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For the third year in a row, there are no official celebrations for Bermuda Day at the U of C
The University of Calgary was photographed on July 7, 2021. Photo by Azin Ghaffari / Postmedia Undergraduate students at the University of Calgary will mark the last day of class on Tuesday, but it will come without a long tradition. For the third year in a row, the campus will not be hosting Bermuda Day celebrations, after its student union announced last month that it would not hold its annual event, citing concerns about the spread of COVID-19. BSD has been part of the U of C campus since 1960, when freshman Alan Arthur wrote, “Tomorrow is Bermuda Shorts Day. “Everyone wears Bermuda shorts” on a bulletin board, hoping to fight the stigma around men wearing shorts. It quickly became a tradition on campus, transforming it into a beloved, alcohol-laden institution over the intervening decades.
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The university’s student union has hosted the event since 1989, a move made in an effort to curb some of the day’s disrespect at a unique campus party. Read more.
Ontario City Councilman loses day job because he says ‘crisis day’ awaits vaccine advocates
One complainant said Coun. Daryl Herlick’s comments at a Perth County Council meeting on November 4, 2021, were offensive, inappropriate, and offensive, especially to non-Christians. Photo from Beacon Herald files The Perth County Council formally reprimanded the Earl. Daryl Herlick tied him up for a day after he was found to have violated the City Council Code of Conduct for the second time in just over a year. Dasha Peregudova, a labor lawyer at Toronto-based Aird Berlis Law Firm, and Perth County Integrity Commissioner presented a report during a regular board meeting Thursday. The results of the company’s third-party investigation into a formal complaint against Herlick came after comments he made during a discussion on enforcing a mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy for non-union county employees.
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According to the report, Herlick said that any of his fellow counselors who advocated such a vaccination order would face punishment in the afterlife and on an “account” or “day of judgment” as described by the Christian faith. Read more.
Amid sixth wave, Ontario top doctor says mandatory mask will not be restored now
Ontario Chief Medical Officer Kieran Moore, presented on March 9, 2022, says COVID-19 trends are on the rise and it is clear that Ontario is in a sixth wave guided by variant BA.2. Photo by Nathan Denette / The Canadian Press Ontario is expanding its suitability for COVID-19 PCR testing and antiviral therapy in the midst of a sixth wave, but the province’s top doctor says a broad mask order will not be restored at this time. The county says anyone aged 70 and over, people aged 60 and over with less than three doses of COVID-19 and people 18 and older with less than three doses of vaccine and at least one risk factor, such as a chronic medical condition, can now tested and evaluated for treatment.
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The chief medical officer in charge of Dr. Kieran Moore says COVID-19 trends are rising and it is clear that Ontario is on a sixth wave guided by variant BA.2 and says it will likely continue for several more weeks. Read more.
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A COVID-19 information sign appears outside Foothills Medical Center in Calgary. Photo by Gavin Young / Postmedia
Dual transmission of COVID is more common as immunity decreases
A person compresses a drop of test solution into a COVID-19 rapid antigen testing device. Photo by Luke Hendry / Postmedia Network Christine Enns said she was shocked when a quick test showed she tested positive for COVID-19. Enns, who received two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine and a booster vaccine, already had the virus in early February and believed that re-infection was rare. “I started feeling sick three or four days ago thinking, ‘I feel like COVID.’ I did five tests and… today it came out positive “, said the owner of the bakery on Friday from her house in Warren, Mba., About 45 kilometers north of Winnipeg.
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“It was a surprise to me because of all the things I put in to not get it. “Now that I’ve had it twice, I do not feel so invincible.” Re-infection of COVID-19 was considered unusual, but then came the Omicron variant. “Because Omicron is so different, a previous infection does not protect you,” said Saskatchewan Chief Medical Officer Dr Saqib Shahab last week. He said public health data suggest that up to 10% of infected Canadians who recently had BA.2 – a subtype of Omicron – previously had BA.1 or a previous infection, such as the Delta variant. This is in line with recent studies in the UK suggesting that 10% of reported cases are re-infections. Read more.
Man convicted of conspiracy to murder at Alberta border goes straight to trial
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A convoy of trucks blocks the freeway at the U.S. border crossing at Coutts on Jan. 31. Photo: Jeff McIntosh / The Canadian Press One of the four men accused of conspiracy to commit murder at a border crossing in southern Alberta wants to go straight to trial. A lawyer for Christopher Lysak told a Lethbridge judge he waived his right to a preliminary hearing and chose to be tried by a jury. Lysak, along with Chris Carbert, Anthony Olienick and Jerry Morin, will return to Lethbridge on April 25. Read more.
WHO says it is analyzing two new variants of Omicron COVID
The World Health Organization announced Monday that it is monitoring several dozen cases of two new subtypes of the highly contagious coronavirus strain Omicron to assess whether they are more contagious or dangerous. It has added BA.4 and BA.5, sister variants of the original BA.1 Omicron variant, to its watchlist. It already tracks BA.1 and BA.2 – now globally dominant – as well as BA.1.1 and BA.3.
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The WHO said it had begun monitoring them because of “additional mutations that need to be further studied to understand their impact on the immune system’s escape potential”. Viruses are constantly mutating, but only certain mutations affect their ability to spread or prevent previous immunity from vaccination or infection or the severity of the disease they cause. For example, BA.2 now accounts for almost 94% of all sequence cases and is more contagious than its siblings, but evidence to date suggests it is less likely to cause serious illness. Only a few dozen cases of BA.4 and BA.5 have been reported in the global GISAID database, according to the WHO. Read more.
Queen Elizabeth says COVID left a “very tired and exhausted”
Queen Elizabeth speaks during a video call on April 6. Photo from Buckingham Palace via AP Queen Elizabeth said COVID-19 had left a “very tired and exhausted” person talking to health workers and a former patient about her own experience of “this horrible pandemic”.
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The 95-year-old monarch tested positive for COVID in February and was reported to have mild cold-like symptoms. Later he returned to light obligations. The Queen, who is the patron saint of London Royal Hospital, spoke in a video call to the National Health Service staff at the hospital who had helped build and operate a 155-bed unit to deal with an increase in patients in need of breathing assistance. Her conversation with the staff took place as she marked the official opening of the Queen Elizabeth Unit of the hospital. “It’s amazing, isn’t it, what can be done when needed?” said in comments posted by Buckingham Palace late Sunday. Read more. Sunday
‘A huge rift’: COVID-19 response strains relations in northern Alberta
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Crystal McAteer, Mayor of the High Level Town, Alberta, June 19, 2019. Photo: LARRY WONG / POSTMEDIA COME MACENZY, ALBERTA – The mayor of High Level, a town in the northwest corner of Alberta, says she has not spoken to the county government for several weeks. “We are not in the other’s throat, but it is a very alienated relationship,” says Crystal McAteer. “There is a fracture between us. “We already had problems, but it has come to the fore in the last two years.” Public health measures to try to limit the spread of COVID-19 have created a sharp gap in Mackenzie County, the least vaccinated area in Alberta. Residents and local leaders say that friendships are over, disagreements have broken out …
