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COVID-19 and the ‘Great Reset’: Here’s what you need to know

Oct 28, 2021 , , , , by shlf

In a news conference on Friday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau addressed conspiracy theories circulating about his involvement in the “Great Reset,” saying that “we’re seeing a lot of people fall prey to misinformation.”

On Nov. 20, Trudeau was asked about an earlier UN speech he gave in late September, in which he mentioned that COVID-19 is an “opportunity for a reset” — a remark that spurred a torrent of online comments from conspiracy theorists, including a member of parliament.

“I think we are in a time of anxiety where people are looking for reasons for things that are happening to them. That (in) the difficult moments we’re in, it’s nice to find someone to blame, something to point to, something to get mad at,” Trudeau responded.

WHAT DID TRUDEAU SAY IN HIS UN SPEECH?

In his United Nations address on Sept. 29, Trudeau made mention of a reset, which sparked controversy among skeptics across the country. 

Prior to using the word “reset,” Trudeau was speaking about the need for nations to work together amid the pandemic, and not just on vaccines. 

“Canada believes that a strong coordinated response across the world and across sectors is essential,” he said. “This pandemic has provided an opportunity for a reset. This is our chance to accelerate our pre-pandemic efforts to reimagine economic systems that actually address global challenges like extreme poverty, inequality and climate change.”

WHAT IS THE ‘GREAT RESET’?

The Great Reset is an initiative launched earlier this year by the World Economic Forum (WEF) to help inform decisions around global recovery amid the COVID-19 crisis.

According to the WEF website, the initiative will tackle the areas of “global relations, the direction of national economies, the priorities of societies, the nature of business models and the management of a global commons.”

Speaking generally about a need for a reset in global cooperation, Daniel Trefler, a Canadian economist and professor at U of T with no connection to WEF, said he is a big proponent.

Using the U.S. as an example, Trefler said unilateralism with regards to trade has lowered GDP, raised consumer prices, and not brought back any significant number of jobs, all while alienating the country’s allies.

From a Canadian perspective, Trefler added that our country, like many others, has little say in global governance architecture.

“It is in our interest to promote rules-based global governance systems so as to constrain the unilateral behaviour of the largest players internationally,” he added.

WHAT IS THE CONSPIRACY THEORY? 

The conspiracy theories around the Great Reset are centred on the notion that the WEF initiative is a plot by an international group of elites to strip citizens of their property rights, force them to get vaccinations and create “isolation camps” for anyone who resists.

The conspiracy theory — which suggest started as a chain email picked up by QAnon-associated internet forums — relies on an allegedly “leaked” email from a Canadian “Liberal committee member” outlining the scheme to suggest the “Great Reset” liberal buzz term is actually an international plot.

#TheGreatReset also has its own special place on Twitter where conspiracy theorists have been contributing to the action. 

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Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre has also implied a connection between the WEF initiative and Trudeau’s Sept. 29 speech in a called “Stop the Great Reset.” 

“…Global financial elites have called for the same ‘Great Reset,’ which would re-engineer economies and societies to empower the elites at the expense of the people,” the petition reads.

Poilievre also took to social media to express his views.

In response to this on Friday, Trudeau said: “We’re seeing a lot of people fall prey to misinformation and if Conservative MPs and others want to start talking about conspiracy theories, that’s their choice. I’m going to stay focused on helping Canadians get through this.”

— With files from Alex Boutilier.

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Loaded rifle seized after Orillia gun sightings

Sep 28, 2021 , , , , by shlf

Police seized a loaded rifle and charged a Scarborough teen with firearms offenses after responding to a gun sighting in the city’s north end.

Shortly after 11 p.m. on Oct. 23, Orillia OPP received a report that one of several males walking together in the area of Victoria Park was carrying a long gun.

It was then reported that the male may have thrown away the gun and fled the area, police said.

A second caller reported that four males had run out of a residence on Coldwater Road and that one was carrying a rifle.

Officers responded immediately, locating and seizing a .22-calibre rifle.

“It was loaded,” Const. Ted Dongelmans told Simcoe.com.  

A male who matched a detailed description of the suspect was located a short distance away, OPP said.

A 19-year-old Scarborough man was arrested and charged with unauthorized possession of a firearm, careless use of a firearm and possession of weapon for dangerous purpose.

The investigation is continuing.

“The circumstances surrounding why he (allegedly) had a gun or what may have transpired prior to that are not known,” Dongelmans said


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Thousands of kids are waiting years for mental health care in Ontario. A new Toronto-based online program aims to fix that

Sep 2, 2021 , , , , by shlf

A new program based in Toronto aims to rectify the years-long wait times for thousands of youth seeking access to mental health care across Canada.

Through an eight-week, intensive, online therapy platform, the New Start Digital Youth Intensive Outpatient Program is hoping to provide mental health care hundreds of youth aged 14 to 18 who are struggling with stress, anxiety and risky behaviour. The first group enrolled in the program began receiving care on Monday.

The program — the first of its kind in Canada — draws on existing approaches to virtual mental health care while also offering an education component to parents or guardians. It also uses a mobile application to appeal to its young participants.

The program is mainly funded by private donors, but there are hopes it will expand and reshape the future of youth mental health care in Canada.

“We’re able to access clients in remote areas who previously had barriers to accessing mental health, be it geographic barriers, financial barriers, and even emotional barriers,” said Toronto psychotherapist and National Director of Outpatient Services at EHN Canada Lanie Schachter-Snipper.

“Personally, I am very enthusiastic about online care,” she added.

Schachter-Snipper and Kalandra Roach, the executive director of New Start Foundation for Addiction and Mental Health — the organization behind the virtual program — said they were inspired to start an online platform for youth due to the notoriously long wait times to access mental health care in Ontario.

A estimates there are 200,000 kids with serious mental health issues in the province who have had no contact with services. The longest wait time to access care in the province is 2.5 years for children in York Region. In Toronto, the wait is almost two years.

The average wait for counselling and therapy is 67 days, CMHO’s report said. For intensive treatment, it’s 92 days. , Roach said.

“It’s pretty unacceptable in our opinion,” Roach said of the wait times. “We need a better system. The system is not working and we need to get kids the right, effective treatment as soon as possible.”

Roach said the New Start Foundation has a few goals in mind to reduce the waits for youth mental health care: one is to fund 500 youth from across the country to enrol in the digital program by 2021. The other is to build a new youth mental health care facility in Toronto.

Twenty youth across Ontario are participating in the inaugural version of the intensive outpatient program through a subsidized fee of $50 to ensure they stick with it, though it can be waived if money is a severe barrier.

The youth were screened by a clinical psychologist to assess their suitability, and lower-income participants from historically underserved communities were prioritized, Roach said.

The youth will participate in two-and-a-half hours of individual and group therapy sessions a week for eight weeks, Schachter-Snipper said. Meanwhile, parents or guardians will receive 16 hours of caregiver support over the course of the program.

“When mental health issues arise, it’s easier to have conversations about what’s going on, because the families or the caregivers have been provided psycho-education on mental health,” Schachter-Snipper explained.

Youth also have access to a mobile application in addition to the face-to-face online counselling they receive, which helps them work on the skills they’ve learned through therapy, Schachter-Snipper said.

The program is designed for young people who struggle with stress, anxiety or sadness, or may be engaging in risky behaviours to cope with their emotions, Roach said.

It teaches a combination of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy — a standard in mental health focused on challenging negative thoughts that alter behaviour, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy — an approach that teaches people to accept their thoughts, encouraging mindfulness and discouraging guilt associated with negative emotions.

Another criteria for enrolment, Schachter-Snipper said, is that youth need to have access to technology to support the program’s online platform — a criteria she acknowledged is a barrier to many who need this type of treatment, despite the

“We’re really trying to reduce barriers,” she said, adding the foundation is working on building a tech library that can lend youth the hardware necessary to access this type of care.

“But at this point, [virtual care] is really the only barrier-free way to provide mental health services given the uncertain nature of the pandemic and everyone’s emphasis on being safe,” Schachter-Snipper said.

Both Roach and Schachter-Snipper said the nominal cost is key to ensuring more youth can access this type of mental health care — which is usually expensive since services by clinical psychologists and psychotherapists are not covered by OHIP.

The program has been mostly funded by private donors, said Roach, who has worked in Toronto’s health care fundraising sphere for the last seven years. The foundation hopes to secure funding from the province to continue programming and help fund its tech library.

Overall, Schachter-Snipper said the program is an example of how mental health care could live online even beyond the pandemic. It increases access for people who are otherwise physically far away from mental health professionals, or have other barriers to reaching mental health centres, she said.

“There’s a high degree of excitement and enthusiasm,” Schachter-Snipper said. “We know that we can just provide services to so many more people, and it works.”

Correction – Oct. 21, 2020: This article has been corrected to reflect that Lanie Schachter-Snipper is the National Director of Outpatient Services at EHN Canada.

Nadine Yousif is a Toronto-based reporter for the Star covering mental health. Her reporting is funded by the Canadian government through its Local Journalism Initiative. Follow her on Twitter:

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Project forging Pathways to Care for Black kids, youth in 6 Ontario cities

Aug 9, 2021 , , , , by shlf

An initiative aimed at improving the lives of Black children and youth across Ontario has completed eight months of research in Toronto and is now underway in five other cities throughout the province.

Pathways to Care is the result of a cross-sector collaboration between the Black Health Alliance, TAIBU Community Health Centre, the Wellesley Institute, the Centre for Addictions and Mental Health (CAMH) and Strides Toronto.

Its mission is to increase access to mental health and addictions care for Black youth and children in Ottawa, Toronto, Hamilton, Kitchener-Waterloo, London and Windsor, and to build service providers’ capacity to provide culturally competent care.

To get there, researchers will sit down – virtually, through surveys and remote focus groups – with Black children, youth, adults and caretakers, as well as the organizations that provide services to Black children and youth, to identify gaps in access to services and learn how to bridge them.

Fatimah Jackson-Best, a public health researcher specializing in mental health, is in charge of the project.

“All of us want to see the progression, the amplification and the improvement of Black people’s lives and well-being and mental health. So that is the ultimate goal,” Jackson-Best said. “I’m just hoping this achieves moving the dial forward.”

According to the Black Canadians represent 18 per cent of people living in poverty in Canada despite representing only 2.9 per cent of the overall Canadian population. And immigrants from the Caribbean and Bermuda, as well as refugees from East Africa and South Asia, experience up to double the risk of psychotic disorders compared to the general population of Ontario, according to the .

“There’s messaging that everyone has mental health and we have to take care of it, and that messaging is absolutely correct,” Jackson-Best said. “But I would say that the messaging also needs to include that some people have factors that impact their mental health that are out of their control, like racism, discrimination, etcetera.”

By next year, the team behind Pathways hopes to deliver all the information they gathered back to the communities and stakeholders in each of their six target cities by producing a strategic framework, tailored for each city’s needs, that mental health and addiction service providers can use to deliver the best care to Black children and youth. They will also use local data to create interactive maps people in each city can use to find services close to them.

Despite the challenges of launching in Toronto during the COVID-19 pandemic – the first survey to service providers in the city went out the week the pandemic was declared – Jackson-Best said her team gathered a lot of valuable information and used the opportunity to fine-tune the research methods they’ll use in the remaining cities.

She said major events this year, such as the pandemic and the resurgence of public support for the Black Lives Matter movement, have also underscored the need for initiatives like Pathways to Care.

“The pandemic has really underscored just how much mental health challenges are affecting Black communities, due to a range of factors like poverty, income, class, privilege, etcetera,” she said. “All of those have become so much more pronounced through the pandemic.”

To learn more about Pathways to Care, visit .

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First COVID-19 vaccine could be approved in Canada next month — on similar timeline to U.S.

Jul 19, 2021 , , , , by shlf

A first could get Canadian regulatory approval by mid-December, officials said Thursday — putting this country on the same timeline as the United States.

Any vaccine must get the green light from Health Canada scientists before being rolled out in this country, and doses won’t be shipped here , Public Services and Procurement Minister Anita Anand had said last week.

The review process has already begun.

Health Canada’s chief medical adviser, Dr. Supriya Sharma, says federal scientists have been working closely with officials from the United States and Europe, and expect to reach a conclusion around the same time.

Of course, much is riding on the analysis of results, but officials from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration are currently reviewing the Pfizer vaccine candidate and a meeting with independent experts is , which, if successful, could pave the way for an emergency use clearance by midmonth.

“We’re basically looking at the same data packages, we have very similar authorization pathways that are available for public health emergencies,” Sharma said, adding that Pfizer is also furthest along in Canada.

“We’re expecting to make a final decision on the vaccines around the same time as both the U.S. FDA and the European Medicines Agency.”

If that timeline holds, it’ll be a validation of a new approval process that Canadian officials developed in the wake of the global pandemic specifically to speed up the availability of things that might treat COVID-19.

Review of new drugs can often take the better part of a year, so the government created what’s called an interim order, which came into force in September. It’s the equivalent to the emergency-use approval granted by the FDA, but while the Americans have handed out hundreds of speedy approvals, Canada’s process only saw its first approval last week.

The temporary system a product last Friday, with a nod for an antibody therapy made by U.S. pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly.

The government has ordered 26,000 doses of the therapy, which has shown promise in reducing hospitalization and emergency room visits for patients with COVID-19, with the first batches to be delivered in December.

The order allows the government to do things such as prioritize the review of anything related to COVID-19, and do what are called rolling submissions, in which companies report their results to the government as they do their testing, instead of waiting until the very end of their process to hand over data and test results. Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca have all begun the rolling submission process.

Canada and the U.S. may be working on similar approval timelines, but questions about who will actually get initial doses .

Federal officials have long said that the first window for vaccine deliveries is the first quarter of 2021, though Ontario Health Minister Christine Elliott appeared to call that schedule into question Wednesday, saying she no longer had a guarantee that vaccines would be delivered then.

“This is very concerning,” Elliott told reporters. “It’s really incumbent on the prime minister to stand up for Canada.”

Federal officials are standing by their initial timeline, saying that five out of the seven advance purchase agreements, which are still dependant on a vaccine being approved, have been finalized.

Premier Doug Ford said he would raise vaccine deliveries with Trudeau during the weekly call with other premiers.

“We have a lot of questions to ask,” he added. “When and how much and what types. … We can’t be last in line around the world.”

Ford said Canada should have the facilities to make vaccines under licence to ensure a supply, given the “massive” pharmaceutical industry here.

“We have the know-how. There’s nothing we can’t manufacture here.”

Experts have said that Canada doesn’t currently have enough capacity to manufacture vaccines, particularly the Pfizer and Moderna candidates that employ new mRNA technology, which is why Canada has locked down deals to have doses delivered, rather than buying the licence to manufacture them here.

With files from Rob Ferguson