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Canada: Why ERs are struggling to stay open nationwide

 On a Thursday in mid-August, the entryways of a clinic's crisis division two hours west of Toronto were closed. A note posted on the front said the ER was shut for the afternoon. It would resume the next morning at 08:00, yet close again for the night. Patients who required critical consideration were approached to go to local emergency clinics - a 15-to 35-minute drive away. It was the 10th time since April that the Huron Public Healthcare Alliance - an organization of four medical clinics serving around 150,000 individuals in western Ontario - needed to briefly close or cut back hours at one of its crisis divisions. Furthermore, it won't be the last, said the association's CEO Andrew Williams. The explanation? There aren't an adequate number of medical attendants to staff the ER. "You are seeing - practically week by week - medical clinics decreasing their administrations," Mr Williams told the BBC. It's a problem working out at crisis offices across Ca...

Steamship restorer awarded rare maritime medal

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IMAGE SOURCE, Image caption  Capt Cross is among 14 beneficiaries this year, including Master Mariner Ann Pletschke, from Hampshire, who has upheld the freedoms of ladies and under-advantaged people in the business. She additionally paid the instructive expenses for the principal marine designer official from Mauritius. As to Daniel Adamson, Capt Cross said: "It is in many cases said the boat runs on two things - steam and volunteers - and this reflects what a sublime collaboration the task is." It last conveyed travelers in 1984, preceding its condition rotted more than 20 years in a gallery show. Capt Cross bought it for £1 two days before it was expected to be rejected in 2004 after it was vandalized. He fabricated a group of reclamation volunteers, including a different scope of youngsters, some of whom have proceeded to work in the designing and the oceanic areas. They got a £3.6m lottery award in 2015, which prompted the Daniel Adamson continuing sailings through north-...