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This article was posted january 25th 2021

The first case of covid in canada was reported january 25th 2020 a year ago today

The patient was a man in his 50s he is not named

Since then we have had thousands of new cases.

Returning flights were cancelled and millions of people went into a lock down

Schools got shut down

Everyone got to get cool covid haircuts

Christmas was in lockdown last year

Social distancing was put into place

Did you have a cool covid haircut? if so what was it?

A year of coronavirus in Canada: A look back at what we’ve faced during the pandemic | CBC News

This article was posted january 20th

Most people fish out of a small round hole. canadian teens, best friends koltyn piller and rylan parrot took it to the next level and made a big square hole to fish in

They made a tik tok where you can see rylan jumping into the water. this tik tok now has over 16 million views and over 3 million likes.

“I thought it’d get a couple thousand views maybe” Piller said. 

“We love fishing we have been fishing together since we were kids” Parrott said.

They said the purpose of their video was to show people their love for fishing they never expected the video to blow up

Would you jump in the freezing water if you had the chance why/why not?

Sask. best friends take ice fishing to the next level in TikTok video with over 16M views | CT

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This article was posted January 4th 2021

After beating Russia 5-0 Canada moves on to defend their world junior hockey championship

Last year Canada played russia in the finals it was a close game ending 4-3 victory for Canada

This year Canada dominated russia from the start of the game and beat them 5-0 with Russia’s one goal being called off

Alex Newhook returned from being injured to score 59 seconds into the game

He missed the earlier games because of an injury he came back to score on his first shift getting his 3rd goal of the tournament

Who do you think is going to win the world juniors?

https://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/canada-russia-world-junior-semifinal-recap-1.5861375

This article was posted dec 10th 2020

Canada has allowed doctors and health care workers to start using mushrooms for treatment.

“This is not a small step. This is a seismic step” said Dr. Sean O’Sullivan a doctor in ontario.

These can only be used for medical cases and sometimes personal training

This will allow health professionals that want to use mushrooms to help people to use them with permission of the government

Would you want to be treated with mushrooms? why/why not?

Some doctors, therapists get Health Canada permission to use magic mushrooms | CBC News

This article was posted december 8th 2020

Elon Musk has made a new satellite internet for canadians. it is a very fast internet and it is a very very expensive internet option.

He hopes the faster internet will remove barriers to access virtual healthcare services and education

“It’s doing everything that people are asking it to do” said David Brown, CEO of FSET Information Technology in Kenora ont.

Buying the gear to setup the internet is $649 plus taxes thats just the start becasue you need to pay monthly payments they haven’t said how much that will be yet

would you want you parents to get this internet? why/why not?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/starlink-internet-beta-testing-in-canada-1.5831765

This was posted November 24th

As a way to keep coyotes wild in Edmonton people are starting to use tennis balls and tennis rackets to scare them away

People are informed to try to scare the animals away with loud noises. If that doesn’t work they are to hit tennis balls at them

We are filling tennis balls with sand to make them the weight of baseballs. Anyone can learn to throw a baseball with quite a bit of accuracy,” said biologist Colleen Cassady St. Clair.

Umbrellas may also be deployed. Umbrellas, think about how weird those are to an animal,” she said.

Similar scare tactics have been used on bears living in national parks and other protected areas for more than two decades St. Clair said. While any kind of noise will do the trick she prefers to throw balls, charge at the animal and yell “bad coyote.”

What would you do if there was a coyote in your yard?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/edmonton-urban-coyote-project-patrols-1.5810391

This article was posted november 12th

A twelve year old boy was shot in toronto while walking with his mom. He was close to a shooting that injured three other people a bullet missed and hit the kid.

He made it to the hospital but didnt make it he died earlier this week the police said

There was two cars at the shooting one car someone got out and shot multiple rounds at the other car

When officers arrived they found a 12 year old boy who was struck by a bullet while he was walking with his mom. James Ramer the chief of police said

The boy was rushed to the hospital as soon as possible but sadly he didnt make it.

The three teens that were injured got released from the hospital and they are still living today.

What are your thoughts on this situation does it annoy you that the kids that were involved in the shooting are alive but an innocent 12 year old boy died?

https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/twelve-year-old-boy-struck-by-gunfire-in-quadruple-toronto-shooting-dies-in-hospital-1.5185909

This article was posted november 11th

When scientists found the first nest in B.C they discovered about 500 specimens living in it 200 of them being queens

The queens can all go and start their own nests. so that means if they didn’t find that and destroy that there could have been 200 more nests with hundreds of Murder Hornets in them

“we got there just in the nick of time” said Sven-Erick Spichiger an entomologist leading the fight to kill these hornets

Scientist think other nests already exist and say its impossible to know if any of the queens escaped that nest and made more.

Whats your thoughts on the murder hornets? did you even know they existed?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/murder-hornet-nest-washington-bc-200-queens-1.5798631

Posted November 3 2020

Chief public health officer Dr. Theresa Tam made the recommendation during her bi-weekly pandemic briefing in Ottawa Tuesday.

“To improve the level of protection that can be provided by non-medical masks or face coverings, we are recommending that you consider a three-layer nonmedical mask” she said

According to the recently updated guidelines two layers of the mask should be a really thick material and the middle layer should be a filter-type fabric.

“We are not saying you should throw everything that you have,” said Tam. She just recommends that we add a filtering layer.

She also urged Canadians to wear well-fitted masks that cover the nose, mouth, and chin without leaving gaps

Whats your opinion on the three-layer mask?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/three-layer-mask-tam-1.5787946

This article was posted oct 30th

Earlier this year in Ontario there was between 20 and 60 deaths per day my mid-may there was nearly 2000 Ontario people dead

Now that the second wave is hitting and the experts know a little bit the daily deaths have been down to between 1 to 10

“There is a definite trend towards improvement, but with a caveat” Dr. Nathan Stall told cbc news

There has also been an increase in deaths in long term care homes

Someone who gets covid right now is way more likely to survive it than someone who got it in the spring

In the week over half of the cases were among people under 40 years old

Deonandan says that covid has a “lagging issue” meaning it takes time to develop and get worse and then spread from younger to older populations

Are you scared of covid why or why not?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-covid-19-deaths-2nd-wave-1.5782659