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Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson urges residents to continue to exercise caution with more vaccines and St. Patrick’s Day both fast approaching
Anthony Di Monte, the city’s general manager of emergency and protective services, says it’s too early to determine if and when outdoor events might resume
Ottawa residents born in 1931 or earlier, and “patient-facing” health-care workers classified as “very high priority,” can book appointments to receive a COVID-19 vaccine starting Wednesday
OPH’s phone lines were swamped as it received calls from numerous 90+ year-olds looking to get vaccinated, as well as many others who don’t yet qualify for a vaccine, and health-care workers who can book online
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On March 11, 2020, the city’s first confirmed COVID-19 case was announced, heralding a crisis that has severely impacted how we in Ottawa, as elsewhere, have lived our lives.
Over the past year, the losses have been immense: lives and livelihoods have been extinguished, social gatherings and other freedoms halted, while the society that many of us took for granted has fractured.
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In ways both good and bad, we’ve coped as best we could with these changes, developing new skills or simply finding distractions to bide our time until we’ve wrestled this outbreak to the ground.
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Most community action networks under Gauteng Together are still active and have expanded their scope beyond their initial goal of providing food relief, according to a new report. However, their sustainability is not guaranteed.
The report was commissioned by the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation to record the progress the project has made and how sustainability can be improved. The Auwal Socio-Economic Research Institute conducted the research and authored the report.
The report was launched on 3 March 2021 with a discussion about how the movement can be made sustainable. Editor of
Maverick Citizen, Mark Heywood, provided input as well as various members of the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation and Gauteng Together. Heywood was the executive director of SECTION27 and a founder of the Treatment Action Campaign and Corruption Watch, among others.