At the outset of COVID-19 pandemic, it was believed that Indigenous peoples in Canada would be disproportionately affected due to inequities across social determinants health as a result ongoing processes colonization. High levels overcrowding, higher burden chronic disease, reduced access clean drinking water, healthcare, and food security many rural remote First Nations northern increased vul...

Racially disaggregated incarceration data are an important indicator of population health and well-being, but lacking in the Canadian context. We aimed to describe rates proportions Black people who experienced Ontario, Canada during 2010 using population-based data. used correctional administrative for all 45,956 men 6,357 women released from provincial facilities Ontario 2010, including self-...

s of papers and cases presented at the 38th Annual Meeting September 16 19th, 1998 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan The 38th annual meeting of the Canadian Association of Neuropathologists was held from September 16 19th, at the Delta Bessborough Hotel in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Local arrangements were made by Drs. David George and Robert Macaulay. The scientific session consisted of 22 platform presen...

BACKGROUND The Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) provides services to children in Baffin Island, through the Baffin Island Pediatric Health Initiative. Tuberculosis (TB) remains a major public health problem in that region. The objective of our study was to describe the origin and clinical characteristics of patients with TB disease at CHEO, since the inception of the Baffin Island ...

CANADIAN GERIATRICS JOURNAL, VOLUME 15, ISSUE 4, DECEMBER 2012 The editorial board of the Canadian Geriatrics Journal would like to present our last collection of articles for 2012, an issue devoted entirely to memory disorders. In this special publication (jointly with the Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences), we are pleased to provide the latest recommendations from the fourth Canadian ...

To the editor: Ontario has a strong tradition of prehospital research. Unfortunately, we are often too slow to implement this research. Our delay in implementing the Canadian C-Spine Rule is an important example of one of these failures. The Canadian C-Spine Rule is a clinical decision rule designed to speed cervical spine clearance and reduce unnecessary radiography in emergency departments. U...

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a leading cause of death in Northern Ontario and therefore considered an important issue. To this end, this paper examines CVD trends in Northern Ontario and the prevalence of known risk factors that give an insight into these trends. Ontario Health Survey 1990, Ontario Health Survey 1996, Canadian Institute for Health Information (1990-95) and Vital Statistics (...

Canadian Meteor Orbit Radar (CMOR) A. R. Webster , P. G. Brown, J. Jones, K. J. Ellis, and M. Campbell-Brown Department of Physics, The University of Western Ontario, Canada Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Western Ontario, Canada Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Edinburgh, SA 5111, Australia European Space Agency, ESTEC, SCI-SB, Keplerlaan 1, 220...