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The Canadian border has been closed for more than a year and, judging from last week's news, it's not likely to reopen in the late-spring future or even the early-summer future.

British Columbia recorded its highest number of daily cases last week.

For the first time in the pandemic, British Columbia reported more than 1,000 new COVID-19 cases on two consecutive days. Last Friday's case count was a record high, surpassed the next day by an even higher count. The previous record was set just three days earlier.

Ontario has never had more coronavirus patients in intensive care than it had last w...