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04.03.2021 / 23:13

Roy Green: Proof of vaccination in exchange for mask freedom?

vaccinated against COVID-19.I miss what I couldn’t abide until recently, I wrote at the time, “things like a crowded elevator or sitting beside chattering and chewing patrons at sporting events or the movies. I detest the current reality of standing on spots while waiting to reach a cashier at the supermarket.” Roy Green — Why I will agree to be vaccinated (Dec.

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Roy Green: Super Bowl LV by the numbers

rather by 25,000 fans and 30,000 cutouts. That’s all in deference to the threat posed by number 19.Fans lucky enough to attend Super Blow LV will be required to maintain six feet of separation while wearing a KN95 mask provided courtesy of the NFL.As a tribute to their selfless care for others as the pandemic leaves a trail of fear and destruction, 7,500 vaccinated healthcare workers have been invited by the National Football League.It will be COVID-19, though, that ultimately determines who attends SB55 in person.

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Roy Green: We don’t deserve dogs, but we are blessed to have them

Keystone XL cancelling will stifle Canada’s oil industry for years: experts A neighbour slowly walks a magnificent Golden Retriever down my street. It’s not de rigeur and certainly not COVID-recommended, but doors — apparently coincidentally — open and humans find reason to tread to the sidewalk as this wonderful creature with its friendly eyes, graceful demeanor and purposefully wagging tail performs as mobile de-stressor.De-stressing is critical.According to the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, some 181,000 small business owners nationally are “seriously considering permanently closing, putting more than 2.4 million jobs at risk, a release dated Jan.

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Roy Green: Visceral questions concerning the pandemic

COVID-19, visceral questions beg to be addressed.Will a continued locking down of businesses, supplemented by the locking in of a population by way of curfews, prove either effective or acceptable by people who are stressed to the max? Curfew ‘best of the worst options’ as COVID-19 maintains hold on Canada, experts say Lockdowns don’t appear to be accomplishing their objectives, as the daily numbers of positive COVID-19 tests climb.

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Roy Green: The benefit of COVID-19 vaccines for major professional sports leagues

COVID-19-vaccine queue-jumping, followed by inevitable chatter that this would prove difficult to achieve by even the elites among us.I suspect many of the rest of us quite expect the well-heeled, the significantly influential, and best-connected may find their way to secretive vaccination.

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Roy Green: Why I will agree to be vaccinated

COVID-19 vaccine as soon as possible?That question has come my way repeatedly and in many ways. On and off the air.

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Roy Green: Canadian politicians need to stop squabbling and work together on COVID-19

coronavirus appears not only to beckon, but the miserable microbe is also engaged in crooking its metaphoric finger and a come hither slither.Is that a bit dramatic, a tad over the top? Perhaps. You decide.I have, though, been noticing that some politicians, usually those occupying parliamentary or provincial gulag seating (that is, the opposition benches), have sniffed out an opportunity to smear the other side as indifferently refusing to slam the door on any expansion of the COVID-19 coronavirus.And I find it’s happening particularly often on social media and through thankfully easily deleted electronic mass emails.

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Roy Green: How reliable are China’s COVID-19 numbers?

Worldometers website, coronavirus cases worldwide stood at 32.5 million on Friday morning.

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Roy Green: It’s time Canada’s members of Parliament shared the financial pain

passed a bill which, for one year, will reduce the salaries of MPs by 30 per cent “to meet the exigencies arising out of the COVID-19 pandemic.”New Zealand’s celebrated Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced in May that she and her cabinet would absorb a 20 per cent pay cut, saying “if there was ever a time to close the gap between groups of people across New Zealand in different positions, it is now,” adding the decision was taken to show “leadership and solidarity.”Other N.Z.

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Roy Green: Will Ontario history come calling on a prime minister with a checkered past?

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau propose pushing Canada and Canadians into existential debt with the delivery of the Speech from the Throne in three weeks’ time?Will Trudeau and his new Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland pitch an agenda of increasing massive debt and deficit? If so, where might any dedicated attention toward growing the economy and judiciously writing future cheques be directed?Is Trudeau preparing to engineer what amounts to a guaranteed annual income through the new $22-billion Canada Recovery Benefit (CRB)? The program will pay $400 weekly and not begin any clawing back of funds until a recipient reaches a $38,000 annual earning threshold.Might such a move offer an incentive to work less or not at all at minimum wage

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Roy Green: Is modern society divorcing its elders?

Images of the confined and elderly blowing kisses to family standing outside seniors residences and long-term care facilities as COVID-19 fears restricted human contact were and remain immensely saddening.

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Roy Green: Will inconsistent coronavirus messaging from leaders contribute to a second wave?

Daily on TV, radio and social media platforms, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has provided coronavirus updates, repeating that “our government” acts only on the best advice of medical and other experts. Advice hardly anchored in granite-like certitude, it would appear.

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Roy Green: The survival of small business owners should concern us all

The elderly Calgary garage owner broke down in tears repeatedly on air relating his deep concern over the very possible end to the entrepreneurial effort into which he invested his last dollar.

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Roy Green: I miss my sports

I should be watching replays of unforgettable moments in major sporting events on Friday night. That’s my usual Friday routine after the guests are booked and preparation is largely completed for my weekend programs on the Corus radio network.

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Roy Green: The opposition parties in Parliament must be heard from

While Canadians hear daily from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, opposition party leaders are conspicuous by their absence from public view.

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Roy Green: I am one of those Canadians most vulnerable to COVID-19

I am 73 years of age.

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United States	Cases: 46 252 513 Deaths: 750 423 Recovered: 0
India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
Brazil	Cases: 21 835 785 Deaths: 608 235 Recovered: 0
United Kingdom	Cases: 9 215 683 Deaths: 141 607 Recovered: 0
Russia	Cases: 8 494 589 Deaths: 237 619 Recovered: 0