The Canada-EU Romance: Friends with Benefits or Cautionary Fairy Tale? - Policy Magazine

One of the most significant anniversaries in human history just passed with no celebration or fanfare: the discovery of penicillin. Almost everyone alive today has grown up in the age of antibiotics, and so it’s easy to forget how world-altering this breakthrough was. Most of us wouldn’t make it to adulthood if it weren’t for the work of Sir Alexander Fleming, who shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine with Ernst Boris Chain and Howard Walter Florey, but is widely credited for his discovery on Sept. 28, 1928. I came to appreciate this anniversary the hard way, having recently flirted with disaster after disobeying the most common of doctor’s orders when prescribed an antibiotic: Finish all medication unless directed otherwise by your physician. This is advice I will never again ignore. But a few days into a 10-day course of an antibiotic I’d been prescribed for strep throat at the beginning of summer, I decided I’d had enough. The consequences arrived several weeks later. There was a sudden swelling of my feet and a strange rash on my legs and feet. Soon, my calves, too, ballooned.

The shooting is not believed to be suspicious.

Steel workers work at the ArcelorMittal Dofasco steel plant in Hamilton, Ont., on Wednesday, March 12, 2025. OTTAWA — The federal and Ontario governments have rolled out an $8.7 billion aid package for beleaguered steel and auto industries hurt by U. S. President Donald Trump’s trade war and pledged to accelerate development of the long-promised “Ring of Fire” critical minerals project. As first reported by the Star, Prime Minister Mark Carney and Premier Doug Ford announced Ottawa and the province would share the cost of what they dubbed a new “action plan” to buffer the effects of U. S. tariffs on the steel and auto sectors, and also to inject money to advance development of the critical minerals sector.