Ever since the Emergency Broadcasting System was brought to our phones, people have started to complain about being woken up in the middle of the night by said alerts, mostly Amber Alerts. One of those times I remember very clearly. It was the abduction of 11-year-old Riya Rajkumar, from Brampton, ON. She was abducted by [...]
My name is Noah Irvine, I am a first year Political Science student at the University of Guelph. I started this petition to raise an important issue that has personally affected myself and my family. Fourteen years ago, I lost my mother to suicide. I was five years old. She was just 24. Then in 2015,[.....]
Canadian Inuit babies have the highest rate of hospitalizations with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in the world. Every winter intensive care units fill up with very young Inuit babies on life support due to RSV, a disease that can be prevented with medicine. Many of these babies have long term consequences as a result of their[.....]
Français Mar. 17 2020 urgent message: "Trudeau needs to listen to Canadian physicians NOW to save lives. Please read and sign this petition: https://www.change.org/p/justin-trudeau-contain-covid-now" The global number of novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV/COVID-19) cases keeps going up! Our Trudeau government is NOT doing enough to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus in Canada and protect Canadians. Experts[.....]
Discord The novel coronavirus has been identified as a deadly strain that is highly contagious. Multiple counties, rich or not, have failed to contain the virus. We, the students at the University of Waterloo have been concerned about the apathy from policy makers who underestimate the fat tailed risk and effect size which is unprecedented.[.....]
Français Dear Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Minister of Health Patty Hajdu, provincial and territorial Premiers and Ministers of Health: Our front line health care workers are already running out of personal protective equipment (PPE) such as N95 masks, surgical masks, gloves, and gowns. We also need access to hoods, face shields, goggles, and other protective equipment.[.....]
Français My daughter Lucy was born with a rare genetic disorder called Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA). Lucy has SMA type I, which is the most aggressive type and left untreated, she wouldn't likely make it to her 2nd birthday. CLICK TO WATCH LUCY'S STORY On June 18th 2020, Novartis Pharmaceuticals Canada Inc. announced the filing of a marketing[.....]
Français Rape and sexual assaults cause many physical and psychological injuries. It shouldn't have to be a maze and a struggle to seek for emergency medical care whether one wishes to report or not. In February 2017, I was drugged and raped by a stranger in Montreal. In the following hours, I woke up in[.....]