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Earlier this week, Western University in London, Ont., announced an updated vaccine requirement — mandating a primary series of shots plus one booster for everyone returning to campus — along with resuming masking indoors for the fall. Since then, Ethan Gardner, president of Western's University Students' Council, has been fielding a barrage of communications from his peers. While some are upset with the timing — "They feel like it was short notice for the upcoming school year" — others have protested "the consistency of the announcements over the last year, including this summer," he said.
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An actor waits to go onstage to perform at the Mykolaiv Drama Theatre in Mykolaiv, Ukraine, on Thursday. It was an opening night like no other at the theatre, with the audience ushered down into a 35-seat underground shelter for the first performance since Russia invaded the country six months ago.
Advocates are gearing up for legal battles against Ontario's plan to move elderly and chronically ill patients out of hospitals and into long-term care homes, with lawyers warning the proposed change is a breach of patients' human rights. Under legislation unveiled last week, hospital patients who are deemed to no longer require acute care, but still need an "alternate level of care," could be admitted to an LTC home chosen without their input — potentially far away from family members and loved ones who play a critical role in their day-to-day care. Long-Term Care Minister Paul Calandra initially said no patients would be forced to go to a home they didn't want to live in, but has since said that those who refuse a placement should have to pay hospital charges for their ongoing stay. Doctors, lawyers and advocates say the government's plan would force patients to make an impossible choice: live somewhere they don't want to, or suffer the consequences. Read here for a closer look at what can — and can't — happen under the Ontario government's Bill 7.
The Saskatchewan Party announced it's giving us each $500. We've landed on the free parking square in Monopoly, if your family plays with that controversial rule, writes Craig Silliphant. Read the column here.
On Saturday, a car bomb killed pro-war Russian commentator Darya Dugina on the outskirts of Moscow. Dugina was the daughter of ultranationalist philosopher Alexander Dugin, whose influence on Russian President Vladimir Putin is widely debated — leading to speculation the bomb was meant for Dugin himself. Today on Front Burner, The Guardian's Moscow correspondent Andrew Roth explains who Dugin is, the competing theories for who was responsible for the car bombing, and what impact the attack could have on how the war in Ukraine is fought.
1784: Cape Breton is separated from Nova Scotia as one of several separate jurisdictions created for the United Empire Loyalists. It became part of Nova Scotia again in 1820. 1833: British explorer Capt. John Ross and his shipwrecked crew of 19 are rescued off Baffin Island. They had survived four winters with the help of the Inuit. Using shipwrecked boats they had found and fixed, the men set sail through a lane of water that opened up, and were rescued by the whaler Isabella. 1910: Humanitarian and Nobel Peace laureate Mother Teresa is born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in what is now Skopje, North Macedonia. The Roman Catholic nun devoted her life to the destitute and died in Calcutta, India, on Sept. 5, 1997. Pope Francis declared Mother Teresa a saint in 2016. 1951: Toronto Maple Leaf defenceman Bill Barilko is killed in a plane crash during a fishing trip in northern Ontario. Barilko, 24, had scored the Stanley Cup-winning goal in overtime against the Montreal Canadiens four months earlier. The crash site was not found until 1962.
With files from The Canadian Press, The Associated Press and Reuters
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