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Thought of the Day - September 22 - The Canadian Housing Boom
Moncton, Halifax, Ottawa and Montreal have joined Toronto and Vancouver in a boom in house prices brought on by the pandemic. While...
Cliff Fraser
Sep 22, 20202 min read
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Thought of the Day - September 21 - Testing
I thought today I would reflect a little on the state of testing. It was July when we last discussed the subject (Thought of the Day -...
Cliff Fraser
Sep 22, 20202 min read
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Thought of the Day - September 20 - By the Numbers
Canada's case rate continues to increase (and due to our limited outbreaks and testing, we cannot suggest that in Canada we have a...
Cliff Fraser
Sep 21, 20201 min read
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Thought of the Day - September 18 - Alberta Bound
Earlier this week I enjoyed the privilege of travelling to Alberta. Traffic was fairly light (there was almost no one in Banff), but the...
Cliff Fraser
Sep 18, 20201 min read
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Thought of the Day - September 17 - Eyeglasses
Over the past months there have been a number of observations made concerning those most likely to have severe symptoms from COVID-19. ...
Cliff Fraser
Sep 17, 20201 min read
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Thought of the Day - September 16 - Attractions Revisited
Less than a month ago, I suggested that you take the opportunity to visit your favourite attraction around town before the summer ended...
Cliff Fraser
Sep 16, 20201 min read
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Thought of the Day - September 15 - Neighbourhood Whistle-blowers
An interesting dynamic is starting to develop as countries experience their second major wave of COVID cases. Rather than wholesale...
Cliff Fraser
Sep 15, 20201 min read
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Thought of the Day - September 14 - COVID Symptoms
Back in March, I published one of the first lists of COVID symptoms on the Neighbourhood COVID site: Other Stuff Since then there have...
Cliff Fraser
Sep 14, 20201 min read
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Thought of the Day - September 13 - By the Numbers
This week I am going to have a little more of a look around the world. The key change that has been happening recently is that the...
Cliff Fraser
Sep 13, 20201 min read
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Thought of the Day - September 11 - Masks Re-Revisted
Most of the world now understands the benefit of masks. They lower the viral load (both sent and received) and thus decrease the chance...
Cliff Fraser
Sep 12, 20201 min read
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Thought of the Day - September 10 - BC's Economy
In these times it is difficult to comprehend how our economy is doing in absolute terms. As economies in all regions are affected it is...
Cliff Fraser
Sep 10, 20201 min read
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Thought of the Day - September 9 - Buy Canadian
One of the keys to getting our economy restarted is to increase demand for domestic products. While more than half of the products...
Cliff Fraser
Sep 10, 20203 min read
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Thought of the Day - September 8 - Border Still Closed
The Canadian/US border has been closed to non-commercial traffic since the end of March (Thought of the Day - June 4 - Border...
Cliff Fraser
Sep 8, 20201 min read
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Thought of the Day - September 7 - Neighbourhood Restaurants
Even before COVID, local restaurants were few and far between. The SoHo sports bar is still vacant, scenic Horizons restaurant closed at...
Cliff Fraser
Sep 7, 20201 min read
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Thought of the Day - September 9 - By the Numbers
Cases in Canada have continued to rise in recent weeks. Canada is the yellow line under Cameroon at a little over 3% increase in cases in...
Cliff Fraser
Sep 7, 20201 min read
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Thought of the Day - September 4 - Centenarian Sisters Survive COVID
Anna Del Priore contracted the Spanish flu in 1918, at about 6 years old. She survived, grew up, got married and raised two children. ...
Cliff Fraser
Sep 4, 20201 min read
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Thought of the Day - September 3 - Are We Getting A "Case-demic"?
In Germany, Italy and the UK case rates have been rising rapidly over the past month. In France and Spain, they have returned to their...
Cliff Fraser
Sep 3, 20202 min read
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Thought of the Day - September 2 - Blow at High Dough
Well, physical distancing and border restrictions or no, the movie industry is back in full swing here in Hollywood North as part of...
Cliff Fraser
Sep 2, 20201 min read
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Thought of the Day - September 1 - The XYZ Hypothesis
There is growing discussion that the belief we are still a long way from Herd Immunity are probably wrong. The XYZ Hypothesis is the idea...
Cliff Fraser
Sep 1, 20202 min read
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Thought of the Day - August 31 - Update On the Source
It has been several months since we discussed the importance of finding the source of the SARS-CoV-2 virus (Thought of the Day - June 17...
Cliff Fraser
Aug 31, 20202 min read
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