Bursting our bubble
We may have expected it, but that didn't make hearing the news Monday any less hard to take — two of the region's premiers have abandoned the Atlantic bubble.
The so-called travel bubble was initially put in place on July 3 to allow for interprovinical travel within the four Atlantic provinces without the need to self-isolate when arriving from another province.
In Prince Edward Island, Premier Dennis King announced the province's withdrawal from the bubble effective at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday, putting a stop to all non-essential travel to and from the province for 14 days.
At the same time, Premier Andrew Furey also announced that Newfoundland and Labrador is out, and would implement travel restrictions.
New Brunswick and Nova Scotia will not follow suit, choosing to instead stress caution in considering non-essential travel.
Some highlights from today's announcements from around the region:
- P.E.I. and NL will require self-isolation for travellers entering those provinces from the other Atlantic provinces
- Nova Scotia announces 11 new cases among tests performed on Sunday
- New Brunswick has 15 new cases and one new death due to COVID-19, the province's seventh
Meanwhile, the Chronicle Herald's Stu Peddle has a wrap-up of everything you need to know from today's bubble-bursting day on the East Coast.
'Very scary situation'
Most days John Hartrick can panhandle enough to cover the cost of his $27-a-night hostel room. It’s the others, roughly 200 others he knows about, that he really worries about, writes the Chronicle Herald's Andrew Rankin.
“These are people who have absolutely nothing and no one looking out for them,” Hartrick tells Rankin. “They’re sleeping on the streets, in the woods, anywhere they can find a bit of shelter. The virus is spreading and no one is protecting them.”
With homelessness in the Halifax Regional Municipality doubling in the past year and Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil delaying a promised plan to address the crisis last week, Hartrick wants to ensure the issue doesn't get ignored for much longer.
“It’s just disgusting,” says Hartrick, “I’m sure the premier cares because he’s human, he’s just ignoring the crisis. People are being thrown out on the street during a public health emergency when there’s no affordable housing available in this city.”
Introducing Indonesia
For the founders of Tenchef in Prince Edward Island, Dwitya Rulhadi is a key ingredient in a recipe they've been cooking up since last year.
Wahid Choudhury and Vaughn Murphy's pilot business aims to find the tastes across P.E.I. that aren't getting to customers' mouths and provide it to them, reports the Guardian's Daniel Brown.
While Rulhadi's peers praise her for her homemade Indonesian food, the lengthy preparation required and the logistics of running a business can seem like a lot to handle.
Tenchef enables her to try her hand at commercial cooking while it takes care of those logistics.
