span></span></span></div>
715. <p>The S&#038;P 500 ETF&#8217;s Mohra Canada version is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the VFV ticker. It claimed an annual return of 35.24 percent last year and 23.3 percent in 2023. This year, in view of tariff-inspired roller-coaster market environment, ETF-3.07 percent is showing a year-on-year loss.</p>
716. <p>D&#8217;Angelo argues that ETF works well in these situations due to its flexibility. &#8220;ETF as a vehicle, I think, actually work well in unstable markets because they have immediate liquidity if you want to do business,&#8221; he said. </p>
717. <p>Others say that the influx of investors buying ETFs in unstable market conditions creates some concerns.</p>
718. <p>&#8220;This is about me in terms of impact on investor results,&#8221; Hallet said. He thinks that the same factors that some investors disappoint in mutual funds can eventually suffer also ETFs.</p>
719. <p>&#8220;When you have investors who are trying to create a portfolio and they bomb almost a circular array of options, only the most disciplined and knowledgeable investors will benefit from it and can easily squeeze through it,&#8221; he said.</p>
720. <p>&#8220;Everyone is going to be very distracted,&#8221; said Hallet, &#8220;and from here you end with a disappointing performance.&#8221;</p>
721. <div>
722. <figure class="imageMedia image full">
723. <div class="placeholder"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" alt="A man is sitting in front of several computer monitor, puts his hand on his forehead, such as in exaggeration." srcset="https://i.cbc.ca/1.7503600.1748642189!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/2208435568.jpg?im=Resize%3D300 300w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7503600.1748642189!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/2208435568.jpg?im=Resize%3D460 460w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7503600.1748642189!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/2208435568.jpg?im=Resize%3D620 620w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7503600.1748642189!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/2208435568.jpg?im=Resize%3D780 780w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7503600.1748642189!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/2208435568.jpg?im=Resize%3D1180 1180w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 300px,(max-width: 460px) 460px,(max-width: 620px) 620px,(max-width: 780px) 780px,(max-width: 1180px) 1180px" src="https://i.cbc.ca/1.7503600.1748642189!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/2208435568.jpg?im=" style="aspect-ratio:1.7878787878787878" data-cy="image-img"/></div><figcaption class="image-caption">A merchant works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on 7 April.  <!-- --> <!-- -->(Timothy A. Clery/AFP/Getty Images)</figcaption></figure>
724. </div>
725. <h2>Jump on a large scale in April</h2>
726. <p>Data comes as a new generation of investors has a game-EFIT Day Trading, buys and sells stocks on a drop of hats from your phone and tablet.</p>
727. <p>Automatic equipment &#8211; which allow investors to set trading parameters that are then executed by a bot, such as when selling a stock when it hits a certain price &#8211; then more frequent uses are seen.</p>
728. <p>TradeWeb, a company that operates marketplace for traders, saw a jump of 83 percent in the number of retail investors using automated equipment to make trades in April a year ago. </p>
729. <p>Adam Gold, the global head of equities in TradeWeb, wrote, &#8220;We have not seen anything that grows so much in the previous period of market instability.&#8221;</p>
730. <p>&#8220;However, in April, we observed investors using automated equipment (two) that increases reaction to a challenging trading scenario with greater speed of execution.&#8221;</p>
731. <div dir="ltr"><strong><em>Listen What do you stand to lose in the market turmoil?:</em></strong><span><span class="mediaEmbed"></p>
732. <div class="player-placeholder-ui-container  " data-cy="player-placeholder-ui-container">
733. <div class="player-placeholder-audio-ui " role="button" tabindex="0" title="Market turmoil and tariffs: What do you stand to lose?">
734. <div class="player-placeholder-ui">
735. <p><span class="media-showName">Cross country checkup</span><span class="media-duration">41:41</span><span class="media-title">Market turmoil and tariff: What do you stand to lose?</span></p>
736. </div>
737. </div>
738. </div>
739. <p></span></span></div>
740. <hr/>
741. <p dir="ltr">Marias, an associate professor at Finance at the University of Calgary, study the game of monitoring, investment and retail investor behavior.</p>
742. <p>&#8220;If the market grows five percent within a day or five percent intraday falls, and if you are holding the ETF and you are getting these information, it is very attractive to take action on them, even if they are about the previous performance,&#8221; he said.</p>
743. <p>&#8220;Once you get naked &#8230; in the idea that the market is going down, you just have the possibility of going and selling on your phone. And it is probably not (optimal).&#8221;</p>
744. <p>He said that during extremely unstable time, as we are currently, ETFs can face a rush of liquidity if many people try to sell at the same time.</p>
745. <p>He said, &#8220;This can create a deviation between the price of ETF and the price of the underlying basket,&#8221; he explained, while the mutual funds managed by a professional have more railings against impulsive investment behavior.</p>
746. <p>&#8220;When there is too much instability, there are always additional risks for retail (investors) for small investors, which can function impulsively.&#8221;</p>
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756. <title>Canada had Large EV battery recycling plans, however with out laws it&#8217;s &#8216;Wild West&#8217;, professional warns</title>
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765. <description><![CDATA[A few years ago, Li-cycle was one of the biggest players in the battery recycling of electric vehicle in North America, which provides one. Roadmap for a circular, permanent economy For electric vehicles. But last month, the Toronto-based company filed for insolvency conservation in the US and Canada after years of struggling to get a [&#8230;]]]></description>
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767. <div>
768. <p dir="ltr">A few years ago, Li-cycle was one of the biggest players in the battery recycling of electric vehicle in North America, which provides one. <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/electric-vehicle-battery-recycling-1.6695010" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Roadmap for a circular, permanent economy</a> For electric vehicles. </p>
769. <p dir="ltr">But last month, the Toronto-based company filed for insolvency conservation in the US and Canada after years of struggling to get a facility from the ground in Rochester, NY Company said that the employed hub will actually be able to remove lithium and other important minerals from recycled materials to make new EV batteries.-A Crucial Step has not yet been found. </p>
770. <p dir="ltr">Bankruptcy is an indication, some experts say that the market cannot maintain industry without proper government regulation that provides encouragement and structure. </p>
771. <p dir="ltr">The EV battery exits over time, and with more than 600,000 EVs on the road in Canada, keeping those batteries out of the landfill &#8211; and fixing the valuable important minerals with them &#8211; will be necessary in the near future. But the regulation around the EV battery recycling is virtually no one in Canada, and industry and policy experts say without it, we will not be ready when EV battery waves hit the market.</p>
772. <p dir="ltr">&#8220;North America has no regulatory or policy rule in North America,&#8221; said Mark Winfield, professor of environment and urban changes at Toronto&#8217;s York University and Sustainable Energy Initiative of the school.</p>
773. <p dir="ltr">&#8220;This is a wild west,&#8221; he told CBC News. &#8220;Drivers who usually &#8230; provide stability like stability and the foundation for that kind of business is not just there.&#8221;</p>
774. <p dir="ltr">From recent report <a href="https://iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/e75c9a13-3753-4677-933f-c7f9ae38cfdb/EVBatterySupplyChainSustainability.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><u>International Energy Association</u></a>    (IEA) and <a href="https://reports.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Powering_the_Future_2025.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><u>World Economic Forum</u></a>    Emphasize the importance of establishing government regulation to track and ensure the demand for recycled materials in EV batteries. </p>
775. <div dir="ltr">
776. <figure class="imageMedia image full">
777. <div class="placeholder"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" alt="The EV battery is waiting for recycling at the Li-cycle plant at Kingston, Onts. " srcset="https://i.cbc.ca/1.6695073.1748660104!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/licycle.jpg?im=Resize%3D300 300w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.6695073.1748660104!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/licycle.jpg?im=Resize%3D460 460w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.6695073.1748660104!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/licycle.jpg?im=Resize%3D620 620w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.6695073.1748660104!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/licycle.jpg?im=Resize%3D780 780w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.6695073.1748660104!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/licycle.jpg?im=Resize%3D1180 1180w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 300px,(max-width: 460px) 460px,(max-width: 620px) 620px,(max-width: 780px) 780px,(max-width: 1180px) 1180px" src="https://i.cbc.ca/1.6695073.1748660104!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/licycle.jpg?im=" style="aspect-ratio:1.7126269956458635" data-cy="image-img"/></div><figcaption class="image-caption">EV batteries waiting for recycled at the Lee-cycle plant at Kingston, Onts in 2022. The plant opened in 2019 closed in 2024. The Toronto -based company filed for insolvency protection in the US and Canada in May.<!-- --> <!-- -->(Carly Thomas/CBC)</figcaption></figure>
778. </div>
779. <p dir="ltr">Canada is a federal government <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-electric-vehicles-2035-1.7063993" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Made a plan</a> There is no national structure for EV batteries after 2035 to get 100 percent zero-furnace sales for passenger cars, but after being too old to power to a car. There are no federal rules around EV battery recycling and BC, the only province that announced adjacent regulation, now says it is far from that plan. </p>
780. <p dir="ltr">Meanwhile, EV sales continue to climb in Canada, EVS has increased by 17 percent of all new cars sold in 2024. Last year, Canada had over 270,000 new vehicle registration battery-powered EVS or hybrid plug-in EVS. </p>
781. <p dir="ltr">Vinfield said, &#8220;Every EV that is sold, is eventually going to convert into an end-of-conjumer-life battery,&#8221; Vinfield said, in a decade, there will be &#8220;millions of millions&#8221; of EV batteries at the end of life globally. </p>
782. <p dir="ltr">The European Union determines the rules in 2023 that Canada could use as a model, saying Winfield, which includes requirements for recycled materials in the new battery starting in 2031, and expanded responsibilities for the lifetime of battery for producers.</p>
783. <p dir="ltr">1 November 2024 <a href="https://iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/3af7fda6-8fd9-46b7-bede-395f7f8f9943/RecyclingofCriticalMinerals.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Report</a> How to increase significant mineral recycling, IEA recommended providing clear, long -term rules, which is noted that &#8220;it is important to instill confidence in investors and recycling companies.&#8221; </p>
784. <p dir="ltr">Maria Kelher, an environmental advisor who previously worked with the environment and climate change on the management of EV battery recycling, said some rules would promote investment and help to increase commercially participating projects in Canada and North America. </p>
785. <p dir="ltr">&#8220;If the government says that you have recycled materials (in a new battery), it provides certainty to recyclars, as companies buying products have to buy their products,&#8221; he said. </p>
786. <p dir="ltr">&#8220;So it runs the market.&#8221;</p>
787. <div dir="ltr">
788. <figure class="imageMedia image full">
789. <div class="placeholder"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" alt="A mixture of black mass, lithium, nickel and cobalt, is extracted from EV batteries." srcset="https://i.cbc.ca/1.6695110.1748664331!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/blackmass.jpg?im=Resize%3D300 300w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.6695110.1748664331!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/blackmass.jpg?im=Resize%3D460 460w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.6695110.1748664331!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/blackmass.jpg?im=Resize%3D620 620w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.6695110.1748664331!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/blackmass.jpg?im=Resize%3D780 780w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.6695110.1748664331!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/blackmass.jpg?im=Resize%3D1180 1180w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 300px,(max-width: 460px) 460px,(max-width: 620px) 620px,(max-width: 780px) 780px,(max-width: 1180px) 1180px" src="https://i.cbc.ca/1.6695110.1748664331!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/blackmass.jpg?im=" style="aspect-ratio:1.3333333333333333" data-cy="image-img"/></div><figcaption class="image-caption">A mixture of black mass, lithium, nickel and cobalt, which is obtained from the credit and crushing of the EV batteries, is seen in the Kingston feature of the Lee-cycle in 2022. <!-- --> <!-- -->(Carly Thomas/CBC)</figcaption></figure>
790. </div>
791. <h2 dir="ltr">How EV Battery Recycling works</h2>
792. <p dir="ltr">Recycling lithium-ion battery that power EVS occurs in two stages. First, the battery is cut into a substance called black mass, which contains important minerals such as cobalt, nickel, and lithium. Then, minerals are extracted from black mass, refined and sold to make new batteries. </p>
793. <p dir="ltr">This step is where Kelher says recycling can be really attractive </p>
794. <p dir="ltr">&#8220;The key is to sell in the battery supply chain,&#8221; he said, given that the recycled material extracted from the black mass must be of frequent high quality for manufacturers to use it. &#8220;If you can do it, it&#8217;s fantastic.&#8221;</p>
795. <p dir="ltr">Recyclic Battery content of Cubek and BC is one of the recycling features in Lithian Technologies Canada at the Inc., which has started producing black mass from EV batteries in recent years.</p>
796. <p dir="ltr">And Ontario -based Electra Battery Material is conducting a successful recycling test from 2022, but has not yet reached commercial production. They are targeting to build a new plant <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/ev-battery-recycling-joint-venture-1.7328249" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><u>In a joint venture</u></a>    With three fire groups at Northern Ontario, they say that in 2027, the eV battery can start recycling.</p>
797. <p dir="ltr">But the removal of minerals from black mass to create new batteries is mostly centered abroad, especially in China and South-East Asia where EV battery recycling industry has increased with manufacturing. </p>
798. <div dir="ltr">
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800. <div class="placeholder"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" alt="A jar with different substances is rolled on a table in an industrial plant. " srcset="https://i.cbc.ca/1.7549019.1748653004!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/rare-minerals.jpg?im=Resize%3D300 300w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7549019.1748653004!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/rare-minerals.jpg?im=Resize%3D460 460w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7549019.1748653004!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/rare-minerals.jpg?im=Resize%3D620 620w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7549019.1748653004!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/rare-minerals.jpg?im=Resize%3D780 780w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7549019.1748653004!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/rare-minerals.jpg?im=Resize%3D1180 1180w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 300px,(max-width: 460px) 460px,(max-width: 620px) 620px,(max-width: 780px) 780px,(max-width: 1180px) 1180px" src="https://i.cbc.ca/1.7549019.1748653004!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/rare-minerals.jpg?im=" style="aspect-ratio:1.5031847133757963" data-cy="image-img"/></div><figcaption class="image-caption">Samples of rare minerals obtained from the battery used are seen in January 2023 in the Montreal Battery Recycling feature of Lithian. Once separated, minerals can be reused to create a new EV battery.   <!-- --> <!-- -->(Matthew Laser/AFP/Getty Images)</figcaption></figure>
801. </div>
802. <h2 dir="ltr">Giving a second life to the battery </h2>
803. <p dir="ltr">Kelher believes that there is still a lot of time for the market before requiring regulation in Canada. </p>
804. <p dir="ltr">The EV battery was originally predicted for the last eight years, but now, they have a lifetime of 12 to 15 years in vehicles. According to industry reports and experts, they can also retain 80 percent of their capacity after use in vehicles, and 10 more for life to 10 more years.</p>
805. <p dir="ltr">The same Vancouver-based moment is trying to get a partnership with vehicle manufacturers and dealerships to reproduce the old EV batteries for use in energy energy storage systems. </p>
806. <p dir="ltr">Moment Energy co-founder and Chief Operating Officer, Sarine Ratan, told CBC News that he was already looking at the ramp re-preparation, and expect the first peak to start in 2030.</p>
807. <p dir="ltr">Ratan said, &#8220;To be really streamlined for this, I think having a federal policy will lead to a long way,&#8221; it is necessary that it is not leaving the revival step.</p>
808. <div dir="ltr">
809. <figure class="imageMedia image full">
810. <div class="placeholder"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" alt="A white box around the size of a small car is sitting in a gravel with a wire fence beyond a white box, background and trees. " srcset="https://i.cbc.ca/1.7547796.1748665884!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/moment-energy.jpg?im=Resize%3D300 300w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7547796.1748665884!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/moment-energy.jpg?im=Resize%3D460 460w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7547796.1748665884!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/moment-energy.jpg?im=Resize%3D620 620w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7547796.1748665884!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/moment-energy.jpg?im=Resize%3D780 780w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7547796.1748665884!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/moment-energy.jpg?im=Resize%3D1180 1180w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 300px,(max-width: 460px) 460px,(max-width: 620px) 620px,(max-width: 780px) 780px,(max-width: 1180px) 1180px" src="https://i.cbc.ca/1.7547796.1748665884!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/moment-energy.jpg?im=" style="aspect-ratio:2.045060658578856" data-cy="image-img"/></div><figcaption class="image-caption">Luna battery energy storage system of BC Company Moment Energy is made of several EV batteries, and can provide backup power during blackouts, manage the demand for extreme electricity and store power by stopping air and solar.  <!-- --> <!-- -->(Moment presented by energy)</figcaption></figure>
811. </div>
812. <p dir="ltr">Finally, Kelher says that the regulations are not required until the EV battery recycling the recycling market develops more safe supply, she says anything, &#8220;until you have a scale, until you have enough batteries at the end of life.&#8221;</p>
813. <p dir="ltr">But Winfield argues that we need to move to the infrastructure to deal with the battery designed to enter the recycling market in waves.</p>
814. <p dir="ltr">Based on EVS&#8217;s annual new vehicle registration in Canada since 2011, and a vehicle will be at least 93,000 EV batteries that require recycling up to 2040, with 500,000 ready between 2040 and 2045. </p>
815. <p dir="ltr">&#8220;I don&#8217;t think there is no excuse to not be ahead of this,&#8221; Winfield said. &#8220;This will be a monumental lack of foresight.&#8221;</p>
816. <h2 dir="ltr">So what are Canadian governments doing? </h2>
817. <p dir="ltr">Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECC), in an email statement, told CBC News that the EV battery is to manage the provinces and regions to manage at the end of their lives.</p>
818. <p dir="ltr">The ECC pointed to the BC&#8217;s 2021 announcement that it would add EV battery to its extended manufacturer responsibility program by 2026, which would require EV automekers to arrange for recycling or recycling their batteries.</p>
819. <p dir="ltr">Except BC, CBC News said that it is no longer adding EV battery to the program till 2026.</p>
820. <p dir="ltr">The provincial ministry of the Environment and Parks stated that the change came to light &#8220;after consultation with the change&#8221; and &#8220;fast -developed electric vehicles (EV) battery markets&#8221; after consultation with industry and other affected parties. It also stated that it could &#8220;detect further consultation,&#8221; but when regulation can be considered, not providing a new timeline for this. </p>
821. <div dir="ltr"><em><strong>Look Canada&#8217;s push to find out what they do with EV battery after death: </strong></em><span><span class="mediaEmbed"></p>
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829. <p class="video-item-title">EVS and e-bikes are more popular than ever. Are they all lead to battery landfills?</p>
830. </div>
831. </div>
832. </div>
833. </div>
834. </div>
835. </div>
836. <p><span class="media-caption">There is a push in Quebec to find new technology that can help recycle the material found in a rechargeable battery, such as electric cars and e-bikes.</span></span></span></div>
837. <p dir="ltr">ECC also pointed to a voluntary battery recovery program launched in Quebec in 2023. <a href="https://recuperationdesbatteriesve.ca/en/ev-battery-recovery-home/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><u>This program</u></a>    Consumers allow the vehicle to reach the manufacturers who will pick up the dried battery and arrange the next stages. </p>
838. <p>Quebec considered adding EV batteries to an extended manufacturer responsibility program in 2021, but after receiving the response from the industry, the province said that it left the idea. According to an email statement, the province also organized two workshops to detect &#8220;how the region should be regulated&#8221; in 2023 and 2024.</p>
839. <p dir="ltr">Ontario, in which EV is one of the highest -adoption rates in Canada, told CBC News that it does not plan to include EV batteries in its manufacturer requirements because they &#8220;have been diverted from landfills through voluntary initiative.&#8221; The Ministry of Environment, Protection and Parks said that it would &#8220;continue to monitor management activities&#8221; to see if the rules should be introduced in the future.</p>
840. <p dir="ltr">In Canada, the automakers and industry players say that they are already arranging recycling on their own-most EVs offer a country-wide recovery of battery, and many have participated with recycling plants for battery Shreeding. However, without inspection, the success of these initiatives is not clear. </p>
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843. <div class="placeholder"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" alt="An air shot reflects a large factory building near a road. " srcset="https://i.cbc.ca/1.7549065.1748665523!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/ev-battery-recyling-plant-germany.jpg?im=Resize%3D300 300w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7549065.1748665523!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/ev-battery-recyling-plant-germany.jpg?im=Resize%3D460 460w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7549065.1748665523!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/ev-battery-recyling-plant-germany.jpg?im=Resize%3D620 620w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7549065.1748665523!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/ev-battery-recyling-plant-germany.jpg?im=Resize%3D780 780w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7549065.1748665523!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/ev-battery-recyling-plant-germany.jpg?im=Resize%3D1180 1180w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 300px,(max-width: 460px) 460px,(max-width: 620px) 620px,(max-width: 780px) 780px,(max-width: 1180px) 1180px" src="https://i.cbc.ca/1.7549065.1748665523!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/ev-battery-recyling-plant-germany.jpg?im=" style="aspect-ratio:1.7851739788199696" data-cy="image-img"/></div><figcaption class="image-caption">An aerial scene of the new EV battery recycling plant of the Mercedes-Benz Group has been seen in October 2024 after being opened in Kuppenhem, Germany. A professor in Canada who study the rules around the EV battery says that the European Union rules provide a stable basis for the industry there.  <!-- --> <!-- -->(Thomas Lohanas/Getty Image)</figcaption></figure>
844. </div>
845. <h2 dir="ltr">European Union rules can provide &#8216;structure of stability&#8217;</h2>
846. <p dir="ltr">Vinfield says that the government&#8217;s reactions are &#8220;really quite shocking,&#8221; and shows that the situation is worse in 2023, when he first worked on a report assessing the lack of regulation. </p>
847. <p dir="ltr">He wants to see Canada following the leadership of the European Union, which added the requirements for the Carbon Footprint declaration for the EV battery in 2023, expand the productive responsibilities and introduce &#8220;battery passports&#8221; to set a transparent digital record for the life cycle of each battery. </p>
848. <p dir="ltr">It also applied the minimum requirements starting in 2031 how much recycled materials should be included in the new battery.  </p>
849. <p dir="ltr">&#8220;It provides a structure of stability to the sector, a group of rules that say,&#8221; Yes, this type of services are going to be required, there are rules around them, &#8220;Winfield said.</p>
850. <p dir="ltr">&#8220;There is no viable business model, without a regulatory structure around it.&#8221;</p>
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860. <title>An AI Bot will have to be asking questions to your subsequent activity interview</title>
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871. <div>
872. <p dir="ltr">When Wafa Shafiq realized that his upcoming job interview would be conducted by an artificial intelligence bot, he thought: Why not? </p>
873. <p dir="ltr">&#8220;I thought it would be really good. I wanted to try it,&#8221; Shafiq said.</p>
874. <p dir="ltr">AE Bot Alex operated by software company Aprioria interviewed 26 -year -old from Mississaga, Onts for marketing status at a retirement insurance agency. </p>
875. <p dir="ltr">This asked him about himself and his experience for 30 minutes. This accepted his reactions and appreciated him before asking follow -up questions. </p>
876. <p dir="ltr">&#8220;I was surprised that it was asking such good follow -up questions,&#8221; Shafiq told CBC News. &#8220;My expectations were low.&#8221;</p>
877. <p dir="ltr">While some companies are turning to artificial intelligence to streamline their recruitment processes, some job candidates are concerned about how they are being evaluated and losing a chance to join with the recruitments.</p>
878. <div dir="ltr"><strong>Watch</strong><em><strong>    How is AI job interviewing process:</strong></em> <span><span class="mediaEmbed"></p>
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885. <div class="video-info-container">
886. <p class="video-item-title">Your next job interview can be with AI Bot</p>
887. </div>
888. </div>
889. </div>
890. </div>
891. </div>
892. </div>
893. <p><span class="media-caption">Companies are using AI hiring bots to screened screen, shortlisted and talk to job candidates. Advocates say that technology frees human workers from tedurations, but some applicants say that it adds confusion to the process, and HR is concerned about job loss.</span></span></span></div>
894. <p dir="ltr">This technology is still in the early stage, saying Mike Sheikhman, Senior Regional Director of Canadian Employment Agency Robert Half.</p>
895. <p dir="ltr">&#8220;As technology improves, we will probably keep watching an acceleration.&#8221;</p>
896. <h2 dir="ltr">&#8216;People thought we were crazy&#8217;</h2>
897. <p dir="ltr">Ribbon, A-International Software Company, is one of Canadian companies, which has seen an opportunity in this market. </p>
898. <p dir="ltr">&#8220;A year ago, people thought we were crazy,&#8221; Ribbon CEO Arsham Ghamanani said in an interview. </p>
899. <div>
900. <figure class="imageMedia image full">
901. <div class="placeholder"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" alt="A person from the chest, office workers and a bookshell in background. " srcset="https://i.cbc.ca/1.7546264.1748631697!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/arsham-ghahramani-ribbon-ceo-portrait.jpg?im=Resize%3D300 300w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7546264.1748631697!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/arsham-ghahramani-ribbon-ceo-portrait.jpg?im=Resize%3D460 460w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7546264.1748631697!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/arsham-ghahramani-ribbon-ceo-portrait.jpg?im=Resize%3D620 620w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7546264.1748631697!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/arsham-ghahramani-ribbon-ceo-portrait.jpg?im=Resize%3D780 780w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7546264.1748631697!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/arsham-ghahramani-ribbon-ceo-portrait.jpg?im=Resize%3D1180 1180w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 300px,(max-width: 460px) 460px,(max-width: 620px) 620px,(max-width: 780px) 780px,(max-width: 1180px) 1180px" src="https://i.cbc.ca/1.7546264.1748631697!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/arsham-ghahramani-ribbon-ceo-portrait.jpg?im=" style="aspect-ratio:1.3333333333333333" data-cy="image-img"/></div><figcaption class="image-caption">Arsham Gharani at his Well Office in Toronto. He is the CEO and co-founder of the ribbon, who is an A-interview software. <!-- --> <!-- -->(Sean Benjamin/CBC)</figcaption></figure>
902. </div>
903. <p dir="ltr">In nine months, Ribbon has collected 400 customers who now use their bots to conduct interviews. </p>
904. <p dir="ltr">The non -government and his team manufactured more than a year and trained their AI using publicly available interviews and voice datasets. He wanted his AI to show the right feeling and asked the correct question, he said. </p>
905. <p dir="ltr">But some candidates will like a human recruitment.</p>
906. <h2 dir="ltr">Recall human touch</h2>
907. <p dir="ltr">Morin Green, a health technology advisor, was contacted to an interview to an interview for a position in a Canadian health care company to direct the patient call. He was told that the interview would be done by its AI Bot of the company. </p>
908. <p dir="ltr">First, Green, who lives in Vancouver, said that she was influenced by the system, finding that she spoke and acted like a human being.</p>
909. <p dir="ltr">&#8220;It really felt like a conversation and felt as if it was listening.&#8221;</p>
910. <p dir="ltr">But what was determined for a 30 -minute interview ended for more than an hour, as the AI ​​follow -up kept asking questions and showed no signal to end the interview. </p>
911. <p dir="ltr">And did not know that Green said that he thanked the AI ​​interviewer for his time. </p>
912. <p dir="ltr">&#8220;I said: &#8216;I am very sorry, but it was talking to you. Thank you very much for the occasion,&#8217; and so it ended.&#8221; </p>
913. <div dir="ltr"><strong>Hear</strong><em><strong>    Are we ready for robots between us?: </strong></em><span><span class="mediaEmbed"></p>
914. <div class="player-placeholder-ui-container  " data-cy="player-placeholder-ui-container">
915. <div class="player-placeholder-audio-ui " role="button" tabindex="0" title="Should robots work for us or with us?">
916. <div class="player-placeholder-ui">
917. <p><span class="media-showName">Spark</span><span class="media-duration">54:00</span><span class="media-title">Should robots work with us or us?</span></p>
918. </div>
919. </div>
920. </div>
921. <p><span class="media-caption">Streaks in AI software are looking for their way into the physical robot. It is promising a new era of human-robot interactions, where robots can help us, reply to our needs and indicate in the environment. The question is: Are we ready for robots between ourselves?</span></span></span></div>
922. <p dir="ltr">Green thought he had done well in the interview, but he never heard back.</p>
923. <p dir="ltr">He said, &#8220;I was taken advantage of because I had tried a lot in this interview and actually took it seriously, but I also feel that it is being trained by talking to people,&#8221; he said. </p>
924. <p dir="ltr">&#8220;It can be done well, I am sure, but it was not.&#8221;</p>
925. <p dir="ltr">Shafiq shared Bhavna. He entered his interview with curiosity and some doubt.</p>
926. <p dir="ltr">The email he received to schedule the interview did not mention AI &#8211; he came to know only after seeing himself. And he did not get a followup even after the interview. </p>
927. <div>
928. <figure class="imageMedia image full">
929. <div class="placeholder"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" alt="Wafa from the chest with trees in a building and background." srcset="https://i.cbc.ca/1.7546272.1748627390!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/wafa-shafiq.JPG?im=Resize%3D300 300w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7546272.1748627390!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/wafa-shafiq.JPG?im=Resize%3D460 460w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7546272.1748627390!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/wafa-shafiq.JPG?im=Resize%3D620 620w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7546272.1748627390!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/wafa-shafiq.JPG?im=Resize%3D780 780w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7546272.1748627390!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/wafa-shafiq.JPG?im=Resize%3D1180 1180w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 300px,(max-width: 460px) 460px,(max-width: 620px) 620px,(max-width: 780px) 780px,(max-width: 1180px) 1180px" src="https://i.cbc.ca/1.7546272.1748627390!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/wafa-shafiq.JPG?im=" style="aspect-ratio:0.9907640638119227" data-cy="image-img"/></div><figcaption class="image-caption">Wafa Shafiq was impressed by how smart the AI ​​recruiter was, but missed the human connection. <!-- --> <!-- -->(Charlotte Leopage/CBC)</figcaption></figure>
930. </div>
931. <p dir="ltr">She thought that it was &#8220;quiet&#8221; that she could schedule the interview at any time of the day, even in the middle of the night, and was influenced by some of the gliches he experienced &#8211; it was only difficult to answer some of her questions. But she wanted more information about her performance as to how her performance would be evaluated. </p>
932. <p dir="ltr">&#8220;If companies use AI for recruitment, it is an opportunity to explain what its benefits are,&#8221; Shafiq said. &#8220;Likes to send a message in advance: &#8216;What is expected, how to prepare.&#8221; , </p>
933. <p dir="ltr">Although Shafiq is open to interview more AI, she said that she missed the human connection, which she usually meets with a regular interview. </p>
934. <p dir="ltr">&#8220;There is nothing small, nothing was personal and I was not really able to tell whether my answers were coming down or not.&#8221; </p>
935. <h2>Is this a replacement for human recruitments?</h2>
936. <p dir="ltr">Job interviews done by AI agents allow too much flexibility to hiring internal roles and can accelerate the process, said Elena McGir, Peepal of Peepal and Special Projects Thrive Career Wellness, a Toronto -based HR Consulting Company. </p>
937. <p dir="ltr">The company has many positions open at once and hiring internationally. They use ribbons, which allow candidates to choose an interview time that works for them and interviews in French for bilingual positions. </p>
938. <p dir="ltr">McGire said it allowed the company to cut thousands of applicants and appoint six new employees. </p>
939. <p dir="ltr">&#8220;This is not really us to change HR folk, but help us.&#8221; </p>
940. <p dir="ltr">MCGURERE also said that the decisions of the company have not been taken by AI.</p>
941. <p dir="ltr">The ribbon summarizes interviews and gives scores based on the company&#8217;s requirements, allowing recruitors to decide whether to move forward with the candidate.  </p>
942. <p dir="ltr">Shekhatman of Employment Agency Robert Half said, &#8220;They (companies) are looking at ways to lose and do not miss candidates in any way.&#8221;</p>
943. <p dir="ltr">He said, &#8220;But it comes with a tremendous amount of caution,&#8221; he said, to ensure that AI agents do not ignore eligible candidates or focus too much on technology, spotlight unqualified people. </p>
944. <p dir="ltr">But the companies will eventually take advantage of any equipment that will help them to streamline their procedures, especially if their resources are decreasing, Shekhatman said. </p>
945. <p dir="ltr">&#8220;If you do not embrace (technology), you are going to run by it.&#8221;</p>
946. <h2 dir="ltr">AI interview &#8216;One Panchline&#8217;</h2>
947. <p dir="ltr">When it comes to the interview by the presidents of AI, Terry Griffith, Keith BD, Terry Griffith, Keith BD at the Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, he said that he has not yet excited &#8220;a candidate.&#8221;</p>
948. <p dir="ltr">He said that AI is being used by both recruitments and applicants. </p>
949. <p dir="ltr">&#8220;This is a punchline for a joke that goes: &#8216;I used my AI to apply for a job, they used AI to review my application &#8230; Now we are interviewing one (AI).&#8221;</p>
950. <div dir="ltr"><strong>Hear</strong><em><strong>    What does AI mean for the future of your career: </strong></em><span><span class="mediaEmbed"></p>
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954. <p><span class="media-showName"/><span class="media-duration">52:40</span><span class="media-title">AI and future of your work</span></p>
955. </div>
956. </div>
957. </div>
958. <p><span class="media-caption">Today only when asked, we answer your questions about artificial intelligence and what does it mean to your career.</span></span></span></div>
959. <p dir="ltr">Griffith sees the use of AI bots in interviews with various possible results: regulation with sufficient pushbacks or with adequate improvement of technology and its implementation may be approved. </p>
960. <p dir="ltr">Green, reflecting its interview, said that although it is &#8220;really open&#8221; for AI, there are not many people, and they hope that companies will understand that their trust needs to be acquired. </p>
961. <p dir="ltr">&#8220;I don&#8217;t think we need to be quick to apply these systems that we are doing. I think we should be thoughtful and respectable about those who are interacting with it,&#8221; he said. </p>
962. <p dir="ltr">&#8220;So hopefully it will change, but I am optimistic.&#8221;</p>
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