Book Review: Dirty Hands and Vicious Deeds • The US Government’s Complicity in Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide 

 Dirty Hands and Vicious Deeds • The US Government’s Complicity in Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide  By Samuel Totten 494 pages • ISBN 978-1-4426-3526-5 Samuel Totten is Professor Emeritus, University of Arkansas-Fayetteville. He has published extensively on the subject of genocide and is founding co-editor of Genocide Studies and Prevention:

Providing benefits not burdens

 By Jennifer Zwicker and Stephanie Dunn “Providing benefits not burdens” is how former Health Minister, Judy LaMarsh once described the vision for disability policy in Canada. Unfortunately, this vision is not a reality when it comes to one of the main benefits open to Canadians with disability: the federal Disability Tax

Canada Home to Nine of the World’s Top 200 Universities

 The thirteenth edition of the QS World University Rankings, compiled by global higher education analysts QS Quacquarelli Symonds, today confirms MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology as the world’s best university for the fifth consecutive year. McGill University is again ranked Canada’s top institution, but falls six places to 30TH position. While

Personalized Medicine for Child Health is a Distraction

 Genetics will save the day – at least that’s the message you see pretty much everywhere in the media, and sometimes even in the academic literature.  Newspaper articles herald “breakthroughs” in finding genetic biomarkers for autism. Magazine headlines trumpet finding a biomarker for Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). We read in

How Basic Academic Research Leads to Innovation

 Many high-profile Canadian innovations in health care were discovered by academic – not industrial – researchers There’s a disconnect between Canada’s capacity to innovate and our capacity to commercialize those innovations – or so the story goes. It’s been repeated so often it’s become a mantra in certain circles, and

Was The Senate Audit Worth It?

 On a cost-benefit basis, probably not Consider me one of the millions of Canadians offended by the Senate spending scandal. But it’s not for the reason you might think. The auditor general spent $21 million on this investigation, and found less than $1 million in questionable expenses -- out of

Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame Profile: Mark Tewksbury

 2015 marks the Year of Sport and the 60th anniversary of Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame. In recognition of these important milestones, OLM will be featuring Honoured Members of Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame in a weekly Profile piece. Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame aims to share the stories and

Postpartum Depression is a Family Affair

 It can affect dads and other children too At long last, people are talking about postpartum depression. Dismissed for years as no more than a touch of the baby blues or else unheard of entirely, postpartum depression – or PPD, as it is often known – has become an open