CALGARY Arshad Chaudry lost his dear friend Naveed Asghar to COVID-19 just one month ago. Thursday marks a national day of observance in Canada for thousands of people who lost their lives due to the COVID-19 virus and on this day he reflects on the one thing he’ll miss most. “Always his smile,” Chaudry said. “Whenever I remember him, his smiling face comes back in my mind, that’s all I’ll remember all my life.” Asghar, who was just 62-years-old, passed away unexpectedly on Feb. 7 after complications brought on by COVID-19. He was a bus operator for Calgary Transit and had recently travelled to Pakistan to visit his ill mother.
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John Othen’s family doesn’t know how he caught COVID-19.
The 73-year-old Calgary bus driver of more than four decades spent weeks in hospital late last year after testing positive. The family was relieved when he was well enough to come home just before Christmas, but he didn’t fully recover.
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A few weeks later, he had to be taken to hospital again, and he died of COVID complications on Jan. 14.
IN just a few weeks, residents in the Partick East/Kelvindale and Baillieston wards will go to the polls to elect councillors in what will be crucial by-elections for Glasgow City Council. After three and a half years of the SNP running Glasgow into the ground, voters will get a chance to deliver their verdict on how local services are being run. Our first nationalist administration doesn’t have much to be proud of – bin collection cuts, bulk uplift charges, potholes, ungritted streets, rats roaming freely and accusations of bullying still hanging over the leadership of the SNP. With that kind of local record, it’s no surprise one of the SNP candidates said last week, “an independent Scotland is number one priority”. Something which I’m sure most readers would agree with me should be our last priority – the last thing Glasgow needs is another grandstanding councillor who’ll be dedicated to the constitution, not his constituents.
in intensive care.
The first round of
eased COVID-19 restrictions in the past week includes limited school and minor sports training, allowing restaurants, cafés and pubs to reopen for dine-in services, and permitting fitness training, but only for one-on-one workouts individual workouts without a trainer are not permitted.
The province has said further easings of restrictions wouldn t begin until hospitalizations dropped below 450 and not for at least three weeks after the first stage of reopening.
A decision on
2 is expected to be made on Feb. 28.
Two members of Premier Jason Kenney s United Conservative Party caucus are challenging the province s COVID-19 economic restrictions and have joined a national coalition pushing against public health restrictions. Drew Barnes, MLA for Cypress-Medicine Hat, and Angela Pitt, MLA for Airdrie-East, the deputy speaker of the house and chair of committees, say Albertans have not been given adequate evidence to justify th