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The blow-by-blow of what to expect from Hurricane Fiona | CBC News WWW.CBC.CA Hurricane Fiona is on its way and much of Atlantic Canada can expect to be lashed with heavy rain and powerful winds.

Japan to relax Covid travel restrictions and grant entry to independent tourists WWW.NBCNEWS.COM Beginning Oct. 11, Japan will drop the cap on the number of tourists granted entry and visa requirements.

Yes. I work with some recent immigrants from France as well. I thought it was mostly the Québécois accent that was weird, but they use a lot of different words/phrases too.

French Canadians are more racist than the French. They don't even like white people who speak languages other than French.

Canada literally hired a racist to run our anti-racism strategy for our broadcast industry. We're bad.

FWIW, I have Covid, and it's pretty much asymptomatic this time. My daughter either caught it at a friend's house or at school (she and her best friend had fevers on the same day). Daughter - had a low-grade fever last Tuesday; no other symptoms. Pediatrician told us that if she didn't have other symptoms, it was unlikely COVID. Youngest Son -- Last Thursday had VERY mild cold symptoms; lasted less than 24 hours. Wife -- Last Thursday she tested herself because she was going to be in close contact with people who are immunocompromised. Tested positive. had cold symptoms for 3 days She texted me that she had Covid as I was getting off a plane coming home from Montreal. Co-Worker texted me this, when I told him: Oldest son -- has mostly been asymptomatic other than him complaining he has "extra phlegm in his throat" Me -- I've had what I would best describe as 2 days that are akin to when I have mild allergic reactions to dust mites. If I didn't know my wife had Covid, I would not have even thought twice about it.

How was that your takeaway from his article? He's not arguing against boosters; he even has a section of his paper subtitled "Incontrovertible Evidence for Booster Benefit". He's suggesting that boosters aren't likely to be a viable long-term strategy (or potentially short-term, depending on what variants emerge over the next 6-months). This is a good point. "Pandemic-fatigue" is a real thing that I've heard several epidemiologists talk about. People are moving on, and not necessarily doing what they should.

Week 3 Feature Game San Francisco 49'ers $800 QUESTIONS 1) 49'ers 2) 49'ers 3) Broncos 4) Daniel Jones 5) Seattle Seahawks, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, New York Giants 6) Three 7) Colts 8) Jonathan Taylor / Davante Adams

There isn't a good one that I can think of.

A good step forward.

He's talking about the future, and how we improve from where we are.

Key points from the article (I'm not really doing it justice): 1) "there is a disturbing trend of much lower antibody induction vs Omicron compared to that mounted against the ancestral (original) strain." Even with the BA.1 bivalent booster, there is a much lower number of antibodies against Omicron. 2) Present boosters only provide ~2 months of protection against infection. 3) "There’s ample evidence from multiple studies that mucosal IgA antibodies are what will be needed to help block infections and transmission, such as this NEJM new report with 60-80% reduction of breakthrough infections (and reduced viral load, higher Ct, Tables below) as a function of mucosal IgA antibodies, not related to IgG antibodies." Mucosal antibodies might be what we need a vaccine to create. 4) I don't think anybody believes that the general population is willing to get a booster every 3-4 months. 5) We don't have any data that a 5th (or 6th booster) will continue to provide the same benefits as the first boosters did.

In 2019, the government averaged issuing 260,000 passports per month which would keep up with demand. Since then, the public service in Canada has grown 10%.

To boost or not to boost - by Eric Topol - Ground Truths T.CO Should that be the question?

This season deteriorated quickly.

Why do you like Castro's son so much?

I didn't make a value judgement. I just stated the facts. I don't particularly care if the British Monarchy keeps it's ceremonial role, I would care if they interfered with Canadian democracy (which they don't). If I did care about having the King as the head of state (which I dont, but you seem to), I would probably care that PET set the bar as high as he did to remove the King.

Prior to 1982, it would have been relatively easy to amend the constitution to remove the King as head of state -- it would only have required an Act from the UK parliament. The current formula (that is so restrictive, that in practically it makes the constitution unchageable) was put in place in 1982 by Pierre Trudeau when his government updated the constitution.

It requires a constitutional amendment that would have to be agreed to by the House, the Senate and all 10 Provincial legislatures. Imagine the effort of trying to get the Alberta and Quebec legislatures to agree on the same constitutional change.

Ketchup flavour exists in Canada. I don't know any Canadians who eat it.

Lamar Jackson is a very good QB, but he is not elite.