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The pandemic purgatory heard around the world

Jake Tapper is feeling you now

Apr 13, 2021
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Canada’s vaccine shortage: Covid-19 cases per capita pass U.S. rate as doctors plead for more vaccines @paulanewtonCNN reports
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The slow speed of vaccinations in Canada was a prime-time story on CNN, to the apparent despair of Jake Tapper, whose great-great-grandfather was once mayor of Winnipeg. But the sights of life returning to normal elsewhere persist, especially as shops and pub gardens reopen in England, while Montreal continues policing a curfew.


The new age of hesitation

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Angus Reid Institute @angusreidorg
All but AstraZeneca? Most unvaccinated Canadians uncomfortable with brand; fewer would take the jab if offered angusreid.org/astrazeneca-co…
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1:00 PM ∙ Apr 12, 2021
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Jason Kenney expressed his concern that Albertans will take a pass on the AstraZeneca vaccine, corroborated by Angus Reid numbers that show just 41 per cent of poll respondents are comfortable due to the uncertain headlines. Johnson & Johnson is now raising alarm due to blood clots, but Canada hasn’t received its order.


“I really believe COVID has created a window of political opportunity and maybe an epiphany…” Chrystia Freeland said this about a child care program, but the 11-second clip from the Liberal policy convention is still making the rounds.


The language of mug shots

An investigation of the proposed Highway 413 route in Ontario brought on a report from the National Observer and Torstar detailing the associations that land developers who own thousands of acres nearby appear to have with Doug Ford’s government. The portrayals led a group of Italian community leaders to take issue with the insinuations:

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Nora Loreto @NoLore
Ah yes, that famous Italian ethnic slur "related by marriage." We might be the whiniest ethnicity.
thestar.comOpinion | Star’s reporting on Highway 413 resorted to ethnic stereotypes‘Star’s reporting smeared all Canadians of Italian heritage with its use of language and graphics suggestive of criminal connections.’
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Toronto will get its next big screen time in mid-January. Ater being postponed from its second American Thanksgiving, Kevin Hart’s vehicle The Man from Toronto is slated for release on the MLK Day weekend that previously rewarded Hart’s Ride Along pictures. It was also slated for filming in New York before the production moved north.


Finally, you can’t fight city hall

Barenaked Ladies scheduled an April 17 show from Danforth Music Hall in Toronto, promotion for which now admits it was already taped, because such livestreams are currently prohibited under stay-at-home orders in Ontario. The next BNL album was announced with a tour postponed to 2022, and a throwback to earlier hopeful times:

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NOW Magazine @nowtoronto
Do you remember that time @barenakedladies crammed into Speakers Corner and recorded their first music video for a dollar?
ow.ly40 at 40: Remember when Barenaked Ladies were indie rock trailblazers? - NOW MagazineWith a new single dropping today, the Scarborough band looks back at the era of their 1991 NOW cover
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