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Lithium South Announces Appointment of Gordon Neal as a Director

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Thursday, October 12, 2023
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VANCOUVER, BC, Oct. 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Lithium South Development Corporation (TSX-V: LIS) (OTCQB: LISMF) (Frankfurt: OGPQ) (the "Company") is pleased to announce the appointment of Gordon Neal as a director of the Company, effective October 6, 2023.

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  • VANCOUVER, BC, Oct. 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Lithium South Development Corporation (TSX-V: LIS) (OTCQB: LISMF) (Frankfurt: OGPQ) (the "Company") is pleased to announce the appointment of Gordon Neal as a director of the Company, effective October 6, 2023.
  • Gordon Neal obtained his Bachelor of Science from Dalhousie University in 1978.
  • Since December 2021, he has served as the CEO and a director of Tincorp Metals Inc. where he oversees the company's exploration and development programs, capital markets, environmental and social responsibility, corporate development, and team building.
  • Mr. Neal is focused on asset growth, strengthening corporate foundations and value accretion.

Boyden Ontario Appoints Prominent Leadership Expert Nicole Bendaly as Managing Partner

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Thursday, September 14, 2023
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Toronto, Sept. 14, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Boyden, a premier global leadership and talent advisory firm, is delighted to welcome Nicole Bendaly , Managing Partner, Leadership Consulting in Canada, effective immediately.

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  • Toronto, Sept. 14, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Boyden, a premier global leadership and talent advisory firm, is delighted to welcome Nicole Bendaly , Managing Partner, Leadership Consulting in Canada, effective immediately.
  • “We are delighted to welcome Nicole to our global leadership consulting team,” says Jim Harmon, Member, Boyden Board of Directors and Managing Partner, Canada.
  • Leveraging Boyden’s global leadership consulting capabilities , Nicole’s team delivers succession planning, on-boarding & integration, assessment & profiling, leadership development and executive & team coaching.
  • “I am delighted to expand my expertise into Boyden’s highly respected brand and client-centric culture,” comments Nicole Bendaly, Managing Partner, Leadership Consulting, Canada.

Culture Biosciences Appoints Darcy Birse as Chief Commercial Officer

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Wednesday, September 13, 2023
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South San Francisco, Sept. 13, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Culture Biosciences , a leading provider of innovative, future-forward bioprocessing solutions, is pleased to announce the appointment of Darcy Birse as the company's new Chief Commercial Officer (CCO).

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  • South San Francisco, Sept. 13, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Culture Biosciences , a leading provider of innovative, future-forward bioprocessing solutions, is pleased to announce the appointment of Darcy Birse as the company's new Chief Commercial Officer (CCO).
  • Darcy will lead the company's commercial strategy and drive growth initiatives to further strengthen Culture's position as a leader in the bioprocessing industry.
  • With a career spanning over 30 years in the life sciences sector, Darcy brings a wealth of global experience in Commercial Leadership, Marketing, Sales and Business Development to Culture Biosciences.
  • "As we continue to expand our presence in the bioprocessing market and deliver novel solutions to our clients, we are thrilled to welcome Darcy Birse to our executive team," said Will Patrick, CEO and Co-founder of Culture Biosciences.

As countries around the world accelerate their genome-based testing readiness, Canada's health systems can't afford to fall behind

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Wednesday, September 13, 2023
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Alberta is followed by Quebec, British Columbia, Nova Scotia, and Ontario, ranked in order of their readiness grade.

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  • Alberta is followed by Quebec, British Columbia, Nova Scotia, and Ontario, ranked in order of their readiness grade.
  • "I feel like I'm living on borrowed time, and it has been tough on my family, knowing things could have been different.
  • Some of these tangible policy actions include:
    Developing province wide education and training standards to ensure consistency in the quality of testing service.
  • To make their health systems more resilient, countries around the globe are accelerating their progress on genome-based testing.

Government of Canada announces funding for seal and sea lion science projects across Canada

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Tuesday, September 12, 2023
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Today, the Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard, the Honourable Diane Lebouthillier, announced over $643,900 in funding to Indigenous groups, industry, and academia for three seal science projects in eastern Canada and one sea lion project in western Canada.

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  • Today, the Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard, the Honourable Diane Lebouthillier, announced over $643,900 in funding to Indigenous groups, industry, and academia for three seal science projects in eastern Canada and one sea lion project in western Canada.
  • The projects will examine seal and sea lion diets, abundance, and distribution to help us better understand the role these species play in our aquatic ecosystems.
  • These four projects are the result of the open call for proposals the Department launched during the Seal Summit last fall.
  • The projects will develop tools that we can use to better understand seal and sea lion diets and predict their impact on fish communities.

CIRI Appoints Nathalie Megann as President and Chief Executive Officer

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Tuesday, September 5, 2023
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TORONTO, Sept. 05, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Canadian Investor Relations Institute (CIRI) Board of Directors is pleased to announce the appointment of Nathalie Megann to the position of President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of CIRI effective September 1, 2023, following an extensive, national search process.

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  • TORONTO, Sept. 05, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Canadian Investor Relations Institute (CIRI) Board of Directors is pleased to announce the appointment of Nathalie Megann to the position of President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of CIRI effective September 1, 2023, following an extensive, national search process.
  • Ms. Megann succeeds Yvette Lokker, who announced her intention to resign from her role in May following a successful 10 years as CIRI President and CEO.
  • In 2023, she assumed the role of Past Chair of the CIRI Board, and most recently served as interim President and CEO following the departure of Yvette Lokker.
  • “The Board of Directors is extremely pleased to welcome Nathalie as CIRI’s President and CEO.

MITSUBISHI TANABE PHARMA CANADA ANNOUNCES THAT COMPANY'S ORAL TREATMENT FORMULATION FOR AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS (ALS) HAS BEEN ADDED TO THE PROVINCIAL DRUG PLANS IN NEW BRUNSWICK AND NOVA SCOTIA

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Tuesday, August 29, 2023
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"We will continue to collaborate with decision makers to help ensure that RADICAVA® Oral Suspension is made available through all publicly funded drug plans."

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  • "We will continue to collaborate with decision makers to help ensure that RADICAVA® Oral Suspension is made available through all publicly funded drug plans."
  • In addition to New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, RADICAVA® Oral Suspension is also listed on the public drug plans in Ontario, Alberta, Québec and British Columbia.
  • To date, it is estimated that the majority of private insurance plans in the country cover RADICAVA® Oral Suspension.
  • MTP-CA continues to have discussions with other provinces, territories and federal agencies regarding the listing of RADICAVA® Oral Suspension under additional publicly funded drug programs.

From outdoor classrooms to gardens, how Nova Scotia youth are creating healthier school communities

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Wednesday, August 9, 2023
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Think about the advocacy of Greta Thunberg and Mikaela Loach around climate change and climate justice or Malala Yousafzai’s advocacy for all children’s rights to receive an education.

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  • Think about the advocacy of Greta Thunberg and Mikaela Loach around climate change and climate justice or Malala Yousafzai’s advocacy for all children’s rights to receive an education.
  • We also share it to support youth engagement in social change and healthier school communities year round.

Health Promoting Schools

    • The UpLift Partnership is rooted in a global movement and model of Health Promoting Schools, first championed by the World Health Organization and driven by the insight that “health is created and lived by people within the settings of their everyday life.” Involving youth in promoting health in schools can catalyze students’ ability to initiate and bring about positive change in the world — what researchers call their “action competence.” This includes building knowledge, motivation and competencies that align with this year’s International Youth Day theme, Green Skills for Youth.

Building ‘green skills’

    • The partnership between these diverse parties is grounded in over a decade of research designed to enhance youth engagement within the Health Promoting Schools model.
    • Building green skills helps them to understand the strong connection between health, well-being and nature.

Tranquility Garden

    • Prior to this, the school did not have a physical outdoor seating area or place for the students and staff to connect with nature, despite its rural location.
    • The Tranquility Garden now provides students, staff and animals with a calming and enjoyable place to visit and play.
    • Students and staff planted fruit trees, flowers and shrubs, and built benches for seating to create the garden.

Outdoor shelter, cooking by fire

    • Prior to installing the hot tent shelter and stove, few students at the school had the desire to learn outside due to the exposed nature of the outdoor space.
    • The outdoor shelter now serves as a space for multiple learning opportunities that connect the students to their environment, like stargazing, cooking by fire and building outdoor education skills.

Farm-to-school movement

    • This Go Fresh Salad Bar station is the final piece of a growing farm-to-school movement in their school.
    • This funding provided the salad bar infrastructure necessary to support more diverse and nutritious food options at the school cafeteria.

Healthier futures

    • As researchers have documented, youth participation in school health promotion enhances youth knowledge, competence, motivation and commitments to health and well-being.
    • This, in turn, will help young people become active citizens for a healthier future.
    • It is time for youth to have a lead role on the world’s stage, and for more adults to uplift them.

Christine Wu wins 2023 RBC/PEN Canada New Voices Award

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Thursday, August 3, 2023
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TORONTO, Aug. 3, 2023 /CNW/ - Christine Wu has won the 2023 RBC/PEN Canada New Voices Award.

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  • TORONTO, Aug. 3, 2023 /CNW/ - Christine Wu has won the 2023 RBC/PEN Canada New Voices Award.
  • A distinguished jury of Canadian writers, including Jónína Kirton, Chelene Knight and Alexander MacLeod, chose Wu from almost 300 entries.
  • Wu, a Chinese-Canadian poet living in Kjipuktuk (Halifax, Nova Scotia), has been published in several literary magazines.
  • Now celebrating its 10th anniversary, the RBC/PEN Canada New Voices Award encourages new writing and provides a space for unpublished Canadian writers, aged 17 and over.

What to expect when you're expecting: How will your sex life change during pregnancy and postpartum?

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Monday, July 24, 2023
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Welcoming a new baby is often a joyous experience for couples.

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  • Welcoming a new baby is often a joyous experience for couples.
  • We then use this research to develop resources to help couples navigate these changes together.

What to expect

    • Up to 88 per cent of people who give birth and 45 per cent of their partners experience problems with their sex life during this time.
    • With shifting roles and responsibilities, the perinatal period (pregnancy and up to one year postpartum) can be hectic.
    • It’s understandable that sex may be on the back burner for a little while.

The information gap

    • This is despite most individuals wanting to receive sex-related information!
    • On top of this information gap, the content of information that couples receive doesn’t match what they want to receive.
    • In our study, we found that expectant and new parents most often received information about things like safety of sexual activity in pregnancy, contraception, when to resume sex in the postpartum and information only relevant to the partner who gave birth.

Translating knowledge into practice

    • Health-care professionals feel they have a lack of knowledge and training to talk about sexual health with expectant and new parents, and worry that doing so would make them and/or their patients feel uncomfortable.
    • However, our research showed that most couples would welcome these conversations.
    • Researchers at Dalhousie University recently produced a series of short informational videos that summarize recent research on sex after having a baby.