The South Bayview Bulldog

Once again on Family Day large influential retail operations like the Eaton Centre have been permitted to remain open while small shops are threatened with fines if they dare to sell a thing. This legal abomination sits technically with the City. It’s a power Council has had since the Toronto Act invested it with the means to manage an embarrassing convention that Queen’s Park no longer wanted to shoulder, at least not in this great metropolis where people expect to be able to shop every day. There are many reasons why this unfair practice continues, all of them bad. Powerful realty companies and Lord’s Day hangover lobbies are two. The government will say it’s all about families and the fear that a parent won’t be able to spend time with a child. We have a hot flash. Thousands of parents are at work on Family day in exempted occupations ranging from theatre ushers to salt miners. Never mind the countless people at the shops in the Eaton Centre who would rather have a day off but are forced to work. It’s all as phony as Dalton McGuinty’s maudlin complaint that he just had to declare a mid-winter statuary holiday because he hadn’t spent enough time with his late father. What rubbish. There is a thing called the Ontario Labour Standards Act. It is perfectly suited to make sure that employees are dealt with fairly.  Those who don’t want to work can have it their way. Those who want to work should be permitted. Spare us the bogus concern about our families.

The Ontario health ministry is saying that as many as 1,300 people, most of them teenagers, were potentially exposed to measles at the two-day Christian event at Church of the Queensway on February 6 and 7, 2015. But this can be balanced against the likelihood that most of the youth present were immunized, as is 98  percent of the school population. See below 

The Ontario health ministry is saying that as many as 1,300 people, most of them teenagers, were potentially exposed to measles at the two-day Christian event at Church of the Queensway on February 6 and 7, 2015. But this can be balanced against the likelihood that most of the youth present were immunized, as is 98  percent of the school population. See below 

Health officials are asking anyone who attended an event at the Church of the Queensway to place themselves in voluntary quarantine. This after another case of measles was announced on Family Day morning.  The total number of  confirmed cases in Ontario is now said to be 11.   Medical Officer of Health Dr. Robin Williams says anyone who attended the Acquire the Fire event at the church  may be at risk. Williams said that a person who has the virus attended the event during the measles infectious period. Individuals who attended the events, and are born after 1970, are requested to review their immunization status to ensure they’re protected against the measles, the statement said. Anyone who has not been immunized is requested to “self-isolate” and contact public health officials, or call Telehealth Ontario at 1-866-797-0000. They’re asked not to attend a doctor’s office or health centre without calling first to warn of the risk. “They should not attend any public gatherings and should not attend school, work, daycare or any post-secondary institutions until they are cleared of measles risk,” the statement said. Symptoms of measles include fever, cough, runny nose, inflammation of the eyes and rash. If individuals who attended the event develop one or more of the symptoms in the next two weeks, they’re asked to contact their doctor and their local public health unit. 

Health officials are asking anyone who attended an event at the Church of the Queensway to place themselves in voluntary quarantine. This after another case of measles was announced on Family Day morning.  The total number of  confirmed cases in Ontario is now said to be 11.   Medical Officer of Health Dr. Robin Williams says anyone who attended the Acquire the Fire event at the church  may be at risk. Williams said that a person who has the virus attended the event during the measles infectious period. Individuals who attended the events, and are born after 1970, are requested to review their immunization status to ensure they’re protected against the measles, the statement said. Anyone who has not been immunized is requested to “self-isolate” and contact public health officials, or call Telehealth Ontario at 1-866-797-0000. They’re asked not to attend a doctor’s office or health centre without calling first to warn of the risk. “They should not attend any public gatherings and should not attend school, work, daycare or any post-secondary institutions until they are cleared of measles risk,” the statement said. Symptoms of measles include fever, cough, runny nose, inflammation of the eyes and rash. If individuals who attended the event develop one or more of the symptoms in the next two weeks, they’re asked to contact their doctor and their local public health unit.