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Wednesday, May 31, 2023

Moscow hit with drone attack Kremlin blames on Ukraine - CBC News

Russian air defences stopped eight drones converging on Moscow, officials said Tuesday, in an attack that authorities blamed on Ukraine, while Russia continued a relentless wave of daylight and nighttime bombardment of Kyiv that began Monday.

The Russian defence ministry said five drones were shot down and the systems of three others were jammed, causing them to veer off course. It called the incident a "terrorist attack" by the "Kyiv regime."

The attack caused "insignificant damage" to several buildings, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said. Two people received medical attention for unspecified injuries but did not need hospitalization, he said in a Telegram post.

Residents of two highrise buildings damaged in the attack were evacuated, Sobyanin said.

Andrei Vorobyov, governor of the wider Moscow region, said some of the drones were "shot down on the approach to Moscow."

Ukraine made no immediate comment on the attack, which would be one of its deepest and most daring strikes into Russia since the Kremlin launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine more than 15 months ago.

The White House National Security Council said in a statement that it was still gathering information about what happened in Moscow, but generally "we do not support attacks inside of Russia."

It noted that Russia's bombardment of Kyiv was the 17th round of attacks this month, "many of which have devastated civilian areas."

WATCH | Rare drone attacks hit Russian capital: 

Rare drone attacks hit Moscow

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Five Ukrainian drones were shot down in Moscow, Russia says. While the damage to buildings was limited, it could be the most daring Ukrainian incursion inside Russian territory since the war started.

'An intimidation act'

The attacks have raised questions about the effectiveness of Russia's air defence systems.

A senior Russian lawmaker, Andrei Kartapolov, told Russian business news site RBC that "we have a very big country and there will always be a loophole where the drone can fly around the areas where air defence systems are located." Kartapolov said the purpose of the attacks was to unnerve the Russian people.

"It's an intimidation act aimed at the civilian population," RBC quoted him as saying. "It's designed to create a wave of panic."

Several people, including one in military fatigues, are shown standing on a road behind police tape. There appears to be debris on the street.
Law enforcement officers and investigators are seen outside a damaged multi-storey apartment building after a reported drone attack in Moscow on Tuesday. (Kirill Kudryavtseva/AFP/Getty Images)

Moscow residents reported hearing explosions before dawn. Police were seen working at one site of a crashed drone in southwest Moscow. An area near a residential building was fenced off, and police put the drone debris in a cardboard box before carrying it away.

At another site, apartment windows were shattered and there were scorch marks on the building's front. It was the second reported attack on Moscow. Russian authorities said two drones targeted the Kremlin earlier this month in what they portrayed as an attempt on President Vladimir Putin's life.

Ukrainian drones have reportedly flown deep into Russia several times. In December, Russia claimed it had shot down drones at airfields in the Saratov and Ryazan regions. Three soldiers were reported killed in the attack in Saratov, which targeted an important military airfield.

Ukrainian military analysts, though unable to confirm Kyiv had launched the drones against Moscow, said the attack may have involved UJ-22 drones, which are produced in Ukraine and have a maximum range of about 1,000 kilometres.

Analyst Oleh Zhdanov said some UJ-22s are capable of reaching "Moscow and beyond," although he noted they can fly only half as far and carry half the payload of the Iranian-made Shahed drones used in the war by Russia.

At least 1 dead in Ukrainian capital

Earlier, Russia reported shooting down a Ukrainian drone that targeted the headquarters of its Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol in Russia-annexed Crimea. In Ukraine, Russia launched a predawn air raid on Kyiv, killing at least one person and sending the capital's residents again scrambling into shelters.

At least 20 Shahed explosive drones were destroyed by air defence forces in Kyiv's airspace in Russia's third attack on the capital in the past 24 hours, according to early information from the Kyiv Military Administration. Overall, Ukraine shot down 29 of 31 drones fired into the country, most in the Kyiv area, the air force later said.

WATCH | Kyiv hit with renewed Russian attacks:

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Kyiv's nighttime sky lights up with renewed attacks, as displaced residents of the Ukrainian capital survey the damage in the daylight.

Before daylight, the buzzing of drones could be heard over the city, followed by loud explosions as they were taken down by air defence systems.

In the overnight attacks on Kyiv, one person died and seven were injured, according to the municipal military administration. A high-rise building in the Holosiiv district caught fire after being hit by debris either from drones being hit or interceptor missiles.

The building's upper two floors were destroyed, and there may be people under the rubble, the Kyiv Military Administration said. More than 20 people were evacuated. Resident Valeriya Oreshko told The Associated Press in the aftermath that even though the immediate threat was over, the attacks had everyone on edge.

"You are happy that you are alive, but think about what will happen next," the 39-year-old said.

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Kyiv residents who were subject to an evacuation order gather outside, with some looking up at a multi-storey apartment building that was damaged during a Russian attack on Tuesday. (Roman Hrytsyna/The Associated Press)

A resident who gave only her first name, Oksana, said the whole building shook when it was hit.

"Go to shelters, because you really do not know where it [the drone] will fly," she advised others. "We hold on."

Elsewhere in the capital, falling debris caused a fire in a private house in Darnytskyi district and three cars were set alight in Pechersky district, according to the military administration.

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Tuesday, May 30, 2023

Stocks making the biggest premarket moves: ChargePoint, Ford, Nvidia, Tesla and more - CNBC

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A ChargePoint station at the New Carrollton Branch Library in New Carrollton, Md.
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Check out the companies making some of the biggest moves in premarket trading:

ChargePoint — Shares of the electric vehicle charging station company jumped 5% premarket after Bank of America upgraded the stock to buy. The Wall Street firm called ChargePoint a best-in-class way to play the EV charging theme, highlighting the company's scale and diversity as keys to sustainable growth.

Ford Motor — Shares of the automaker rose more than 2% after Jefferies upgraded the stock and said the automake has a strong plan and management that can help it close the gap with rivals. The analyst also raised his price target on the shares, implying they could rally more than 30%.

Tesla — Shares gained 3% premarket. On Monday, Reuters reported a private jet used by CEO Elon Musk arrived in China. Musk is expected to meet with senior Chinese officials and visit Tesla's Shanghai plant, Reuters said. Last Thursday, Tesla and Ford announced a partnership giving Ford owners access to Tesla Superchargers.

Coinbase — Shares gained 4% in premarket trading. On Tuesday, Atlantic Equities upgraded Coinbase to overweight from neutral. Analyst Simon Clinch maintained his $70 price target, implying 23% upside from Friday's close.

Nvidia — Shares continued to near $1 trillion in market value, up 3.7% in premarket trading. The AI semiconductor company has been soaring since its blockbuster earnings report last Wednesday.

C3.ai — AI stocks built on their post-Nvidia earnings gains, with C3ai up 8.7%. UiPath gained 6.4% and Palantir Technologies was ahead 6.2%. C3.ai reports its next quarterly results on Wednesday.

Advanced Micro Devices — Semiconductor stocks continued to move higher after Nvidia's earnings last week. AMD added 3.4%, Qualcomm gained 2% and Broadcom was higher by 1.8%. Intel, which initially dropped on Nvidia's earnings, gained 3%.

Paramount Global — The media stock rose 2.4% on Tuesday morning, extending a gain of nearly 6% from Friday. The company's majority shareholder National Amusements announced a $125 million preferred equity investment from BDT Capital Partners last week.

—CNBC's Jesse Pound, Tanaya Macheel and Yun Li contributed reporting.

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Monday, May 29, 2023

More than half of GTA condo investors losing money on properties: report - CP24

Last year marked the first time that more than half of investors in newly-completed Greater Toronto Area condos were losing money on their rental properties, and authors of the report that reached that conclusion expect the trend to persist. 

The research from the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce and real estate research firm Urbanation found 48 per cent of leveraged condo investors who bought pre-construction units to rent out were cash flow positive in 2022.

For the majority of investors, rent generated by newly-completed units was lower than mortgage costs, condo fees and property taxes.

"This marks a meaningful shift that may potentially signal that a change in investor behaviour is on the horizon," CIBC's Benjamin Tal and Urbanation's Shaun Hildebrand said in their report released Monday.

They say they expect the shift toward negative cash flow to worsen in the years ahead as increasingly expensive new condos presold to investors in the past few years reach completion.

They add a reduction in interest rates and further growth in rents will lighten the impact on investors in the years ahead, but won’t be enough to stop their financial situations from getting worse.

However, they said, "a lot depends on the outlook for prices and the credit environment.

"If investors are able to get financing and prices are rising, they may be encouraged to hold in the rental market even with negative cash flow."

They feel investors have held off selling because housing supply is constrained and not poised to improve by much.

They found developers have the capacity to deliver no more than roughly 20,000 units per year, which represents marginal growth for a condo stock in the GTA that is approaching a half million units. 

"Any investor selling will be welcomed by a tight resale market," Tal and Hildebrand said.

However, if investors become unwilling to buy into presales, new condo demand will shrink along with new construction, deliveries and ultimately rental supply.

Tal and Hildebrand's report comes after Rentals.ca research revealed average advertised rental prices in April were up 20 per cent from pandemic lows in April 2021. 

Average rents across Canada were up 9.6 per cent compared with April 2022.

Average rents for a one-bedroom home were as high as $2,787 in Vancouver and as low as $1,091 in Regina. The national average was $1,811.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 29, 2023.

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More of our favourite B.C. summer getaways - Vancouver Sun

More of our freelance travel writers share their favourite B.C. summer getaways.

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We asked our network of writers and freelancers to tell us their favourite getaways in B.C. You can read their first 10 selections here. Here are some more favourites:

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Straight to Whiffin Spit

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Ask me where I’d like to go on a lazy summer day and I’ll pick Sooke, less than an hour’s drive away from my home in Victoria. I would head straight to Whiffin Spit a finger of land that stretches for just over a kilometre into Sooke Harbour. Bring your dog (on a leash) and take your time — you’ll want to snap photos of the ocean and wildlife on either side of the dead-flat gravel trail.

If you’re truly lucky, you might spot an orca or two coming in from the open ocean to feed on seals. There’s a small lighthouse at the end of the spit, but there’s no shame in turning back before you reach it. Even on a hot day, there’s always an ocean breeze to cool you down. Stop at one of the several cafés in Sooke for lunch and you will head home with your mind and body sated.
– Joanne Blain

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 Paddle the Strait of Georgia

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Kayaking on the Strait of Georgia. Photo by John Geary

The Sunshine Coast is a place I never get tired of visiting. No matter where you go on the coast, you can find a good place to paddle a canoe or kayak. From the southern half of the coast at places like the Sechelt Inlet to the very north end of the coast at Desolation Sound, the waters of the Strait of Georgia beckon you to come paddling. If you’d rather canoe, that’s also possible. Ruby Lake at about the midway point of the coast is a nice quiet lake in which to dip a paddle.

You can sign up for guided wildlife or bird-watching tours in many spots along the coast. Even going out birding on your own can be rewarding, even at tiny places like the Sechelt Marsh or larger parks like Sargent Bay Provincial Park, which offers seashore views as well as a wetland.
– John Geary

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Escape to the north coast

Maybe it’s the rock-bluff-and-beach shoreline, the hidden lakes tucked among old-growth forests or the colourful communities rich in culture and culinary delights. Whatever it is that makes the northern stretch of B.C.’s 180-kilometre-long Sunshine Coast feel like the perfect escape, it’s always worth the extra ferry ride to me and my family.

A quiet cousin to the region’s busier south, the north coast serves up plenty to see and do with dollops of laidback charm on the side. Here, we’ve hiked past secret waterfalls along mossy trails, canoed by eroded rock formations in the Salish Sea and chilled on a curve of white-sand beach on Savary Island.

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A couple walks the sandy beach at Willingdon Beach Park in Powell River. Photo by Sunshine Coast Tourism/Shayd Johnson

In town, Powell River’s Costa del Sol is our go-to spot for an afternoon snack (munching on pork carnitas tacos on the wisteria-draped front porch is divine), while Townsite Brewing satisfies and surprises with classic and creative brews. Still, we can’t wait to try newly opened Supercharger Pizza, offering unique pies like the nettle-sprinkled The Hulk.

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Meanwhile, Nancy’s Bakery in the tiny community of Lund beckons with signature blackberry cinnamon buns and savoury lunch items. While just a 45-minute boat ride away in tranquil Desolation Sound, the Indigenous-owned Klahoose Wilderness Resort – named one of the world’s top 15 hotels in 2023 by AFAR – is on our next-trip wish list.
– Sheila Hansen

Sooke Potholes Provincial Park

I love the coast of Vancouver Island west of Victoria. Try a bike rental (or an electric bike) and take on the Galloping Goose Trail, which links Victoria and Sooke on an old train route.

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Sooke Potholes Provincial Park is a great place to explore. Photo by Jim Byers

Sooke Potholes Provincial Park is a beautiful spot with small waterfalls that tumble over dark rocks. In the town of Sooke, Mom’s Café makes apple pies the size of a basketball, with around 50 apples per pie. They also make creamy chocolate pies and lemon meringue pies with a thick stack of meringue. Just around the corner is one of my fave coffee shops in Canada, Stick in the Mud. If you’re looking to dine on the water, and who isn’t, try Stickleback West Coast Eatery.

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I love the drive from Sooke to Port Renfrew is one of my favourite drives in B.C. It takes you past lovely, quiet beaches such as French Beach Provincial Park. Stop at Shirley Delicious in the village of Shirley for a cup of coffee and a nice pastry to keep you going. If you’ve got a couple hours to spare, take the two kilometre forest hike to stunning Mystic Beach.

– Jim Byers

The Cowichan Valley calls

Every summer I try and spend a few days in the Cowichan Valley, just north of Victoria.

There’s great hiking (Mt. Tzouhalem has spectacular ocean views), and there’s fun cycling on the TransCanada Trail. The historic Kinsol Trestle is on the trail and is always worth a stop as it’s one of the tallest free-standing timber rail trestles in the world.

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Bridgemans Bistro at Mill Bay Marina in Saanich Inlet. Photo by Destination BC

I especially love to visit the valley in August and go on a self-guided wine-tasting tour. ‘Cowichan’ means warm land in the Coast Salish language, and the climate has helped make this valley an important grape growing region. There’s more than a dozen wineries. The festival used to be one weekend in August but it was so popular it’s now spread out over the entire month of August. And for a truly rural experience, I love staying in one of the yurts at Merridale Cidery and Distillery.

I also like to visit Duncan, the urban heart of the valley, for its Saturday morning market and to enjoy the First Nation poles. More than 40 totems are scattered around the city, most within a few downtown blocks, so it’s easy to walk around and see them.
– Suzanne Morphet

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Whistler through an Indigenous lens

I’m drawn to a winter playground for my favourite summer getaway. Whistler delivers as a place to get close to nature, culture and the arts through an Indigenous lens.

Even getting here is inspiring, taking the fjord-hugging Sea to Sky Highway from Vancouver past waterfalls and forests into the Coast Mountain range.

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The Squamish Lil’wat Cultural Centre is a great place to start a vacation. Photo by Linda Barnard

Since Whistler is on the traditional lands of the Sk̲wx̲wú7mesh (Squamish) and Lil̓wat7úl (Lil’wat) First Nations people, I often start at the Squamish Lil’wat Cultural Centre. Small-group tours led by Indigenous ambassadors begin in the magnificent main hall with traditional singing and drumming. I try to get there around lunchtime so I can hit the Thunderbird Café for the venison Bannock Tacos.

A new self-guided SLCC Indigenous forest tour starts June 21 on the Go Whistler tours app.

The Audain Art Museum is always a highlight. The impressive dark metal and wood structure blends into the forest and houses 180 works of British Columbia art, including First Nations masks, some dating to the 19th century.

I’m always stopped by the first sight of “The Dance Screen (The Scream Too)”, a dramatic, massive red cedar piece by master carver and hereditary Haida Chief James Hart. Inlaid with flashes of abalone and mica, Hart’s carving skill is breathtaking and I leave his work reluctantly.
– Linda Barnard

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Fantastic Fernie 

When our family lived in Calgary we often drove the three hours southwest to Fernie for skiing during the winter. We soon discovered the Elk Valley is even better in summer, which is why the locals’ maxim rings true: “I came for the winter but stayed for the summer.”

You’ll find easy family hiking trails that pass giant cedars and circle the shore at Island Lake (look for mama moose and her calf on the namesake island). Closer to town, hike up to the pretty cascades at Fairy Creek Falls near the visitor centre.

Those looking for a challenge can overcome vertigo for breathtaking views on the Polar Peak Ridge Walk, one of the more difficult lift-assisted summer hiking routes at Fernie Alpine Resort. The whole valley is also a fat-tire mecca, with an extensive network of cross-country mountain biking trails, plus downhill trails at the resort. Initiate the family on the Lazy Lizard Trail, which starts at Island Lake Lodge and follows a scenic and fun descent into Mt. Fernie Provincial Park.

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Hiking the Old Growth Trail up to Island Lake. Photo by Lisa Kadane

To cool off, there are nearby natural lakes including kid-pleaser Surveyor’s Lake where you can look for western painted turtles basking on logs, or Silver Springs Lakes for cliff jumping (both are located just past Elko). Right in town, Maiden Lake has a little beach, plus a hiking trail around it that leads to Saskatoon berry bushes plump with bounty in July.

Post-adventure, Fernie’s historic downtown of brick heritage buildings that house restaurants and bars welcome worn out wayfarers with food to refuel and cold beer from the Fernie Brewing Company. What’s not to love?
– Lisa Kadane

Victoria Harbour for an hour or a day

Quick, urban and awe-inspiring. My favourite B.C. summer getaway proves you don’t have to drive hours into the wilderness or commit to a whole weekend or week.

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Catch one of Ocean River Sports‘ Victoria Harbour Kayak two-and-a-half hour tours on the dock at 450 Swift St.

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Kayaking Victoria Harbour proves you don’t need a weekend to feel like you are on holidays. Steve MacNaull

The start of the paddle is all Inner Harbour eye candy with downtown Victoria up close bookended by the chateauesque-style Fairmont Empress Hotel and Neo-baroque British Columbia Parliament Buildings and the frenzy of other kayakers, canoeists and stand-up paddle boarders, seaplanes coming and going, water taxis, small ferries, whale-watching boats and Fisherman’s Wharf.

By the time you get to Middle Harbour, traffic dwindles, peace ensues, harbour seals follow along and you can have an ah-ha moment staring across the ocean to the snow-covered mountains of the Olympia Peninsula in Washington state.
– Steve MacNaull

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    Sunday, May 28, 2023

    You don’t have to be alone to experience loneliness – and more friends isn’t the answer - The Guardian

    In the UK 25 million people report they are occasionally, sometimes or often lonely, according to the Campaign to End Loneliness. In the US the surgeon general, Vivek Murthy, recently disclosed his own experience of “profound loneliness” as he released his national strategy highlighting just how many people experience loneliness as well as potential solutions to alleviate it. Murthy emphasised that loneliness has escalated into a public health emergency, affecting one in two Americans, with health impacts as serious as addiction and obesity, and warned it was as dangerous to health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day.

    Murthy’s candid account of his own loneliness was picked up by multiple media outlets and resonated deeply with my client Murray*. Like many people, Murray struggled to understand that loneliness doesn’t just affect people who are socially isolated or who live alone. Murray is professionally successful, earns a higher-than-average income and lives with a partner and teenage children. He plays sport, helps with his children’s sport clubs and keeps a busy round of dinners and social events for work. Murray sought help for anxiety which he found scary and surprising. He’d begun experiencing overwhelming panic attacks that took hold of him at unpredictable times and seemingly without warning. Murray felt ashamed and helpless and just wanted the attacks to stop. In telling me about himself he didn’t mention any feelings of loneliness.

    A form of psychotherapy known as cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) can be effective for treating anxiety disorders. Through CBT, psychologists help people learn to identify and effectively manage the factors that fuel their anxiety. Skilled psychologists guide their clients through a process of developing strategies to dial down the impact of anxiety on their lives. For Murray this involved paying more attention to and noting down how he was feeling, sensations in his body, the thoughts popping into his mind and what was happening around him. He described it as detective work on himself, which is an excellent way to think about this process.

    A typical high achiever, Murray immersed himself into the detective work and it didn’t take long to identify some clear patterns – in almost all his experiences of panic he was also feeling alone and afraid.

    When I asked him if he ever felt lonely, Murray’s initial response was dismissal and avoidance: “That’s ridiculous, I’m rarely alone. I’ve got my family, colleagues, teammates, friends. And there’s nothing to be afraid of.”

    For any of us who have experienced panic – and we certainly know this from the psychological research – panic thoughts are unlikely to be “rational” and rarely respond to “logic” or dismissal. Rather, giving them some airtime to understand what the thoughts might mean or how they may be possible flags to beliefs that are unhelpful is usually a better approach. Framing emotions as “data” was more helpful for Murray and enabled him to consider them with a more compassionate lens.

    Murray’s assumption that feeling alone wasn’t possible when surrounded by people is a common one, but also one we know is untrue. Kasley Killam is a social scientist who is an expert in social health, connection, and loneliness. She describes the myth of loneliness and social isolation:

    These terms are often used interchangeably, but they’re actually different. Social isolation is the objective state of being alone. In contrast, loneliness is the subjective experience of disconnection. This means that you could be around other people, yet still feel lonely.

    Why might that be? Loneliness can arise from not feeling seen, understood, or validated. It can come from spending time with people who don’t share your values or interests. It can also come from too many superficial interactions and not enough deeper connections.

    Killam’s definition of loneliness strongly resonated with Murray. He expressed how (with this new insight) he had always clung to the roles in his life and doing “good work” – a good manager, good partner, good dad, good friend – while often feeling disconnected and far away. Ever since he was young, Murray had strived to be good, but not to be open or vulnerable. A tactic that worked through a difficult childhood now meant he was “frozen in this life”, as he described it.

    The new work for Murray is to actively deepen his connections with family and the people that are important to him, and perhaps to dial back some of the social interactions that are less meaningful. Doing so will involve great courage as he initiates different conversations and connections, perhaps even to share some of his feelings of loneliness. Our hypothesis as he does this is that the panic will recede. Murray also has learned not to fear the panic itself. Instead, he recognises that the fear and palpitations serve as crucial data and indicators of his sense of disconnection. As Murray slowly begins to open up and share some of his inner world, he will be able to receive support and care from his loved ones.

    Given the US surgeon general’s recent admission, I expect Murray might find that the people around him may also confide their own experiences of loneliness. This realisation can foster a deeper sense of connection as they navigate their shared journey towards alleviating loneliness.

    *Name has been changed to protect privacy.

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    Lupus and other autoimmune diseases strike far more women than men. Now there's a clue why - CTV News

    WASHINGTON - Women are far more likely than men to get autoimmune diseases, when an out-of-whack immune system attacks their own bodies -...