A World Apart
Challenges Little Different Wed Sep 1st Clear skies looking across to mainland mountains Thu Sep 2nd One of the BBC headlines today (Thursday) was about council bin collections being hit by driver shortages. A few days back the Coast Reporter, which largely serves the Sunshine Coast, headlined Waste Pickup Interruptions Continue on Sunshine Coast . The truck driver shortage in Canada is about 25,000 (Pop. 38m). Proportionately smaller than the UK, but nevertheless having an impact on waste management, food deliveries and courier services. This at a time when online sales have doubled during the pandemic adding to the demand for delivery services. Looks like honeycomb but probably not edible! Similarly Covid numbers have been rising. In the interior and northern BC the increase is pronounced amongst the unvaccinated. The latest report is 801 new cases , a total of 5931 total active cases of which 199 are in hospital and 116 in ICU....