Keeping the surge at bay
While experts argue about whether the so-called "second wave" of COVID-19 has already come to Canada, we here on the East Coast are in a better position than most areas to keep the tide at bay.
The Atlantic provinces have yet to see a resurgence of the disease and Raywat Deonandan, epidemiologist and associate professor at the University of Ottawa’s faculty of health sciences, says that second wave may never arrive at our bubble's shores.
“You’ve got a really good chance of keeping the numbers down,” Deonandan tells the Chronicle Herald's Nebal Snan. “So, if anyone can do it, Atlantic Canada can.”
Cape Breton basketball bubble?
Speaking of bubbles, every major sports league has been working around the pandemic by isolating their games to a few fields, rinks or stadiums in order to keep their players and entourages as safe as possible.
We've even seen examples of sports bubble cities here in Atlantic Canada with the Canadian Premier League holding all of its soccer matches in Prince Edward Island.
Could the National Basektball League of Canada follow suit?
The Cape Breton Post's Jeremy Fraser thinks it should, and makes the case that the bubble could be in Cape Breton.
Let us know if you agree after reading Fraser's take.
Normalizing periods
When Destinee MacInnis of Havre Boucher, N.S., had her first period, she had no idea what to expect because of a lack of education on the topic.
“A lot of the time, it was kind of just pushed under a rug … I didn't know what was going to happen, I didn’t know all the (premenstrual syndrome) symptoms,” the now 18-year-old tells Chelsey Gould as part SaltWire's East Coast Teens to Watch series.
MacInnis is one of eight girls who decided to form a group that became Girls Taking Action, a place to discuss and take on projects against issues facing them and their female peers based out of Port Hawkesbury.
While some people might feel uncomfortable talking openly about periods, MacInnis appears to be able to sway anyone — including her own father.