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Vaccinated?

  • Yes...Pfizer or Moderna

    Votes: 82 58.6%
  • Yes...Astra Zeneca or J&J

    Votes: 26 18.6%
  • not yet but soon

    Votes: 11 7.9%
  • not booking it yet but I might get it eventually

    Votes: 11 7.9%
  • not going to get vaccinated

    Votes: 13 9.3%

  • Total voters
    140
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They say a lot of things about employment contracts. Most of it isn't applicable in Canada, but especially Ontario. If an employment contract violates any legislation, regulations, employment standards, or general fair labor practices, the courts won't uphold it. Even the ever so popular restricted covenants such as non-compete clauses get labelled as a "restraint on trade", and are very rarely upheld by any judge in Ontario.

Unless you hired a lawyer to review it before signing, your employer can show they are providing fair additional compensation for any clauses they want you to agree on (which means more then just getting the job), and your non-compete comes with a golden parachute to keep you home. Your contract is worth less then the paper it's printed on once it hits an Ontario judge.
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They say a lot of things about employment contracts. Most of it isn't applicable in Canada, but especially Ontario. If an employment contract violates any legislation, regulations, employment standards, or general fair labor practices, the courts won't uphold it. Even the ever so popular restricted covenants such as non-compete clauses get labelled as a "restraint on trade", and are very rarely upheld by any judge in Ontario.

Unless you hired a lawyer to review it before signing, your employer can show they are providing fair additional compensation for any clauses they want you to agree on (which means more then just getting the job), and your non-compete comes with a golden parachute to keep you home. Your contract is worth less then the paper it's printed on once it hits an Ontario judge.
I assume you have been to court regarding a restrictive covenant or fiduciary duty case?

The legal system is for rich people.

You would run out of money to fight the good fight before we got through discoveries. You might not even be able to make your mortgage payment after your legal bill after I tried for an injunction let alone to discoveries.

Have you been served on the matter in the past? Had a covenant validity ruled on?

It took 2 years and 6 days in court for me. And he couldnt even produce a signed covenant.

Your advice to people that a covenant is not enforceable is bad advice. Never sign one is good advice.
 
Vaccine deliveries could be less than expected next month, new logistics commander says


Based on the current estimate, Canada could receive 8 to 10 million fewer vaccine doses than expected

Since April, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Procurement Minister Anita Anand have said Canada will receive a cumulative total of between 48 million and 50 million doses by the end of June. But at a Thursday vaccine briefing officials significantly dampened expectations, saying the country has only confirmed deliveries for about 40 million doses for the first half of the year, meaning the administration of second doses could happen at a slower pace than hoped for just a few weeks ago.
 
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Headlines in the Star this morning

COVID-19 pandemic and its effects killed far more people than originally thought. Ontario scientists have charted the real numbers
 
I assume you have been to court regarding a restrictive covenant or fiduciary duty case?

I have a few friends who have, and they won. So when asked to sign one, I contacted a couple employment lawyers just to get things in order.

Except for cases of non-solicitation where former employees took customer records, they both cited quite a bit of recent case law showing it's unlikely to be enforceable. That was good enough for me.
 
Vaccine deliveries could be less than expected next month, new logistics commander says

So, now Ford is going to say the Feds are keeping us from reopening. Great.

If this man could come to a decision without blaming others that would be great.
 
I dont care who he blames, the last two re openings in reality came too quickly, cost millions of dollars and put many people at risk. This new avoid the color zone system and reopen slowly , based on vaccinated numbers makes sense.
Get to the point where surgeries can be booked, and schedules kept. Stop letting Milton have a patio so everybody in Brampton can drive over for a beer.
This "if we dont reopen we go broke" , yes you may. If you reopen and people get sick and spread this again, its not going to be better.
 
40 million doses (cumulative total) by end of June is still enough to cover everyone, and start doing second doses - as promised (at the federal level). In fact it's roughly enough to cover 80% of the adult population with their first dose and 40% with their second. I'm as fed up with Doug Ford playing the blame game as anyone else. YES, it would have been nice if certain things had happened faster or been done differently on the federal level. Deal with the situation on the ground and stop playing the blame game. (In particular, get that in-stock AstraZeneca that's about to expire, out to the pharmacies so that they can distribute it as second doses, and do it NOW!! Don't make those people wait 4 months and throw that vaccine out.)

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Vaccinations - Statistics and Research -> as indicated by people with at least one dose, we have pulled ahead of the USA. The next milestone is 50% coverage of the population - that will probably happen Saturday and be on that website on Sunday (reporting delays).

In Ontario we are near-as-makes-no-difference at 60% of adult population covered which is the trigger condition for the phase 1 opening week of 14 June.

There's about 11.3 million adults in Ontario. Giving a dose to 10% of the adults, at vaccination rates that we have recently been doing, takes 8 days. Getting to 70% from 60% should happen somewhere near end of May at that rate. The target a few weeks ago was 65% of adults by end of May - we should exceed that. At some point in June, expect to hear from the media "OMG vaccine appointments are going unfilled! The end is near!" -> because we're going to be running out of people to give a first dose to. Due to regional differences, this won't happen at the same time everywhere, that's just how it is.

Public Health Ontario maintains a really good report on vaccination status (updated weekly): https://www.publichealthontario.ca/...-vaccine-uptake-ontario-epi-summary.pdf?la=en

Take a look at Figure 3.
 
Here is a breakdown of vaccination rates by hood. The Kingsway (represent) has not had a pop-up all that close and was never anywhere near the at-risk postal code list yet leads the city (both adults and the kids 12 and 14 have their first dose in this house, same with most people we know). Some of the bottom areas have had multiple pop-ups... Affluent areas are trending higher but it is not a slam dunk as some are lower.

My guess it is a combination of things. Education rates. Access to a car to drive to vaccination opportunities. Distance of the pop-ups. The ability to take time off work to go. Cultural factors (distrust). SFU > MDU. ?????. Etc.... in no particular order.

 
My guess it is a combination of things. Education rates. Access to a car to drive to vaccination opportunities. Distance of the pop-ups. The ability to take time off work to go. Cultural factors (distrust). SFU > MDU. ?????. Etc.... in no particular order.

None of that really. Cliffcrest has half the bachelor degrees, half the income, nearly twice the immigrants, almost 4 times more minorities and still is number 2.

Your statement just goes to show how deeply ingrained biases are.
 
None of that really. Cliffcrest has half the bachelor degrees, half the income, nearly twice the immigrants, almost 4 times more minorities and still is number 2.

Your statement just goes to show how deeply ingrained biases are.
Lol, maybe you missed these when you read my post???:
  • "Affluent areas are trending higher but it is not a slam dunk as some are lower" <-- maybe I had to spell out that if this is the case so is the opposite?????
  • "Distance of the pop-ups" <-- ummmm, this is big a factor, access to vaccine!
  • "in no particular order" <-- self explanatory, or should be, but just in case it means that list was not ordered.
  • "?????" <-- don't know all the other factors, again maybe I needed to spell this out exactly???
As for Cultural Factors, many groups in this country have been repeatedly victimized (along cultural or maybe more accurately ethnic lines) and due to this those specific groups have a more than earned distrust of the mostly white leadership, it is well documented that this factors into vaccination trust. Not all minorities are exactly the same and have had exactly the same experiences, anyone who thinks this is the case is complete ignorant of this country's history. Just because someone immigrated here does not mean they are all the same (just immigrants), that is classic xenophobia.

Maybe you read what you wanted to read, or maybe the post needs to be pages long to cover everyting you want to see????
 
Lol, maybe you missed these when you read my post???:

Nope, I didn't miss them, you just simply decided to draw a narcissistic analogy on wealth, education and culture. While ignoring how the vaccine has been rolled out to date.

The 224 pharmacies that rolled out the vaccine, were prioritized to areas that were more affluent by the Ford Government and their partners including Loblaw, Metro, Sobeys, McKesson (Rexall), and Walmart, so vaccine uptake was skewed that way.

Hell the 5 worst hit communities, which are poorer as well, got ZERO pharmacies with doses. While the bottom five areas for COVID, all fairly affluent areas got 12 pharmacies. City of Toronto pop up clinics haven't helped, only ONE, in one of these worst hit communities, which I've roughly added them in with the blue stars. None of the hospital clinics are in these communities either.

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I'm feeling much more positive about the weeks ahead than I was 3-5 weeks ago, that's for sure. Vaccines go brrr.

Numbers are trending the right way. Just gotta see now in 10-14 days if there's a May Two-Four bump or not courtesy of those who didn't celebrate safely. If there's no bump and we've reached the magic vaccination threshold early I wouldn't be one bit surprised if Douggie makes an announcement we're moving to stage 1 a week early....because we all know he needs something to make him not look like the bad guy in the eyes of many right now.

What makes me question if this isn't actually in the cards is an email I got from Ontario Parks about a campsite reservation we have:

You have an overnight reservation between June 3-June 14, 2021, however, we don’t know the exact timing that the province will move to Step One. Therefore, we are writing to notify you that your reservation may be cancelled as a result of public health measures if we have not entered Step One at that time.

If there is a significant bump, well, expect the lockdown to last until the bitter end.
 
The numbers are down only because the testing has gone down. From over 40k to under 20k in a week. Unless people are sick enough to go to a hospital they arent going to bother getting tested anymore.

 
The numbers are down only because the testing has gone down. From over 40k to under 20k in a week. Unless people are sick enough to go to a hospital they arent going to bother getting tested anymore.


The more people come into contact with Covid positive cases, the more they are going to get tested. The less cases floating around, the fewer people are going to have a need to get tested.
 
The numbers are down only because the testing has gone down. From over 40k to under 20k in a week. Unless people are sick enough to go to a hospital they arent going to bother getting tested anymore.

Yup, a large percentage of cases are going undetected.

Some studies are pointing to 3 billion COVID cases world wide by February 2021, some say even 5 billion by end of April.
 
The numbers are down only because the testing has gone down. From over 40k to under 20k in a week.

You can’t get tested anymore unless you have symptoms. A lack of symptoms directly translates to a fall in testing volumes which directly translates to actually falling infections.

Your suggestion that the infections are still running higher than reported because people just “aren’t bothering” to get tested anymore doesn’t match the reality of falling hospitalizations as well.
 
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