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The church also said that masses this weekend are cancelled “due to insufficient volunteers.” Weekday masses were also cancelled this week.
“An assessment will be made in the coming days to determine if the parish will have the sufficient volunteers required for offering Christmas Eve and Christmas Day Masses,” the notice said.
Experts say they’re staying home for Christmas and so should you
Christmas holidays will be strange this year. Where streets would teem with crowds during the holiday rush, a hush now pervades as many Canadians opt to stay home, per most provincial COVID-19 orders. And instead of raucous house parties, families will have to opt for a small dinner, accompanied by a phone call or a video chat with distanced relatives.
It is an ‘awful’ way to spend the holidays — but necessary, several experts have told the National Post — as Canada nears the end of its 10th month of the coronavirus pandemic, which has infected at least half a million Canadians and killed 14,275.
“Awful is what we got,” said Dr. Colin Furness, an epidemiologist and assistant professor at the University of Toronto. “And so I think we really need to think about not ‘what do we need to be happy’ but ‘what do we need to do to not make it much, much worse’.”
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