Of the 26,214 peopel who have died in Canada from COVID-19, I've linked 17,745 deaths to 1715 residential facilities. That's one more death since last night.

docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…
In Southwestern Ontario there seems to be a crisis among homeless shelters of COVID spread -- Windsor, Waterloo, Owen Sound (yeah that is still south) and they're all being blamed on "itinerants" or a "homeless lifestyle" rather than on a system that inexplicably ...
is still not protecting individuals who rely on others to keep their living quarters safe. And what about targeted vaccination drives? How many 13 year olds in these cities are double vaxxed while people who are at the most risk of catching COVID are blamed for spreading it?
It's such a massive failure of public policy and public health (and journalism for just mindlessly repeating the lines they're fed) and there hasn't been any way to justify this for more than a year. And yet.

Data visualization can be found here public.tableau.com/app/profile/an…
Sorry one last thing -- if these regions actually cared about stopping the Delta variant, they'd be paying and providing safe and permanent housing to people who need it. But instead, we're just told over and over that it's inevitable that this virus is coming our way.

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24 Jun
Every year, the names of the victims of the Holocaust are read. This important act of remembrance calls alive their memories. The names are read in public spaces around the world. Thread ...
My father-in-law lost most of his family. But they know -- they know the names and they know. And though not perfectly, Germany has tried to make amends. It isn't hidden. It's a crime to deny it.

And Canada?
Discoveries of children buried by the church, buried by the state are undocumented. They were loved and never forgotten by those who loved them, but there was no public record kept of these children.

We, Canada and Canadians have never even tried to account for this. Worse...
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24 Jun
Seriously this story is 100% irrelevant for 12 of 13 provincial and territorial jurisdictions in Canada.

@TheCurrentCBC what will it take for you folks to actually create a national radio show?
"Was there an impact on the mass outbreaks in the ag sector?"

"No"

An actual journalist would tease that apart ... why? Why are these farms so segregated from other kinds of lives??
"Our school gave parents the option of being online, like I think all schools did across Canada" uhh nope
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30 May
Of the 25,478 people who have died in Canada from COVID-19, I've linked 17,670 deaths to 1707 residential facilities. That is an increase of 3 deaths.

docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…
One of the things that I've been increasingly frustrated by is how little granular data we have about where people are being vaccinated. Where are the lowest pockets? What explains the numbers there? Why aren't we tailoring re-opening plans to vaccination rates locally?
This kind of information would be valuable for so many reasons. It would give public access to early-warnings for potential fourth wave hotspots. It would also force PHUs and politicians to account for why X location's vaccination rate is so low.
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29 May
It is necessary to look at the difference between commemoration and action.

Canada is swift to commemorate things -- the shooting at Ste Foy's mosque, the Humboldt Broncos of course. But it's always action where they fall short, even when the victims are white.
Commemoration signals what the government thinks Canadians care about: condemn shooting violence, condemn a senseless road accident. It creates societal norms of what we collectively support.
But then, on action, they fail hard. No movement to stop far-right violence. No changes to road safety or driver training. Commemoration becomes the sum total of action.

So when a mass grave of children is found, how does culpable Canada react?
Read 7 tweets
29 May
Three weeks of school plus vaccinations would not be enough to push Ontario into a fourth wave on its own (it would take a week to even spread).

Ontarians are like collectively stuck in a tube of despair.
I am honestly so surprised by the difference in tone on this debate. Look at Quebec! May schools haven't closed once since winter! Vaccination has never been higher!
Let the kids see their friends, my god.
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29 May
Of the 25,440 people who have died in Canada from COVID-19, I've linked 17,667 deaths to 1707 residential facilities. That is five more deaths and two new facilities since last night.

docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…
The big thing I've added tonight has been worker deaths. I've now linked 100 deaths to a worksite that was (extremely likely) connected to a COVID-19 outbreak.

Another bus driver has died. This time, he worked for a contractor at the Suncor Base...
This worker is the second private bus driver to die (at least) -- the first was a driver for Cargill in Guelph. So while these deaths are listed as meat packing/energy, they're actually transportation deaths -- which already make up most of the deaths I've tracked.
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