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Vol. 25, Issue 30, April 1, 2021
Council Reports : Our Position On The Reunion
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ouncil was recently approached to support, financially and in-kind, the Chapleau High School 100th Reunion. We wish to address this issue to correct any misunderstandings about the decision Council made. Council has no problem with the idea, in fact, we have stated our support on several occasions. We all consider the Reunion a great idea, a positive means to unite the community. Some comments on social media question why Council does not support the Reunion as in years past. The full request to Council and our response is on our website for
those interested in the details. Reviewing the request we took into account the circumstances we presently face. Our staff works under the limitations of Covid and the absence of a fulltime CAO (for several months). Civic Center workers have assumed additional duties in these stressful times. Council cannot, in all fairness, compound the situation with further responsibilities for the High school Reunion. The Municipal had a rough financial year in 2020: loss of revenue due to Covid; repeated mechanical breakdowns of major rolling stock; unexpected and unbudgeted expenses to our
infrastructure; and, substantial increases to several annual contracts. Staff and Council have met the challenge with the idea not to raise taxes. This leaves no room for additional donations. When the Reunion Committee presented to Council it was stated that the Committee had received a substantial donation from a local corporation and had a long list of volunteers ready to help. Add to these a fifteen month timeline to organize and prepare (target date, July 1st, 2022) and success is unavoidable. We wish the best for the Reunion. I am certain we can assist in regards to advertising and the use of the Recreation Center.
Rapport du conseil : Notre position sur les retrouvailles
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n a récemment approché le Conseil pour qu’il fournisse son appui, financier et n o n f i n a n c i e r, p o u r l e s 1 0 0 e s retrouvailles du High School de Chapleau. Nous souhaitons aborder cette question pour rectifier tout malentendu au sujet de la décision prise par le Conseil. Le Conseil ne voit aucun problème à cette idée. En fait, nous avons déjà déclaré notre appui à plusieurs occasions. Nous considérons tous que ces retrouvailles sont une excellente idée, un moyen positif de rassembler la communauté. Dans certains Long Term commentaires sur les Forecast réseaux sociaux, on se Thursday demande pourquoi le High 1 Conseil n’appuie pas les Low -15 retrouvailles comme par Friday les années passées. Les High 6 personnes intéressées Low -3 Saturday High 9 Low -1 Sunday High 10 Low -3 Monday High 9 Low -4 Tuesday High 10 Low 0
par les détails trouveront sur notre site Web la demande complète présentée au Conseil ainsi que la réponse de ce dernier. En examinant la demande, nous avons pris en considération les circonstances actuelles auxquelles nous faisons face. Notre personnel doit composer avec les restrictions associées à la COVID-19 avec l’absence d’un directeur Photo Kariet Luhtasaari municipal à temps plein (depuis plusieurs mois). Les employés du centre civique doivent s’acquitter de tâches supplémentaires en cette période de stress. En toute justice, le Conseil ne peut pas aggraver la situation en ajoutant des responsabilités supplémentaires pour les retrouvailles du High School. En 2020, la municipalité a connu un exercice financier difficile : perte de revenus liée à la COVID-19, des défaillances mécaniques à répétition d’important matériel roulant, des dépenses d’infrastructure inattendues et non
inscrites au budget, ainsi que des augmentations substantielles de plusieurs contrats annuels. Le personnel et le Conseil ont relevé le défi avec l’idée de ne pas augmenter les taxes. Ceci ne laisse aucune place à des dons supplémentaires. Lorsque le comité des retrouvailles a présenté sa demande au Conseil, il a indiqué avoir reçu un don substantiel d’une entreprise locale et disposer d’une longue liste de bénévoles prêts à aider. Ajoutez à cela un échéancier de quinze mois pour s’organiser et se préparer (la date cible est celle du 1er juillet 2022) et le succès est inévitable. Nous souhaitons plein succès aux retrouvailles. Je suis assuré que nous pouvons apporter notre aide pour la publicité et pour ce qui est de l’utilisation du centre récréatif. Nous espérons avoir dissipé tout malentendu au sujet de la position du Conseil relative aux retrouvailles du High School.
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Méfiez-vous des abonnements piégés Le Bureau du Canada à publier « The Little Black Book of Scams » 2nd edition et est maintenant disponible en ligne à OBITUARY David Lalonde Passed away suddenly at his home in Chapleau on Tuesday February 2, 2021 at the age of age 57 years. Dear father of Drake and Hope. Loving son of Sandy Clarke and the late William Lalonde. Dear brother of Darren (Landa). Dear uncle of Ryder and Dallyn. Dave will be missed by his four-legged companion Ziggy and by his many aunts, uncles, and cousins. He worked for many years at CP Rail across Canada and will be missed by many in Chapleau where he lived for the last 20 years. His love for the Chicago Blackhawks and for his Trans Am was something that anyone that knew him, knew he loved that team and that car. When Dave would go back to Sudbury to visit, he would get together with his old friends from high school. There was a tight bond made during those high school years that always remained. At this time, there will be no funeral services. Cremation has taken place at River’s Edge Cremation Centre, Sault Ste. Marie. Arrangements entrusted to the Kerry Funeral Home Ltd. (Wawa, ON 1-800-439-4937). www.kerryfuneralhome.ca
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HAPPY EASTER
CHAPLEAU EXPRESS, April 1, 2021
Chapleau Moments by
Michael J. Morris Although I moved from Chapleau to Cranbrook, British Columbia in 1989 every time there is talk of a reunion in Chapleau, I start reflecting on it. So it has been since plans are underway for the celebration of the 100th anniversary of Chapleau High School in 2022. I attended CHS as a student and taught there for almost 20 years However my first thought as I type was of my parents Muriel (Hunt) and Jim Morris. They both attended and graduated from
Dr Karl Hackstetter far right leaves field at old CHS circa 1964
CHS shortly after it opened in 1922. It also reminded me that it was Grant Henderson, a 1927 Chapleau High School graduate who summed up so well why so many of us went back for the school's 90th anniversary reunion ten years ago. In a poem for the 60th anniversary in 1982, Grant wrote in part, "Perhaps those days through memory's haze take on a richer hue" adding that "perhaps that's true but ... this I know. And I've wandered up and down. Were I to pick my bringin' up place. I'd choose the same old town." Like Grant, I too have wandered up and down, spending moments and at times much more than a moment in places from Ontario to British Columbia, and in my daily newspaper reporter years, back and forth across this vast and magnificent land with side trips to the United States. However, from the moment I learned that the CHS reunion festival was being planned, I knew as did Grant when he wrote his poem, that I would return to my "bringin' up place" for it. Grant died in 1994.
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Reflections on Chapleau High School reunions as plans begin for 100th anniversary in 2022 In 2012, I received a message from the to see all of you again and get caught up. organizing committee asking if I would serve as On a very personal basis, the most the Master of Ceremonies. Most kind of them to touching moments of the reunion were during the invite me. wonderful ecumenical service presided over by Graham Bertrand of the 2022 committee Rt. Rev. Thomas A. Corston, now retired has been in touch to see if I would help out and of Anglican bishop of Moosonee, known to so course I agreed even though I am not sure just many of us simply as "Tom". Tom is the son of how I will get to Chapleau ---- and I will also be Frances (Jardine) and the late Henry 'Chicken' Corston. 10 years older. Sitting beside me on the stage was Robert I got back in regular touch with George Evans 10 years ago, my friend, CHS colleague Fife, now the Ottawa Bureau Chief of The Globe and member of township council when I was and Mail, but to me simply "Bob" or more reeve of Chapleau in the 1970s. Like everyone, I commonly "Fife". Bob is the son of the late was shocked and greatly saddened when George Margaret and Clyde Fife. was tragically killed in a motor vehicle accident before the reunion. May he rest in peace. I am delighted that so many of my growin' up in Chapleau friends and also my former students also plan to attend the 100th anniversary according to Facebook posts. With reference to my friends who went to CHS with me it seemed like only yesterday since we were hanging out in the Boston Café, or driving aimlessly around town on a summer evening, never straying far from Main Street, just in case something might happen downtown and we missed it. Everybody loves a parade 2012 In 2012 we talked about school and Teen Town dances, going down the lake by one of two As the service progressed, I looked out at rivers to a bay called Mulligan's, or over the gravel road to Racine Lake to awesome get the faces of over 400 people, all of whom defined togethers at Martel's. We reminisced about Chapleau in one way and another from its beginskating on a Friday night by the light of the nings in 1885 to the present day. silvery moon in the old arena and the old old one, And so, Chapleau 2012, came a close, both on Lorne Street, and yes, always so impor- but for the more than 1,000 who registered for the tant, hockey, on the ice and on the road and on the reunion, the precious moments of once again rivers. being home, I am sure, will remain with us I am going to assume the central place forever. Now the 100th anniversary celebration for the reunion will be at the Chapleau is in the works with many challenges facing society with the virus etc. Let us hope we all meet Recreation Centre, opened June 29, 1978. For many of us John 'Mac' McClellan, the i n C h a p l e a u i n 2 0 2 2 ! ! ! M y e m a i l i s legendary principal of CHS, and Dr. Karl A. michaeljmorris@ymail.com Hackstetter, as teacher, who a few years later returned as principal, defined CHS. For those of us in her CHS class, our good friend Pat (Purich) Russell made and presented each of us with a school banner. In my case, she made a special one in the old and new school colours as I had attended and taught at CHS. Much appreciated Pat and it hangs above my desk in place of honour. While I so much enjoyed spending time with old school friends, I was so pleased to chat with former students from my years as a teacher at CHS. And yes, we talked hockey and Ceremony school plays, and "stories by MJ". Great at 2012 anniversary
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Take profits out of long-term care to ensure care is the first consideration REPORT cuts that ate into our health care system. There sick days when they need them. The initial spread from OTTAWA were promises that this government would be of Covid in LTC could have been reduced if different, but in 7 years they haven’t reversed infected workers who held jobs in more than one Rapport Stephen Harper’s cuts to health care transfers or facility had this option. Unfortunately, the profit d’Ottawa model demands a reduced investment in staffing improved long term care. by/par
Carol Hughes Federal member of Parliament Algoma-Manitoulin-Kapuskasing
The pandemic has shown Canadians there is a cost for underinvestment in our health care system. Just ask families who lost their loved ones in long-term care (LTC) facilities across the country. Despite the health-related needs these centres cater to, they are permitted to pursue a business model that limits their ability to care for their residents in order to focus on profits and dividends for shareholders. While the model works well for many business applications, the care of vulnerable individuals is not an appropriate place to create wealth. That’s why New Democrats presented a plan to parliament recently to take profits out of long-term care and implement a Care Guarantee for our loved ones in these institutions. It’s no secret the government campaigned on a promise to LTC workers, residents, and their families to better fund long-term care and seniors care before their first term. Since then, they have underfunded health care and prioritized protecting the profits of big corporations and their wealthy shareholders. This came on the heels of decades of
New Democrats asked parliament to fix the broken long-term care system and implement a Care Guarantee by regulating LTC under the authority of the Canada Health Act. That represents a commitment to our loved ones that they will be safe, to families that they can count on their loved ones receiving the care they deserve, and to the workers who care for our loved ones. The best way to ensure those outcomes is to take profit out of long-term care. The first step we proposed related to the pandemic by creating a rapid response unit to address disaster in long-term care. The only job of this unit would be to support provinces and territories to save lives in these facilities. It could monitor best practices in Canada and elsewhere and proactively share them with health authorities. Additionally, they would offer to provinces and territories to send the military to assist LTC homes struggling with large outbreaks where staffing has collapsed. This unit would also support provinces and territories to speed up the vaccination rollout to vaccinate LTC residents, front-line staff, and essential family caregivers. Our motion also contained a fix for sick leave to ensure all workers have access to 10 paid
costs which means a reliance on part-time employees who didn’t have the sick leave they needed to protect themselves and the residents they served. Those first steps could be done quickly and don’t require a complete overhaul of the LTC system. It will help protect vulnerable individuals immediately while we work toward removing profit from the LTC system in Canada starting with the government owned for-profit Revera properties across the country. These proposals are both reasoned and offer a road map to better care for the vulnerable individuals in the facilities. The government should have been far more interested than they seemed when they argued against and voted down our motion on this proposal earlier this week. It’s not a stretch to state that every Canadian, of every age, deserves to live in dignity and be treated with respect by their government and the health care system. The challenge is finding ways to make sure that sentiment applies to people who live in LTC facilities. Similarly, families deserve to be confident their loved ones are the priority when they are placed in long term care.
Exclure le profit dans le secteur des soins de longue durée pour s’assurer que les soins sont la première considération La pandémie a démontré aux Canadiens qu’il y a un coût pour le sous investissement dans notre système de soins de santé. Il suffit de demander aux familles qui ont perdu des proches dans des établissements de soins de longue durée (ESLD) partout au pays. Malgré les besoins en santé auxquels ces centres répondent, ils sont autorisés à poursuivre un modèle opérationnel qui limite leur capacité de prendre soin de leurs résidents afin de se concentrer sur les bénéfices et les dividendes pour les actionnaires. Même si le modèle fonctionne bien pour de nombreuses applications commerciales, la prise en charge de personnes vulnérables ne constitue pas un contexte approprié pour créer de la richesse. C’est pourquoi les néo démocrates ont récemment présenté au Parlement un plan visant à exclure le profit du secteur des soins de longue durée et à mettre en œuvre une garantie en matière de soins pour nos proches dans ces établissements. Ce n’est pas un secret qu’avant son premier mandat, le gouvernement a mené une campagne en promettant aux travailleurs des établissements de soins de longue durée, aux résidents et à leurs familles de mieux financer les soins de longue durée et les soins aux aînés. Depuis lors, il a sous financé les soins de santé et il a priorisé la protection des bénéfices des grandes entreprises et de leurs riches actionnaires. Cela s’est produit après des décennies de réductions qui ont miné notre système de soins de santé. On nous avait promis que le gouvernement actuel serait différent, mais, en sept ans, il n’a pas renversé les réductions faites par Stephen Harper dans les transferts en santé et n’a pas amélioré les soins de longue durée.
Les néo démocrates ont demandé au Parlement de réparer le système de soins de longue durée défectueux et de mettre en œuvre une garantie en matière de soins en réglementant les ESLD en vertu de la Loi canadienne sur la santé. Cela représente un engagement envers nos proches, à qui nous disons qu’ils seront en sécurité, envers les familles, à qui nous assurons qu’elles peuvent compter sur le fait que leurs proches recevront les soins qu’ils méritent et envers les travailleurs qui s’occupent de nos proches. La meilleure façon d’assurer ces résultats est d’exclure le profit du secteur des soins de longue durée. La première étape que nous avons proposée concernait la pandémie et prévoyait la création d’une unité d’intervention rapide pour gérer la situation catastrophique dans le domaine des soins de longue durée. Le seul travail de cette unité consisterait à aider les provinces et les territoires à sauver des vies dans ces établissements. Elle pourrait surveiller les pratiques exemplaires au Canada et ailleurs et les communiquer de manière proactive aux autorités sanitaires. De plus, elle offrirait aux provinces et aux territoires d’envoyer des militaires pour aider les ESLD qui sont aux prises avec d’importantes éclosions où le personnel n’arrive plus à répondre aux besoins. Cette unité aiderait également les provinces et les territoires à accélérer l’administration des vaccins aux résidents des ESLD, au personnel de première ligne et aux aidants naturels essentiels. Notre motion contenait également une solution pour les congés de maladie afin que tous les travailleurs aient accès à 10 jours de maladie payés lorsqu’ils en ont besoin. La propagation initiale de la COVID dans les ESLD aurait pu être réduite si cette
option avait été offerte aux travailleurs infectés qui occupaient des postes dans plus d’un établissement. Malheureusement, le modèle axé sur les bénéfices suppose un investissement réduit dans les coûts de dotation, ce qui signifie qu’il a fallu compter sur des employés à temps partiel qui ne disposaient pas des congés de maladie payés dont ils avaient besoin pour se protéger et pour protéger les résidents auxquels ils offrent des services. Ces premières étapes pourraient être réalisées rapidement et ne nécessitent pas une révision complète du système de soins de longue durée. Elle aidera à protéger immédiatement les personnes vulnérables pendant que nous travaillons à exclure le profit du système de soins de longue durée au Canada, en commençant par les établissements à but lucratif de Revera que détient le gouvernement à l’échelle du pays. Ces propositions sont réfléchies et offrent une feuille de route pour mieux prendre en charge les personnes vulnérables dans les établissements. Le gouvernement aurait dû être beaucoup plus intéressé qu’il ne l’était lorsqu’il s’est prononcé contre notre motion portant sur cette proposition et l’a rejetée plus tôt cette semaine. Nous pouvons affirmer sans exagérer que chaque Canadien, quel que soit son âge, mérite de vivre dans la dignité et d’être traité avec respect par son gouvernement et le système de soins de santé. Le défi consiste à trouver des moyens de s’assurer que le sentiment s’applique aux personnes qui vivent dans des ELSD. De même, les familles méritent d’être sûres que leurs proches constituent la priorité lorsqu’ils sont placés dans des établissements de soins de longue durée.
I'm looking forward to the April constituency week. I think I'm ready for some time away from Queen's Park and a break from that long road I travel both ways every weekend. I've always maintained that, far from being a monotonous waste of time each weekend, it actually provides me with a wonderful opportunity to really think things through uninterrupted. The other night, however, something happened that made me sit up and realize that between the goings-on in the Legislature and endless hours on the road, I got the message I need a break. I've travelled this road so many times that I'm sure my car knows the way without even using Google Navigation. I got out of QP late and was heading on Hwy 400 North of Barrie when I came to the place where drivers heading to Hwy 11 stay on and 400 veer off right. I was thinking about how to move the broadband for Northerners issue forward when I swear I heard the voice of KITT from the old TV show Knight Rider say, “Hey Michael, don't miss your turn here.” Of course, I showed my true Canadian colours and said, “Thanks KITT.” My response told me it's time to spend time in the constituency office. In a team meeting the next morning we were talking about how stressed and frustrated people are of late. It's a totally different kind of stress than a year ago. Many people are really at their wits end trying to keep it all together for their family in terms of physical and mental health as well as financial security in the here and now, let alone tomorrow. Some are actually scared. My team spends so much time on the phone and responding to email, trying to help constituents any way we can. The overall message is that Northerners are feeling isolated and abandoned by the Doug Ford and his government. This is the same Doug Ford who professed to be “there for the little guy.” In fact the Province proclaimed that his government was, “Ontario's first ever government for the people.” People are desperate for money because so many jobs have disappeared – especially in the tourism, recreation and sport industries which normally bring in millions to AlgomaManitoulin all year round. Then Ontarians learn that just six executives at Ontario Power Generation took home $5.5 million. There were huge raises at the very top, and now 17 people
CHAPLEAU EXPRESS, April 1, 2021 - Page 5 make more than $700,000. Meanwhile, Premier delay. Every essential worker not only Ford is denying frontline health care heroes a deserves, but must have, presumptive WSIB much deserved and needed permanent raise, coverage for mental health treatment and including Personal Support Workers (PSWs). support — without the added stress of being In fact, this “defender” of the little guy has forced to prove this was due to their experiences passed a likely-unconstitutional wage constraint on the job. law to hold back the wages of Ontario workers I've had many constituents call my office while allowing executive salaries to soar. Kind to say that despite knowing they will qualify for of hard for Ontarians to swallow, eh? a Northern Health Travel Grant, they can't go P S W ' s t r u l y j u s t o n e o f m a n y because the lack the financial ability to put the occupations that the pandemic has raised money upfront for travel and accommodation so awareness of an extensive list of essential they can be reimbursed weeks down the road. workers. These workers who stand on the New Democrats understand how people are frontline performing their duties to keep people struggling to afford to pay for necessary safe and keep our economy and supply lines expenses, including costs associated with moving put themselves at heightened risk day mandatory personal identification. after day. They have worked long hours, often in Northerners in more remote, rural or First the most difficult conditions without taking time Nations communities have to travel very long off. Many have suffered from the mental and distances at great expense just to obtain this emotional toll this has had on them and their basic ID; new parents who need to pay for their families. Workers have experienced stress and children's long-form birth certificate but have anxiety, and we are seeing more and more cases limited access to government services, folks of post-traumatic stress disorder and other who need to pay to update their name and gender conditions being reported. on their identification, and people living in The NDP is introducing new legislation poverty and homelessness who can't access the that would guarantee our essential workers have help they need without government ID. access to presumptive coverage for mental With this in mind, NDP MPP Judith health benefits through the Workplace Safety Monteith-Farrell from Thunder Bay-Attikokan and Insurance Board (WSIB). NDP MPP introduced a bill called the Awenen Niin Act Monique Taylor's Workplace Safety and (Who Am I) Respecting Identity Documents Insurance Amendment Act (Access to Mental which would have removed user fees for all Health Support for Essential Workers), 2021, services related to Ontario birth certificates and provides workers designated as essential, or Ontario Photo Cards (purple ID cards). No one who are working in a workplace designated as in Ontario should be denied public services essential, with the presumption that any mental because they don't have the money to pay for health-related injuries they suffer arose from their ID. But Doug Ford chose to ignore the their work during the pandemic. This would pleas of people who are living paycheque-toentitle these workers to access WSIB benefits paycheque, coping with unemployment or for chronic or traumatic mental stress injuries. living in poverty. By refusing to remove user A recent Ontario Nurses' Association fees from personal identification in Ontario he (ONA) survey found that just over 60 per cent of continues to ignore the needs of Ontario's little nurses working in long-term care homes with guys who are truly hurting. large outbreaks reported they were experiencing New Democrats have a better way to do symptoms of PTSD. Taylor says that these things that not only respects the strengths of the days, many more Ontarians working in health people of Ontario but also recognizes that by care, retail, education and public health are helping them to meet their needs, everyone facing mental health challenges due to their benefits. Good jobs, and financial security for work during the pandemic. working families is what will help people There are health care workers who weather the COVID-19 storm, and it's what will repeatedly watched people take their dying drive the recovery. Months ago we launched our breath without any family there to comfort them. Save Main Street plan. And that is just one part There are long-term care home staff who had to of the comprehensive second-wave plan Ontario walk away from residents crying out in pain desperately needs. because another person's need was greater. Along with my colleagues we will There are educators who worked while stiff with continue to honour our commitment to fear to support children who need one-on-one Ontarians to not just constructively oppose but help, but can't wear a mask. The mental health propose new and innovative pathways to impact of this pandemic will continue to be felt success for all. in the months and years to come, and we have a As always, please feel free to contact my duty to ensure our frontline heroes get all the office about these issues, or any other provincial support they need. matters. You can reach my constituency office It's time for the Ford government to take by email at mmantha-co@ndp.on.ca or by phone action by supporting this legislation without at 705-461-9710 or Toll free 1-800-831-1899.
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Last weeks solutions MOMENTS IN TIME On April 18, 1989, thousands of Chinese students continue to take to the streets in Beijing to protest government policies and issue a call for greater democracy, resulting in the Tiananmen Square Massacre and thousands of protestors dead. Fear that a severe U.S. reaction to the massacre might result in a diplomatic rupture limited the official U.S. response.
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As of Saturday, April 3, Public Health Sudbury & Districts shifts to provincial online COVID-19 vaccine booking system for adults who are 70 and over this year To date, more than 96% of adults aged 80 and over, and more than 80% of adults 75 to 79 within the Public Health Sudbury & Districts service area have been vaccinated or are booked for appointments for the COVID-19 vaccine. As a proportion of the population, Public Health has immunized just over 16% of its population. The comparable figure is 14.68% for the province. With this tremendous progress, Public Health is opening appointment bookings on Saturday, April 3, 2021, for adults who are 70 years of age and older in this calendar year. Also, as of Saturday, people aged 70 and older will have the new option to book online in addition to the phone booking system. “I am very encouraged by the high demand for COVID-19 vaccine in our service area. The smiles on faces of those immunized—and their families—and the many words of encouragement boost our Public Health team through the long hours and constant readjustments of this extraordinary provincewide vaccine rollout. The sense of forward momentum is palpable, even as we continue to respond to cases and local outbreaks of COVID-19,” said Dr. Penny Sutcliffe, Medical Officer of Health with Public Health Sudbury & Districts. “We appreciate the leadership and support of our provincial partners that enable the local work of Public Health. This local work would not be possible without the strong partnerships with so many sectors in all our communities. Collectively, we continue to successfully book appointments, run mass and
mobile immunization clinics across Sudbury and districts, and get vaccine into arms, safely and efficiently. This is remarkable progress and in time, vaccine will be available for anyone who wishes to receive it,” said Dr. Sutcliffe. “I want to send a strong message of optimism to everyone, while also cautioning that we are at a tipping point. We are not out of the pandemic yet. With the rise in COVID-19 cases and the more transmissible variants of concern, we must stay the course until more people are immunized. I see this as the last stretch in our long pandemic marathon—we have to dig deep and know we have what it takes to get through this. Continue to keep your distance, wear your mask, and if you gather with anyone outside of your own household, do it outdoors,” stressed Dr. Sutcliffe. Online booking system Beginning Saturday, April 3, 2021, Public Health Sudbury & Districts will transition to the provincial online booking system for adults 70 years of age and older in this calendar year. For those who are currently eligible for vaccine and for those 70 and older who prefer phone-based booking, our call centre remains open to book appointments (starting Saturday for those 70 years of age and older). Online appointment booking: visit https://covid-19.ontario.ca/book-vaccine/ as of Saturday, April 3, 2021. Main line: call 705.674.2299 (toll-free: 1.800.708.2505), between 7 a.m. and 9 p.m.,
seven days a week. Alternate line: call 1.844.782.2273, between 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., seven days a week. Public Health is aware of the challenges some people have experienced while calling to book appointments, and everyone’s patience is greatly appreciated. While the transition to the provincial system may reduce our flexibility to quickly adapt to local circumstances, it will help increase capacity for our call centre, improve accessibility, and allow larger volumes of people to book appointments. As we trade local flexibility for additional capacity through online booking, appointment availability will continue to be based on vaccine supply and local eligibility. If the online booking system indicates that no appointments are available, this means that the clinics are fully booked. Clinics will continue to be added by Public Health over time. For details on local eligibility and upcoming vaccination clinics, visit our vaccination clinics page. Public Health Sudbury & Districts COVID-19 Vaccination Program Playbook (PDF, 4 MB) provides details about the local vaccination plans. For more information or if you have questions about the COVID-19 vaccine, please visit phsd.ca/COVID-19 or call Public Health Sudbury & Districts at 705.522.9200 (toll-free 1.866.522.9200). Public Health returns all calls received; however, at times, inquiry volumes are high. Patience is appreciated.
Passer du temps à l’extérieur contribue à notre bien-être
(EN) S’il n’est pas surprenant que le plein air contribue à une meilleure santé physique, des études montrent qu’il améliore également la
santé mentale. Aujourd’hui, les restrictions liées à la COVID-19 nous font encore plus apprécier le grand air. Être à l’extérieur nous permet de rencontrer des gens en respectant la distanciation sociale avec nos familles et nos amis, ce qui accroît le bien-être général. Les visites sur le trottoir sont désormais une partie intégrante de nos agendas. Faire des marches et profiter des parcs, des terrains de sport ou de leur propre jardin s’est avéré être une source de plaisir pour les familles, tout en contribuant à la santé
communautaire. Il n’est pas rare que les espaces verts soient menacés par les insectes, les mauvaises herbes et les maladies, mais il existe des outils – comme les pesticides à usage urbain – qui peuvent aider à gérer ces menaces et à garder les espaces extérieurs sains et agréables. Les pesticides se présentent sous forme de préparations grand public conçues spécialement pour une utilisation par les particuliers, ainsi que sous forme de produits commerciaux destinés à être utilisés par des personnes ayant reçu une formation spécialisée, tels les employés des entreprises d’entretien des pelouses et d’aménagement paysager. Les pesticides sont efficaces et sûrs car, avant qu’un seul puisse être vendu, il doit être approuvé par Santé Canada. Notre processus de règlementation est rigoureux, reconnu dans le monde entier, et il garantit que tous les pesticides utilisés sont sans danger tant pour la population que pour l’environnement.