Important questions about the Ontario Back-to-School Plan
Returning to school is imminent for Ontario students, however, vital elements of what the COVID-19 pandemic will look like remains unresolved. There are many questions left about the province’s $309 million plan to reopen K-12 schools this fall, with new protocols to be implemented and many new employees, as well as teachers, school nurses and guards to be recruited, trained and deployed.
A remarkable detail of the plan is a $50 million commitment to rent up to 500 public fitness nurses in schools. But until mid-August, that procedure is still in the “retirement” stage, Prime Minister Doug Ford said Wednesday. According to Doris Grinspun, executive director of the Ontario Registered Nurses Association, the main points on who rents those nurses and where they will be integrated. “We want to be prepared for an epidemic in a school. We will have to be prepared to prevent an epidemic from them,” said Grinspun, who is among those who consult with the province about this component of the plan.
Another vital detail of Ontario’s plan is $75 million to rent to more than 900 additional custodians and purchase bleaching products. But that doesn’t go far enough, says Laura Walton, chairwoman of the Ontario School Board’s (OSBCU) Union Council, which represents 55,000 school workers, adding guards and blank staff. “It’s not enough for the amount of blanks we want to make for our students,” Walton said, adding that the challenge of a lack of staff to quit and keep Ontario’s public schools a constant factor and contract nepasses had been raised last year.
Since the province announced its resolve to maintain elementary elegance sizes at pre-COVID levels, fitness officials, parents and educators have reiterated the call for drastic discounts to facilitate physical distance in the hall of elegance, writes CBC’s Jessica Wong. But with just a few weeks to start the school year, significant relief in sizes of elegance only in Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board (HWDSB) elementary schools would be a complex company, according to Peter Sovran, backing the board. school chair. making group plans. According to an updated HWDSB report released Monday, 15 smart students would require about 900 more teachers at a cost of approximately $76 million. To date, the province has committed $30 million to rent more teachers in Ontario.
Amid constant complaints about Ontario’s back-to-school plan, Ford and Education Minister Stephen Lecce discussed the need for flexibility to remain “receptive” to COVID-19 situations throughout the province. Lecce announced several more measures for schooling in the province this afternoon. You can locate the latest data here.
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Agriculture Minister Announces Details of $50 Million Program to Direct Food Surpluses to Needy
Federal Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau today announced the main points of a $50 million program that will redirect surplus perishable food to other vulnerable people during the pandemic. On one occasion in Sainte-Hyacinthe, Quebec, Bibeau announced 8 partners for the food surplus rescue program and the types of products to be distributed. CoVID-19 had had a significant effect on the food security of Canadians.
Bibeau said 12 million kilograms of food that would otherwise have been wasted, adding a million new eggs, would pass to families. Other products to be redistributed come with potatoes, pike perch, poultry and turkey. Surplus fruits, vegetables, meats and seafood were created by the COVID-19 crisis ending much of the restaurant and hospitality industry, leaving manufacturers with unprecedented surpluses. Efforts partners come with Second Harvest and Food Banks Canada, and will come with over a hundred food corporations and nonprofits.
The program, first announced in May with the opening of programs the following month, aimed to reduce food waste and help farmers recover production costs. Statistics Canada reported that one in seven Canadians lives in a family where there was a lack of food confidence during an era of a month’s pandemic. While some farmers are experiencing massive surpluses of new products, food security experts have said that pandemic disorders, such as closing borders restricting the movement of foreign agricultural workers, shipping bottlenecks, and panic at grocery outlets, can also contribute to emerging food prices. and shortage of safe products.
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Misconceptions about the effectiveness and confidentiality of Canada’s COVID alert application persist
So far, there are few tactics to measure whether the COVID alert application has been effective, however, this turns out to be the value of the software’s built-in privacy measures. At this point, it’s practically to know if the app prevented someone from contracting COVID-19. Simply put, “he’s looking to measure anything that didn’t happen,” said Lucie Abeler-Durner, clinical director of the Nuffield Department of Medicine at Oxford University in Britain. He said it was a recurring challenge in considering preventive interventions of public fitness.
When an app user is diagnosed in Ontario, they get a unique code to enter, which then alerts other people the user has recently been in close contact with. The feature is based on a framework developed jointly through Apple and Google. To ensure greater privacy, knowledge is stored on individual devices, not on a central server. The problem is that there is no way to know how many users have won an exposure notification. In addition, a user does not know when, where and with whom a possible exposure has occurred, so it is highly unlikely that it is a real risk or the result of a problem. The alert would inspire the user to seek the recommendation of provincial public officials of physical fitness.
Andrew Urbaczewski, associate professor of business and analytical data at the University of Denver who tested the effectiveness of similar programs in various countries, highlighted 3 signs of success: the download rate of the application among the population, his ability to how exposure to supply should be. notifications and the willingness of its users to stick to public fitness recommendations in case of contact with the virus. An Ontario government spokesman showed CBC News Wednesday that COVID Alert had been downloaded nearly 1.9 million times, “and the vast majority of those downloads are expected to come from Ontario.” Although the app is available throughout Canada, so far it has only been incorporated into Ontario’s health care system, making it virtually dead in the rest of the country at this time.
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Floridans who promoted the cocktail of bleach in opposition to COVID-19 arrested in Colombia
Colombian officials say they arrested two Florida men wanted in the United States for illegally promoting a bleach-like chemical as a miracle cure for the new coronavirus and other diseases. The Colombian prosecutor’s office said Tuesday that Mark and Joseph Grennon had been arrested on the beach in the city of Santa Marta and were sending their “miracle mineral solution” – chlorine dioxide – to consumers in the United States, Colombia and Africa.
Mark Grenon is the archbishop of Genesis II Church of Health and Healing, founded in Bradenton, Florida, which focuses on the poisonous chemist as an intentional sacrament that she believes can cure a wide variety of diseases ranging from cancer to autism and malaria and now COVID-19. A federal ruling in Miami ordered the self-proclaimed church in April to avoid selling the substance, but the order to pass the sentence was ignored. Men have been selling the substance for several years and are selling it as an antidote to a number of physical disorders and conditions, which adds autism. CBC’s Fifth Estate found in a 2016 investigation that it had been sold in Canada despite Canadian fitness warnings, and a B.C. the type was convicted two years later under the Food and Drug Act for marketing, packaging and selling MMS.
According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, when the solution sold through Grenon is ingested, it becomes a bleach that is sometimes used for things like the remedy of textiles, commercial water, pulp and paper. Authorities said it could be fatal or cause harmful side effects, such as severe vomiting or diarrhea or life-threatening low blood pressure. The FDA said in a press release last August that “ingestion of these products is equivalent to drinking bleach. Consumers deserve not to use these products and parents deserve not to give them to their children for any reason.” The FDA has not approved the solution for any health-related use.
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Because Alberta’s COVID-19 numbers can be so high elsewhere
Alberta reported a steady increase with the number of COVID-19 cases consistent with the population for much of the pandemic compared to the rest of Canada. Today, Alberta, with a population of approximately 4.4 million, has more active instances than Ontario, with a population of 14.6 million. But why? Some other points could be this.
Craig Jenne, an infectious disease expert at the University of Calgary, said age is probably one of the reasons Alberta has noticed more cases since the province eased restrictions. “We have a lower average age here, which means there are more people, for example, jobs that can disclose them,” he said. “But there are also more people who are likely to share restaurants, pubs and bars than in other provinces.” Statistics Canada estimates that the average age in Alberta in 2019 is 37.1 years, below the national median of 40.8 and well below some of the oldest provinces.
Alberta’s upward coherence with figures cannot be ruled out simply by attributing it to upward coherence with COVID-19’s capita tests than in all other Provinces of Ontario. Jenne noted hospitalization rates in Alberta, which are located just after Quebec, as well as a maximum positive effects rate compared to the administered tests. Alberta made the most of Canada in reopening its economy from May on, which may also be a factor, Jenne said. He predicted that other jurisdictions could see their numbers increasing in the coming weeks. “Now, the good news is that it turns out it’s stabilizing and we can hold on to that point with enough security,” Jenne said.
Cross-border couples drastic measures to be together
The federal government imposed restrictions on foreigners when the pandemic ended in March. However, the border with Canada is not completely closed. Immediate family, addition of spouses, and non-unusual spouses may pass while quarantined for 14 days after returning home. But this is not the case for unmarried couples who do not meet the definition of the non-unusual law. Travel restrictions also make it difficult for couples running anywhere on the border to come and go.
Some couples are contemplating drastic steps to be together. Here’s an example: Monchai Chuaychoo and Amber Michiels met a few weeks before the pandemic ended. And after some dates, Chuaychoo, who lives in Buffalo, New York, picked up some of his belongings and quarantined Michiels and his five-year-old daughter in Cambridge, Ontario. But when Monchai returned to the United States in July for a doctor’s appointment, he was unable to return to Canada across the border in Buffalo. “It’s hard for either of us, moreover, it’s hard for my daughter,” Michiels said.
Chuaychoo said the border guard had told him that he was not thought of as a quick family, but that a marriage license would replace that. Since Canadians can travel to the United States, the couple made the decision to fly to Las Vegas this weekend to get married. “It wasn’t our goal to fly to Las Vegas and get married at all,” Michiels said. “We would have married eventually, but not in the same way.”
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