#The best summer ever – Macleans.ca

#The best summer ever – Macleans.ca

“#The best summer ever – Macleans.ca” Scott Gilmore: The upside to the ongoing border lockdown is that for the first summer in ages Canadians have the country to themselves. Get out and enjoy it. We rarely need encouragement to get out and enjoy the summer. Typically, Canadians spend 10 months of the year thinking about…

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#The extraordinarily slow plan to reopen the border

#The extraordinarily slow plan to reopen the border

“#The extraordinarily slow plan to reopen the border” The Trudeau government is keeping shut the U.S-Canada border for the foreseeable future, with no clear end date in place nor with any metrics on when, and how, the border will reopen. Nothing will change about the border measures at all until July 5, when fully-vaccinated travellers…

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#How a year of disrupted education could impact Canadian children beyond the pandemic

#How a year of disrupted education could impact Canadian children beyond the pandemic

“#How a year of disrupted education could impact Canadian children beyond the pandemic” In the spring of 2020, after the pandemic shuttered schools worldwide, 210,000 students in the Indian state of Telangana (sounds like TELL-in-Ghana) experienced a startling local version of a global problem. The students attend high-quality boarding schools, run by the state, for…

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#Ministry during a plague – Macleans.ca

#Ministry during a plague – Macleans.ca

“#Ministry during a plague – Macleans.ca” Michael Coren: We listen, we counsel, we simply be there. Because beyond the daily realities of food shortage, unemployment and poor health is the acid cloud of loneliness. Rev. Michael Coren is ordained in the Anglican Church of Canada. “God of all consolation, in your unending love and mercy…

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#The superspreader events that governments let happen

#The superspreader events that governments let happen

“#The superspreader events that governments let happen” When British Columbia’s provincial medical officer Bonnie Henry gave the green light for skiers to hit Whistler’s slopes last Feb. 5, the resort town was already dealing with a lot of COVID-19 cases. With about 12,000 permanent residents and many seasonal staff, Whistler had had 547 infections the…

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#Widespread facemask use is vital to suppress the pandemic as lockdown lifts, say scientists

#Widespread facemask use is vital to suppress the pandemic as lockdown lifts, say scientists

A new mathematical model suggests that the easing of lockdown must be accompanied by wider and more effective use of control measures such as facemasks even with vaccination, in order to suppress COVID-19 more quickly and reduce the likelihood of another lockdown. The model, developed by scientists at the Universities of Cambridge and Liverpool, is published…

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