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  2020-04-15

  Racist Meme

  This racist meme, posted on the Facebook page "French Canadian Memes," highlights the prejudice displayed by many Canadians at the beginning of the pandemic
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  2020

  Manitoba Ban on Non-Essentials

  Manitoba government banned the sale of non-essential items in large superstores in conjunction with further restrictions on large gatherings
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  2020

  Tyler Shandro

  A meme depicting Alberta Health Minister Tyler Shandro thinking of the amount of money he can make from kicking people off health care and signing them up for Vital Partners
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  2020

  Caulfield Elementary School

  A socially distanced classroom at Caulfield Elementary School in British Columbia, where in-person classes are allowed to take place in a modified fashion
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  2021

  Local Advocates Lobby For Priority

  Local advocates lobby for vaccine priority be given to those with high risk developmental disorders, such as Down Syndrome
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  2020

  British Columbia Mask Mandate

  Sign outside a Chilliwack business stating that masks must be work upon entry
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  2020

  Sophie Gregoire Trudeau Gets "All Clear"

  Sophie Gregoire Trudeau announced via social media that she was given the all clear to cease her self isolation following her COVID-19 diagnosis
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  2021

  [DUPLICATE] COVID-19 Proof of Immunization

  Artistic representation of a COVID-19 proof of immunization QR code on phones, meant to allow for greater freedom of movement as more vaccines are distributed
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  2020-07-07

  Maskless Andrew Scheer and Brian Pallister

  This picture, posted by Twitter user "Canadian Dollaz," shows Conservative Party leader Andrew Scheer and Manitoba premier Brian Pallister sitting maskless in Pearson Airport on 7 July 2020.
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  2020-04-11

  Canadian Members of Parliament practicing physical distancing while the House of Commons is in session

  Canadian Members of Parliament practicing physical distancing while the House of Commons is in session.
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  2021-01-06

  Quebec imposes curfew, tightens lockdown restrictions as coronavirus health crisis deepens

  In his first address of the New Year on Wednesday, Quebec Premier François Legault announced a tightening of lockdown measures aimed at bringing the second wave of the novel coronavirus in the province under control.
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  2021-02-26

  Coronavirus: Quebec considering ‘immunization passports’

  With coronavirus vaccinations now underway in Quebec, the province’s health minister is floating the idea of a so-called “COVID-19 passport” — digital proof that people have gotten the jab in order to access venues or activities.
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  2021-02-13

  Advocates call on Quebec to prioritize those with developmental disabilities for COVID-19 vaccine

  Research suggests people with Down syndrome are more vulnerable to the coronavirus.
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  2020-12-17

  New Ale House Sign: London ON, Canada

  A pub in downtown London Ontario, Canada has been making its opinion of the pandemic restrictions heard through their ever changing sign out front.
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  2021-01-10

  Local Bar Offers Food Delivery With a Side of Live Music

  Two downtown bars in Windsor, Ontario, are offering live music alongside food delivery. Customers can choose from multiple "Gravy Train" packages which offer food and performance from a local musician.
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  2020-12-08

  Critique of Canada's COVID response

  The author of this tweet provides a critique of the government's response to COVID-19.
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  2020-10-07

  Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) saved Canada, Kevin Kent

  Kevin Kent expresses his opinion that CERB saved Canada, rather than ruined it, as many Conservative commentators posited.
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  2020-05-04

  Critique of Andrew Scheer, former Canadian Conservative Party leader

  Twitter user Bill Sullivan expresses his opinion that Scheer wanted to amplify the sufferings of Canadians during the pandemic.
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  2020-06-05

  How the COVID-19 crisis calls us towards reconciliation

  This brief article details the impact of COVID-19 on reconciliation with Indigenous people in Canada.
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  2020-04-20

  The Pandemic Is Slicing Away Indigenous Sovereignty in Canada

  This news article outlines how COVID-19 is undermining Indigenous sovereignty in Canada, with a focus on the Wet’suwet’en pipeline protests in British Columbia, Canada.
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  2020-10-21

  Justin Trudeau, Canadian Prime Minister (PM), warns against 'internment camp' disinformation

  In this clip, Canada's PM Justin Trudeau warns about "internment camp" disinformation. Far-right conservative conspiracy theorists misinterpreted information from the federal government, which they thought was planning to put those who did not abide by COVID rules and regulations into internment camps.
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  2020

  Cottage Political Scandal

  This meme makes fun of the cottage scandal that happened at the beginning of the pandemic, where wealthy Canadian political leaders from the Progressive Conservative and Liberal parties supposedly escaped to the solitude of their cottages while Canadians suffered. The New Democratic Party, owing to the austere roots of their political message, avoided criticism.
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  2020-11-16

  Working Canadians should not pay for the pandemic, Jagmeet Singh, leader of the New Democratic Party (NDP) of Canada

  This tweet from NDP leader Jagmeet Singh highlights his belief that working Canadians should not pay for the pandemic. Singh and the NDP tried to use this rhetoric to implement a wealth tax on Canadians making more than 20 mil. annually.
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  2020-11-16

  "The Maclean’s Conservative Resistance with their respective COVID charts"

  This tweet makes fun of Maclean's magazine's "Conservative Resistance" by overlaying the pictures of these respective Canadian conservative leaders with their COVID charts.
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  2020-12-09

  Indigenous communities to sit tight and wait for vaccine roll out

  Canada will receive up to 249,000 doses of the vaccine by the end of the month. This will vaccinate up to 124,500 people as a person has to take two doses for it to be effective. However, it's up to the provinces and territories to determine how the doses will be distributed. Indigenous communities are on the priority list but they will have to patient, since there aren't enough vaccines and there are difficulties in distributing it to communities who do not have the proper facilities to store it. Most Indigenous communities are disproportionally affected by the disease. First Nations people in Manitoba living off reserve make up 65 per cent of the overall First Nations COVID cases in the province.
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  2020-11-19

  Manitoba bans in-store sales of non-essential items, visitors to homes with some exceptions

  The orders come into effect on Friday, except for the rule requiring businesses to prevent access to non-essential items; businesses must not sell non-essential goods starting Friday, but have until Saturday to remove them from shelves or rope off those areas of stores. Curbside pickup of non-essential items will still be allowed.
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  2020-07-30

  Saskatchewan premier urges feds to help airlines survive COVID-19

  COMPANY NEWS Canada Jul 3, 2020 Saskatchewan premier urges feds to help airlines survive COVID-19 Michelle Zadikian, BNN Bloomberg Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe is warning it could be harder for businesses to ramp up their operations after Air Canada decided to suspend four regional routes to and from the province’s main cities.
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  2020-12-14

  B.C. looks at speedy increase in fines for repeat COVID-19 offenders

  Following several incidents where groups of people refused to obey orders banning in-person religious gatherings, B.C. Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth asks to increase fines for those people breaking COVID-19 laws multiple times.
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  2020

  Mind Control: Managing Your Mental Health During COVID-19

  The University of Toronto has developed a free course entitled Mind Control: Managing Your Mental Health During COVID-19, in order to equip Canadians with tools to manage our mental health, before it manages you. The course is designed to teach students about anxiety as it presents itself throughout our daily life, from the consumption of news, to the way it is discussed with our children. Understanding how our brains react to crises, students would be more prepared to manage their own mental health.
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  2020-07-08

  Big uptake of COVID-19 emergency benefit program in N.W.T and Nunavut

  27,790 people in the the Northwest Territories and Nunavut have received the Canadian Emergency Response Benefit for one month or more.
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  12/07/2020

  Opposition questions Yukon vaccine plan, after learning territory left out of 1st batch

  The first batch of COVID vaccine of nearly 250,000 doses will be available before the end of the year, but none will go to the territories. The North lacks the freezers required to store the Pfizer vaccine, which the company says requires a freezer at –80 C to –60 C or in a thermal container at –90 C to –60 C.
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  07/18/2020

  Nunavut premier defends trip to retrieve personal plane, isolating at cabin rather than hotel

  Nunavut Premier Joe Savikataaq defends a trip he took to Winnipeg to retrieve his personal float plane, in which he was allowed to forego the two-week quarantine protocols in one of the southern hubs.
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  11/26/2020

  Northwest Territories gov't report hints at dramatic impacts of COVID-19 on tourism industry

  A report produced by the Northwest Territories (N.W.T) department of industry, tourism and investment offers a peek into the dramatic negative impacts the COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked on the territory's tourism industry.
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  06/02/2020

  Canada's Nunavut: A vast territory with few people - and no coronavirus

  Nunavut remains the only state-level jurisdiction in North America not to record a single case of the virus that has sickened millions and killed more than 375,000 people worldwide. Every other Canadian province and territory and every U.S. and Mexican state has reported at least a few.
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  10/19/2020

  Coronavirus: The place in North America with no cases

  Covid-19 cases are rising in many parts of Canada, but one region - Nunavut, a northern territory - is a rare place in North America that can say it's free of coronavirus in its communities.
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  12/08/2020

  Northwest Territories (N.W.T) public health emergency extended for 19th time

  N.W.T. Health and Social Services Minister Julie Green extends the territory-wide public health emergency until Dec. 22 on the advice of the Chief Public Health Officer.
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  12/10/2020

  Moderna vaccine to be available to 75% of 'eligible population' in N.W.T in early 2021

  The Northwest Territories government expects the Moderna vaccine for COVID-19 to be available to 75 per cent of the territory's "eligible population" in "early 2021," according to a media advisory issued Thursday afternoon.
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  2020-11-25

  Nova Scotian provincial government caps rent increases at 2% and bans 'renovictions' during pandemic

  This new article details how the provincial government of Nova Scotia humanely reacted to the pandemic.
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  2020-09-13

  QAnon Knows No Borders, even in Nova Scotia

  This article details a far-right political conspiracy and its existence in Nova Scotia.
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  2020-12-01

  Nova Scotia government has spent $580M so far responding to the pandemic

  This article details how much money the government of Nova Scotia allocated to different sectors of the Nova Scotian economy during the pandemic.
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  2020-10-29

  Government of Canada invests $945,000 to further protect Prince Edward Island (PEI) farm workers during COVID-19

  In this statement, the Canadian federal government pledges monetary relief to P.E.I.'s farmers amidst the pandemic.
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  2020-02-28

  COVID-19 and Discrimination in Nova Scotia

  A news release from the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission asking Nova Scotians to be vigilant against discrimination based on ethnic or national origin as global health concerns heighten.
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  2020-12-02

  Dr. Furey’s prescription: How Newfoundland and Labrador’s (N.L.) Premier pictures its postpandemic comeback

  Andrew Furey, the Premier of N.L., outlines how he pictures the province's post-pandemic comeback will look.
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  2020-10-19

  Newfoundland and Labrador's COVID-19 travel ban decision to be appealed, Canadian Civil Liberties Association

  This article shows how hotly debated travel bans were in Canada. The Canadian Civil Liberties Association doesn't agree with a ruling that provinces or territories have a right to exclude Canadians from traveling.
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  2020-09-17

  Newfoundland and Labrador (N.L.) travel ban upheld in provincial Supreme Court ruling

  This news article outlines the discussions around travel bans and their legality within N.L.'s legislature.
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  2020-06-28

  Prince Edward Island sees rise in anti-outsider sentiment as COVID-19 travel restrictions ease

  This new article speaks to the anti-outsider sentiment in Prince Edward Island, which even manifested itself in their provincial legislature, according to this piece.
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  2020

  The Atlantic Provinces Defend the Bubble Against Quebec

  In this meme, the Atlantic provinces prepare to defend themselves against visitors from Quebec.
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  2020

  The Dissolution of the Atlantic Bubble

  This meme makes fun of the dissolution of the Atlantic Bubble.
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  2020

  Conspiracies in New Brunswick

  This meme makes fun of conspiracy theories, especially regarding the pandemic, in New Brunswick.
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  2020

  Was it necessary to call a provincial election in New Brunswick amidst a pandemic?

  This meme makes fun of New Brunswick's provincial leadership for calling an election during the pandemic, which is not necessarily the wisest choice.