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May 10, 2024admin

Castoffs to catwalk: fashion show shines light on vast Chile clothes dump visible from space | Global development

Draped in layers of denim, Sadlin Charles walks the catwalk of sand between piles of discarded clothes and tyres in Chile’s Atacama desert. His outfit has been made from items found in the surrounding heaps of rubbish, which are so vast they can be seen from space. Almost all of this waste has come from countries thousands of miles away, including the US, China, South Korea and the UK.

A staggering 60,000 tonnes of used clothing is shipped to Chile each year. According to the latest UN figures, Chile is the third largest importer of secondhand clothes in the world. Some of these clothes are resold in secondhand markets, but at least 39,000 tonnes ends up being illegally dumped in the Atacama desert. The desert is one of the country’s most popular tourism destinations, famed for its otherworldly beauty and stargazing, but for those living near the dump sites it has become a place of devastation.

“This place is being used as a global sacrifice zone where waste from different parts of the world arrives and ends up around the municipality of Alto Hospicio,” says Ángela Astudillo, co-founder of Desierto Vestido, a non-governmental organisation that aims to raise awareness about the environmental impact of the waste. “It builds up in different areas, is incinerated and also buried.

“The way it has affected us the most is stigmatisation, as we are portrayed as one of the dirtiest and ugliest places in the world.”

Astudillo, 27, lives a five-minute drive from one of about 160 dumps in the area. She sees trucks full of rubbish drive past and regularly breathes in smoke from the fires started to burn the clothes. She has received threats for her work documenting the problem.

“It’s sad because this has been happening for a

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Health Care

April 4, 2024admin

My trip to a Winnipeg hospital turned into a medical ‘gong show’

This First Person column is the experience of Winnipegger Jo Davies. For more information about CBC’s First Person stories, please see the FAQ.

You know things are going off the rails with Manitoba’s health care when it feels like the average emergency room wait time equals a round of golf.

I experienced such a wait after I woke up one day last month with arms in so much pain, I was screaming. The walk-in clinic doctor I saw sent me to Victoria Hospital urgent care.

Six hours later, no one had taken my temperature, let alone given me any diagnostic tests. In all, I waited for 38½ hours there. (These sort of wait times aren’t unheard of in Manitoba. In January, the Manitoba Nurses Union said some ER wait times exceeded 30 hours.)

For nearly two days I didn’t eat, because no one could decide if I would be getting emergency shoulder surgery or not. The one doctor I managed to corral told me the X-rays they’d taken of my shoulders had been sent to Health Sciences Centre’s orthopedic team, and revealed fractures that only a seizure could have caused.

To be clear: I’d never had a seizure. I had, however, reluctantly started taking a specific medication at the insistence of my family doctor. It wasn’t until later that I discovered one of its side-effects, although rare, was seizures. Lucky me.

A woman with long blond hair stares into the camera. — Davies says ‘devoted yet overburdened’ nurses did their best to provide care. ‘How they keep working in these conditions is a mystery,’ she says. (Submitted by Jo Davies)

I was then packed into an ambulance to HSC with what turned out to be two broken shoulders and a dislocated left arm — all of it, according to the doctors, caused by seizures.

If you’ve ever wanted to experience

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April 4, 2024admin

Palm Royale Fashion: Clothing Masks Reality on the Apple TV+ Show

Photography courtesy of Apple TV+

The new series from Apple TV+ explores the wealthy — and duplicitous— world of Palm Beach. And fashion plays an integral role.

By
Katherine Singh

Date March 27, 2024

Warning: Contains minor spoilers for episodes 1-4 of Palm Royale.

They say clothing can tell you a lot about a person, but in Palm Royale, the new series from Apple TV+, it actually tells you literally nothing. Set in 1969 in Palm Beach, Florida and based on the 2018 novel Mr & Mrs. American Pie by Juliet McDaniel, the series follows Maxine Simmons (played by Kristen Wiig), a down-on-her-luck transplant via Tennessee and Georgia. Maxine is trying to find her way into the group of elite women that run the east coast enclave, comprised of Evelyn Rollins (Allison Janney), Dinah Donohue (Leslie Bibb) and a host of other women. Her way in? The Palm Royale beach club.

Shortly after scaling the wall of the elite club and sidling in the back door, a detained Maxine pleads her case to stay, emphasizing everything the storied institution has come to symbolize. “The Palm Royale represents safety in a rapidly changing world,” Maxine says. “Embodying that which is sacred; refined companionship, sanctity, and [a] deep heart conviction that beauty is not dead.” It’s a poetic framing of a club that, from the outside looking in, appears perfect, but as both Maxine and viewers will come to realize, is as a facade covering up the secrets and scandals in Palm Beach.

And the Palm Royale fashion does the same for its characters, with its sorbet swirl of patterns and textures splayed across 1960s silhouettes masking people’s true intentions — and realities.

You see this right off the bat with characters like Janney’s Evelyn

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Health Care

March 26, 2024admin

Prince Rupert couple recount ‘horror show’ amid ER closures

A Prince Rupert couple has been left harrowed after what they’re calling a “health care horror show” worsened by emergency department closures.

Tish Losier says she and her partner, Joe, were forced to wait for care outside an emergency room in Prince Rupert while it was closed overnight.

Losier tells CityNews she had to bring Joe into the ER a total of three times on Monday, after he began to experience grand mal seizures that morning.

When paramedics arrived, they informed her that the Prince Rupert Regional Hospital Emergency Department was closed and offered to take Joe to Terrace — a 90 minute drive away.

Plagued by ongoing closures, this was the fourth time it was shuttered in as many days from 3 p.m. until 8 a.m. due to a physician shortage.

“I don’t know what the answer is, but I do know that our communities need help. Other communities need help. People’s lives are on the line,” said Losier.

“This could have ended differently. I’m grateful I still have him around.”

Tish Losier says she and her partner, Joe, were forced to wait for care outside an emergency room in Prince Rupert while it was closed overnight. (Photo courtesy of Tish Losier)

Losier initially agreed to go to Terrace, but by the time Joe stabilized, it was close to 7 a.m. and they decided it would be quicker to wait for the Prince Rupert ER to reopen.

“Of course I wanted him to be seen as soon as possible, so I agreed to stay in Prince Rupert,” said Losier.

“They drove him outside the hospital in an ambulance. We waited outside for over an hour for care. He had more seizures in the ambulance. It was absolutely terrifying.”

Once they saw a doctor, Losier says Joe was discharged because

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Department Health

December 7, 2023admin

4 of 12 soil sites tested after AIM fire show higher than expected levels of metals, chemicals

The Department of Health has updated its guidance on garden produce and cannabis that may have been exposed to smoke from the massive fire at American Iron and Metal’s scrapyard three months ago in Saint John, after four of 12 soil sampling sites showed “higher than expected levels of metals or chemicals.”

But health officials don’t believe the elevated results are related to the AIM fire, according to Dr. Kimberly Barker, regional chief medical officer of health.

“While the AIM fire has likely impacted soil quality in the city, our findings do not suggest it has impacted soil to the point that it poses a risk to the health of citizens,” she said in a statement.

According to the department “there are several possible explanations for the elevated results.”

None have been provided, but a guide Public Health has developed on growing garden edibles in urban and industrial areas indicates soil in some communities naturally contains different levels of metals and chemical compounds. “Urban areas, in particular, may contain higher levels of soil pollutants due to heavy traffic and other sources of environmental pollutants such as local industrial activities,” it says.

The four sites with elevated test results require further investigation, the department said.

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Public Health also plans to review the report released Tuesday by the task force that examined the AIM fire to determine if further actions are required.

The fire, which started around 1:30 a.m. on Sept. 14 and burned for roughly 40 hours, prompted a city-wide shelter in place order because of hazardous smoke.

The exact cause and origin of the “catastrophic” fire was inconclusive, but Attorney General Ted Flemming, who was a member of the task force, said investigators believe the likely cause

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Health Advice

June 5, 2023admin

The Western Development Museum combines history and fashion in their upcoming Flower Power fashion show on June 24

The Moose Jaw branch of the Western Development Museum is set to host their annual historical fashion show, titled “Flower Power” on Sunday, June 24, at 1:00pm.

Keep your weekend free on Saturday, June 24th, as the Western Development Museum (WDM) is hosting their annual historical fashion show. This year, the theme is “Flower Power,” and will take place at 1:00 pm at the museum.

“We are very excited to bring this program back. We had done it a few times before the pandemic, and this is the first one since 2019,” explains Karla Rasmussen, programs manager for the WDM.

The fashion show is a worthwhile visit, as the items are not on static display at the museum.

“Traditionally, the Moose Jaw location has a lot of transportation items in our collection. We have cars, we have planes, we have trains,” she says. “It’s kind of a nice way to get these pieces out, because we don’t really have a lot of textiles in most of our locations.”

“We have close to 80,000 artifacts in the whole WDM system. There are four museums, plus our corporate office. I think we have about a third of them actually out on display; everything else is in storage. That’s mainly because the valuable real estate in our museums is pretty full already.”

More than just a display of clothing, the fashion show is designed to tell Saskatchewan’s story through people and the clothing they wore, which tells a lot about an individual.

“We have an MC who does a run-through with each ensemble that comes out, so we do get to look a little bit deeper than just seeing a pretty dress up on stage. We find out a little more about people who wore these items,” says Rasmussen.

The fashion show uses

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April 14, 2023admin

Fashion show diverts quality clothing from landfill

Every garment in the show is top quality in my opinion that I have saved and will not go into the landfill. My goal is to recycle and get them back into other people’s closets to appreciate

An environmentally conscious North Bay seamstress and dressmaker has dedicated much of her life to giving gently used clothing and accessories, a second chance.

Judy Thorne has organized numerous fashion shows over the years, in the process, diverting used clothes from ending up in the landfill.

Her next event is a pre-Mother’s Day Fashion Show and Sale scheduled for Sunday, May 7 at Emmanuel United Church, Lakeshore Drive, across from Metro.

Only 170 tickets will be sold.

“The first thing I do with the clothes I have collected is categorize them, as in mini-collections, like blacks; black and white, black and red, evening, animal prints, rainbow colours, and so on,” explained Thorne.

“I have five themed mini-collections that will be modeled live during the show. And then there are about 20 other mini-collections that vary from evening to casual, to sportswear to outerwear.”

Colour groupings reflect significant meanings.

“Red is for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, orange is a reminder of the Every Child Matters initiative, blue and yellow are the colours of Ukraine, pink is for breast cancer, and rainbow colours for the LGBTQ community,” Thorne shared.

Thorne prides herself on showcasing gently used, good-quality clothes.

“Every garment that is in the show, is top quality in my opinion, that I have saved and that will not go into the landfill. My goal is to recycle and get them back into other people’s closets to appreciate.”

Thorne describes herself as “a storyteller through fashion.”

“I am a visual storyteller of colour and texture. I like to tell stories”

Thorne has

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Health Information

March 26, 2023admin

Documents clearly show Saskatchewan federal government spending at least $730,000 on non-public health care staffing: CUPE

Documents compiled by CUPE display that the provincial federal government is contracting out operate to personal “staffing solution” corporations in health and fitness care – such as much more than $730,000 for Licensed Practical Nurses (LPNs) in just 1 location of the province.

“This is the completely wrong technique to working with the staffing disaster in healthcare,” said Bashir Jalloh, president of CUPE 5430. “This issue is a mess of the government’s personal producing, and it’s only a single case in point of the contracting out of health care workers that is starting to be a lot more popular across the province. The selecting of non-public contractors is not only costly, but it’s also a short-term band-support option that will do nothing at all to solve the challenges that are causing a scarcity of healthcare employees in Saskatchewan.”

Jalloh reported that the hiring of out-of-province, personal workers is worsening morale between personnel, who are being paid less than private agreement staff carrying out the exact occupation. For case in point, the top of the Continuing Treatment Assistant (CCA) wage scale is $24.84 an hour in Saskatchewan. In the meantime, a job posting for a vacation CCA posted by Gratitude Canada, a firm supplying so-identified as “staffing solutions” for Saskatchewan-based employees, presents a wage scale of $28-$32 per hour, moreover travel, accommodations, and a food allowance. In addition to CCAs and LPNs, private contractors have also been hired for Health care Technologist and Technician and Wellness Info Practitioner positions across the province.

“Imagine you are a CCA who has been functioning for the Saskatchewan Wellness Authority for the previous 5 a long time,” additional Jalloh. “Suddenly you are performing side by facet with somebody from a private firm who is performing the exact same career as you, but receiving paid out

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