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Hamilton Spectator
02-06-2025
- Business
- Hamilton Spectator
Property Brothers, Dina Pugliese among stars in Rogers' first HGTV and Food Network slate
'Breakfast Television' host Dina Pugliese and 'Property Brothers' duo Drew and Jonathan Scott are among the stars headlining new HGTV and Food Network Canada shows under the Rogers umbrella. Rogers' head of original programming Kale Stockwell says the company's inaugural slate for its newly acquired specialty channels — previously held by Corus — includes 11 original series that promise to be 'bigger and more impactful' than what came before. An HGTV Canada show with the working title 'Property Brothers: Commitment Issues' will see the Scott brothers help people overcome indecision in home buying and lead them through renovations. The show is currently in production and set to premiere in 2026. Scott Brothers Entertainment is also behind 'The Emily Michelle Project,' focused on budget-friendly makeovers led by designer Emily Michelle, and 'Top of the Block,' a competition series where homeowners compete for the title of best house on the street. Pugliese heads to Food Network Canada for 'Bake Master Battle,' where three teams of bakers showcase confectionary skills through festive challenges. Meanwhile, 'MasterChef Canada' finalist Andy Hay brings 'Andy's East Coast Kitchen Crawl' to Food Network Canada, as he visits kitchens across Atlantic Canada before creating inspired dishes in his Halifax home. Last June, Rogers announced it had scored 'milestone' multi-year deals with Warner Bros. Discovery in which it nabbed the Canadian rights to several lifestyle brands from Corus Entertainment and Bell Media, including HGTV, Food Network and Discovery. Stockwell says Rogers wants to 'keep the spirits' of their newly added brands alive while elevating the content to stand out in the crowded media landscape. 'HGTV and Food are incredibly strong brands that have resonated with Canadians for over 20 years and still are hugely impactful. So we wanted to make sure we were true to the brands first and foremost,' he says. 'But I think if there's one thing we endeavoured to do when we took this on is just to try and make programming that was a little bigger and more impactful. (Shows that) broke through some of the noise in the market.' Stockwell says an example is 'Home Town Takeover Canada,' an HGTV Canada adaptation of the U.S. series focused on small-town revitalizations of homes, business and public spaces. Details on locations and hosts for the series will be announced at a later date. He says the show 'really will change the future of a hometown in Canada.' In December, Corus launched Flavour Network and Home Network to replace the channel positions for Food Network Canada and HGTV Canada and air original shows meant for those networks. Corus co-CEO Troy Reeb told The Canadian Press last year that the broadcaster is confident its two new lifestyle brands can 'compete and win' against Food Network and HGTV after losing both networks' Canadian content rights to Rogers. 'To be honest, I'm not really focused on what they're doing,' Stockwell says about the competitor, which was also set to announce its programming lineup on Monday. 'We're trying to put together the best possible slate of original programs that we can. And we think that when it is released and audiences have the opportunity to consume it, it will speak for itself.' This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 2, 2025. Error! Sorry, there was an error processing your request. There was a problem with the recaptcha. Please try again. You may unsubscribe at any time. By signing up, you agree to our terms of use and privacy policy . This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google privacy policy and terms of service apply. Want more of the latest from us? Sign up for more at our newsletter page .
Winnipeg Free Press
02-06-2025
- Business
- Winnipeg Free Press
Property Brothers, Dina Pugliese among stars in Rogers' first HGTV and Food Network slate
'Breakfast Television' host Dina Pugliese and 'Property Brothers' duo Drew and Jonathan Scott are among the stars headlining new HGTV and Food Network Canada shows under the Rogers umbrella. Rogers' head of original programming Kale Stockwell says the company's inaugural slate for its newly acquired specialty channels — previously held by Corus — includes 11 original series that promise to be 'bigger and more impactful' than what came before. An HGTV Canada show with the working title 'Property Brothers: Commitment Issues' will see the Scott brothers help people overcome indecision in home buying and lead them through renovations. The show is currently in production and set to premiere in 2026. Scott Brothers Entertainment is also behind 'The Emily Michelle Project,' focused on budget-friendly makeovers led by designer Emily Michelle, and 'Top of the Block,' a competition series where homeowners compete for the title of best house on the street. Pugliese heads to Food Network Canada for 'Bake Master Battle,' where three teams of bakers showcase confectionary skills through festive challenges. Meanwhile, 'MasterChef Canada' finalist Andy Hay brings 'Andy's East Coast Kitchen Crawl' to Food Network Canada, as he visits kitchens across Atlantic Canada before creating inspired dishes in his Halifax home. Last June, Rogers announced it had scored 'milestone' multi-year deals with Warner Bros. Discovery in which it nabbed the Canadian rights to several lifestyle brands from Corus Entertainment and Bell Media, including HGTV, Food Network and Discovery. Stockwell says Rogers wants to 'keep the spirits' of their newly added brands alive while elevating the content to stand out in the crowded media landscape. 'HGTV and Food are incredibly strong brands that have resonated with Canadians for over 20 years and still are hugely impactful. So we wanted to make sure we were true to the brands first and foremost,' he says. 'But I think if there's one thing we endeavoured to do when we took this on is just to try and make programming that was a little bigger and more impactful. (Shows that) broke through some of the noise in the market.' Stockwell says an example is 'Home Town Takeover Canada,' an HGTV Canada adaptation of the U.S. series focused on small-town revitalizations of homes, business and public spaces. Details on locations and hosts for the series will be announced at a later date. He says the show 'really will change the future of a hometown in Canada.' In December, Corus launched Flavour Network and Home Network to replace the channel positions for Food Network Canada and HGTV Canada and air original shows meant for those networks. Corus co-CEO Troy Reeb told The Canadian Press last year that the broadcaster is confident its two new lifestyle brands can 'compete and win' against Food Network and HGTV after losing both networks' Canadian content rights to Rogers. 'To be honest, I'm not really focused on what they're doing,' Stockwell says about the competitor, which was also set to announce its programming lineup on Monday. 'We're trying to put together the best possible slate of original programs that we can. And we think that when it is released and audiences have the opportunity to consume it, it will speak for itself.' This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 2, 2025.
Yahoo
01-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Think Medical Research Is Safe at Columbia? Maybe. For the Time Being.
On the morning after Columbia University's interim president resigned last week, I turned by lifelong habit to The New York Times for my first read about a major news event. Much of the article repeated details that I already knew as a longtime faculty member at Columbia's journalism school: that Katrina Armstrong had been under withering criticism both within and outside the school for capitulating to the Trump administration's demands in areas ranging from campus policing to admissions practices to academic oversight of Middle Eastern studies. I had even made my own humble contribution to the corpus of denunciations. In the last few paragraphs of the Times article, though, I paid special interest to a particular paraphrase and quotation. They came from Brent R. Stockwell, department chair of biological studies. Stockwell said that Armstrong actually had 'quite a lot of support' for her submission to the Trump edict, which had been accompanied by a cutoff of $400 million in federal aid to Columbia, much of it for medical and scientific research. Casting surrender in virtuous terms, Stockwell declared that professors like him 'aren't willing to give up on the dream that Columbia can better the world and the lives of Americans through research. That is what we are trying to achieve, and that requires federal funds.' My perusal of the daily outrages against democracy next led me to an article about the coerced resignation of Dr. Peter Marks, the leading vaccine official in the Food and Drug Administration. In leaving, Marks decried Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Trump's chosen flunky as secretary of health and human services, for insisting on 'subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies' about the purported dangers of provably safe vaccines. To me, there was a direct connection between the two articles, and I don't mean simply because both dealt with aspects of MAGA's authoritarian regime. Marks's cri de coeur laid bare the utter naïveté of people like Stockwell and Armstrong and Columbia's Board of Trustees, who evidently believe that they can preserve world-class medical and scientific research by selling out other portions of the university. Why should cures for diseases or discoveries of lifesaving drugs, after all, be sacrificed for the liberal arts' academic freedom and the free speech rights of pro-Palestinian students? It seems entirely likely to me that the Trump administration deliberately aimed for a divide-and-conquer strategy, treating the medical and scientific segment of Columbia as the terrified dog with a gun to its head after the famous National Lampoon cover. Armstrong herself, not coincidentally, had been the CEO of Columbia's Irving Medical Center before taking on the interim presidency, and now she is returning to that position. Nor does it strike me as irrelevant that the medical center and medical school are situated several miles uptown from Columbia's main campus in Morningside Heights, creating a psychic as well as physical distance from us pointy-headed intellectuals along College Walk. I am not insensitive at all to the argument that Stockwell made about the vital importance of Columbia's medical and scientific research. The university's former provost, Jonathan Cole, made a passionate and principled case for what American society gains from research universities, in a recent essay. The difference is that Cole saw those concrete benefits as a basis for defending Columbia specifically and higher education more broadly from the Mafia-style strong-arming of the Trump gang. Perhaps people like Stockwell and Armstrong and Columbia's trustees, accomplished as they are, have never dealt with a protection racket or a loan shark. But surely some of them must have seen at least one or two of the classic American films about mobsters. The lesson of lines like Nice store you got there, shame something should happen to it is that giving in never buys you enduring calm. It just invites the next shakedown. And that's where I come back to Dr. Marks, newly driven out of the FDA. One of the affronts to his expertise, and to scientific knowledge itself, was Kennedy's recommendation of vitamin A, rather than the measles vaccine, to deal with the recent outbreaks in Texas and New Mexico. Another affront was Kennedy's hiring of a discredited pseudo-scientist to study the supposed link between vaccines and autism—no matter that credible research has established that no such link exists. If scholars and researchers and administrators in medicine and sciences imagine that they can negotiate a separate peace treaty with the Trump administration, the events at the FDA show how foolish their hope is. What would stop this federal government from making a continued flow of funding contingent on halting research into climate change (a strong suit of Columbia's, in fact) or undertaking studies to cast doubt on vaccine safety? The Trumpian assault on diversity, equity, and inclusion has already undermined research into racial and other demographic disparities in cancer treatment and outcomes. Scientific method and free inquiry must be bent to MAGA's orthodoxies and obsessions. The risk of such intimidation does not end with universities. In the last few weeks, the powerful and wealthy law firms Paul, Weiss and Skadden, Arps have both kowtowed to Trump, lest they be punished under executive orders, as have other firms with attorneys the president deems his enemies. The price of provisional safety was for Paul, Weiss to promise $40 million worth, and Skadden, Arps $100 million worth, of pro bono representation for any client Trump designates. What is going to happen when Trump requires that those firms do the free-of-charge litigation on behalf of election deniers in 2026 or 2028? Or that they help mount a legal defense of a presidential declaration of martial law? Just as Project 2025 set forth an all-fronts assault on liberal democracy, the response to it must also take a coalition's form. Perhaps hard experience will teach the quislings the idiocy of their ways. Meanwhile, the university leaders like Michael Roth of Wesleyan and Columbia's emeritus President Lee Bollinger and unintimidated law firms such as WilmerHale and Jenner & Block should be fusing their separate efforts and assembling the broadest array of allies. The only thing that can possibly defeat divide and conquer is unify and resist.
Sky News
12-03-2025
- Sky News
Stockwell shooting: Second person charged with murder after death of Lathaniel Burrell
A second person has been charged following a fatal shooting of a teenage boy in south London. A 17-year-old boy has been charged with murder in connection with the death of Lathaniel Burrell, 16, following a shooting in Paradise Road, Stockwell, on 4 March. The teenager, who cannot be named for legal reasons, will appear at Bromley Youth Court this morning. Omar Prempeh, aged 32, was previously charged with murder. He appeared at Bromley Magistrates' Court on Monday, 10 March and is due to appear at the Old Bailey later today. Please refresh the page for the fullest version.
CNN
19-02-2025
- Health
- CNN
What to know about measles
As a measles outbreak causes dozens of illnesses in West Texas, it's important to know how to identify signs of the illness – especially in young children. Measles, one of the world's most contagious infectious diseases, can cause serious complications – such as blindness, pneumonia or encephalitis, swelling of the brain – and even turn deadly, especially in children younger than 5. 'About 1 in 5 unvaccinated people in the US with measles will be hospitalized, and as many as 1 in 20 children with measles will get pneumonia, which is the most common cause of death from measles in young children,' Dr. Melissa Stockwell, a professor of pediatrics at Columbia University's Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, said in an email. Overall, she said, it's estimated that up to 3 out of every 1,000 children who become infected with measles will die from respiratory and neurologic complications. 'If a family has concerns, I urge them to please reach out to their child's health care provider so they can talk with them and get the facts about measles and measles vaccination,' Stockwell wrote. The best protection against measles is vaccination against the virus. But a record share of US kindergartners had an exemption for required vaccinations last school year, leaving more than 125,000 new schoolchildren without coverage for at least one state-mandated vaccine, according to data published by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in October. The US Department of Health and Human Services has set a goal that at least 95% of children in kindergarten will have gotten two doses of the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine, a threshold necessary to help prevent outbreaks of the highly contagious disease. But the US has fallen short of that threshold for four years in a row. Most of the cases in the current outbreak in West Texas are centered in Gaines County, where coverage of the MMR vaccine is particularly low: Nearly 1 in 5 incoming kindergartners in the 2023-24 school year did not get the vaccine. Early on, measles can cause symptoms that may appear similar to those of other respiratory illnesses, such as the flu or the common cold. 'With early measles, it's very difficult to differentiate measles from other common respiratory illnesses. There are three signs that run together: cough; conjunctivitis, or red eyes; and coryza, which is a term for a very congested or stuffy nose,' said Dr. Glenn Fennelly, a pediatric infectious diseases specialist and assistant vice president for global health at Texas Tech Health El Paso. 'If you see all three of those together, that's reason to be concerned,' he said. Other key symptoms of measles include a high fever that may spike to more than 104 degrees Fahrenheit, a red blotchy measles rash and Koplik spots, which are tiny white spots that may appear inside the mouth two to three days after symptoms begin. 'While some of the symptoms of measles in its early phase can overlap with other respiratory viruses like runny nose, cough and fever, typical measles cases have a hallmark rash,' which usually begins three to five days after the other symptoms start, Stockwell said. If someone develops any of those symptoms, it's important to have a conversation with their physician or medical care team before taking them to the doctor's office, urgent care center or hospital, Fennelly said. 'Measles is highly contagious. It's best that the staff has a heads up,' he said, because the person should be 'immediately isolated.' Calling ahead allows the health care provider to make accommodations and provide guidance on how to safely see the patient while reducing the risk of measles spreading in a busy waiting room. The measles virus spreads through coughing, sneezing and breathing the same air that was breathed by someone infected with measles. The virus can linger in the air or on surfaces for up to two hours – even after the infected person has left the room. It's estimated that one person infected by measles can infect 9 out of 10 of their close contacts, if those contacts are unvaccinated. Measles is so contagious partly because an infected person can spread the virus to others even before knowing they have it – from four days before through four days after the rash appears. 'The best protection is for all parents to get their children immunized at the time the immunization is recommended, and that's starting at a year of age, with a second dose recommended around 4 to 6 years of age,' Fennelly said. The measles, mumps and rubella vaccine has been found to be safe and effective, Fennelly said. One dose is 93% effective against measles, and two doses are 97% effective. Officials' guidance says children should get two doses of the MMR vaccine: the first between 12 and 15 months and the second around age 4, before starting school. These two doses usually protect people against measles for life. Because the vaccine is not 100% effective, the more measles spreads, the higher the risk that a vaccinated person may be infected if they're exposed to the virus. However, disease symptoms are generally milder in vaccinated people, and they are also less likely to spread it to others. CDC guidance also indicates that if someone is exposed to measles, getting the MMR vaccine within 72 hours could induce some protection or result in less serious illness. Older children or adults can get vaccinated if they didn't get the vaccine as a child. However, people born before 1957 are likely to have been naturally infected and thus already have immunity, according to the CDC. If you got the first version of the measles vaccine - a killed-virus vaccine used between 1963 and 1968 - or don't know which type of vaccine you received, the CDC recommends getting at least one dose of MMR. Before the introduction of the measles vaccine in 1963, the virus would claim an estimated 2.6 million lives each year worldwide. In 2023, the World Health Organization estimated that there were 107,500 measles deaths, largely in countries with low vaccination. In the United States, there have been recent declines in some parents getting their children vaccinated, driven largely by the spread of misinformation, including the misconception that vaccination may be tied to autism. 'Measles vaccines are safe and effective. There is no validated study showing any link with autism,' Fennelly said. 'That measles vaccines are safe has been demonstrated by the millions of children that have received them without complications. What parents should fear, in the case of measles in particular, is not the vaccine but the illness, which can be devastating.' There is no specific antiviral therapy for measles, but some of the complications associated with the illness can be treated. 'There is unfortunately no treatment for measles,' Stockwell wrote in the email. 'Sometimes measles can result in a secondary infection such as an ear infection or pneumonia that needs antibiotic treatment,' she added. 'Finally, vitamin A can be an important adjunctive therapy for measles that can help protect against severe disease and some of the adverse effects of measles.' Fennelly noted that measles is a 'strongly immunosuppressive' virus, meaning it weakens the infected person's immune system, and bacterial infections like bacterial pneumonia are a major cause of measles-related death. 'Children may have bacterial infections in the respiratory tract that require antibiotic treatment,' Fennelly said. Additionally, 'any child that's sick enough to get hospitalized will probably get high-dose vitamin A,' he said. 'Vitamin A has been shown to have a very strong impact during acute measles, and for children that are very ill, it can lead to a 50% reduction in mortality.' People whose doctors say they should stay home can be treated with fever-reducing medications, rest and lots of hydration. 'It's important to isolate the child during the period where the child might be contagious and to stay in close contact with the pediatrician,' Fennelly said. 'If a child begins behaving excessively sleepy or very irritable, those would be reasons to get back in touch with the pediatrician.' CNN's Neha Mukherjee contributed to this report.
