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Opinion: Want to save lives and the economy? We need mandatory masks laws

Published May 13, 2020

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Published by: Calgary Herald
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By Joe Vipond

Mandatory public masking has been saving lives and leading to an earlier (and safer) reopening of societies around the world. Despite this, Canadian officials have been reticent to support this cheap, effective measure.

As of May 12, 13 U.S. states, including Illinois, New York and Massachusetts, and 84 countries, including Israel, Germany, Austria, Czechia and France, have laws mandating public masking. And zero Canadian jurisdictions.

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Topic: OntarioView all posts for the topic: Ontario

Roughly 55 million N95 masks in Ontario expired before coronavirus hit

Published March 9, 2020

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Published by: Global News / Reuters
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By Allison Martell, Moira Warburton

Millions of face masks stockpiled by Ontario in the aftermath of the SARS outbreak to protect healthcare workers during a future epidemic have expired, according to provincial officials and documents, raising questions about the readiness of Canada’s most populous province to deal with the spreading coronavirus.

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