Thursday September 4, 2014 – 11am
Posted Sep 4, 2014 12:40:38 PM.
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11:00- Peter Neufeld, President of the Waterloo Region Taxi Association
Sometime soon, when you hop into a local cab, you’ll likely find yourself staring at a camera. All Waterloo Region taxis are expected to have video cameras installed to protect both drivers and passengers. Neufeld says it’s going to be mandatory for all cabs to be equipped with cameras. Some cabs already have cameras, but they are not yet mandatory. The move comes amid a series of sex assault allegations against some drivers.
11:30- Dr. Paul Echlin of Elliott Sports Medicine Clinic
Concussions in children are a public health issue, but preventable by instituting game and rule changes that eliminate head contact, Canadian doctors say. “Our children should have the right to play at all levels of skill in an environment without fear of brain injury from intentional ‘win at all costs’ violence, or unrecognized repetitive trauma,” say Dr. Ross Upshur of the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto and Dr. Paul Echlin of Elliott Sports Medicine Clinic in Burlington, Ont., in a commentary titled “Sport-related minor traumatic brain injury: A public health ethical imperative to act.” The commentary appeared Wednesday in Neurosurgeon, an online publication of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, on Wednesday. Previous studies suggest concussions represent 5.5% to 22% of all high school athletic injuries.
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