The Canadian Ice Age. J. William Dawson

Dawson, J. William. Modern Ideas of Evolution

While politicians have known for years that the essence ofleadership is embodied in a keen awareness of what the followers want, that news hasn't yet percolated sufficiently deeply into the medical care field. This is an excellent book-a model of thoughtful, academic analysis and insights, with a dash of historical relevance to give it the appearance of utility. Regionali7ation is good, necessa...

Injuries in Canadian youth ice hockey: the influence of relative age.

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between relative age and injury prevalence in Canadian youth ice hockey. METHODS In study 1, youth ice hockey-related injuries (among children 10-15 years of age) collected by the Canadian Hospitals Injury Reporting and Prevention Program between 1995 and 2002 were analyzed. The relative ages of injured children were comp...

The Goldilocks dilemma: big ice, little ice, or ‘‘just-right’’ ice in the Eastern Canadian Arctic

Our conceptions of the NE sector of the Laurentide Ice Sheet (LIS) at the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) have evolved through three major paradigms over the past 50 years. Until the late 1960s the conventional view was that the Eastern Canadian Arctic preserved only a simple deglacial sequence from a LIS margin everywhere at the continental shelf edge (Flint Paradigm). Glacial geologic field studie...

Obituary: William J Sibbald, MD, FRCP(C)

William Sibbald was born June 28, 1946, and died September 14, 2006, at his home in Toronto, Ontario, surrounded by his family after a two-year battle with cancer. He was 60 years old. Up until two days before his death, he remained the Physician-in-Chief of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Critical Care and a lifelong dynamic force for the advance...

Haemoglobin J in the French Canadian.