Well the news dominating the media from late last week is the US President Donald Trump and the First Lady Melania have contracted...

As most of you have seen Montreal is now under Red Alert - the highest level. Personally I like the concept of alerting the public to...

Forget the Thrive Canada app, Zoe is coming. Besides having a cute name (like Thrive they seem to be a supplement company), the Zoe...

Back in July I talked a little about a contact tracing apps, or lack thereof in Canada (Thought of the Day - July 17 - Contact Tracing...

A BC provincial election has been called, so here we go. Horgan and the NDP are banking on their track record in handling the pandemic...

An interesting dynamic is starting to develop as countries experience their second major wave of COVID cases. Rather than wholesale...

Well after all that hard work: business closures, public re-education, isolation of the most vulnerable, it looks like a new wave of...

The current topic on everyone's mind, whether you have kids or no, is the debate on the start of the school year. I must admit I was...

While I have resisted doing much geopolitical reflection in this blog, a buddy sent me this article (link) from The Rolling Stone:...

Back in March, I talked a little about what could be learned from the so-called "Spanish Flu" from over a hundred years ago...

On March 5, the first outbreak in a Canadian long-term care home was reported; it was a staff member at the Lynn Valley Care Centre. On...

Am skipping the usual Sunday "By The Numbers" to give you an update on what we observed while sailing the south coast of Vancouver...

Without being too xenophobic, I, for one, was glad to hear that the Canada-US border restrictions were being extended to August 21st as...

Well here we are: less than 1% infection, largely reopened, and with a small but slowly growing number of cases. Early on I talked about...

I was pleasantly surprised to see discussion on preliminary results from a new joint study from the University of British Columbia, the...

If you have been down to Burnaby Lake in the past couple of months you have probably noticed the increase in Canada Geese this year. The...

As you now there are two main types of testing available for SARs-CoV2. Antigen Tests (Do You have COVID-19?) - (RT-PCR) Nasal swab test...

A couple of weeks I wrote a note about the mystery of the origin of SARS-CoV-2 (https://clifffraser0.wixsite.com/covid-19/post/thought-of...

Due to our limited testing, tracking and tracing practices here in BC, you may want to check the BC Public Health alerts page on a...

For the last little while I have been watching the discussion about allowing drinking in "public spaces" across the lower mainland. I...