January 28, 2022

January 28th is the 28th day of the year. There are 337 days remaining until the end of the year.

Chatham-Kent Council budget deliberations continued last night.

After more cuts the proposed tax increase is down to 2.99%, to begin the night two it was at 3.37%.

The budget committee will meet again on Wednesday at 6pm.

For C-K Budget info check here.

You can follow along on the municipality’s Facebook and YouTube pages.

Ontario will move into the first step of the latest reopening plan on Monday.

Across Ontario, we will see a return to indoor dining and establishments such as movie theatres and sporting arenas able to operate at 50% capacity. As well, social gathering limits will be increased to 10 people indoors and 25 outdoors.

On Thursday, the province announced:

• Allowing food or drink services at indoor sporting events, concert venues, theatres and cinemas, bingo halls and other gaming establishments, horse racing tracks, car racing tracks and other similar venues. Individuals will be required to remain seated when consuming food or drink in these venues, limiting the number of close contacts while masks are removed. Masks will continue to be required when individuals are not eating or drinking.
• Removing the legal requirement to work from home except where necessary. The Chief Medical Officer of Health recommends that individuals who are able to work from home continue to do so, helping to limit mobility and reduce the number of daily contacts.
• Removing the requirement for most businesses to collect patron information for contact tracing.
• In addition, the province announced hospitals will be able to resume previously paused services.

In World Cup Qualifying, Canada beat Honduras 2-0. That moves them one step closer to qualifying for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar.

Canada has 19 points after nine games, one more than the United States and two more than Mexico, who currently occupy the third and final automatic qualifying position in the standings.

If Canada qualifies for the World Cup, it’ll be the first time since 1986.

Tim Hortons is launching a limited-edition donut today in support of Special Olympics Canada.

The Choose To Include donut will be available across Canada today through Sunday.

The donut is a chocolate cake ring donut with white fondant, coloured sprinkles and whipped topping. The multi-coloured design was inspired by the themes of diversity and inclusion that are central to the Special Olympics mission. It’s $1.69.

100% of proceeds will support Special Olympics Canada.

From January 28th to 30th, our #ChooseToInclude donut will send 100% of proceeds to @specialocanada. Join us in supporting more than 41,000 athletes with an intellectual disability across Canada. 🍩 See you on the 28th! pic.twitter.com/9QnNzCbRo9

— Tim Hortons (@TimHortons) January 25, 2022

Last week the coldest marathon ever took place in Siberia.

Men and women ran full distance 42K marathon, half-marathon, and also 10km and 5km.

The temperature was -53°C. The race even had to be started early as the temperature was set to drop to -60°C later in the day.

Think you’ve run in the cold? ❄️

The world’s coldest marathon took place this weekend in Yakutia, Siberia and it was -53C, with local Vasily Lukin completing it in 3:22.

📸 @siberian_times pic.twitter.com/qsnxJ2dbS3

— AW (@AthleticsWeekly) January 23, 2022

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This post was written by Chris McLeod