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Residents abandoned to a violent occupation during ‘Freedom Convoy’: Report

Published January 30, 2023

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Published by: CBC News
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People who live and work in downtown Ottawa endured several weeks of widespread human rights abuse, amidst a climate of threats, fear, sexual harassment and intimidation marked by racism, misogyny, antisemitism, Islamophobia, homophobia, transphobia, and other expressions of hate and intolerance.

While convoy organizers claimed there was diversity among the participants and supporters, and that was true to a limited extent, it is clear that the overwhelming majority of people involved in the protests were white males.

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Topic: antisemitismView all posts for the topic: antisemitism

Antisemitism surges during pandemic

Published January 26, 2023

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Published by: The Whig Standard
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By Geoffrey P. Johnston

“International Holocaust Remembrance Day is important to recognize, because it commemorates arguably the worst-case scenario for a liberal democracy,” declared Daniel Panneton, director of allyship and community engagement at the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies.

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Topic: OntarioView all posts for the topic: Ontario

‘Gross negligence’: Judge gives go-ahead to COVID-deaths lawsuit against Ontario

Published January 9, 2023

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Published by: National Post
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By Tom Blackwell

Governments saw broad immunity against COVID civil suits, but the class-action suit for deaths in nursing homes could have an impact throughout the country.

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Topic: immune systemView all posts for the topic: immune system

Immune systems seriously weakened by COVID

Published December 20, 2022

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Published by: Waterloo Region Record
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By Terry Pender

Emergency wards remain busy two years after the first COVID-19 vaccines arrived in Ontario in part because the virus depletes the body’s supply of T-cells, leaving young and old alike vulnerable to secondary infections, says a University of Waterloo immunologist.

T-cells are the front-line soldiers of the immune system, and the number of T-cells typically increases when the body is fighting off an infection, said Barb Katzenback, who studies viruses.

“Individuals who are infected with COVID have many fewer T-cells,” said Katzenback. “That’s a problem for us because T-cells are a really important part of our immune system that helps defend us against infection.”

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Topic: OmicronView all posts for the topic: Omicron

Omicron deadlier for Ontario seniors than previous two waves combined

Published July 3, 2022

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Published by: Toronto Star
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By Kenyon Wallace, Megan Ogilvie, May Warren

Even as Ontario began reopening its economy and returning to some semblance of normalcy this year, COVID-19 was wreaking havoc on the lives of older residents — killing them at higher rates than the past two waves, new data shows.

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Anti-vaccine protest in Canada spurs outrage

Published February 1, 2022

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Published by: The Associated Press
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By Rob Gillies

In a scene at odds with Canadians’ reputation for niceness and rule-following, thousands of protesters railing against vaccine mandates and other COVID-19 restrictions descended on the capital over the weekend, deliberately blocking traffic around Parliament Hill.

Some urinated and parked on the National War Memorial. One danced on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. A number carried signs and flags with swastikas.

In the aftermath of Canada’s biggest pandemic protest to date, the demonstrators have found little sympathy in a country where more than 80% are vaccinated. Many people were outraged by some of the crude behavior.

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Citing Omicron’s airborne ‘potential’, Ontario hospitals, LTC homes will now use N95 respirators with COVID patients

Published December 16, 2021

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Published by: Toronto Star
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By Ed Tubb

Ontario health officials are changing a key recommendation on the use of hospital personal protective equipment (PPE) in response to the “potential” that the highly-transmissible Omicron variant can spread at a distance through the air.

Health-care workers providing care to a “suspected or confirmed” COVID-19 patient in hospitals, long-term-care homes, or in a home-care situation will now be required to also use a “fit-tested, seal-checked N95 respirator,” according to interim guidance issued by Public Health Ontario Wednesday.

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Almonte hospital workers file grievance to access N95 masks

Published August 30, 2020

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Published by: Ottawa Citizen
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By Andrew Duffy

One of the country’s top arbitrators has been asked to settle a pandemic-related grievance filed by Almonte General Hospital health care workers, who want N95 respirators made available to them.

The hospital now issues N95 masks only to staff involved in aerosol-generating medical procedures, such as intubations.

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Ontario, Alberta change policy limiting N95 masks as health-care workers demand greater access

Published April 2, 2020

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Published by: The Globe and Mail
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By Carly Weeks

At least two provinces have bowed to union pressure to let some health professionals use specialized respirator face masks when treating COVID-19 patients, sparking concern among infection-control experts this will undermine health workers’ trust in their advice.

Alberta and Ontario have reached agreements with unions to allow some health-care workers to use N95 respirator masks if they feel it is necessary. Nova Scotia’s largest nursing union is now calling on provincial officials to do the same.

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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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