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resident Volodymyr Zelenskyy had warned for days that Russian forces might attempt “something particularly cruel” this week. A rocket attack on a train station in central Ukraine as the country marked its Independence Day has killed 22 people, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said. The Ukrainian leader had warned for days that Russian forces might attempt “something particularly cruel” this week. The lethal attack hit the town of Chaplyne in the central Dnipropetrovsk region, he told a
meeting of the UN Security Council. Ukraine had been bracing for especially heavy attacks surrounding the national holiday that commemorates Ukraine’s declaration of independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, which this year fell on the six month point of the 2022 Russian invasion. It comes as Prime Minister Boris Johnson visited the Ukrainian capital Kyiv again, where he was presented with The Order of Liberty, Ukraine’s highest award which can be bestowed on foreign nationals... Source: news.sky.com
$118M in ‘stabilization funding’ on the way for family doctors in B.C., minister says
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he B.C. Ministry of Health and Doctors of B.C. will provide $118 million in “stabilization funding” over four months to help primary-care providers in the province stay open, officials announced Wednesday.The funds will be distributed from Oct. 1 to Jan. 31, and will give the ministry and the doctors’ organization more time to finalize a new payment model that family doctors in the province have
been demanding, Health Minister Adrian Dix said at a news conference Wednesday. “We’re working with the Doctors of B.C. to enact transformational, longterm changes to the way primary care is delivered in our province,” Dix said. Doctors have raised the issue of overhead costs for months, if not years. The investment in space, tools, and equipment is a growing expense, according to the Doctors of BC. Both family doctors who have their own practices and those working in walk-in clinics will receive funding, which the ministry says it expects to go to more than 70 per cent of family doctors working in the province. Dix said there would be no strings attached. “It reflects overhead but is essentially a direct payment that will go through clinics to all those doctors,” Dix explained. Continue at page 5
DMONTON - Universities that require masks on campus are in the minority as the fall semester and the prospect of another wave of COVID-19 infections loom. Despite the lifting of provincial and territorial mask requirements, some postsecondary institutions have decided to keep them for the safety of staff and students. ”At the moment, I think there is still risk of waves of significant illness, and caution makes sense to me,” said Dr. Lynora Saxinger, an infectious disease specialist with the University of Alberta, where masking is encouraged, but not required, in most settings.
Fourteen out of 83 universities surveyed by The Canadian Press through email, interviews and online notices say they will require students and employees to mask up in different settings on campus. Western University in London, Ont., and an affiliated school, Huron University College, were the only ones surveyed that have vaccine mandates.“While we can’t predict when the next wave of COVID-19 might come, we believe these measures will help us protect the in-person experience that Western is known for,” Western provost Florentine Strzelczyk said in a statement posted to
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Qatar to invest $3bn in Pakistan economy
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he Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) has announced it aims to spend $3bn on various commercial and investment sectors in Pakistan, which is currently facing a dire economic crisis, according to a statement released by Qatar’s Amiri Diwan.Wednesday’s announcement was made during a visit to Doha by Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, who held official talks with Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani after a meeting with the QIA on Tuesday. “His Highness stressed the importance of the brotherly and strategic relations between the two countries and their aspiration to enhance economic partnership by raising trade exchange and promoting investments through the Qatar Investment Authority,” the Amiri Diwan said in its statement. A senior Pakistani minister who was present during the meeting con-
firmed to Al Jazeera that the Qatari government has shown its “intention of investing in Pakistan”. “This is very good and more than what we needed,” he said. The minister further added that once the Qataris buy Pakistani assets, it will “boost our reserves”. “They are interested in airports, seaport terminals, LNG-fired power plants, solar energy, [and] shares in the stock markets,” he said... Source: aljazeera.com