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Vaccine passports come for planes and trains

If maybe not so much on a city bus

Oct 7, 2021
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Effective Oct. 29, federal civil servants will have to submit an attestation that they are fully vaccinated against #Covid_19 or face the possibility of being placed indefinitely on unpaid leave two weeks after the October deadline, the government said.
tgam.caTravellers boarding flights at Canadian airports or VIA Rail trains must be fully vaccinated by Nov. 30Ottawa also unveils tough new rules requiring federal public servants and employees of federally regulated industries to get vaccinated within weeks
3:29 PM ∙ Oct 6, 2021
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The calendar is filling up with vaccination deadlines wherever authorities can enforce them, which now includes the federal workforce and transportation sectors that are federally regulated. The more local transit systems have been able to enact policies for staff, but checking passenger passports looks too complicated.


Digging on Chesterman Beach

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Le Journal de Montréal @JdeMontreal
Séjour controversé: Trudeau en vacances chez un homme lié aux Paradise Papers. #JDM
journaldemontreal.comSéjour controversé: Trudeau en vacances chez un homme lié aux Paradise PapersTrudeau a occupé, à Tofino, la maison d’une femme mariée à un homme d’affaires ayant été lié à des compagnies qui étaient dans un paradis fiscal.
10:10 AM ∙ Oct 7, 2021
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James McRoberts is the husband of the owner of the $18.7 million beachfront house at which Justin Trudeau and his family recently stayed in Tofino, and he happened to be involved in lobbying Ottawa to establish online cannabis sales. The PMO says it was a basic rental, but scrutiny has followed Trudeau’s regretted escape.


Frank Baylis made a $1.75 billion deal for cardiovascular medical devices business. Boston Scientific is buying a part of Baylis Medical, started by his history-making mother, Gloria Baylis. Last year, the former one-term Liberal MP denied that improper lobbying led to a $237 million contract to make ventilators for the pandemic.


Captain Kirk meets Blue Origin

The release of a spoken-word album with celebrity musical assistance turned out to be just one pillar of what William Shatner is doing at age 90. “So Far From the Moon” is a country track about watching the Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969, but the Montreal native will get closer on October 12 by riding on Jeff Bezos’s extremely phallic rocket:

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"I want to press my nose up against the plastic window. What I don't want to see is somebody else out there looking back at me." William Shatner, 90, known for playing Captain Kirk on 'Star Trek,' jokes with @andersoncooper about his plans for for space travel.
12:59 AM ∙ Oct 7, 2021
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Nadia Chaudhri dead at 43. The neuroscientist professor from Concordia University raised awareness about ovarian cancer by tweeting about experiences that came after being initially misdiagnosed. Chaudhri’s social media chronicle began last December, and later detailed how she told her young son that she was dying.


Finally, stars in the pavement

Canada’s Walk of Fame co-founder Peter Soumalias died on October 1, with his legacy reflected on the downtown Toronto sidewalk blocks engraved with inductee names. The number of those will soon reach 200—a context in which Bret “The Hitman” Hart, Keanu Reeves and the four guys who developed insulin manage to co-exist:

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Congratulations to our 2021 Canada's Walk of Fame Inductees and Honourees! 😊 Broadcast to come this December on CTV! canadaswalkoffame.com #CanadaThrives
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