“North Bay is the leading U-Haul growth city for the second consecutive year,” wrote the company in a statement. At the municipal level, however, it was an Ontario city that was the single largest recipient of incoming U-Hauls last year. In 2021, Alberta saw more incoming U-Haul one-way rentals than any other province, according to a recent report by moving equipment rental company. Photo by Abacus Data IN OTHER NEWSĮverybody’s moving to Alberta, at least according to internal statistics from U-Haul. According to the latest polling from Abacus Data, Canadians are more anxious now than at any time since the first weeks of 2021, when the country was in the midst of a much deadlier COVID-19 wave paired with a critical shortage of vaccines. As Omicron’s influence appears poised to go down, worry only seems to be going up. As Kirkey wrote, one of the primary justifications for vaccine mandates may already be a moot point. While vaccines are proving remarkably good at keeping COVID-19 patients alive and out of the hospital, reporting in the National Post by Sharon Kirkey highlighted emerging research showing that vaccines are not all that good at preventing transmission, particularly in the age of Omicron.
And the company that got the sole-sourced contract to make the field hospitals that nobody is using? SNC-Lavalin. So it’s not great optics that Ottawa spent $300 million on emergency field hospitals that have remained in storage throughout the worst throes of Omicron, according to the Globe and Mail. While the Omicron surge has proved to be far less deadly than prior COVID-19 waves, the variant’s signature peril has been the risk that it could overwhelm the country’s already strained hospitals. A similar phenomenon also appears to be happening to Edmonton’s wastewater. While case counts are no longer an accurate means to track the course of the pandemic, in Ottawa analysis of the city’s wastewater has shown promising signs that the volume of COVID-19 viruses in the sewage appears to have plateaued. Good news! The Omicron wave appears to be peaking. Thus far, nobody in Ottawa has really been able to answer that.) MORE COVID (There’s also the small issue of whether there are any measurable public health benefits to requiring vaccines of a profession that spends most of their working hours alone and isolated in a well-ventilated truck cab. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Minister of Transport Omar Alghabra even put out a statement arguing that anyone who opposes mandatory vaccines for truckers is “doing everything possible to instill vaccine hesitancy.” The information shared yesterday was provided in error,” read a terse Friday statement from the federal government confirming that Canada was still going full-throttle on a plan to close the borders to unvaccinated truckers starting Saturday.
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With the policy expected to force more than 16,000 drivers off the road (more if unions began striking against the policy), the mandate had been criticized as a surefire way to exacerbate Canada’s ongoing problem with rising prices and supply chain backups.Įxcept that the government didn’t back down at all.
Last week, Canada’s various importers, exporters, retailers and grocers all breathed a sigh of relief over news from the federal government that Ottawa had backed down on a much-criticized plan to mandate vaccinations for all cross-border truckers. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.
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