MS North Wales Last Wednesday’s meeting of the Welsh Parliament provided the first opportunity in the sixth Senedd term to question the First Minister directly. With the UK Government allowing responsibly organized outdoor wedding receptions to be held in private gardens in England, I asked him why he is not allowing this in Wales, quoting constituents who have contacted me in desperation. In his response he said “I make no apologies at all for having those receptions in regulated premises”. It seems the First Minister remains determined to do things differently in Wales, as if the scientific and medical advice wasn’t the same on both sides of the border, and regardless of the damage this is causing to families and businesses in Wales, as weddings are cancelled here and many are re-arranged a few miles away in England.
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Data Dive with Nik Nanos: How the pandemic could devastate the charitable sector
Forced to cancel events by COVID-19, charities are also struggling as donors wait for the economic uncertainty to ease – and most Canadians are worried about charitable organizations closing Nik Nanos Published December 11, 2020
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Nik Nanos is the chief data scientist at Nanos Research, a global fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, a research professor at the State University of New York in Buffalo and the official pollster for The Globe and Mail.
The pandemic is like a car crash in which some are killed, some are injured, and some just walk away unscathed. But then, there are also the unseen victims.