1 Killed And 5 Missing In Canadian Military Helicopter Crash. The Piolets Were Apart Of Operation REASSURANCE Starting from top left: Sub-Lieutenant Abbigail Cowbrough, a Maritime Systems Engineering Officer; Sub-Lieutenant Matthew Pyke, Naval Warfare Officer; Master Corporal Matthew Cousins, Airborne Electronic Sensor Operator; Captain Maxime Miron-Morin, Air Combat Systems Officer; Captain Kevin Hagen, Pilot; Captain Read More…
Month: April 2020
The Futures For Frontliners Program “Free College Tuition
The Futures For Frontliners Program “Free College Tuition”. The Program Will Be The First Of Its Kind Michigan Governor Whitmer announced a series of initiatives to help workers and their families during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, including the “Futures for Frontliners” program to provide a tuition-free pathway to college or a technical certificate to essential workers who don’t have a college degree. This includes workers like Read More…
55K Votes Cast To Name Bridge Honouring UK’s First Female GP
55K Votes Cast To Name Bridge Honouring UK’s First Female GP. She Was A Trailblazer and Love By Everyone The people have spoken – Hull’s new bridge is going to be named after the city’s first female GP after an astonishing 55,000 votes were cast. As the UK continues to face its biggest public health Read More…
P.E.I Confirms Anglers And Fisher Back In The Water May 1
P.E.I Confirms Anglers And Fisher Back In The Water May 1. First Steps Back To Normalcy In Wake Of COVID-19 With an attempt to get back to normal, the Government of P.E.I have confirmed they will be opening up the recreational angling season on Friday, May 1, 2020. Normal angling regulations, as well as guidelines Read More…
Fort McMurray Flooding Records its 1st death In Wood Buffalo
Fort McMurray Flooding Records its 1st death In Wood Buffalo. More Than 12,936 People Have Been Evacuated Wood Buffalo confirms the first death from the Flooding. The community is not only dealing with the COVID-19 Pandemic they are in the midst of a massive evacuation with the added uncertainty of what will be left of Read More…
Arcand Sounds The Alarm On Quebec’s COVID-19 Mismanagement
Arcand Sounds The Alarm On Quebec’s COVID-19 Mismanagement. Legault Is Not Meeting WHO Recommendations Pierre Arcand, the Leader of the Official Opposition sounds the alarm about the worrying situation that affects Montreal in the fight for Covid-19. Hospital emergencies are overflowing, the situation in CHSLDs nursing homes is still not under control and community transmission continues. These Read More…
Whirlpool To Recall A Further 55,000 Washing Machines
Whirlpool To Recall A Further 55,000 Faulty Washing Machines. The Initial Recall Began In January 2020 Whirlpool has identified a further 21 models to be added to its list of recalled washing machines. The company estimates this will affect up to 55,000 machines in addition to more than 500,000 originally identified. In light of Coronavirus, Read More…
COVID-19 Mission A Go, Snowbirds Dubbed To Carryout Operation
The Canadian Forces Snowbirds will participate in Canada Day celebrations in the National Capital Region on July 1, 2019. PHOTO: Master Corporal Pierre Thériault, SU2012-0529-03 COVID-19 Mission A Go, Snowbirds Dubbed To Carryout Operation. Canada’s Elite Team Of Acrobatic Performers Canada’s world-renown team of acrobatic aces “The Snowbirds” are being deployed by the Canadian Forces Read More…
Ohio Governor To Open Up The Economy Amid COVID-19 Fears
Ohio Governor To Open Up The Economy Amid COVID-19 Fears. There Are 16,769 Confirmed Cases Of COVID-19 Ohio Governor DeWine announced the state of Ohio will not require that customers entering retail establishments wear face coverings. Wearing face coverings in public is still, however, strongly recommended. There are 16,769 confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19 Read More…
COVID-19 Denies 370 Million African Children’s From A Daily Meal
COVID-19 Denies 370M African Children From A Daily Meal. The Only Meal Many Kids Get For The Day Is At School In many poor countries, the promise of a meal can be enough to make struggling parents send their daughter to school As the COVID-19 crisis pushes up levels of hunger among the global poor, Read More…
US Supporting Iran With COVID-19 Meds Despite Sanctions
US Supporting Iran With COVID-19 Meds Despite Sanctions. Iran Is One Of The Most Us Sanctioned Countries In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, the need for global humanitarian action is urgent. Some good news: Capital Commodities, a global entrepreneurial management company, has received a license to export goods to Iran. The license, granted by Read More…
21 Million Pieces Of Equipment Shipped To UK Hospitals
21 Million Pieces Of Equipment Shipped To UK Hospitals From 20 Round Trip Flights To China. The UK Government has flown over 21 million pieces of PPE and more than 1,000 ventilators to the NHS and Social Care Services from China over the last three weeks. From April 2nd to 25th the UK Government has Read More…
Health Care Workers At Risk Without Proper COVID-19 Masks
Health Care Workers At Risk Without Proper COVID-19 Masks. 21,800 Infected With Coronavirus And 71 Have Died Because high-end N95 masks (left) are scarce, hospitals and other medical centers are using surgical masks (right) that have been linked to considerably higher infection rates. (Lynne Shallcross/KHN illustration; Getty Images) With medical supplies in high demand, federal Read More…
COVID-19 Antibody Tests Are Still A Work In Progress
COVID-19 Antibody Tests Are Still A Work In Progress. Tests Can Produce “False Negative And Positive Results Health care workers tend to a driver in line at a drive-through COVID-19 testing site in Westminster, California, on Wednesday, April 8, 2020. (Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) After hearing for months about serious access Read More…
Manitoban’s To Buy Online Direct From Farmers Amid COVID-19
Manitoban’s To Buy Online Direct From Farmers Amid COVID-19. $160,000 Through Canadian Agricultural Partner COVID-19 has brought on many challenges to food producers and in most instances, completely wiped out or severely disrupted the supply chain. Among the hardest hit are the farmers, who face many uncertainties every year. Whether it be drought, flooding and Read More…
UK Launches Free Skills Platform For Citizens Under COVID-19
UK Launches Free Skills Platform For Citizens Under COVID-19. Tons Of Digital Courses Offered In The Tool Kit Online platform ‘The Skills Toolkit’ will help people to build their skills during the coronavirus outbreak and beyond. A new online learning platform to help boost the nation’s skills while people are staying at home, has been launched today Read More…
Ontario Unveils COVID-19 Guidelines To Reopen The Province
Ontario Unveils COVID-19 Guidelines To Reopen The Province. This Will Be Done In Safely In Three Phases Premier and Ministers Commit to New Phased Approach for a Safe Restart and Recovery The Ontario government released A Framework for Reopening our Province, which outlines the criteria Ontario’s Chief Medical Officer of Health and health experts will use to Read More…
Africa CDC Receives 3rd Mega Donation From Jack Ma Foundation
Africa Receives 3rd Mega Donation From Jack Ma Foundation. Over 5 Million Medical Items To Fight COVID-19 The Ethiopian Airlines cargo flight carrying part of the consignment departed Guangzhou, China, and landed in Addis Ababa at about 3 pm Eastern Africa Time The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) today received a Read More…
President Of Ghana To Address 3,000 African Business Leaders
President Of Ghana To Address 3,000 African Business Leaders Across On The Continent And Worldwide Over 3,000 participants are expected from 81 countries – 41 countries on the African continent + 40 countries throughout the world The President of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, will address what is possibly the largest ever gathering of senior Read More…
Made In Viet Nam COVID-19 Test Kits Meets WHO Standards
Made In Viet Nam COVID-19 Test Kits Meets WHO Standards. A Kit Consists Of 50 Tests And Can Be Used 50 Times VGP – Viet Nam’s test kit for COVID-19 diagnosis has met all standards defined by the World Health Organization (WHO), according to the Ministry of Science and Technology. The WHO said in a statement Read More…
Vaping, Opioid Addiction Accelerates Risk To Catch COVID-19
Vaping, Opioid Addiction Accelerates Risk To Catch COVID-19. Dr Nora Volkow, National Institute On Drug Abuse In 2018, opioid overdoses claimed about 47,000 American lives. Last year, federal authorities reported that 5.4 million middle and high school students vaped. And just two months ago, about 2,800 cases of vaping-associated lung injuries resulted in hospitalizations; 68 people died. Until mid-March, Read More…
Philippine Government Delivers 1,000 Hogs To Help Residents
Philippine Government Delivers 1,000 Hogs To Help Residents. Hogs Weighed Around 200 Kilos Each The city government here distributed over the weekend at least 1,000 live hogs to augment the food supplies of residents affected by the ongoing enhanced community quarantine. Mayor Ronnel Rivera said Monday the move was aimed to provide additional relief assistance Read More…
Injured Firefighter’s 20-year Fight
Moving Out Of Your Community Is Painful: Injured Firefighter’s 20yr Fight with WCB “I remember it was before my guts exploded – after being on fentanyl for 7 months – was around the time I received the . . . letter.” Anne Thompson “I got your six,” I’d like to say to all volunteer emergency Read More…
New York COVID-19 Diagnostic Testing Criteria Expanding
New York COVID-19 Diagnostic Testing Criteria Expanding. 5,000 Pharmacies Can Now Test For The Coronavirus Amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced the state is expanding diagnostic testing criteria to include more frontline New York workers – a direct result of rapidly increasing diagnostic testing capacity. The expanded criteria will now Read More…