Lynne Melcombe
Digital Journalist based in Port Moody, BC, Canada.
Joined on Oct 21, 2009
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The decline of print journalism is raising questions about business models, advertising revenues, and writers' pay. But while crowd journalism makes a vital contribution to a free press, what will happen if professional journalism disappears?
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A U of T infectious-disease expert says that now that the second wave of H1N1 has peaked and is dwindling, there's no reason to continue the largest vaccination campaign in Canada's history, which is diverting funds from other public health programs.
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While Canada joins the call to exclude Sri Lanka from hosting next Commonwealth summit over human rights abuses, top environmentalists call for Canada's exclusion from Commonwealth itself over impact of its emissions on human rights in developing world.
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Dr. Richard Schabas, Ontario's former chief medical officer, "shakes his head" about money spent on the global H1N1 panic because it fails to meet pandemic criteria for illness and deaths. And there will be no third wave, he said.
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In response to reader interest in "Canada: No more H1N1 deaths than from seasonal flu" (DJ, Nov 20), Digital Journal posed the following questions by email to Dr. Perry Kendall, the Provincial Health Officer of BC.
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As the global debate over climate change heats up, the Metro Vancouver region has launched a holiday campaign to urge residents to act locally by reducing their garbage output.
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Across Canada, individuals and groups are marking today as the 20-year anniversary of a unanimous vote in the House of Commons to end child poverty in Canada by the year 2000.
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While headlines decry the rising H1N1 death toll, news is emerging that there have been no more deaths from this pandemic than from seasonal flu.
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The first of four sessions called "Solid Waste: Options for the Region" took place in Coquitlam, B.C. on November 18. About 100 people turned out on a rainy night to have their say on measures that will impact over 2.25 million people in Metro Vancouver.
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Trash has been a major point of discussion in Metro Vancouver lately, and that will continue with a series of forums on garbage, recycling, and sustainability from November 18 to November 20 in Coquitlam, Langley, and Vancouver.
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The polls have closed, the votes have been counted, and the Liberal party finished last in the by-elections held November 9 in four Canadian ridings.
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Stephen Harper's Conservative government has picked up one more seat in the House of Commons in today's by-elections, and may pick up a second.
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In Port Coquitlam, BC, citizens are raging about an impending switch to biweekly garbage collection, with a frequently raised concern being pile-ups of stinky diapers for young families.
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A new study is sounding alarm about heart disease in teens and its links to obesity, diabetes, too much TV, and too little activity.
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First Nations groups at both ends of Canada have been fighting for artistic recognition at the 2010 Winter Olympics in BC. Today, there is winning news in the west, but not in the east.
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