WINNIPEG For over a year, COVID-19 has dominated headlines and impacted almost every facet of daily life around the world. The virus’s worldwide impact is still so large one might forget COVID-19 s relatively humble origins. It all started at the tail end of 2019, when more than forty people in Wuhan City, China, came down with a mysterious respiratory illness. At the time, even experts couldn’t see this was the start of a global pandemic. “When I first heard about the disease, I thought, ‘Oh, it’s over in Wuhan, China, influenzas pop up there all the time, it’s densely populated, this is going to be a problem for somewhere else,’” said epidemiologist and associate professor at the University of Ottawa Raywat Deonandan, “I was stupid that way, selfish and stupid, briefly.”
The number of retail investors trading international equities doubled in the 2020 year, with a research firm reporting a greater choice across newer investment platforms and the performance of US sto
WINNIPEG An increase in amber light timing may be a factor in a significant reduction in red light tickets at two Winnipeg intersections, according to a city councillor who heads up the city’s infrastructure and public works committee. From October through to December 2020, red light tickets at Bishop Grandin Boulevard and River Road dropped compared to the same timeframe in 2019 from 357 to 50 tickets. At Lagimodiere and Grassie Boulevard, the number of tickets plunged from 280 to 44. “It looks to be that tickets are dropping,” said Coun. Matt Allard (St. Boniface). “Certainly, I think the indication is there that this change of policy has worked.”
Mars This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. The COVID pandemic will redefine and evolve how, when, and where we work, Mars Grant Reid said.
Mars aims to offer both flexibility and an office where people genuinely like one another.
Reid said Mars is also planning to be more judicious when it comes to travel.
As people return to airplanes and office jobs, work is looking different from how it did in 2019. There is no doubt, the experience of the COVID pandemic will redefine and evolve how, when, and where we work, Grant Reid, Mars CEO, told Insider in a recent email interview.