The Ontario government has declared a health emergency and is prepared to enforce a quarantine.
There are 23 people in Toronto, many of them health-care workers, showing symptoms of SARS, and under forcible quarantine at home.
But hundreds more people may have to be quarantined if they came into contact with the disease, health officials said.
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I was reading Romans today and realized how a small word of encouragement from Paul and others could go far. They lived in trying times and shone.
As events in Iraq are unfolding we don’t have to be feeling helpless. Irene Q has found a way to encourage. I see comments over at looking back….looking forward [...]

I probably won’t have time to blog today.
And I’m glad.
I remember the thrill of starting this blogging adventure last year, the wonder, the newness, the amazement and the fun of it. I remember all to well the complete frustration with technical aspects. :^)
Martin Roth is a peer and there has never been a cross or [...]

A friend of mine has started a blog. He is brand new at this blogging stuff, but he is a guy who will grasp the technology soon.
He is also a guy who consistently speaks from his heart.
Bill is a paramedic, you might like to read his first post called Last Breath. Welcome to the [...]

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Go here.
Blogger Callout
Australia
Shalom responds to my blogger callout with a rare entry on thoughts and feelings about US and Australian involvement in Iraq.
I still feel incredibly sad that this war has actually started. I have not wanted to blog about it much over the [...]

More people have died in clashes in this country as elections approach next month.
Nigeria has seen thousands of deaths from tribal, religious and economic clashes, not unlike the Sudan. Muslim law was introduced to northern Nigerian states three years ago.
Now thousands of people are fleeing violence in the oil rich delta and Texaco has supended [...]

Malaysia
Irene Q has been talking to her friends about the war in Iraq.
Our national religion is Islam, and roughly about 65.1% of the population are Malay Muslims. Chinese make up another 26.0% and Indians 7.7%; the remaining 1.2% are other minorities. The other three major religious groups (apart from Muslims) are Buddhists, Hindus and [...]

Canada’s ambivalence is showing again.

Nobody does ambivalence better than Canadians. And Canada is deeply ambivalent right now, as the first U.S. bombing runs are made over Iraq.

Any number of conflicted Canadian attitudes are bumping into one another in the media, in the coffee shops and in people’s hearts.
Email virus
Yep. There is an email worm called [...]