The Journal of Epidemiology: Linking Air Pollution Nanoparticles & Incident of Brain Tumors

Credit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2019 18:30:07 +0000

Mahattan traffic Nov. 2019 Cynthia Shahan CleanTechnicaScience and modern biochemistry have all kinds of answers on the brain and human health, but scientific knowledge alone can’t stop air pollution. Those studies can make citizens aware of how compromised we are. They can let us know that air pollution is indeed a threat to the brain’s and body’s core functions. But humans must act on this knowledge to make it truly useful

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Immigrant developers turn former Toronto Hydro building into refugee shelter

Credit to Author: Shelby Thevenot| Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2019 21:49:08 +0000

The City of Toronto’s first refugee shelter is now open thanks, in part, to two Iranian-Canadian immigrants. Hamid and Hessam Ghadaki work for the development company that purchased the old Toronto Hydro building in 2018. Though they could have leased the space to more profitable ventures, lending the space to house refugees is a cause […]

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International student’s comical take on “cryptic” Canada goes viral

Credit to Author: Shelby Thevenot| Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2019 21:00:28 +0000

As Canadian federal election results rolled in Monday night, an international student in Toronto was tweeting his observations of Canada — a country that he says “feels like America, but something is fundamentally off.” By Wednesday, the Twitter thread by Shoji Ushiyama, who goes by the pseudonym Kavaeric online, had been praised and retweeted by […]

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