Tuesday, November 12, 2019

Drug resistance likely to kill 400,000 Canadians by 2050, report predicts


CBC News
Superbugs are likely to kill nearly 400,000 Canadians and cost the economy about $400 billion in gross domestic product over the next 30 years, warns a landmark report.  Story here.
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PinP: As is too often the case, a big piece of the information puzzle is left out of stories such as this. Antibiotics have been overused almost everywhere in the world for a long time, often to raise animals for food. Among other things, it makes them grow faster and fattens them up to fetch a better price at market time. Yet governments forge ahead, like Manitoba's is doing, to expand the very style of livestock production that spawns such problems. 

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When the Wildfires Rage, Who Gets to Breathe First?

BRANDI MORAN  Canada is warming twice as fast as the rest of the planet. It just approved three more pipelines anyway. Story here.