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    Should Boxing Day be a US holiday?

    Boxing Day is a retail holiday in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, PEI and Newfoundland and Labrador. The only stores open are drug stores and small stores like convenience stores.
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    US Soccer matches

    The misogynism the USNWT players face is not coming from out of Europe. I know you use twitter because you are always reposting twitter posts. Go on twitter and look at the personalized abuse they are receiving.
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    CR7 breaks the Guinness World Record for national association football CAPs at 200 CAPs for Portugal. Congrats to him.

    The article correctly notes that he broke the men's record. The overall record for most caps still belongs to Kristine Lilly
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    Saint-Pierre and Miquelon

    I would say that on the first trip (in 1990), it really felt like France. On the second trip ( which was only an overnight stay) it felt more like Canada, but it wasn't quite the same. There were 220 volt plugs in the hotel, for example and items in the shops were priced in Euros and were...
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    Saint-Pierre and Miquelon

    I've been there twice. Flew there from Sydney for our honeymoon and then travelled with our kids via car/ferry during a trip to Newfoundland 20 years later.
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    Queen Elizabeth funeral and looking forward

    Did the article happen to mention that the Duke of Windsor, who was King Edward VIII before he abdicated, was supportive of appeasing Hitler, contrary to the British position? There are reasons beyond money that it was problematic for him to be giving speeches.
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    Queen Elizabeth funeral and looking forward

    I wonder if that might have played into Harry being on a separate flight from the other family members the day the Queen died.
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    Name That Dog...Help

    She reminds me of our lab who we had to say good bye to at the end of November. She was a rescue too, although quite a bit older when we adopted her. We named her Genevieve after the dog in the Madeleine children's books, but we usually just called her Gen.
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    Covid And The Rest of Us

    There is a lawsuit in court right now in Newfoundland over their travel ban. ( PEI, NL and NB have had bans on non-residents entering those provinces. NS never banned anyone, but has a quarantine requirement for anyone coming from a non-Atlantic province,) M.
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    Covid And The Rest of Us

    We have different limits on the number of people attending a particular activities depending on the level of interaction between the people in attendance.and the environment they are in: - You can have up to 10 people without social distancing. Individuals may gather together in close social...
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    Covid And The Rest of Us

    What do you think is driving the increases in AB and BC? ( and I wish your governments would release their numbers on the weekends!) M.
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    Covid And The Rest of Us

    I just pointed out that this exact fact is true: The land and the water agreements between the two countries are different. right now as far as Canadians entering the US. There are often advisories that citizens of one country don't travel to another country. They do not carry the same...
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    Covid And The Rest of Us

    I think you are confusing and conflating several different things here: - Canada and the US agreed jointly to close the land border to non-essential travel. - Canada has closed all it's other borders (sea and air) to non-Canadians. with exceptions for essential travel. The US has not closed...
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    Three Months

    I think the Axios take on the CDC advice is extrapolating beyond the intention of the CDC information. M.
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    Covid And The Rest of Us

    Almost all the cases in Atlantic Canada since June have been travelers or their first-generation contacts. We do not have access to the kind of testing you do. From all I can tell though, the accuracy of that kind of testing is spotty. Is it actually relied on? From what I read online, travelers...
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    Covid And The Rest of Us

    I tried to use articles that discussed polls taken using traditional polling methods - and at that I know they vary based on the wording of the questions and the sample selection biases of the pollsters and are subject to changes of opinion over time. Online facebook pols like this one can't...
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    Covid And The Rest of Us

    In a recent poll, Canada was about 75% would get the vaccine, 11% unsure and 15% probably or definitely not. For the UK, 53% would definitely get it, 20% would be fairly likely to get it and 16% wouldn't get it I found an Australian article on a poll that said 56% would immediately get...
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    Covid And The Rest of Us

    Prevalence of anti-vax activists has a lot of effect, but I ain't going down that rabbit hole..... I think it's universal that more people tend to say they may not or won't get a vaccine when the question is merely academic. What the numbers are when the vaccines are actually available AND...
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    Covid And The Rest of Us

    Because this is a thread discussing the situation in other countries besides the USA, I think it's worth point out the the number of people who have said that they wouldn't take a vaccine varies from country to country. M.
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    Covid And The Rest of Us

    If you go for a walk and see your neighbour's kid drowning in the lake, do you keep walking or try to help? M.
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