OTTAWA In a Greely neighbourhood, Derek Bowker is a keeper of the frozen pond where locals typically skate and play shinny. As Bowker surveys the ice, on foot, he points out the poor condition of the surface
. Man, the rink’s in bad shape. This is going to take a lot of flooding to fix it up, Bowker says. I guess no one’s really using it right now, with COVID and stuff. The ice, like this past year for Bowker, has been rough; the pandemic not the only reason. What happened to him is pretty severe because it completely changed his life, says Jennifer Eberts, Bowker’s wife of almost 13 years.
Opinion: It’s important for residents to know their rights during Ontario’s lockdown
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Ensuring we keep up accountability of those of authority is important
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, the Ontario government issued a province-wide state of emergency beginning on December 26, 2020 and since then, it has been extended to the lockdown we are currently in with no designated end date.
This means that people are told to not leave their homes unless for essential services, such as grocery shopping, essential work, exercise, etc. But this leads to the question of accountability, specifically, how is such a broad order being enforced? Countries like Italy near the beginning of the pandemic had a legal form for people to book times to leave their homes, but we’re not seeing any of that.
The federal government has approved an Ottawa company s made-in-Canada rapid COVID-19 test, Health Canada confirmed Saturday as the nation s top doctor warned the virus s impact on the health-care system showed no signs of abating.
The test developed by Spartan Bioscience is performed by a health-care professional and provides on-site results within an hour, a spokeswoman for the federal agency said.
Spartan bills the test as the first truly mobile, rapid PCR test for COVID-19 for the Canadian market. The Spartan system will be able to provide quality results to remote communities, industries and settings with limited lab access, helping relieve the burden on overwhelmed healthcare facilities, the company said in a news release Saturday.
(CP) TORONTO – The federal government has approved an Ottawa company’s made-in-Canada rapid COVID-19 test, Health Canada confirmed Saturday as the nation’s top doctor warned the virus’s impact on the health-care system showed no signs of abating.
The test developed by Spartan Bioscience is performed by a health-care professional and provides on-site results within an hour, a spokeswoman for the federal agency said.
Spartan bills the test as the first “truly mobile, rapid PCR test for COVID-19 for the Canadian market.”
“The Spartan system will be able to provide quality results to remote communities, industries and settings with limited lab access, helping relieve the burden on overwhelmed healthcare facilities,” the company said in a news release Saturday.