Tag: risk

Omicron threat, risk of a new lockdown

TORONTO – The risk of a new lockdown is increasingly real in Ontario. The threat posed by the new Omicron variant has prompted the provincial government to adopt some restrictions that they had already seen during the first three waves of the pandemic, but the Canadian scientific community believes that these measures are too bland to hope to contain the increase in infections. 

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Election campaign with the Omicron risk and future uncertainty

TORONTO – There are five months to the provincial vote, but in Ontario the election campaign has already begun and continues unabated. The government led by Prime Minister Doug Ford in recent days has given way to the Scientific Technical Committee and Chief Medical Officer Kieran Moore and has started a chain ad campaign that have so much the flavor of electoral promises.  (more…)

TCDSB, children’s health at risk

TORONTO – In the midst of a thousand unknowns in a week in Ontario schools reopen. The uncertainty about what this school year will be weighs on parents, children, teachers, school staff. Online or face-to-face lessons, protocols – still unclear – to follow, vaccinations, a wave of Covid, the fourth, which generates anxiety and now also the problem of federal elections.  (more…)