A contest with a different message
Sagamok-Anishnawbek First Nation will use Youtubers and TicTok to promote a contest focusing on COVID-19 and positive messaging.
Indigenous Youtubers and TikTok specialists are invited to enter one to three-minute-long comedic or dramatic videos promoting the importance of COVID-19 vaccination.
First prize is $2,500, second is $1,500 and third is $1,000.
The videos must promote the importance of getting vaccinated for COVID-19 and be entirely original content, clean and PG-rated or less, and not violate any copyright or other similar laws.
The contest is open to all indigenous contestants across Canada and must be submitted by 4:30 PM on September 10th.
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WEB: All entries are to be sent via email to: [email protected]
Teachers want to see stronger vaccination policy
Ontario’s elementary teachers say the province’s new vaccination guidelines don’t go far enough.
Under new rules, announced yesterday, those working in the education and iseveral health care sectors will have to undergo frequent testing, if they aren’t inoculated against COVID-19.
That’s similar to the program already in place in long-term care homes.
But the Elementary Teachers Union says vaccinations should be mandatory for those working in schools.
Union President Sam Hammond says, considering the dangers posed by the more-contagious Delta variant, especially to children under 12 who can’t yet be vaccinated, the government must do more to ensure the health and safety of staff and students.
The opposition New Democrats call the government’s plan a “risky half measure.”
Caucus requires vaccination
Despite Premier Doug Ford’s opposition to mandatory vaccinations, his office says all Conservative MPPs must be inoculated against COVID-19.
A spokesperson says it’s necessary because their work requires close interaction with the public.
If they don’t get their shots, the MPPs will be suspended from caucus.
So far, just over 82 per cent of Ontario residents, 12 and older, have received at least one shot of vaccine…..more than 74 per cent have had both.
The province’s chief medical officer of health, Doctor Kieran Moore, says they’ll soon be offering third doses of vaccine to the most vulnerable in our province.
That includes residents in long-term care homes, and medically-vulnerable people such as transplant patients.
Poll shows little sympathy for unvaccinated
A new poll shows 83 per cent of vaccinated Canadians don’t have any sympathy for those who refuse to get their COVID-19 shots.
The Angus Reid survey also shows that support for measures to encourage vaccinations is high across all political parties.
It finds 93 per cent of Liberal voters, 88 per cent of NDP supporters, and 67 per cent of those supporting the Conservatives back regulations and incentives to convince Canadians to get inoculated.
