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Gender gap in primary, secondary and tertiary education Share of boys or girls within the relevant age group who are enrolled in primary, lower secondary, upper secondary, and tertiary education.

Explore enrollment gender gaps for all countries and across education levels: ourworldindata.org/grapher/gend...

In Chad, in Central Africa, about 80% of boys are enrolled in primary school, compared with 67% of girls. This difference has shown little change in recent years.

(This Data Insight was written by @eortizospina.bsky.social.)

Today, the gap is small: around 91% of boys and 89% of girls are enrolled in primary school.

While the gap is small globally, it remains large and persistent in some countries.

The chart shows how this expansion unfolded for boys and girls separately. Throughout most of the 20th century, enrollment rose steadily, but boys remained more likely to be in school than girls.

It was only towards the end of the century that this gap began to close.

Today, access to education is widely seen as a basic right that governments are expected to provide. And most governments succeed — according to statistics compiled by UNESCO, about 9 in 10 children of primary school age are enrolled.

The world has made major progress in expanding access to education. A century ago, most children did not have the option to go to school at all.

This is a line graph depicting the global gender gap in primary school enrollment from 1900 to 2023. The vertical axis represents the percentage of primary school-age children enrolled in primary education, ranging from 0% to 100%. The horizontal axis shows the years from 1900 to 2023. There are two lines on the graph: one represents girls and the other represents boys. In 1900, about 31% of boys and 23% of girls were enrolled in primary education. The lines gradually rise, reflecting an increase in enrollment over time. By 2023, the enrollment rates are nearly equal, with 91% of boys and 89% of girls enrolled. The data sources for the information presented are the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (2025) and the study by Lee and Lee (2016). The image is credited to Our World in Data and is licensed under CC BY.

A century of progress in access to primary education

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Pedestrian struck and killed at Décarie intersection, driver arrested A 26-year-old woman is suspected of impaired driving.

Pedestrian struck and killed at Décarie intersection, driver arrested

Happy Halloween

Per Makary, who said we had herd immunity May 2021:

"They lied to us about natural immunity, COVID boosters for the young and healthy, myocarditis risks, and school closures. Trust didn’t vanish by accident—it was broken by actions, not words."

My new book is about liars calling everyone liars.🧵

More than 5,000 Halifax-area customers without power Nova Scotia Power says crews are responding to a large outage on the Halifax peninsula Friday morning.

More than 5,000 Halifax-area customers without power - several other areas in Nova Scotia along the eastern shore also without power #NovaScotia

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www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/nov...

The Solicitor General of the Dept. of Labor is responsible for enforcing labor laws.

Who is Trump’s pick for the position?

The author of Project 2025’s labor chapter — which called for gutting labor laws, limiting OT pay, and weakening unions.

The “pro-worker” president...

A massive thank you to my 4 scientific experts that provided quotes and/or fact checked this huge piece: @whysharksmatter.bsky.social; @melissacmarquez.bsky.social; @kjparton.bsky.social & Mckenzie Margarethe.

It was a privilege to have input from some of the biggest marine SciComm voices (8/9)

It even ignores that Ramsey has never shared any data with scientists, data that could potentially be used to inform conservation policy.

Perhaps most egregiously, it omits the very real harm both human & shark suffer when idiotic influencers are hurt trying to get selfies with sharks (5/9)

The film blames shark declines solely on shark finning, which science shows is simply not the biggest driver of shark losses – unsustainable overfishing is.

It also overinflates Ramsey’s role in a Hawaiian shark fishing bill, & its impact on shark conservation, to the point of lying (4/9)

🚨New Website blog 🚨 🧵

Did you watch Shark Whisperer on Netflix? I did & it was pseudoscientific rubbish. In this blog, I do a deep dive into the documentary; its subject, Ocean Ramsey; & the harmful effects of “shark influencers” on shark conservation (1/9)

www.drjackacooper.com/writing/shar...

Harrison Ford says Trump’s assault on climate policy ‘scares the shit out of me’ Indiana Jones star calls US president one history’s greatest criminals for attacks on science and boosting of fossil fuels Harrison Ford has said that Donald Trump’s assault upon measures to address the climate crisis “scares the shit out of me” and makes the US president among the worst criminals in history. In a blistering attack upon the president, Ford told the Guardian that Trump “doesn’t have any policies, he has whims. It scares the shit out of me. The ignorance, the hubris, the lies, the perfidy. [Trump] knows better, but he’s an instrument of the status quo and he’s making money, hand over fist, while the world goes to hell in a handbasket.” Continue reading...

Harrison Ford says Trump’s assault on climate policy ‘scares the shit out of me’

It was never about sports.

These assholes do not want trans people to be able to live.

Hamilton Spectator article titled "minimizing COVID-19 is maximizing social harm" with photo of crowded indoor space and people in medical and respirator masks

Minimizing COVID-19 is maximizing social harm

One of the best articles I've read all year because it centers social justice and equity. Published today

Gift link 🎁 www.thespec.com/opinion/cont...

👏👏👏👏👏
and always, with such respect,
🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

always.
in all ways.

Safe Care Ontario Advocating for universal masking protections in healthcare and other mitigation tools. Airborne pathogens like SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes the COVID-19 disease, pose a risk to EVERYONE's health ...

COVID outbreak risk remains in #ONhealth hospitals without layers of protection.

Universal masking in ALL areas of #Ontario hospitals is essential for safe healthcare access.

Let regional decision-makers know this is a priority.

@safecare.initiative.works
Take action:
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According to PHAC, respectively 2.6 to 3.9% of people in Manitoba and Canada were vaccinated against COVID-19 according to recommendations in 2024 (the most recent year of publicly reported data).
health-infobase.canada.ca/covid-19/vac...

Graph showing estimated new daily infections for Manitoba (5 week rolling averages) Graph available at: https://covid19resources.ca/covid-hazard-index Page 11 (Infections)

Graph showing expected deaths resulting from estimated new daily infections for Manitoba, since Dec 2021. (5 week rolling averages) Graph available at: https://covid19resources.ca/covid-hazard-index Page 18 (Deaths)

FOCUS ON PROVINCES: MANITOBA

The Forecast score this week is 11 (VERY HIGH).

Infections this week are expected to result in 41 deaths, 170 hospital admissions and 700 new daily life activity-limiting long COVID cases.

The real-time infection hospitalisation and fatality risk across the COVID-19 pandemic in England - Nature Communications The severity of SARS-CoV-2 infection varied over the course of the pandemic due to factors such as changes in variant characteristics and population immunity from previous infection or vaccination. He...

Average annual infection prevalence, infection fatality and hospitalization rates for Canada in 2022 are similar to UK data from ONS and Ward et al 2024 (prevalence 1.00X UK, IFR 1.01X UK, IHR 1.01X UK; p>0.05).
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Table showing estimated % over pre-pandemic hospital capacity (new daily and average Omicron to date) by province - 5 week rolling averages (average error -/+ 10% overall; 7% most recent 2 weeks) Table available at: https://covid19resources.ca/covid-hazard-index Page 17 (Hospitalization costs, burden)

Hospitalizations are expected to require 6.9% of Canada's staffed hospital beds for three weeks (CIHI: average duration of COVID hospitalizations).
www.cihi.ca/en/covid-19-...

Graph showing Canada's estimated daily % of population infected or experiencing long COVID, by province (average error -/+ 10% overall; 7% last 2 weeks) Graph available at: https://covid19resources.ca/covid-hazard-index Page 15 (Combined prevalence: Infections, LongCOVID)

Table showing estimated % over pre-pandemic hospital capacity (new daily and average Omicron to date) by province - 5 week rolling averages (average error -/+ 10% overall; 7% most recent 2 weeks) Table available at: https://covid19resources.ca/covid-hazard-index Page 17 (Hospitalization costs, burden)

About 2.5% of people in Canada are infected and/or experiencing life activity-limiting long COVID this week.

The estimated cost of hospitalizations from this week's infections in Canada is $101.4M.

3 tables showing total expected hospitalizations since Dec 2/21 by province (error range -/+ 10%), total expected ICU admissions since Dec 2/21 by province (error range -/+ 10%), and total expected deaths since Dec 2/21 by province (error range -/+ 10%) Tables available at: https://covid19resources.ca/covid-hazard-index Page 19 (Reported deaths, ICU, hospitalizations by age)

Graph showing Estimated new daily infections resulting in daily life activity-limiting symptoms lasting >3 months, by province, since Dec 2021. (5 week rolling averages) Graph available at: https://covid19resources.ca/covid-hazard-index Page 13 (Long COVID)

Infections in Canada this week are expected to result in 4,600 hospitalizations, 950 deaths (people who die at least 1 year earlier than they would without COVID) and 19,000 new long COVID cases serious enough to limit daily life activities.