How will Ontario schools keep kids safe during the third wave?
With schools in the province reopened, many conflicted parents are wondering what improvements if any have been made. Aaron Hutchins
It was sometime in August 2020, before the
last reopening of schools in Ontario, that Sarah Liss became fixated with ventilation. Her older child goes to school in the Toronto District School Board, in the kind of building where students complain about the sweltering heat on warmer days. Only now she was worried about COVID.
With school boards and the province focusing on
masks, cohorting and cleaning, Liss used her spare time researching another vital factor identified by health and science experts for slowing transmission: ventilation. Specifically, she began looking for solutions to get air purifiers into classrooms not only across the city, but the entire province.
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On November 30, 2020, parties to legacy LIBOR contracts breathed a collective sigh of relief as LIBOR’s administrator Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (“ICE”) announced that US Dollar LIBOR would continue to be published until December 31, 2021 for the one-week and two-month tenors and until June 30, 2023 for the remaining, more widely used tenors.
[i] As explained in our prior Client Alerts on the transition away from LIBOR, these extensions will allow time for most legacy LIBOR contracts to mature prior to the cessation of LIBOR’s publication,
[ii] significantly reducing – or at least delaying – the potential for disputes between counterparties over the selection of an appropriate alternative reference rate. But the potential for disputes remains, particularly because the earlier-expiring one-week and two-month tenors, though less popular than those expiring in June 2023, are still prevalent in corporate len
Modelling an important factor in COVID-19 public-health decisions The use of data is vital in making the best and most informed decision in the public-health world. And while health units in Ontario are subject to the province’s decisions, the modelling used at the more local level has helped guide recommendations and resources as COVID-19 cases both increase and decline.
Author of the article: Greg Colgan
Publishing date: Feb 12, 2021 • February 13, 2021 • 3 minute read • This undated electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in February 2020 shows the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, orange, emerging from the surface of cells, green, cultured in the lab. Also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus causes COVID-19. The sample was isolated from a patient in the U.S. Photo by SUPPLIED /The Canadian Press