mRNA vaccines: Leading a new era of medicine
What is mRNA, and why are mRNA vaccines so attractive? The completion of the Moderna and BioNTech-Pfizer vaccines against the SARS-CoV-2 virus is a remarkable feat –from conception to widespread...
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The rise of vaccines: is the COVID-19 pandemic coming to an end?
Every country should have the right to make its own vaccines during a pandemic, however, it is not that simple when not every country has the infrastructure and wealth to...
Past Pandemics
Ever since the COVID-19 pandemic has spread over the world and impacted our daily lives, there has been a certain unease as to how and when we can return to...
Post-pandemic health care: Are we finally heading into the future?
Who knew that all it took to expose the massive inequalities within the healthcare system was a deadly global pandemic? Even in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have...
Ethics of Vaccine Passports
With increasing numbers of people being fully vaccinated against SARS-CoV-2 worldwide, governments have been considering the implementation of vaccine passports. Vaccine passports (VP), also known as digital health passes or...
The future of work
The COVID-19 pandemic brought many unfortunate realities; and one such reality was the unemployment of a vast amount of individuals. This was due to a sudden drop in business, and...
When Doing Good Goes Wrong: Reimagining Effective Altruism Using Equity- and Justice-based Approaches in Global Health and Development Aid
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.– Martin Luther King Jr. (1957). The younger generations have...
The Rainbow Road: Overcoming Obstacles Faced by LGBTQ+ Scientists
Faggot. Sissy. Gay. Behind my smile and confident disposition, these old voices still echo in my ears. Growing up as a closeted gay boy to immigrant Asian parents and having...
Which Came First, STEM or Race? Scientific Racism and Its Lasting Impacts
If there is one message that you take away from this article, I hope it is that there is no such thing as political neutrality, and to believe that science...
Issue 1, 2021 – Cover
Canadian human rights took a revolutionary turn after the introduction of the Bill of Rights in 1960. Although it applied only to federal statutes, provinces followed the lead and enacted...