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Imagine spending 16 weeks on board an ocean-going vessel during a scheduled deployment, living in cramped living quarters, working long days, and then suddenly not knowing when you’ll be able to disembark to see your family and friends. For many seafarers and mariners, that was the frightening reality at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic. .
Outstanding Groom Award: Michelle Gibson
Michelle learned everything she could about riding and horse care when she attended riding school in Caledon. She began to work with top circuit show jumpers and was soon travelling throughout the United States to major horse shows. When her son Devin was born in 2001, Michelle wanted to leave travelling behind and she checked in at Woodbine racetrack where she got her first job with Thoroughbreds.
Michelle has worked for Hall of Fame trainer Robert Tiller for almost 10 years and she is the groom of Pink Lloyd, the 2017 Horse of the Year, a six-time Sovereign Award winner. Michelle, who likes to have lots of time to get her horses ready and is at the barn at 3:30 a.m. each morning, believes her strengths as a groom come from her meticulous work habits and ability to multi-task. Humbled by receiving the Sovereign Award, Michelle is grateful that she gets to work at what she loves. “The horses are my therapy, they keep me sound and they keep
A Tale of Two COVID Regimes: Transatlantic Travel Under Trump and Biden
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Upon my return to the United States from Europe, I was reminded of Ronald Reagan’s insight that, “The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant. It’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.”
Every liberal critic “knows” President Donald Trump was too lax and too late in his response to the COVID-19 pandemic. They know the Trump administration made-up its anti-COVID campaign as it went along, including its response to international travel during the pandemic.
Every critic also “knows” that, in striking contrast, the Biden administration meticulously follows the science. It uses joined-up thinking to plug all of the public health holes it inherited from its hapless predecessor. Everyone knows that, to-date President Joe Biden’s War on COVID has been decisive, universal, and airtight in its application.
Through his camera lens a Southampton photographer captured the A list celebrities who made up the star-studded cast of passengers crisscrossing the Atlantic from Southampton to New York. They included Hollywood royalty and our own royal family like the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, who were the Harry and Meghan of their day. The late Frank Eaton was part of the team who worked for Ocean Pictures which had the sole concessionaires on board the Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth for whole of their maritime service. It was a passport to the rich and famous who enjoyed the luxury of many days at sea before life got a whole lot faster and the jet plane was the favoured mode of travel.