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HALIFAX When the calendar turned to 2021, Mark Candow’s cottage was nearly booked for the year. The Elmsdale, N.S. resident rents his Windsor-area cottage through the booking website Airbnb, but with tightened COVID-19 restrictions in place throughout Nova Scotia, a number of his bookings were forced to cancel. He says even he and his family are unable to visit the cottage because of the current public health guidelines. “It’s pretty much shut down,” Candow explains. “It’s just sitting there vacant, and you know, it’s in the middle of the woods on a very private lot, to the point where there’s no safer place to be if you’re in the woods.”
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Car insurers saving hundreds of millions of dollars during pandemic, report says
Many people have been working from home and it s meant a drastic reduction in vehicles on the road, particularly in urban centres. That s led to fewer accidents and a large decrease in insurance claims, according to insurance analysis company Hellosafe.
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There have been far fewer vehicles on the road during the pandemic and fewer accident claims for insurance companies to deal with.(Paul Palmeter/CBC)
While the COVID-19 crisis has not hit Atlantic Canada like it has many other Canadian provinces, it has still had countless impacts.