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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

Obstetrics the canary in the coal mine of failing Northern health care

Obstetrics the canary in the coal mine of failing Northern health care

Two decades ago 20 of the North’s 35 hospitals delivered babies; today, only nine do. At an Ontario Medical Association press conference today, Northern Ontario doctors describe health care that is in jeopardy at every level — ‘the whole system is falling apart’
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Clinical trials: How patients and scientists team up to fight cancer

Clinical trials: How patients and scientists team up to fight cancer

'What the patients are getting, you know, essentially are cutting-edge treatments … that just haven't come to market yet'
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Cancer is expensive — study looks at impact on patients' health

Cancer is expensive — study looks at impact on patients' health

Somebody had to take time off work to support their loved one, to help them out, to drive them to appointments. 'And you know, maybe they weren't compensated for their time, maybe they didn't have personal time, or had to use vacation days or sorts of things like that, right?'
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Niobium will patch up old uranium tailings site trucked from North Bay

Niobium will patch up old uranium tailings site trucked from North Bay

Niobium is so low-level as a radiation concern it is not on the radar for the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission
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Lack of consultation sparks worry over niobium tailings shipments

Lack of consultation sparks worry over niobium tailings shipments

Meeting was held to discuss plans to truck niobium tailings and backfill is met with anxiety and concern over the lack of public consultation, including from two local First Nation chiefs who said their communities were not consulted
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How a wildcat mine walkout in Elliot Lake led to better health and safety

How a wildcat mine walkout in Elliot Lake led to better health and safety

In 1974, unionized miners in Elliot Lake walked off the job en masse to bring attention to unsafe working conditions in uranium mining in the community, a move that eventually led to the creation of Ontario’s landmark health and safety laws
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Inquest hears about phone failure during negotiations with suicidal man

Inquest hears about phone failure during negotiations with suicidal man

Inquest into a 2018 police standoff in Garson probes whether a dying phone battery contributed to the suicide of a man who had been talking with crisis negotiators for several hours
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Nurses union says consumption site announcement a ‘death sentence’

Nurses union says consumption site announcement a ‘death sentence’

Dr. Doris Grinspun, who heads up the Registered Nurses Association, said Ontario government is only making things worse for people with addictions
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Alarmed residents demand halt to radioactive waste storage plan

Alarmed residents demand halt to radioactive waste storage plan

The material to be shipped out from Nipissing First Nation is tailings and other rocky material left over from the former Nova Beaucage mine site
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Nurses union says consumption site announcement a ‘death sentence’

Nurses union says consumption site announcement a ‘death sentence’

Dr. Doris Grinspun, who heads up the Registered Nurses Association, said Ontario government is only making things worse for people with addictions
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