Don’t understand why Lecce and @fordnation need to operate at the board level. If they could establish a high/low risk plan for high school reopening based on geography, surely they could have *within* the TDSB for K-8. @TOPublicHealth has already demonstrated COVID inequities.
We know the hardest hit areas in Toronto and those less heavily affected. We know which schools exist in those respective areas. Why can’t we admit that all schools aren’t equal in the TDSB and localize the approach to #SchoolReopening? #edutwitter#covidontario
Also, publicly release data on max class sizes above grade 3 per school. It’s relevant to the Sick Kids guidance, there are no hard caps but rather board averages, and anecdotally high income/low density areas obscure high class sizes in lower income/high density school zones.
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It seems Air Canada has managed to convince the federal government to employ rapid testing as an opt out of quarantine on the basis of preliminary results from a massively flawed study.
First, Australia and New Zealand remain the gold standards for the “Western world” in regards to COVID response. Both had mandatory hotel (not home w/relatives) quarantine at port of arrival, before going anywhere, mandatory testing AND drastically reduced int’l flights. 2/n
Australia diverted ALL international flights out of Victoria when Melbourne’s numbers skyrocketed in 2nd wave and cut total international arrivals by 40% concurrent with other restrictions. This is what happened after. 3/n
As noted in the editorial, “elective” is often a misnomer. I saw a neighbour go from walking dogs kilometres at when referred to ortho for a joint replacement to essentially immobile by the time of surgery nearly 2 years later. This is in the GTA. Haven’t seen him out since. 2/n
The BC Supreme Court in the Day case acknowledged that Charter rights to security of person can be infringed when health worsens due to wait list delays. So what is an “elective surgery”? 3/n
Anybody trumpeting their Cambie decision as some sort of victory needs to read this.
“ I have also found...provisions have the effect of limiting the right to security of the person individuals who are suffering from degenerative/deteriorating conditions and waiting for...
...elective surgery in the public system beyond their wait time benchmarks associated with their diagnostic priority codes, even though the patients are available for surgery...
Specifically, some of these patients will experience prolonging and exacerbation of pain and diminished functionality as well as increased risk of not gaining full benefit from surgery.
Disappointed to see the continued racist depictions of BIPOC victims of crime in the mainstream Canadian media after @CTVToronto@CP24 and @CBCNews used a mugshot in stories of a murder victim in Toronto meanwhile this is how white suspects of murder were depicted last year.
Yet this is how someone who killed a cyclist while driving impaired is depicted after allegedly violating parole while speeding up a major highway impaired again. Has anyone seen Marco Muzzo’s mugshot?
Here’s CP24’s depiction of a smiling serial killer Bruce McArthur.
The author of this piece is listed as the author of the (now edited) Mohamed Sow piece linked from the @CP24 tweet:
While Canada continues to import cases via the dozens of international arrivals daily, perhaps if we’re lucky by October the CBSA will catch onto the whole asymptomatic/presymptomatic thing.
Take the UP express, subway then 3 buses, what could go wrong?