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Airways are providing low-cost home flights to entice Canadians again to journey. However will it final?

Are you able to take flight?

Regardless of pandemic and journey restrictions nonetheless in place in a number of provinces, Canada’s main airways are promoting discounted home flights to entice us to start out flying once more.

Air Canada and WestJet are at present providing 20 per cent off base fares for home flights — a few of which seem low even with out the low cost — by way of to the tip of December.

The catch is that prospects should guide earlier than Monday, and it isn’t clear if the costs will keep this low without end. 

Frederic Dimanche, director of the Ted Rogers Faculty of Hospitality and Tourism Administration at Ryerson College in Toronto, says he believes airways have dropped their costs for 2 causes: to make some fast money after journey plummeted through the pandemic and to get Canadians to heat as much as the concept of returning to air journey. Learn extra

Well being Canada cracks down on UV wands and lights

Well being Canada has introduced new, strict measures to manage UV wands and lights which will declare to kill viruses just like the coronavirus. 

Till now, a whole bunch of unregistered merchandise have been marketed on the market in Canada with out regulatory approval. However on Monday, Well being Minister Patty Hajdu signed an interim order that may regulate the units for the primary time. 

This comes after Well being Canada promised to evaluation the units following a Market investigation that discovered most UV wands and units available on the market will not be cleared on the market in Canada. 

Well being authorities and specialists have been warning in regards to the use and security of UV disinfecting merchandise for killing the novel coronavirus, germs and micro organism on surfaces. CBC Market seems to be into the units’ claims and finds many will not be cleared on the market in Canada. 5:49

Nursing houses with repeated violations proceed to interrupt legislation, regardless of Ontario’s promise to crack down

After a yr that exposed the cracks within the long-term care system, with 3,773 residents dying of COVID-19 in Ontario nursing houses, politicians promised higher situations for these residing in long-term care. However some houses proceed to be cited by provincial inspectors for critical violations of Ontario’s Lengthy-Time period Care Act.

Final yr, a CBC Market investigation taking a look at hundreds of provincial inspection experiences revealed that 85 per cent of houses had damaged the identical part of the act repeatedly in a five-year interval. Most confronted no repercussions.

At Orchard Villa in Pickering, Ont., for instance, 70 residents died of COVID-19 within the spring and early summer time of 2020, the deadliest outbreak of the primary wave within the province. Since then, the house has been cited twice for infection-prevention and management violations — as soon as in November 2020 and as soon as in April this yr. 

“It is like nothing’s modified,” stated Cathy Parkes, whose father Paul died in final yr’s outbreak. “You recognize, you are taking your eyes off for one second and issues return to the best way they had been.” Learn extra

What else is happening?

Dangerous information for fishing: Local weather change is sucking the oxygen out of lakes, examine suggests
Warming reduces switch of oxygen from air to water, and boosts algae blooms that devour oxygen.

$1,600 taken from buyer’s account — and her financial institution will not say why
Most account agreements say banks can reverse deposits with out clarification, Go Public experiences.

Compostable packaging exemption in Ontario Blue Field overhaul criticized as a ‘loophole’
With most compostable plastics going to landfills, there are requires higher regulation.

These Fisher Worth soothers have been recalled as a result of a attainable danger of suffocation
Instantly cease utilizing the Fisher-Worth 4-in-1 Rock ‘n Glide Soothers and the Fisher-Worth 2-in-1 Soothe ‘n Play Gliders and phone Fisher-Worth to acquire a full or partial refund.

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