Patrick Cain
Patrick Cain
I’ve been an online writer and editor in Toronto since 2001, most recently at globalnews.ca, where I’m a national online reporter. As well as traditional reporting techniques, I have experience in data journalism, access-to-information requests and maps and visualizations. Current microbeats include: cannabis, digital privacy and online disinformation.Source
Toronto, Canada
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Poll: Liberals would likely gain support with a new leader

Poll: Liberals would likely gain support with a new leader

The federal Liberals have the potential to gain votes from the Greens and NDP, and firm up their own support, if Justin Trudeau resigned and the party had a new leader going into the next election, an online poll showed this week The federal Liberals have the potential to gain votes from the Greens and NDP, and firm up their own support, if Justin Trudeau resigned and the party had a new leader going into the next election, an online poll showed this week. Some 21 per cent of readers said they would be more open to voting Liberal under a new leader, set off against 5 per cent...

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Poll: Liberals would likely gain support with a new leader

Poll: Liberals would likely gain support with a new leader

The federal Liberals have the potential to gain votes from the Greens and NDP, and firm up their own support, if Justin Trudeau resigned and the party had a new leader going into the next election, an online poll showed this week The federal Liberals have the potential to gain votes from the Greens and NDP, and firm up their own support, if Justin Trudeau resigned and the party had a new leader going into the next election, an online poll showed this week. Some 21 per cent of readers said they would be more open to voting Liberal under a new leader, set off against 5 per cent...

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Canada is flattening the coronavirus curve. That’s ‘good news,’ expert explains - National | Globalnews.ca

Canada is flattening the coronavirus curve. That’s ‘good news,’ expert explains - National | Globalnews.ca

Want to discuss? Please read our first.AdvertisementClose XAACanadians have closed schools and shut down large parts of the economy to deal with the threat of the novel .Encouragingly, public health experts say that a graph of positive tests shows that the sacrifice is working.“This is a good-news graph,” says Steven Hoffman of York University.Story continues below advertisement“The good news is that it’s not a straight line and that it’s actually curving downwards, which is exactly what we would want to see. These lines don’t show that the outbreak is ending. The number of cases might be...

April 17, 2020
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The faster a country required masks, the fewer coronavirus deaths it had: study - National | Globalnews.ca

The faster a country required masks, the fewer coronavirus deaths it had: study - National | Globalnews.ca

Want to discuss? Please read our first.AdvertisementClose XAASome countries have been devastated by the , and others have escaped lightly.Why the extreme differences? The main one is that countries that quickly resorted to widespread mask-wearing had far lower death rates and shorter outbreaks, a .The authors looked at coronavirus death rates in 198 countries, trying to see why some had painfully high death rates and others very low.“What we found was that of the big variables that you can control which influence mortality, one was wearing masks,” says Christopher Leffler of Virginia...

June 22, 2020
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