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Nick Tsergas

Canada
As seen in: Canada Healthwatch, Substack, The BMJ, The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, Calgary Herald, Waterloo Region Record, The Hamilton Spectator (Hamilton, ON), Canadian Affairs
Covers:  Science and tech news, infectious disease, healthcare industry, health policy, business
Doesn't Cover: wellness

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Nick Tsergas’s Biography

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Former founding editor at Canada Healthwatch.

Past work in Calgary Herald, Toronto Star, Canadian Affairs, The Globe and Mail, the BMJ.

Nick Tsergas’s Journalist Portfolio

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Why scientists are rethinking the immune effects of SARS-CoV-2

Why scientists are rethinking the immune effects of SARS-CoV-2

"Immunity debt," a theory to explain the global surge in non-covid infections since pandemic restrictions wer…

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CHW: Insights

CHW: Insights

Canada’s independent health policy briefing.

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Why the AMA's actions are raising alarms

Why the AMA's actions are raising alarms

Something is breaking inside of American medicine.

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Pharmacists say power to prescribe often comes with pressure to prescribe, and generate profits

Pharmacists say power to prescribe often comes with pressure to prescribe, and generate profits

Many pharmacists welcome an expanded role but concerns about the effects of corporate quotas on their work ar…

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Albertans' reproductive rights are under threat. Here's why.

Albertans' reproductive rights are under threat. Here's why.

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Resident Support Personnel become fixture of Ontario's long-term care landscape

Resident Support Personnel become fixture of Ontario's long-term care landscape

Low-wage, untrained Resident Support Personnel were a pandemic-era stop-gap measure. Now, they're becoming pe…

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Op-Ed: AI data centres face waves of municipal resistance — for good reason

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By Nick Tsergas, Dan Shannon
| Canadian Affairs
Read: 3 min Cities and towns are moving to regulate AI data centres in a national wave of policy contagion. After a series of decisive votes, Hamilton was poised last month to become the first city in Canada to place a moratorium on AI data centres. But after immense pressure from data centre proponents, nine Hamilton councillors that had previously favoured a moratorium reversed course and rejected a pause.
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Hamilton just hit pause on all AI data centres. This is big

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By Anne Pasek, Nick Tsergas
| The Globe and Mail Verified
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Opinion | Hamilton is open for business. What it’s not open for is irreversible decisions

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By Andrea West, Dan Shannon, Nick Tsergas
| The Hamilton Spectator (Hamilton, ON) Verified
A few months ago, one of our co-authors bought her first home. She soon learned about a proposed data centre less than a kilometre away. Not through the city, but through a viral Instagram video. As for the rest of us, we found out via a blog post. This experience shouldn’t be normal. Major infrastructure projects deserve major public engagement. The city’s planning committee unanimously approved a temporary one-year pause on data centre developments.
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