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Lockdown letter: brainstorming second order COVID-19 effects

Stephen Waddington

Our local fish and chip shop reopened on Wednesday. Government The digital democracy has been a long time coming - democracy will finally digitise, both in central and local government, and citizen voting. We need local, decentralised responses to arts, culture, education and transport. Photo by sfe-co2/iStock / Getty Images.

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NHS at 70: Ten difficult conversations for communicators

Stephen Waddington

An aging population with complex health needs, underfunding, political agendas, privatisation, parochial self-interest, healthcare that doesn’t meet quality standards and questions over the type and location of delivery, are just some of the huge questions that its leaders face.” The paradox is clear.

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Assessing Ottawa Public Health’s ongoing response to the endoscopies infection scare

PR Conversations

In a hastily organized media conference on Saturday, October 15, 2011, the City of Ottawa’s chief medical officer of health, Dr. Isra Levy, announced that a local, privately owned “non-hospital” medical clinic failed to follow proper infection control measures, resulting in the potential exposure of 6,800 patients to Hepatitis and HIV.