OTTAWA An Ottawa community group is calling on the city of Ottawa to create more accessible internet for low income families and they say it’s needed now more than ever. Many low income families have been struggling to stay connected. ACORN Ottawa wants to change that. They are asking the city to use the infrastructure they already have to offer their own internet service to those who need it most. Blaine Cameron is the ACORN chair for Ottawa Centre. He says current internet rates are unattainable for most families. The major telecoms don’t offer a service that is quality and affordable, says Cameron. A municipal broadband program that is community controlled and one that s not sold to the big telecoms. We’d like non-profits and community to be the ISP’s.
Two Trinidad-born healthcare workers based in the United States are among the first to have taken the Covid-19 vaccine, and they are optimistic the vaccine will bring the pandemic to an end.
They are optimistic, even in the face of a new and more contagious strain of the Covid-19 virus discovered in the United Kingdom.
Last week, San Francisco-based, Siparia-born health practitioner Yaffa Sookbirsingh Alter and Santa Cruz-born, Florida-based anaesthesiologist Dr Blaine Cameron were among the healthcare workers in the US to receive the first dose of the Pfizer-ÂBioNTech vaccine.
âHealing is on the horizon,â ÂSookbirsingh Alter declared in a WhatsApp message exchange with the Express last Friday. The Covid-19 vaccine, according to her, âis the beginning of the end to the devastation of Covid-19â.