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Ottawa parent Vanessa House Milley says pandemic schooling this year has been grim for her two daughters attending Nepean High School with part-time classes and shortened semesters.
“High-achieving students who usually enjoy school, and who regularly participate in sports and clubs, they are now enduring the year, counting down the days until the summer, and hoping to go back to normal school in the fall,” wrote House Milley in an online petition that has been signed by more than 1,100 people in the last three days.
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Posted: Dec 10, 2020 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: December 10, 2020
Gathering with friends and family outside your household risks setting the city back in its efforts against the spread of COVID-19, public health experts say.(Shutterstock / Syda Productions)
Public health experts have some straightforward advice for people planning to travel over the holidays: don t.
The warning follows a poll by Abacus Data suggesting 33 per cent of Canadians plan to get together with friends or family outside their households, and 13 per cent are set to travel out of province to do it.
Ottawa has been bucking the provincial pandemic trend by keeping case numbers relatively low, but that will change if people gather over the coming holidays, said Earl Brown, professor emeritus of virology at the University of Ottawa.