The Canadian Consulate and the DML’s Community Q&A on the ongoing border closure is definitely becoming a regular thing. Bring your questions, or just tune in for all the updates. We are pleased to bring on a new panelist from CBSA.

RSVP required. Get your Zoom link via wade.wallerstein@international.gc.ca

• Win cool prizes
• Find out who is selling turkeys (now that you have to cook it yourself!)
• Watch a Thanksgiving-themed baking video
• Connect with Canadians in the Bay over a special virtual Thanksgiving wine tasting

  

COVID-19 quarantine/testing study
Air Canada is closely following border restriction news, and is working with McMaster HealthLabs and Greater Toronto Airports Authority on a one-month COVID-19 study, based on volunteers who travel internationally into YYZ. More information can be found here.

Aeroplan news:

• You will have 18 months instead of 12 months before your points expire.
• Use your points for perks during travel – like upgrading to a higher cabin class or in-flight wi-fi for a better travel experience.
• Pay for part of your flight reward with points, and the rest with cash.
• Get to the rewards you want sooner, by combining your points with Aeroplan Family Sharing.

Additional details are at the new Aeroplan site.

St. Lawrence String Quartet

Available for viewing September 27thIn their first appearance together since before the pandemic, the St. Lawrence String Quartet will play—in a masked and socially distanced performance—the entirety of Haydn’s String Quartet Op. 76 No. 5.

The film will be more than a virtual concert, though. Through interviews with members of the quartet, behind the scenes footage, and a peek into the personal lives of the quartet, the film tells the story of how the quartet has had to adapt its creative process amid months of COVID-19 restrictions that has resulted in their longest hiatus in the quartet’s 30-year history.

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San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival
Sept 17th to 27th

It’s not too late to catch the Canadian film, “Killing Patient Zero.” In this groundbreaking documentary, director Laurie Lynd (Schitt’s Creek; Breakfast with Scot, Frameline34) explodes the myth of “The Monster Who Brought AIDS to North America.”

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ONLINE: Social Movements and Legal Mobilisation in Times of Crisis: Migrant Farm Worker Rights in Canada

Tuesday, October 6th – 12:30 p.m

The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected migrant farm workers. Former Hildebrand Fellow Vasanthi Venkatesh, a professor of law at the University of Windsor specializing in social movements and immigration, gives context to the crisis by showing how the pandemic has overlaid itself onto existing systemic racial discrimination against migrant farm workers embedded in law and policy. She also shows how migrant farm worker advocates have responded to the crisis by exposing the racial capitalism of the Canadian agricultural economy, using radical narratives to challenge these systems.

RSVP for at canada@berkeley.edu to receive a webcast link.