TORONTO – Infinitive waiting to renew passports, endless queues at the airport, suddenly canceled flights: the conditions are all there for a summer to … forget. Those who wanted to return to travel, after two years of “confinement”, are in fact dealing with the harsh reality of the total disorganization of the Canadian bureaucracy. (more…)
TORONTO – Booking the booster dose of the Covid-19 vaccine has become a titanic undertaking. At least in Ontario. Since yesterday all the adults in the province who received the second dose at least three months ago can do the third dose but most of those who have tried to book online on the government portal, have been speechless: there are no places in January, the recall will be possible to do it starting from February.
BEIJING – A nightmare that seemed over and that instead returns. China, where it all began, is trembling with the coronavirus and Wuhan, the symbolic city of Covid-19, is reviewing the lockdown, albeit partial and limited to an area, after the dramatic total blockade experienced between the end of January and 8 April 2020, which so impressed the rest of the world still free (at the time, and for a while …) from the virus. (more…)
Late last month, Alberta’s Minister of Education Adriana LaGrange, released a draft of her new curriculum for Kindergarten to Grade 6. Very shortly after, the curriculum was opposed by many groups and parents. (more…)