Editor’s note: In order to protect patient privacy, names and ages have been changed in the scenes Andrew Bethune witnessed while on the job, and times, places and other details have also been obscured. Names, quotes and details from news stories have not been changed. Three in the morning. The glare from the late-night pizza […]
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After a nine-month search, Dal’s new president starts in eight months
Dalhousie University’s Board of Governors announced Thursday that Dr. Deep Saini has been elected as the university’s new president and vice-chancellor. He will be only the 12th president in the history of the 200-year-old school. Saini is not the first Dalhousie president to be born outside of North America; he follows inaugural president Thomas McCulloch […]
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2010 resolution: quit and start over
That was no vacation, it was the holidays: a forced shopping mall feeding frenzy spread over end-of-year overtime and out-the-door queues, visits with family, friends, friends-of-family, family-of-friends, gift-wrap shredding, plastic chucking, meat and sugar binging, gift returns and more cut-rate shopping. No wonder come January we’re ready to swear off every earth plundering bad habit […]
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Kijiji Job Seekers
To people who post up these job wanted ads – I know it’s hard out there and you’re trying to “think outside the box.” But why do almost all of you have to use the worst photos of yourself possible? You’re either glowering at your webcam in a darkened room, looking like you’re just about […]