Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Alanna Smith
Publication Date: October 9, 2025 - 04:30
Canada is close to losing its measles elimination status. What happens then?
October 9, 2025
Canadian health experts equipped with binders of information on the prolonged measles outbreak will travel in November to Mexico City, where an international committee will determine whether the country maintains its elimination status for the disease.
The meeting with the Measles and Rubella Elimination Regional Monitoring and Re-Verification Commission (RVC), which works with the World Health Organization, may be more of a formality than a test for Canada, as it is all but assured to lose its designation.
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He was a Trappist and a chatterbox,
guestmaster at the little orchard house
in Georgetown, aging man of paradox
if not comedy. Father Canisius
welcomed us with hours of talk
on silence and the use of mantras.
He had a history of chat: twenty-five
years a garrulous Jesuit before his leap
to Benedict and the cheese-maker monks,
Oka’s most unsilent man. He nearly burst.
An abbot pitied all the pent-up words,
sent him to this daughter-house as greeter
to talk at will, just not to his chanting brothers.
Novice SJs, high on Merton, we drove from
Guelph to see these monks and their apple trees...
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