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Len Gillis

Len Gillis

Graduating from the Journalism program at Canadore College in the 1970s, Gillis has spent most of his career reporting on news events across Northern Ontario with several radio, television and newspaper companies. He also spent time as a hardrock miner.

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Recent Work by Len

Medical journal cautions against easing access to booze

Medical journal cautions against easing access to booze

New article in the Canadian Medical Association Journal explores the impact of expanded alcohol sales in Ontario, calls for minimum pricing of alcohol products to avoid low-price competitions and a move toward warning labels to increase consumer awareness
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Mining records ‘significant drop' in lost-time WSIB injuries

Mining records ‘significant drop' in lost-time WSIB injuries

But less-serious injuries continue to rise, and that’s concerning, said WSIB leader
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BEYOND LOCAL: Ford wants med schools to favour Ontarians, NOSM U already does

BEYOND LOCAL: Ford wants med schools to favour Ontarians, NOSM U already does

Ontario Premier Doug Ford said this week he wants Ontario medical school spaces dedicated to Ontario medical students only, but by virtue of its design, Northern Ontario’s med school is already doing that
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Video: Feds will get tough on provinces pushing private health care, Trudeau says

Video: Feds will get tough on provinces pushing private health care, Trudeau says

Prime minister touts new $3.1-billion Canada-Ontario health agreement during visit to Sudbury
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Survey shows rising opposition to childhood vaccinations

Survey shows rising opposition to childhood vaccinations

Angus Reid Institute reports parental opposition to childhood vaccination grows as Canadians worry about harms of anti-vax movement
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Ontario’s broken family medicine system is driving physicians away

Ontario’s broken family medicine system is driving physicians away

As people continue to struggle to find a general practitioner, Ontario doctors speak up to say they need better funding and better working conditions just to survive as local family physicians
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NOSM: Family medicine crisis far worse in Northern Ontario

NOSM: Family medicine crisis far worse in Northern Ontario

Northern medical school launches lecture series as part of efforts to convince more doctors to go into family medicine — The North is short 360 physicians at present. Toronto, with a population of three million, is short 300 docs. So that's one in 10,000. But in Northern Ontario with a population of 850,000, the ratio is almost two-and-a-half per 10,000
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Levack woman celebrates 105th birthday with a glass of whisky

Levack woman celebrates 105th birthday with a glass of whisky

Angeline Charlebois's milestone birthday marked with party, greetings from Premier Ford, Prime Minister Trudeau and even King Charles III
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North’s hospitals stretched thin by staff shortages, auditor finds

North’s hospitals stretched thin by staff shortages, auditor finds

The auditor's report on Northern health concluded there should be a formal strategy for health care in this region
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Sudbury's much-anticipated opioid drug summit opens Thursday

Sudbury's much-anticipated opioid drug summit opens Thursday

Two-day summit will feature more than a dozen speakers, including Mayor Paul Lefebvre and federal Mental Health and Addictions Minister Ya’ara Saks, but media is excluded from the event
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