November 15, 2022

By: Chris McLeod

15/11/2022

5 Things You Need To Know

November 15th is the 319th day of the year. There are 46 days remaining until the end of the year.

Dr. Kieran Moore, Ontario’s Chief Medical Officer of Health made a “strong recommendation” to the province to start masking up.

There were no actual rules put in place, but he did explain the “triple threat” of illnesses that are putting “extraordinary pressure” on the pediatric care system. A combination of COVID, Influenza and Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) has put extreme pressure on ER’s everywhere.

Moore encourages all eligible people in the province to get a flu shot and to keep young children away from crowds.

Movies @ Your Library are back! Hosted by the Chatham branch of the Chatham-Kent Public Library every Tuesday.

Book your spot today to see Death on the Nile. Movies start at 2pm.

There is limited space, registration is required.

The C-K Community Job Fair is today at the Chatham Armoury.

Over 40 local employers will be on site from 2-6pm. Bring your resume, some employers will hold interviews on site.

Some employers attending are:

  • Enbridge
  • AarKel Tool and Die Inc.
  • TekSavvy Solution Inc.
  • St. Clair Catholic District School Board
  • Riverview Garden Long Term Care
  • Chatham-Kent Health Alliance
  • The Municipality of Chatham-Kent
  • Handy Bros. Home Comfort
  • Rumelca Canada Limited
  • Barry Callebaut
  • Windmill Cabinet Shop
  • Autoliv
  • Plan A
  • Enviroshake
  • Presteve Foods
  • Goodwill Industries
  • Plasman
  • Gincor Trailer Werx
  • The Andersons
  • Maple Industries
  • Dordt Contractors
  • Dordt Water Management
  • Andritz Feed and Bio Fuels Canada
  • Cedarline Greenhouses
  • New Rubber Technologies
  • KSR International
  • A. Gold & Sons Ltd.
  • Select Finishing
  • Canadian Mental Health Association – Lambton Kent
  • Concentrix
  • Accurcast
  • A&A Marine Foods
  • Spandan Cables Inc.
  • Whyte’s Foods
  • Grand Retirement Home
  • Truly Green Farms
  • Community Living Wallaceburg
  • St. Andrews Residence
  • Hopkins Canada, Inc.
  • SM Freight Inc.
  • Peeters Mushroom Farm
  • Southwest Agromart
  • Tepperman’s
  • Vitesco Technologies Canada

The Goodwill Career Centre will be on site offering a presentation called “Interviewing for Success” which involves learning about interview preparation, etiquette, best practices, and follow-up techniques.

No registration required.

The Bank of Canada has whittled down its list of Canadians who will be immortalized on the newest design for the $5 bill.

  • Pitseolak Ashoona (an Inuk Canadian artist)
  • Robertine Barry (Françoise) (early French Canadian journalist and publisher)
  • Binaaswi (Francis Pegahmagabow) (the most highly decorated Indigenous soldier in Canadian military history)
  • Won Alexander Cumyow (early Chinese Canadian public servant and community leader)
  • Terry Fox (Canadian athlete, humanitarian, and cancer research activist)
  • Lotta Hitschmanova (Canadian humanitarian)
  • Isapo-muxika (Crowfoot) (chief of the Siksika First Nation)
  • Onondeyoh (Frederick Ogilvie Loft) (Mohawk nation activist who founded the League of Indians of Canada)

There were three eligibility benchmarks for consideration: the individual must be a Canadian by birth or naturalization who served Canada in some meaningful way; they must be deceased for at least 25 years; and they have to be a real person.

Sir Wilfred Laurier, who served as Canada’s first-ever francophone prime minister from 1896 to 1911, is the current face of the $5 note and has been since 1972.

The world’s population will officially hit eight billion people today.

That’s according to the United Nations. They do projections based on birth rates and life expectancy. And today’s the day we cross the eight-billion mark.

Specifically at 12:00pm Eastern.

We’ve added another billion people in just over a decade. We were at seven billion in 2011.

If that seems like way too many people, the good news is population growth is slowing down. It should take 15 years before we hit nine billion people in 2037, then another 20-plus years to hit 10 billion around 2058.

For what it’s worth, the U.N. is touting it as an accomplishment of humanity. Current life expectancy is just under 73 years, up from 58 half a century ago. And they think we’ll hit 77 years by 2050.

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