Global News published this video item, entitled “Global National: April 1, 2023 | Deadly US tornadoes leave trail of destruction across midwest” – below is their description.
At least 21 people are now dead, after dozens of tornadoes swept through parts of the U.S. midwest and the southern states. According to the country’s national weather service, there were at least 66 reported tornadoes across seven states — all within a span of 24 hours. Reggie Cecchini looks at the damage.
Baby formula shortages dominated headlines a year ago when a key manufacturing plant was temporarily shut down, due to bacterial contamination in some products. But some parents are still struggling to find the necessary products to feed their little ones. Katherine Ward has more.
During the pandemic, the world’s attention shifted to fighting off COVID-19. Yet another epidemic has remained: HIV-AIDS. Despite calls for Canada to do more to prevent HIV and increase testing, the federal budget fell far short of what advocates were hoping for. Touria Izri explains.
There’s an increasing push in law and big business to put a price on colour pigments, but one British artist is on a crusade to free colour for fellow creators – and everyone else. Redmond Shannon introduces us to the artist, and the battle shaping up around a key question: who owns colour?
Fuelled by a narrative that drag time story hours and other family friendly events are sexualizing children and putting them at risk, LGBTQ+ events have found themselves continually under threat — and it’s why a group of queer community members in Calgary have come together to stand up to the hate. Heather Yourex-West has more.
In the 2023 federal budget, the Trudeau government vowed to find savings of more than $15-billion over four years. It may want to start with the phone bill. Global’s David Akin has more.
Canada is a country in the northern part of North America. It extends from the Atlantic to the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering 9.98 million square kilometres (3.85 million square miles), making it the world’s second-largest country by total area.
Its southern and western border with the United States, stretching 8,891 kilometres (5,525 mi), is the world’s longest bi-national land border. Canada’s capital is Ottawa, and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver.
Various Indigenous peoples inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years before European colonization. The Canada Act 1982, which severed the vestiges of legal dependence on the British Parliament. Canada is a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy in the Westminster tradition, with a monarch and a prime minister who serves as the chair of the Cabinet and head of government.
As a highly developed country, Canada has the seventeenth-highest nominal per-capita income globally as well as the thirteenth-highest ranking in the Human Development Index. Its advanced economy is the tenth-largest in the world, relying chiefly upon its abundant natural resources and well-developed international trade networks.
Covid-19 is the official WHO name given to the novel coronavirus which broke out in late 2019 and began to spread in the early months of 2020.
Symptoms of coronavirus
The main symptoms of coronavirus are:
a persistent new cough (non productive, dry)
a high temperature (e.g. head feels warm to the touch)
shortness of breath (if this is abnormal for the individual, or increased)
Latest News about Covid-19
Below are stories from around the globe related to the 2020 outbreak of novel Coronavirus – since the WHO gave the Covid-19 naming. Most recent items are posted nearest the top.
The human immunodeficiency viruses (HIV) are two species of Lentivirus (a subgroup of retrovirus) that infect humans. Over time, they cause acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), a condition in which progressive failure of the immune system allows life-threatening opportunistic infections and cancers to thrive.
Without treatment, average survival time after infection with HIV is estimated to be 9 to 11 years, depending on the HIV subtype. In most cases, HIV is a sexually transmitted infection and occurs by contact with or transfer of blood, pre-ejaculate, semen, and vaginal fluids. Research has shown (for both same-sex and opposite-sex couples) that HIV is untransmittable through condomless sexual intercourse if the HIV-positive partner has a consistently undetectable viral load.
Non-sexual transmission can occur from an infected mother to her infant during pregnancy, during childbirth by exposure to her blood or vaginal fluid, and through breast milk. Within these bodily fluids, HIV is present as both free virus particles and virus within infected immune cells.