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When Google removes your page

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There are just two such situations when Google removes pages from their index. Danny Sullivan from Google recently posted about them.

1. Content that violates the law

2. Content that can be termed as highly personal

Danny further explained the nuances and grey areas. The laws vary based on the location, particularly in regards to privacy and defamation.

Copyright violations, on the other hand, are hard to confirm unless reported. Child sex abuse material is virtually illegal everywhere and can be detected easily by automated systems.

He noted that Google has published a and policy for personal information removal sites with exploitative materials, personal threats and doxxing 

He went on to explain how Google looks for patterns to address these issues, “with trillions of pages and more being added each minute”.

Eliminating inappropriate content page by page or denying access to the entire site cannot be seen as an ideal option, as it isn’t scalable.

The entire site would be affected only in instances where there is “a high volume of valid copyright removal requests.” This to demote the site in the can be used as a reason search results.

He also pointed out the fact that Google mostly relies on . reported content

What You Can Do – Before reporting any type of content, have a thorough look at it, whether it can qualify as violating or not. Also, keep in mind that even if the content gets removed from Google’s index, it isn’t completely removed from the web.

Supporting Canadians with improved labelling for natural health products

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Many Canadians use a wide variety of natural health products (NHPs) daily such as vitamins, minerals, probiotics, homeopathic and traditional products. The demand for these products has increased during the pandemic, as more Canadians rely on them to support their own health and that of their families. Clear and legible labels on NHPs are critical for consumers to make informed purchasing decisions and to use these products safely.

In an effort to better support Canadians in their use of these products, Health Canada announced proposed changes to the Natural Health Products Regulations to make NHP labels more clear, legible and easier to understand.

Health Canada’s proposal includes four key elements, which will help Canadians make informed decisions when selecting and using NHPs:

  1. A Product Facts table: Important product information, such as warnings and directions for use, would be presented in a standardized table;
  2. Clearly and prominently displayed label text: Rules would be introduced to improve NHP label legibility and readability (e.g., improved colour contrast and minimum font size requirements);
  3. Labelling of food allergens, gluten and aspartame: Priority food allergens, gluten, and aspartame would be identified in the warning section of the label;
  4. Modernized contact information: A manufacturer may display either an email address, telephone number or website instead of a postal address, as currently required.

This regulatory proposal to improve labelling for NHPs is a key component of the Self-Care Framework, initiated in 2016. Throughout the development of the Framework, there has been extensive consultation with more than 4,500 consumers, academics and health professionals on this proposal. Health Canada also consulted directly with the NHP industry to develop a proposal that balances cost to the industry with the Department’s goal of providing Canadians with better labels.

This proposal also addresses a key recommendation from the recent audit on Health Canada’s Natural Health Products Program. It will improve product labels to help consumers understand key product information provided to protect their health.

We recognize that clear labelling is one aspect of improving Canadians’ access to safe, effective and high-quality NHPs among a broader suite of improvements envisioned as part of the Self-Care Framework and in response to findings of the recent audit. Health Canada will continue working, in parallel, with industry and other key stakeholders to advance work in other priority areas such as extending risk-based oversight, introducing cost recovery and strengthening compliance and enforcement powers through Vanessa’s Law.

Health Canada welcomes all feedback through the formal consultation process in Canada Gazette, Part I, which will be open for 70 days.

Health Canada is also consulting on draft guidance that will outline the various flexibilities available to the industry in implementing the labelling changes. This consultation can be accessed via the Consulting with Canadians web page over the same time period. All interested parties are encouraged to review the proposed regulations and guidance and provide feedback.

Quick Facts:

  • Evidence supports that the proposed labelling changes will improve Canadians’ ability to safely use NHPs and make informed decisions about their health, including:
    • Increased font and contrast will improve Canadians’ ability to read and understand NHP labels, supporting safe use and resulting in fewer harms; and,
    • Standardized formatting, with more prominent warnings (including for allergens and aspartame), will better support Canadians when choosing products, reducing risks associated with inappropriate product selection.
  • Taking into account the benefits to Canadians and the costs to industry, the expected net benefit of the proposal is $161.7 million present value (PV) over a 15-year period.
  • Canadians rely on NHPs for their health. More than 50% of Canadians say the pandemic increased their interest in finding information, products and services to care for their own health.
  • Even low-risk products, like hand sanitizers, can lead to harmful outcomes. During the pandemic, data from Canadian Poison Centres showed hand sanitizer exposure incidents, such as ingestions, were up to 4.5 fold higher from March to September 2020 compared to the same period in 2019, including an 8-fold increase in youth aged 13 to 19 and 5 fold in seniors over 60.
  • An online poll published by the Office of the Auditor-General identified that the product label was the second most important factor that influences consumer decisions to purchase natural health products.
  • Informed by feedback from extensive pre-consultation with the industry, the proposal incorporates a range of flexibilities, such as moving certain information to a digital space. These flexibilities, along with a multi-year transition period, are intended to minimize the environmental impact as well as the implementation burden, particularly for small and medium-sized companies.

Walmart Beats Amazon in Grocery

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According to Jungle Scout, more than b50 percent of Walmart.com shoppers have purchased groceries in the first quarter, compared with only 23 percent of Amazon.com shoppers.
Almost a third of purchasers (27%) answered that their spending on Walmart.com increased in the first quarter. This most likely boosts Walmart to achieve a 37% increase in its first-quarter e-commerce growth, which included digitally enabled sales fulfilled by stores.

Dr. Devin Byrd Appointed President Of Bastyr University

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Bastyr University, a private, natural health and science university, has named Devin A. Byrd, Ph.D. as its new and first African American president. Dr. Byrd will assume the post of president on July 26, succeeding Harlan Patterson, who has been president since 2017.

Bastyr’s first African American president in its 43-year history, Dr. Byrd brings two decades of leadership experience in higher education. He holds a Ph.D. and a Master of Science in Psychology from Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University. Most recently, he served as the Vice President for Academic Affairs at Saybrook University in Pasadena, CA.

“It is a privilege and an honour to have been selected to lead an institution that is an innovator in the field of natural health,” said Dr. Byrd.

“Having an opportunity to become part of a rich and science-based environment at such a pivotal time in academia is very exciting. Initially, I plan to focus on learning more about our university while understanding how I can effectively engage and support the members of our community. My commitment to fulfilling the university’s mission is rooted in addressing the challenges and opportunities within the natural health landscape.”

Over several months, the Bastyr Board of Trustees completed a nationwide executive search and interviewed an extensive list of candidates. The goal was to find a candidate with strong experience in strategy, academia and diversity. “We are confident that Dr. Byrd will propel our organization forward in new ways as we continue to excel and grow in our near post-pandemic world,” said Carol Taylor, the Chair of Bastyr University Board of Trustees.

In his new role, Dr. Byrd will work with internal and external partners to support a strong, integrated approach to education. This will include upgrading research and clinical services to serve not only the Seattle and San Diego communities but regional and national ones as well.

“Dr. Byrd’s extensive experience in developing and overseeing in-person, online and hybrid educational program offerings puts him in an excellent position to help Bastyr University to improve and evolve program offerings and to grow student enrollment,” added Gary Quarfoth, Chair of the President Search Committee. “The range of health-related programs that he has worked with is impressive and gives him a broad perspective on how to best meet the needs of students interested in receiving training in various health professions.”

Little Green Pharma Acquires a World-Class Production and Manufacturing Facility in Denmark

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Little Green Pharma Ltd has acquired a world-class, fully-operational, GMP medicinal cannabis cultivation and manufacturing facility in Denmark from Canopy Growth Corporation.

The facility, located in Northern Odense, has the capacity to produce in excess of 12 tonnes per annum of finished flower and provides LGP with much-needed product supply from its current inventory of ~1 tonne of medicinal cannabis flower products.

Previously operating as a production site, LGP hopes to broaden the facility’s service offering by building out a sales and marketing division and empowering the facility to engage with EU and global markets. LGP expects that its established brand and distribution channels and EU cannabis markets know-how will help generate additional valuable sales opportunities for the facility. The LGP Group will also share best-practice cultivation, manufacturing and pharmaceutical insights and expertise between its global assets.

The LGP Group plans to immediately focus on delivering products in Australia and Germany as it grows its portfolio of export destinations over time. The facility is also well advanced along the medicine registration process for its first medicinal cannabis products for the Danish market, with current plans to release in early 2022.

LGP’s Managing Director Ms. Fleta Solomon said “The opportunity to acquire this facility came up and it was clear at the outset this was a compelling strategic move for LGP.

“We have a moment in the market now to capitalize on the brand equity LGP has built with our existing patients in Germany, the UK, and France as well as Australia, and the immediate access to medical-grade product on the scale we will now have provides us with the opportunity to accelerate our growth strategy.

“At Little Green Pharma our mission is to develop and supply cannabis medicines to patients that improve their quality of life. We are driven by patient outcomes and value every person’s contribution to producing the final medicine, from those nurturing the mother plants, to those packing the final product.

“We have been particularly impressed with the levels of expertise, professionalism and engagement from all Danish facility staff throughout the acquisition process and look forward to meeting the rest over the coming weeks.”

“The acquisition accelerates our ability to provide medicinal cannabis to Danish, Australian, and other patients across Europe. We want to work together to do extraordinary things for patients around the world and this is a wonderful next step.”

With this purchase, existing facility team members will have continuity of employment resulting in no job losses and LGP will become a significant employer in Odense. Further, LGP looks forward to expanding its local workforce as it grows its production output over time.

The C$20 million acquisition of the 21,500 m2 cultivation and 4,000 m2 GMP manufacturing facility positions LGP as the leading Australian medicinal cannabis producer and owner of one of the largest and highest-quality cannabis production facilities in Europe.

UK fitness class sales soar despite demand for online sessions, where would Canada be?

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As Covid controls eased in the U.K, much return to gyms. ClassPass reports a 600% week-on-week rise in new members.

Fitness classes have recorded a sharp rise in sales as British consumers return to the gym after lockdown despite demand for online sessions that experts say will persist after the coronavirus pandemic.

ClassPass, a company that provides access to fitness classes across the UK, said in the past week it had recorded a 600% week-on-week increase in the number of new members as lockdown measures were relaxed.

The business said that while live-stream reservations remained strong, two of its top London fitness studios, Blok and Digme, reported a tenfold increase in reservations since in-person classes relaunched, compared with digital-only reservations the previous week.

Gerber® and Terracycle® Partner to Launch Recycling Program Throughout Canada

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Gerber®, the early childhood nutrition leader, has partnered with international recycling leader, TerraCycle® to help give typically hard-to-recycle baby food packaging a new life. This partnership is rooted in Gerber and TerraCycle’s shared values around eliminating waste and supports the recovery of hard-to-recycle baby food packaging on a national scale throughout Canada.

Participation in the program is easy – parents are invited to sign up on the Gerber® Recycling Program page at https://www.terracycle.com/en-CA/brigades/gerber-en-ca and mail in baby food packaging that is currently not municipally recyclable, including flexible plastic bags, pouches and inner bags, using a prepaid shipping label. Once collected, the packaging is cleaned, melted down and then remolded to make new products.

“We know that creating a sustainable future is critically important and especially so for today’s parents, who are raising the next generation of leaders. As the world’s largest baby food company, we are thrilled to partner with TerraCycle to reduce our carbon footprint,” said Alison McLean, President, Nutrition, Nestlé Canada. “With this new partnership, approximately 200,000 Gerber pouches or over 1,800 kgs of packaging material, will be redirected and won’t end up in landfills. This is a significant milestone on our journey to tackle plastic waste and preserve the planet for our future generations.”

“Through this free recycling program, Gerber is offering parents an easy way to divert waste from landfills by providing a responsible way to dispose of certain hard-to-recycle Gerber baby food packaging,” said TerraCycle CEO and Founder, Tom Szaky. “By collecting and recycling these items, families can demonstrate their respect for the environment not only through the products that they choose for their children, but also with how they dispose of the packaging.”

The Gerber® Recycling Program is open to any interested individual, school, office, or community organization nationwide. As an added incentive, for every pound of packaging waste sent to TerraCycle through the Gerber® Recycling Program, registered participants can earn $1 to donate to a non-profit, school or charitable organization of their choice.

Gerber was founded on the ambition to give babies the best start in life and their work doesn’t stop at nutrition. These efforts on sustainable packaging build on more than a decade of progress and investment to achieve Nestlé Canada’s ambitious sustainability goals to make 100% of its packaging reusable or recyclable by 2025. More information on the Nestlé’s climate change roadmap and packaging commitments can be found at www.nestle.com/csv/global-initiatives/zero-environmental-impact.

Rritual announcement

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Rritual Superfoods Inc. is pleased to announce that the Company has received purchase orders totalling CAD $306,000 in the last week of May, with goods now shipping to customers.

“We are extremely excited to have had such a strong launch in our first month of full-scale commercial operations,” said Rritual CEO, Mr. David Kerbel. “We fully expect that these initial orders from our cornerstone retailers will establish Rritual products on shelf with regular re-orders to follow. As we establish our distribution foot-print we will continue to execute our marketing strategies to support our retail partners.”

Rritual has scaled its production to meet growing demand, with a sales and a marketing strategy targeting major retailers in Mass, Food & Drug, and Grocery across the USA in 2021. The Rritual Sales Team is in active discussion with a number of target retailers and will provide updates as new retail accounts are onboarded. Based on our projected distribution guidance of 6,000 stores and 20,000 points of distribution by the end of 2021 we expect to achieve a monthly run rate in the United States of CAD $1,300,000 achieving approximately 31-42% blended margins.

Rritual product offerings are all USDA-certified organic and are a caffeine-free option that can be mixed with other beverages or enjoyed by itself. Rritual’s proprietary Immune-Synergy Six Mushroom Blend is the only functional health product on the market that contains a daily prebiotic blend which nourishes a healthy gut microbiome and facilitates balanced digestive function.

Shoppers Drug Mart steps up with UBC, BCCSU to improve addiction treatment and care

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The retailer is stepping up to improve addiction treatment and care for all Canadians by supporting pharmacist training and education led by the British Columbia Centre on Substance Use (BCCSU).

A $2 million gift from Shoppers Drug Mart to the University of British Columbia (UBC) will establish the Shoppers Drug Mart Addiction Pharmacy Fellowship—the first of its kind in Canada—and support the development of pharmacist-focused addiction treatment education at the BCCSU.

Pharmacists can be trained to play a critical role in providing healthcare for Canadians who use substances or have a substance use disorder. Through this philanthropic investment, Shoppers Drug Mart is helping to ensure pharmacists are better trained to support prevention, screening, and access to life-saving addiction medications.

“This is a national problem, affecting our patients, customers, friends and family members. Over the past few years, our pharmacy teams have been called upon to help more and more patients struggling with opioid addiction. We want to continue to be a positive force for change, and believe today’s announcement is another important step,” said Jeff Leger, President, Shoppers Drug Mart.

The fellowship at the BCCSU will be part of the largest addiction medicine fellowship program in North America – which provides training and education for dozens of health care providers each year – helping to mobilize expertise and new knowledge to benefit Canadians who use substances or with an addiction.

“In partnership with Shoppers Drug Mart, the BC Centre on Substance Use is developing a comprehensive pharmacist training program that will mobilize expertise and new knowledge to benefit Canadians who use substances or with an addiction,” says Cheyenne Johnson, executive director with the BCCSU. “By working together, we can achieve our shared goal of expanding capacity within the healthcare system from prevention to recovery to ultimately improve the wellbeing of individuals, families and communities who are impacted by addiction.”

Access to evidence-based addiction treatment has been a longstanding and chronic need in the Canadian healthcare system. And now the need to address the harms of substance use has never been greater.

According to the Public Health Agency of Canada, more than 19,000 Canadians have died of an overdose since 2016, and in the past year fatal and non-fatal overdoses are occurring at the highest rates ever in regions across Canada. Many of those individuals never access addiction treatment. In addition, as Canadians report consuming more alcohol during COVID-19, harms resulting from high-risk drinking and alcohol use disorder are likely to increase. Alcohol use disorder is the most common substance use disorder in Canada, yet it frequently goes untreated and unrecognized, resulting in a high prevalence of disease, social harms and economic costs.

Education and training are critical in raising awareness among health professionals, including pharmacists, on how best to engage with patients, provide life-saving medications and positively impact health services to address substance use-related harms and close the treatment care gap that is leaving many Canadians behind.

“At this time of heightened urgency comes increased responsibility to provide Canada’s frontline health professionals with the knowledge and tools to make a difference in the lives of people affected by substance use and addiction,” says Dr. Dermot Kelleher, dean of UBC’s faculty of medicine, and vice-president, health, at UBC. “I am excited by Shoppers Drug Mart’s decision to support the BCCSU’s leadership in closing the current evidence-to-care gap to address a devastating health issue that is woven into the fabric of our society.”

RCMP charge two people with importing MDMA

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Members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Border Integrity Unit from the Toronto Airport Detachment executed a search warrant and arrested two males for various offences linked to the importation of MDMA from Italy via the United States.

The investigation began when the United States Customs and Border Protection intercepted a package containing 2978 MDMA pills destined for the Toronto area. They engaged investigators with US Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). Effective and timely sharing of information between HSI, Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) and RCMP investigators allowed police in Canada to quickly identify suspects and obtain a search warrant. Ammunition and documents were seized by the RCMP during the search of a rooming house in Scarborough, Ontario.

MDMA or Methylenedioxymethamphetamine is a mind-altering psychoactive drug commonly known as ecstasy.

Benny Zhang, 42 of Toronto, Ontario and Chunbao Chen, 35 of Scarborough, Ontario have both been charged with:

  1. Importation of a controlled substance into Canada, Section 6(1) Controlled Drugs and Substances Act;
  2. Possession of a controlled substance for the purpose of trafficking, Section 5(2) Controlled Drugs and Substances Act;
  3. Conspire to commit the indictable offence of importing a controlled substance into Canada, Section 465(1)(c) Criminal Code;
  4. Conspire to commit the indictable offence of possessing a controlled substance for the purpose of trafficking, Section 465(1)(c) Criminal Code.

In addition, Chunbao Chen has been charged with resisting a peace officer contrary to Section 129(a) of the Criminal Code. Both accused have been released on undertakings and are scheduled to appear at the Old City Hall courthouse in Toronto on July 7, 2021.

“Transnational organized crime groups and their networks exploit every opportunity to support their illegal operations while causing immeasurable harm to our communities and country. This case demonstrates the value of effective and expedient communication and information sharing between law enforcement agencies. The RCMP is grateful to work alongside committed partners like the CBSA and HSI. We had the resources and expertise in place to act on this information and apprehend and charge these individuals,” stated Inspector Barry Dolan, Officer-in-Charge of the Toronto Airport Detachment of the RCMP.

“These arrests exemplify the incredible joint efforts between U.S. Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) in dismantling cross-border criminal organizations from trafficking illicit narcotics across the border,” said U.S. Department of Homeland Security, HSI Toronto Assistant Attaché April Miller. “We will continue to work closely to keep drugs off our streets and our communities safe.”

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