Earlier this week, Trudeau designated March 11 as a national day of observance — the one-year anniversary of the World Health Organization declaring COVID-19 a global pandemic. He spoke of essential workers stocking grocery store shelves, of people cheering health care workers from their balconies and of businesses mobilizing to produce personal protective equipment. Crosses representing resident who died of COVID-19 are pictured on the lawn of Camilla Care Community, in Mississauga, Ont., on Jan. 13, 2021. Blanchet expressed his appreciation for workers in health care, education and child care, and recognized that many of those workers are women. He also called on Canada to address inequalities and flaws in the national health care system that were exposed during the pandemic.

Source: CBC News March 11, 2021 14:14 UTC