Global News in Canada shows that although more Canadians are taking to the skies as travel measures ease, airfare prices are also soaring with them, with prices reaching new highs not seen even before the pandemic.
The aviation data supplier, Cirium, says between July of 2019 and July of 2021, the average price of a round-trip ticket within Canada went up by almost $100, to $532 plus taxes.
Cirium says there's pent-up demand, but only half as many seats available, because Canadian airlines are still offering fewer flights and using smaller planes.
Ross Lord explains why the cost of flying is getting more expensive, and when there might be some relief.
PBS NewsHour shows that although COVID-19 vaccines help reduce the spread of COVID-19 and resulting deaths, there have not been many good or easy treatment options for the actual virus. But a new antiviral drug from Merck offers hope for keeping patients infected with COVID-19 out of the hospital and alive. Dr. Nahid Bhadelia, an infectious disease specialist at Boston University, joins William Brangham to discuss.
CBC News in Canada shows that Canada's inflation rate rose to a new 18-year high of 4.4 per cent in September, with higher prices for transportation, shelter and food contributing the most to the jump in the cost of living.
CTV News in Canada shows that Rachel Aiello has the latest on the new vaccine mandate for the House of Commons and what it could mean for MPs who aren't vaccinated.
Global News in Canada shows that when the Vancouver Canucks hit the ice at Rogers Arena on Oct. 26, the team will be greeted by a full house.
Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry announced Tuesday that COVID-19 capacity limits will be lifted in much of British Columbia for indoor events and gatherings where proof of vaccination is required.
"It (COVID-19) is not taking off in places where we have vaccine card," Henry said.
"We were seeing it in Northern Health and that is why we put in further restrictions."
The province will also be removing the requirement to remain seated at restaurants and events. But for now, there are still restrictions in place around allowing dancing.
B.C. health officials also shared at Tuesday's briefing that COVID-19 transmission in schools has dropped since they first surged at the start of the school year.
Dr. Bonnie Henry said at the beginning of the school year, there was a dramatic increase in cases, particularly in the Interior and in Northern Health regions, but those cases have started to come down.
Cases still remain higher in Northern Health but it is indicative of the case counts remaining high in the communities.
Henry added the increase of COVID-19 cases in September was "strongly associated with a significant increase in testing among children" and the biggest source of COVID infections for children remains from sources outside of the classroom.
Global News in Canada shows that Health Canada is now considering Pfizer's request to approve its COVID-19 vaccine for use on children aged 5 to 11.
But confusion remains on how vaccinations will look like for younger children - from the logistics of the vaccine rollout, to what dosage levels will be needed.
For instance, though the dosage for kids is one-third of the adult dose, one of the biggest questions right now is whether kids be given a smaller dosage of the same adult vaccine.
Global News in Canada shows that since Canada legalized cannabis in 2018, sales have skyrocketed to an industry now worth $4 billion a year in the country.
But Nova Scotia scientists have made troubling discovery over the products - cannabis strains are being regularly mixed up and mislabelled on the shelves.
The Cannabis Council of Canada, which represents more than 700 licensed growers in the country, suggests it's a lingering effect from the illegal cannabis market.
Ross Lord looks at how exactly it's messing up the marketing over scientific facts - and why it could be dangerous.
CBC News: The National in Canada shows that the federal government is standing firm on requiring travellers entering Canada to have a negative PCR test for COVID-19, even though the USA will no longer require them at the land border.
Global News in Canada shows that after spending a significant amount of time attending school from home during the pandemic, many parents are glad to send their kids back to school.
But a national study finds about 70 per cent of Canadians are worried about the spread of COVID-19 at school.
Global’s Sharmeen Somani spoke with some parents and shares their concerns.
CBC News in Canada shows how Public Safety Minister Bill Blair talks with CBC chief political correspondent Rosemary Barton about the Canada-USA border opening to fully vaccinated travellers starting Nov. 8 and some of the restrictions in place.
Global News in Canada shows that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau held onto another minority government for the Liberals in the 2021 federal election, despite coming in second in the popular vote, behind the Conservatives. In fact, with the First Past the Post system, the Liberals gained nearly 40 more seats than the Conservatives.
So what would electoral reform look like in Canada and what are some of the alternatives to the current First Past the Post system? And what changes could be made to make the results better reflect how people vote?
Sean Previl takes a look at the possibility of other voting systems and what Canada's government would look like based on the latest election results.
Global News in Canada shows that as border regulations and travel rules for vaccinated Canadians travelling to the United States begin to ease, some wonder whether the dragged-out process signals a frosting relationship between the two countries lately.
Aside from the pandemic, the two North American nations have hit various snags between each other in recent years - from defending the Line 5 pipeline, to the lobbying against the Buy American plan, to the lingering absence of an American ambassador to Canada.
Mike Le Couteur looks at whether Canada is still on best terms with its closest neighbour.
CTV News in Canada shows how Infectious disease expert Dr. Alexander Wong breaks down the situation in Saskatchewan, where ICUs across the province are at capacity.
CTV News in Canada shows President and CEO of Tourism Industry Association of Canada Beth Potter on what Canadians should pay attention to before heading to the USA.
Global News in Canada shows that an awe-inspiring and vivid aurora borealis stretched across the skies in a large part of North America, with purple, pink, teal and green hues dancing and shimmering as far as the eye could see.
People across Western Canada, including as far south as the greater Vancouver area in B.C., reported seeing the northern lights - but it wasn’t limited to this side of the border.
Posts on social media said the dancing light display could be seen by Americans as far south as Iowa, Minnesota and Ohio, and even across the ocean in the United Kingdom.
Marcus House on Youtube shows how SpaceX Raises the Arms of Mechazilla ready to be installed. Ship 20 and Booster 4, the first orbit capable vehicle continues to crawl along, but lots of Starship Updates going on with future vehicles. And some pretty impressive updates to share on Relativity Space’s Terran 1 making some new headway towards flight.
It is interesting how the SpaceX MECHAZILLA grabbing arm will enable a Mars rocket. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has plans for a giant orbital arm. It could enable even certain faster rocket turnaround times.
This month, CEO Elon Musk detailed how the new Mechazilla orbital grabbing arm will help the Starship rocket. The goal is to catch the ship and its Super Heavy booster as they return to Earth. The interesting technique could be an upgrade over the droneships currently used for Falcon 9 boosters returning to Earth after missions.
The future could have launching the same Starship three times per day. That means it has a chance of achieving its goal of a city on Mars by 2050.
"SpaceX will try to catch largest ever flying object with robot chopsticks," Musk posted on his Twitter page on August 30. Success is not guaranteed, but excitement is!
Global News shows that NASA launched a first-of-its-kind mission on Saturday, Oct. 16 to study Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids - 2 large clusters of space rock that scientists believe are remnants of primordial material that formed our solar system’s outer planets.
The space probe, dubbed Lucy, was packed inside a special cargo capsule carried by the Atlas V rocket from United Launch Alliance, a joint venture of Boeing and Lockheed Martin Corp.
Lucy is on a 12-year expedition to study a record number of asteroids and will be the first to explore the Trojans, thousands of rocky objects orbiting the sun in two swarms - one ahead of the path of the giant gas planet Jupiter and one behind it.
Scientists hope Lucy’s close-up fly-by of 7 Trojans will yield new clues to how the solar system’s planets formed some 4.5 billion years ago.
CBC News: The National in Canada shows that the United States has confirmed that Canadians that had different COVID-19 vaccines for their first and second dose will be recognized as fully vaccinated. The U.S. will be implementing travel restrictions on Nov. 8, only permitting fully vaccinated travellers into the country.
WION shows that approximately 8,000 people in a Canadian city have been without drinking water for 3 days. The city's water supplies have been contaminated.
The water is not safe for consumption even if its boiled or filtered. The city's mayor has imposed a state of emergency.
CBC News in Canada shows that Jennifer Chan, Merck Canada's vice-president of policy and government affairs, explains how the COVID-19 drug works and the results of Merck's research.
CBC News in Canada shows that Rep. Brian Higgins of New York has been fighting to reopen the Canada / USA land border for months. He joins Power & Politics to discuss its reopening to fully vaccinated Canadians.
CBC News in Canada shows that nearly 3 years after Canada legalized cannabis, many retailers in B.C. claim they still struggle to find access to basic financial services from banks. Industry experts say international pressure and decades of stigma plague the fledgling industry.
ABC15 Arizona on Youtube shows that more than 10,000 Americans have reported tinnitus as a possible side effect of the COVID-19 vaccine, and some are now questioning why the FDA and CDC are not taking a deeper look into their claims about hearing problems.
The Globe and Mail on Youtube shows how Dr. Jeff Kwong from ICES (Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences) discusses the results of a study into COVID-19 vaccines that show they are highly effective in preventing or minimizing an infection nearly eight months after being administered. Dr. Kwong says the need for a booster shot depends on the ongoing effectiveness of vaccines and how far provinces want to go in reducing the number of cases.
CBC News in Canada shows that a study published by a Berlin think-tank says Canadians must cut their carbon footprints by 95 per cent to help the world limit global warming to the 1.5 C goal set by the 2015 Paris Agreement. Lewis Akenji, managing director of the Hot or Cool Institute and lead author of the study, says it can’t be up to Canadians alone and that the federal government must play a role.
CBC News: The National in Canada shows that the Canadian Real Estate Association confirmed what so many frustrated house-hunters already know - prices just keep going up into unaffordable territory. The average sale price of a Canadian home is up 14 per cent in just one month. In some markets, like Toronto and Vancouver, people are just giving up in the face of million dollar price tags.
Global News shows that Intensive care units in Saskatchewan have reached capacity, and there are plans to send critically ill COVID-19 patients to Ontario for treatment.
There are fears the worst is yet to come, since Saskatchewan only implemented an indoor face mask policy a few weeks ago.
Meanwhile in Alberta, a total of 24 health care workers from the Canadian Armed Forces, The Red Cross and Newfoundland and Labrador have joined that province’s pandemic fight.
Heather Yourex-West has the latest on the Prairie provinces’ fourth wave.
CBC News certainly explains the United States' new stance on travellers with mixed vaccine doses. The country will now accept Canadians with mixed vaccines, including AstraZeneca, when the new rules begin on Nov. 8.
Global News shows that the USA plans to open all its land and ferry borders to Canadians who have been fully vaccinated for COVID-19, more than a year and a half after closing them.
As Sean O'Shea reports, for the first time in more than a year and a half, border communities are hopeful that the return of tourism will help their troubling economies.
But just because you can travel, doesn’t mean you should. As David Akin explains, Canadians are being cautioned to follow COVID-19 safety protocols if they plan to travel south soon.
In addition, the government is still in talks with their American counterparts to figure out the protocol for Canadians with mixed doses of the vaccine.
CityNews shows that it’s an update welcomed as "good news" on both sides of the border. Melissa Duggan on the planned reopening of the U.S. land border to fully vaccinated visitors from Canada next month.
Global News shows the top story: The USA reveals plans to reopen land and ferry borders to vaccinated travellers. Jackson Proskow explains why it took the White House two months longer to reciprocate Canada's welcome.
And Sean O'Shea reports on how border communities are hoping the reopening of the U.S.-Canada land border and how it will boost pandemic-devastated tourism.
CNBC Television shows Carter Worth of Worth Charting on where bitcoin is headed now that it's crossed over $60,000. With CNBC's Melissa Lee and the Fast Money traders, Tim Seymour, Steve Grasso, Pete Najarian and Mike Khouw.
Bitcoin certainly crossed $60,000, and the Chartmaster lays out where it's headed next.
Bitcoin Price at Oct 16, 2021: 61,650 USD
Bitcoin certainly topped US$60,000 for the first time in 6 months on Friday, nearing its all-time high, as hopes grew that USA regulators would allow a futures-based exchange-traded fund (ETF), a move likely to open the path to wider investment in digital assets.
It seems that the first bitcoin futures ETF in the USA is set to begin trading next week. An exchange-traded fund is a type of investment fund and exchange-traded product, i.e. they are traded on stock exchanges.
It seems that MicroStrategy’s Bitcoin Bet Doubled to $6 Billion as Price Soared. MicroStrategy Inc. has benefited. The overall value of the company’s holding of the cryptocurrency has doubled. The enterprise software firm held approximately 114,042 Bitcoin as of Sept. 12, acquired at an aggregate purchase price of $3.16 billion and an average price of $27,713 per token, inclusive of fees and expenses. That investment is now valued at about $6.7 billion, with the price of the digital currency topping $60,000 Friday as it approached impressive record highs.
Bitcoin technology is interesting. A transaction is a transfer of value between Bitcoin wallets. This gets included in the block chain. Bitcoin wallets keep a secret piece of data called a private key or seed. This is used to sign transactions, providing really a mathematical proof that they have come from the owner of the wallet.
Mining is the process of adding transaction records to Bitcoin's public ledger of past transactions. A "mining rig" is a colloquial metaphor for a single computer system that performs the necessary computations for mining. This proof of work is verified by other so-called Bitcoin nodes each time they receive a block.
You could use your computer's CPU to mine for bitcoins. In reality, this would be pretty slow and there is really no point. You can enhance your bitcoin hash rate by adding graphics hardware to your computer. Graphics cards really feature graphical processing units (GPUs).
Road technologies can be truly amazing. A so-called road is a wide way leading from one place to another, typically one with a usally prepared surface which vehicles can use.
Roads consist of 1 or 2 roadways (British English: carriageways), each with one or more lanes and any associated sidewalks (British English: pavement) and road verges. A bike path (British English: cycle path) - a road for use by bicycles - may or may not run in parallel with other certain roads.
Other names for a road include: parkway; avenue; freeway, motorway or expressway; tollway; interstate; highway; thoroughfare; or primary, secondary, and tertiary local road.
"Tech World" on Youtube shows that a 7D hologram is a method for capturing a high-quality hologram using 7 parameters.
These are so-called 7 Dimensions.
The universe exists in 3D space with times often considered a fourth dimension. The reason that a 7D hologram has so many dimensions is that the hologram is captured from a large number of positions that surround the scene or subject of the hologram.
Each position is described in 3D space. Each position captures a variety of viewing directions in 2D space.
Two additional parameters are captured for each direction: image intensity and time. If you add these up you get 7 parameters, known as dimensions.
This new technology looks amazing. A 7D cinema includes a 3D movie supplemented by a simulated 4D environment (4-dimensional space) that being added altogether to provide a 7D. While a 3D movie is played, various special effects are added and the spectators feel it more realistic than ever before.
A hologram technology is a three-dimensional projection which can be seen without using any special equipment such as cameras or glasses. The high-quality image can be viewed from any angle, so as the user walks around the display the object will appear to move and shift realistically.
Holograms are really made by using a single laser beam. The beam is then split into two beams by a special lens. That way, you get two laser beams that are exactly the same. When the two laser beams intersect, they create what's called an interference pattern.
"Wall Street Journal" on Youtube explains "non-fungible tokens" or NFTs. They have exploded onto the digital art scene this past year. Proponents say they are a way to make digital assets scarce, and therefore more valuable. WSJ explains how they work, and why skeptics question whether they’re built to last.
A so-called non-fungible token (NFT) is a unique and non-interchangeable unit of data stored on a digital ledger (blockchain). NFTs can be used to represent easily-reproducible items such as photos, videos, audio, and other types of digital files as unique items (analogous to a certificate of authenticity), and use blockchain technology to establish a verified and public proof of ownership. Copies of the original file are not restricted to the owner of the NFT, and can really be copied and shared like any file. The lack of interchangeability (fungibility) distinguishes NFTs from blockchain cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin.
The first NFT project was launched in 2015 on the Ethereum blockchain, and interest grew with the rise of interest in crypto currencies. According to NonFungible.com, sales exceeded $2 billion in the first quarter of 2021, more than 20 times the volume of the previous quarter. NFTs have drawn criticism with respect to the energy cost and carbon footprint associated with validating blockchain transactions.
A blockchain is a growing list of records, called blocks, that are really linked together using cryptography. Each block contains a cryptographic hash of the previous block, a timestamp, and certain transaction data (generally represented as a Merkle tree).
"TODAY" Channel on Youtube shows that a woman in western Canada was asleep in bed when a nearly 3-pound rock crashed through her ceiling and landed next to her pillow. Scientists have confirmed it was a meteorite. The woman was not hurt.
A physicist says that the meteorite found in B.C. could shed light on solar system's origin. Peter G. Brown, a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Western Ontario, says the meteorite made its fiery way to Earth on Oct. 3, after spinning out of its orbit in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, nearly 180 million kilometres away.
Brown says the woman has loaned the rock to the university and, for the next month or so, it will become "a small piece of a larger puzzle" as scientists "disentangle how the early solar system formed."
It seems that the 4.5 billion-year-old meteorite is older than anything on Earth but is formed of minerals found here, like iron and nickel, although in much larger proportions, giving it unusual weight for a rock its size.
The exact chemistry is still being studied.
The rock will eventually be returned to the woman whose roof it punctured.
A so-called meteorite is a solid piece of debris from an object, such as a comet, asteroid, or meteoroid, that originates in outer space and survives its passage through the atmosphere to reach the surface of a planet or moon. When the original object enters the atmosphere, various factors such as friction, pressure, and chemical interactions with the atmospheric gases cause it to heat up and radiate energy. It then becomes a meteor and forms a fireball, also known as a shooting star or falling star; astronomers call the brightest examples so-called "bolides". Once it settles on the larger body's surface, the meteor really becomes a meteorite. Meteorites vary greatly in size. For geologists, a bolide is a meteorite large enough to create an impact crater.
VICE News shows that Arkansas has one of the lowest COVID vaccination rates in the country of USA, and the Delta variant is causing a surge of new cases in the state. We embedded at a hospital in Little Rock, where doctors say the threat of death isn’t enough to convince people to get vaccinated.
Global News in Canada has the interesting news story.
As Canadians decide what fixings to put on the table this Thanksgiving, many also face a different, more difficult decision: whether to invite unvaccinated family members to feast alongside them.
Infectious disease specialist Dr. Isaac Bogoch answers your latest COVID-19 questions including the risks around the Thanksgiving table.
Times in the video:
0:30 Can you get the flu and the COVID-19 shot at the same time?
1:27 Can natural immunity replace the COVID-19 vaccine?
2:27 Should unvaxxed family members be invited to Thanksgiving dinner?
3:50 Breaking down the Ontario throne speech short on healthcare
NEWS 1130 shows that anyone travelling by air, rail, or sea in Canada must be fully vaccinated by the end of October. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the new measure Wednesday which will also require all federal employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
Global News in Canada shows that as many Canadians struggle with their mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic, experts say a mental wellness crisis is brewing among the country's young workers.
A poll conducted by Ipsos already shows about 28 per cent of Canadians admit their own mental health has deteriorated over the course of the crisis.
As Anne Gaviola explains, demand for better counselling and resources in the workplace is also rising, but the benefits are failing to keep up.
CBC News in Canada shows that while more than 5,000 air travellers who refused to quarantine in a hotel when they arrived in Canada were hit with big fines, CBC News has yet to confirm that any such fines were issued in Calgary or Montreal.
Global News in Canada shows that Moderna Company has applied for Canadian approval of a 3rd dose of its COVID-19 vaccine, the company announced Tuesday.
It comes as other countries, including the USA and Israel, have approved or even required COVID-19 vaccine booster shots for large portions of their population - but experts remain divided on how much it will help.
Health Canada has to review the application and will choose whether to approve the booster shot and under what conditions, but there is no timeline for how long this could take. Carolyn Jarvis has more.
CBC News in Canada shows that the Northwest Territories currently has the highest rate of active COVID-19 cases in the country - more than 1.5 times the rate of Alberta, which has the second highest. The territory reported 578 active cases on Tuesday.
In the country of Canada, The Northwest Territories (commonly abbreviated as NT or NWT; French: Territoires du Nord-Ouest) is a federal territory of Canada. At a land area of approximately 1,144,000 km2 (442,000 sq mi) and a 2016 census population of 41,790, it is the 2nd-largest and the most populous of the 3 territories in Northern Canada. Its estimated population as of 2021 is 45,504. Yellowknife is the capital, most populous community, and only city in the territory; its population was 19,569 as of the 2016 census. It became the territorial capital in 1967, following recommendations by the Carrothers Commission.
The Northwest Territories' 24 municipalities cover only 0.2% of the territory's land mass but are home to 95.8% of its population.
The city of Yellowknife is certainly the capital of the Northwest Territories and the territory's only city. It sits on the Canadian Shield, on the north shore of Great Slave Lake, and about 400 km south of the Arctic Circle.
The Northwest Territories, a portion of the old North-Western Territory, entered the Canadian Confederation on July 15, 1870. Since then, the territory has been divided 4 times to create new provinces and territories or enlarge existing ones. Its current borders date from April 1, 1999, when the territory's size was decreased again by the creation of a new territory of Nunavut to the east, through the Nunavut Act and the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement. While Nunavut is mostly Arctic tundra, the Northwest Territories has a slightly warmer climate and is both boreal forest (taiga) and tundra, and its most northern regions form part of the so-called Arctic Archipelago.
Global News in Canada shows that the Canadian government is invoking a 1977 treaty to halt the shutdown of Enbridge's Line 5 pipeline after Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer vowed to turn off its taps over environmental concerns.
The pipeline transports oil from Western Canada all the way to Southwestern Ontario, but passes through Michigan along the Great Lakes shared by both countries.
Eric Sorensen looks at how the crude quarrel is pitting Canada against the United States, as well as economists against environmentalists.
Relations between the countries of Canada and the United States have historically been extensive, given the 2 countries' shared border, which is the longest in the world, and ever-increasing cultural and economic ties. The shared historical and cultural heritage has resulted in one of the most stable and mutually beneficial important international relationships in the world.
For both countries, the level of trade with the other is at the top of the annual combined import-export total. Tourism and migration between the 2 neighboring nations have increased rapport.
The USA is approximately 9.25 times larger in population.
In history, the so-called war of 1812 saw invasions across the border. In 1815, the war ended with the border unchanged and demilitarized, as were the Great Lakes.
CityNews Channel on Youtube shows that as Canada continues to endure a fourth wave of COVID-19, the federal government is implementing new vaccine requirements for travellers and federal servants. Nigel Newlove reports.
What is a "vaccine" is interesting. A vaccine is a biological preparation that provides active acquired immunity to a particular infectious disease. A vaccine typically contains an agent that resembles a disease-causing microorganism and is often made from weakened or certain killed forms of the microbe, its toxins, or one of its surface proteins. The agent stimulates the body's immune system to recognize the agent as a threat, destroy it, and to further recognize and destroy any of the microorganisms associated with that agent that it may encounter in the future. So-called Vaccines can be prophylactic (to prevent or ameliorate the effects of a future infection by a natural or "wild" pathogen), or therapeutic (to fight a certain disease that has already occurred, such as cancer). Some certain vaccines offer full sterilizing immunity, in which dangerous infection is prevented completely.
Global News shows that more than 700,000 thousand people have died from COVID-19 in the USA since March 2020. This pandemic is now the deadliest in the country’s history, with a death toll even higher than the 1918 Spanish Flu.
It comes as the USA Supreme Court weighs in on vaccine mandates, and as California's Governor takes extraordinary steps to keep school children safe.
As Jennifer Johnson reports, while new cases and hospitalizations are starting to decline, there are fears that another variant could follow Delta's deadly surge.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there are really 4 certain types of flu viruses: influenza A, B, C, and D. The seasonal flu viruses that humans face every winter season in the United States are caused by so-called human influenza A.
Type A influenza is generally considered worse than type B influenza. This is because the symptoms are often really more severe in type A influenza than in type B influenza. Type A influenza is more common than type B influenza.
For 2020-2021, trivalent (3-component) egg-based vaccines are recommended to contain:
CBC News: The National in Canada shows that nearly 70 per cent of Canada's COVID-19 patients are found in just three provinces: B.C., Alberta and Saskatchewan. The pandemic there has hospitals scrambling, and people gasping for breath.
Canada is set to announce vaccination mandate for all federal public servants.
Alberta resumes COVID contact tracing in schools.
The Manitoba government is allowing more people to get a third dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.
The province is suggesting a third dose for all health-care workers who have direct contact with patients in areas including hospitals, care homes, pharmacies and addictions treatment centres.
Manitoba is also allowing anyone who has received only the viral-vector vaccines, such as Oxford-AstraZeneca, to get a third dose with an mRNA vaccine such as Moderna or Pfizer-BioNTech.
Dr. Joss Reimer, medical lead of Manitoba's vaccination effort, outlined the changes in a memo to medical professionals and said the third dose should be given at least six months after the second.
CBC News: The National in Canada shows that Canada's hotel quarantine requirement ended in August, but we're just now getting a sense of how it was enforced. CBC News has learned that fines were unevenly handed out, depending on which city passengers landed in.
A "quarantine" is really a restriction on the movement of people, animals and goods which is intended to prevent the spread of disease or pests. It is often used in connection to disease and illness, preventing the movement of those who may have been exposed to a communicable disease, yet do not have a confirmed medical diagnosis.
"Medical isolation" is different. This is for those confirmed to be infected with a communicable disease are isolated from the healthy population.
Quarantine considerations are often an important aspect of border control.
Ethical and practical considerations certainly need to be considered when applying quarantine to people. Practice differs from country to country.
Global News in Canada shows the interesting news story.
As COVID-19 patients swamp intensive care units, Health Canada is reviewing the experimental pill molnupiravir, which claims to reduce the disease's worst outcomes early on.
According to drugmaker Merck, the twice a day antiviral pill reduced hospitalizations and deaths in COVID-19 patients by 50 per cent based on clinical trials. But the drug is not approved yet and still needs more review.
Jamie Mauracher looks at what we know and don't know about the drug, and how it may help ease the health system's burden.
So-called "Molnupiravir" is an experimental antiviral drug which is orally active and was developed for the treatment of influenza. It is a prodrug of the synthetic nucleoside derivative N4-hydroxycytidine, and exerts its antiviral action through introduction of copying errors during viral RNA replication.
Merck & Co., Inc. is an American multinational pharmaceutical company headquartered in Kenilworth, New Jersey. It is named after the Merck family, which set up Merck Group in Germany in 1668.
The stock price: MRK (NYSE) US$81.60 at Oct. 5, 2021.
CBC News: The National in Canada shows that the province of New Brunswick is fighting a rising tide of tragedy, as officials plead for people to get vaccinated and keep contacts down. Among the six COVID-19 deaths reported this weekend: a firefighter in his 30s.
COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations certainly continue to increase in New Brunswick. This province is implementing "circuit breaker measures." These new restrictions will last a minimum of 14 days in risk regions. "Circuit breaker" includes limiting contacts to a single household. The important restrictions will take effect at 6 p.m. on Friday for a minimum of 14 days.
The government also announced Tuesday that all government employees in parts I (civil service), II (education system), III (health-care system) and IV (Crown corporations), staff in long-term care facilities and staff and volunteers in schools and licensed early learning and child-care facilities must certainly be fully vaccinated.
The province is also reporting one COVID-19 related death and 90 new infections on Tuesday. The province currently has 782 active cases of COVID-19. There are 50 people in the hospital, 23 of which are in the ICU.
The following information is for country of Canada (Oct. 5, 2021):
CityNews on Youtube shows that a major oil spill is threatening wildlife off Southern California. Melissa Duggan on the quick race to clean up the moving slick.
An anchor hooking an oil pipeline may have caused the Southern California spill that spewed more than 100,000 gallons of oil into the Pacific Ocean. This is according to the federal Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration.
This disaster happened to the "Amplify Energy" operator. "The pipeline has essentially been pulled like a bow string. And so at its widest point is about 105 feet away from where it was. So it is kind of an almost a semicircle," Amplify Energy CEO Martyn Willsher said at a press conference Tuesday.
Earlier Tuesday, authorities said a 4,000-foot section of the pipeline was displaced laterally about 105 feet and had a 13-inch split that was likely the source of the spill.
The discovery explains the likely source of a spill, widely reported Saturday, of as much as 144,000 gallons of crude oil about 5 miles off the coast of Huntington Beach. The spill has shut down many beaches and damaged the environment.
The Unified Command said the National Response Center first received a report of an unknown sheen of unknown source on Friday evening.
A so-called "oil spill" is the release of a liquid petroleum hydrocarbon into the environment, especially the marine ecosystem, due to human activity, and is certainly a form of pollution. The term is usually given to marine oil spills, where oil is released into the ocean or coastal waters, but spills may also occur on land. Oil spills may be due to releases of crude oil from tankers, offshore platforms, drilling rigs and wells, as well as spills of refined petroleum products (such as gasoline, diesel) and their by-products, heavier fuels used by large ships such as bunker fuel, or really the spill of any oily refuse or waste oil.
Oil spills could get into the plumage of birds and the fur of mammals, reducing its insulating ability, and making them more vulnerable to temperature fluctuations and much less buoyant in the water.
Cleanup and recovery from an oil spill is difficult and depends upon many factors, including the certain type of oil spilled, the temperature of the water (affecting evaporation and biodegradation), and the types of shorelines and types of beaches involved.
Oil spills can have disastrous consequences for society. Oil spill accidents have initiated intense media attention and political uproar, bringing many together in a political struggle concerning government response to oil spills and what actions can best prevent them from again happening.
"Oil" is a very frequently used product. Many people search about an "oil change near me." Oil price depends on frequency of oil spills. Certain oil prices will change based on oil spills that happen.
CBC News in Canada shows that fifty-five % of small and medium-sized businesses in Canada are struggling to hire the workers they need, which is limiting growth and forcing businesses to delay or refuse new orders, according to a study released by the Business Development Bank of Canada.
Global News in Canada shows that with certain weeks to go until the United Nations climate summit in Scotland, Canada faces a huge task. David Akin reports on the role the country plays in finding the funds to help developing nations fight climate change, and the COP26 deadline.
Global News in Canada shows that it’s been 18 months since the COVID-19 pandemic began and six months since vaccines became available to the general public, yet only around 79 per cent of Canadians aged 12 and older are fully vaccinated. According to a Leger, many people feel Canadians who are not immunized are irresponsible and selfish. Global's Sharmeen Somani tells us why negativity towards unvaccinated Canadians is growing as we get closer to hitting the two year mark of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Global News in Canada shows that on Friday, Canadian ministers, followed by the country's top doctors, delivered an update on the country's COVID-19 situation and vaccine rollout, as Saskatchewan and Alberta face a surge in cases and strained health-care systems.
CityNews in Canada shows that Health Canada could get clinical trial data for Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for children as soon as next week. But as Caryn Ceolin reports, kids are not expected to get the shots for some time.
CityNews shows that this weekend marks the first that vaccine passports are mandatory in Ontario for indoor dining and other services. Maleeha Sheikh speaks with restaurant owners on the backlash received when trying to enforce the new rules.
Global News in Canada shows that "vaccine passports" are a reality in most provinces across Canada, and are now required in British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario, and Quebec.
But with those mandates now in place, they also continue to encounter anger by some Canadians, and businesses are already bearing the brunt of threats and harassment from people resisting requirements. In one case in Toronto, police arrested two people after anti-vaccine passport protestors tried to storm the city's biggest shopping centre.
As Jamie Mauracher reports, some establishments say such aggressive behaviour is also pushing other patrons away.
Global News in Canada shows that reinforcements are being sent to Alberta, as the Canadian military prepares to deploy in the province to help with its dire COVID-19 crisis. But as Heather Yourex-West reports, front-line doctors say the incoming federal help may not be enough to contain the surge.
How long does COVID-19 vaccine protection last? It's a question scientists have been asking since the vaccines were first approved for use.
Now, a study suggests the protection from the Pfizer vaccine in preventing infection may run out sooner than expected. After six months, 46 people tested showed greatly reduced antibodies.
As Aaron McArthur reports, if those findings are verified in a larger study group, it could prompt a major rethink about COVID-19 booster shots.
Global News: Global National in Canada explains that Facebook went offline as it faced heat for ethics.
Global News shows that Facebook, Inc.'s family of popular platforms, Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, all went offline for hours on Monday, causing disruptions around the world. As Mike Armstrong reports, the outage came after a whistleblower raised red flags about the company putting profits over safety.
(On October 4, 2021) Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp certainly slowly come back online.
Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are coming back online Monday night after experiencing global outages throughout the time of the day.
It seems that the website service resumed for some users at around 6 p.m. EDT. The unexpected outages left many people around the world unable to communicate on the platforms for more than six hours.
According to the so-called website DownDetector, users began reporting outage issues at around 11:20 a.m. EDT.
"Downdetector" is really an online platform that provides users with real-time information about the status (for example: offline or online) of various websites and services.
Facebook Company explained the reasons in an update late Monday night stating that configuration changes on the backbone routers that co-ordinate network traffic between the company's data centres was the cause of the outage. The changes disrupted communication between the data centres, which unfortunately halted online services.
Facebook Company also said, "We also have no evidence that user data was compromised as a result of this downtime."
Facebook shares fell 4.9 % Monday, down to US$326.23.
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