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On the same page I saw this! Chapman's Ice Cream (UK immigrants who started a company, lost it in a fire, then rebuilt) are in the news. Their son Ashley who heads the business is on the anti-vaxers' shit list for imposing a mandate on his employees. Chapman's is good stuff, and I haven't had ice cream since the spring but I might pick some up after reading this:
https://globalnews.ca/news/8386305/c...ans-ice-cream/

Maybe pistachio...

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They are breaking the “Geneva Convention”, apparently. I am confident a complaint to UNHRC against Chapman’s will succeed. Uyghur concentration camp complaints are touch and go but “Chapman’s makes me take tests” is a slam dunk.

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The Chapman family are local heroes. The factory burned down and they were out of business for months, perhaps longer, while a new one was built. During that time they paid their employees as if they were working. Around here it's safer to say a word against St. Dolly Parton than against the Chapmans.

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It has been pointed out to me that the Chapmans are not from the UK - my mistake!

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Seems like a rather level headed and fair policy, they could have gone the other way and just fired them all like other companies.

Plus giving a $1/hr raise to the vaccinated employees is only fair, since the company is spending about the same having to test the non-vaccinated, so if you look at from a different angle, the non-vaccinated are simply choosing to use their $1/hr raise for COVID tests instead.

While I have never been a fan of their ice cream, I do admire them as a company and they seem like an overall good place to work and a good family who seems to care.

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:nod:
Frozen yogurt also good.
Cappuccino my favourite but their 'Magnum' style almond ice cream bars are very good too.

It takes your mind off the virus. See...on topic :lol:

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This afternoon we walked through Toronto’s PATH system (underground shops and walkways linking the Downtown office buildings, mall and train station). A couple of months ago it was deserted and 99% of the shops were closed. Today there were quite a few people walking around and most of the shops were open. It’s not as busy as it was pre-Covid…but it’s getting there. :thumbsup:

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I heard a quote the other day saying something like, "This pandemic will not end when everyone is vaccinated, it will end when everyone has been infected"

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More cheerful news out of Africa

https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-...perts-12478737

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I am not surprised, it was bound to happen.

" scientists are hopeful it can be contained."

I stopped beleiving that back in 2020, it's been said too many times now, I will beleive it when I see it.

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Worrying stuff about vaccinations here. Anti vax people might be right.

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Canada puts travel ban on several South African countries.


https://globalnews.ca/news/8404373/c...id-19-variant/

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How times change eh? remember when Trump banned flights from China in early 2020 and was called racist.

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He didn't ban flights, he banned Chinese people from flights Americans could still take. He was, and is, a racist and that was a racist policy.

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That was a hard slog, nothing more in it to suggest that anti vax people might be right than in this one:

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=552498501823519