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For the week beginning December 8, 2025
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to this week's meeting of
The Rotary E-Club of Canada One
For the week beginning December 8, 2025
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The Rotary theme for 2025-26 -
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Greeter this week
Rotarian Gillian
Inspirational moment
Some environmentally-friendly and
healthful websites
to consider
and perhaps some valuable "holiday" viewing!
Click the links below to access the websites and the videos.
Let's stay healthy and keep our planet healthy too!
ESRAG Plant-Rich Diet website
Eating Our Way to Extinction - Documentary film (1 hour, 20 minutes)
Forks over Knives full movie – (1 hour, 36 minutes)
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Canadiana
UPDATE ON VACCINE SAFETY IN CANADA
In Canada—including for COVID-19 vaccines—a rigorous, multi-stage regulatory process ensures safety, effectiveness, and quality before public rollout. Here's the breakdown with trustworthy citations:
Overview of Canada’s Vaccine Approval Process
1. Pre-Clinical and Clinical Trials
Before any human testing, vaccine candidates go through pre-clinical studies (e.g., laboratory and animal testing) to assess safety and immunological responses, setting the stage for subsequent human trials. Source
To proceed, vaccine makers must submit a Clinical Trial Application (CTA) to Health Canada, along with ethics approval from a Research Ethics Board (REB) Source Clinical trials proceed through Phase I (small group safety), Phase II (expanded safety and efficacy), and Phase III (large-scale efficacy and safety). Source
2. Health Canada Review & Approval
Health Canada evaluates data on safety, efficacy, and manufacturing quality, granting approval only if the benefits outweigh the risks. Source 1 Source 2.
Successful products receive a Notice of Compliance (NOC) and a Drug Identification Number (DIN) before they can be sold in Canada Public Health Ontario.
3. COVID-19-Specific Rolling Submissions
For pandemic vaccines, Health Canada used a rolling review process—allowing data to be submitted and reviewed in real-time rather than waiting for a complete dossier. Source 1 Source 2
Companies like Janssen (Johnson & Johnson) and Novavax used this process to accelerate regulatory evaluation. Source
Despite the accelerated timeline, no essential safety or efficacy steps were skipped. Source
4. Post-Market Surveillance
4. Post-Market Surveillance
After approval, vaccines are continuously monitored through Health Canada’s Canada Vigilance Program, in partnership with the Public Health Agency of Canada, to track any adverse events following immunization (AEFIs). Source. Public Health Ontario and local health units also play roles in reporting and monitoring, ensuring ongoing vaccine safety Public Health Ontario.
In Summary
Vaccines in Canada, including COVID-19 vaccines, must pass a comprehensive evaluation of safety, effectiveness, and quality before reaching the public. Even under expedited processes like rolling reviews, Health Canada maintained its stringent standards. Post-market systems then ensure continued oversight.
Vaccines in Canada, including COVID-19 vaccines, must pass a comprehensive evaluation of safety, effectiveness, and quality before reaching the public. Even under expedited processes like rolling reviews, Health Canada maintained its stringent standards. Post-market systems then ensure continued oversight.
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Comments from our guests and members
Members and guests attending our weekly meetings are very important to us. Based on your comments we are able to produce many more educational, inspiring, and entertaining weekly meetings.
Following are some of the comments we have received. Would you please send us your comments?
November 25.
What a nice surprise to see you using Laurent’s article, especially while visiting Leslie and Aine in Chicago for their thanksgiving.
-- Neil Rogers, E-Club of Canada One, District 5370
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Announcements
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VILLAGES FOR DEMENTIA –
Get to know the neighbourhood designed especially for people
with Alzheimer’s
The story below has been contributed by Rotarian Angel. It's an interesting submission related to the Rotary December theme –
Thank you, Angel!
It is managed by the Landes Departmental Council and supported by the Regional Health Agency of Nouvelle-Aquitaine. It opened its doors in 2020, focusing on “individualised support, prioritising non-pharmacological interventions,” they indicate on their website, in which they explain that the idea was to “design an environment as close as possible to normal life in a safe environment for inhabitants,” so that they can maintain their autonomy, quality of life, self-esteem, and identity.
It has 15 homes, distributed in the 5 hectares that this town covers.
Each home can accommodate up to 8 people, who are accompanied throughout the day by professionals. And it is that in this town there are not only people who suffer from Alzheimer’s disease, there are also about 130 professionals and 80 volunteers, who help them in their day-to-day, with the peculiarity that they do not wear any identifying symbol, such as gowns, so the residents do not have their disease present at all times. In addition, there is a sixteenth home that functions as a day center for the inhabitants to socialize.
Along these lines, fluid interaction with family and friends is also encouraged, avoiding their isolation. It should be noted that all residents can follow their own lifestyle, without having to put aside their habits, preferences, and personal tastes.
The Village Landais Alzheimer includes everything you need to find in any locality where services, and shops are located.
It is also worth highlighting the Resource and Research Centre to coordinate and promote actions that disseminate attention and support though territorial cooperation, while promoting innovation from external research, they indicate.
Francis, one of its residents, told the BBC years ago that he was determined to live his life “despite the disease.”
Along these lines, fluid interaction with family and friends is also encouraged, avoiding their isolation. It should be noted that all residents can follow their own lifestyle, without having to put aside their habits, preferences, and personal tastes.
The Village Landais Alzheimer includes everything you need to find in any locality where services, and shops are located.
It is also worth highlighting the Resource and Research Centre to coordinate and promote actions that disseminate attention and support though territorial cooperation, while promoting innovation from external research, they indicate.
Francis, one of its residents, told the BBC years ago that he was determined to live his life “despite the disease.”
“I’m here to live, even if it’s not the same. If you give up, you’re done. So you have to move forward as best you can.”
Patricia, another resident, also commented that she came to this town because -
“she wanted to be in a place where I could also help. Because other residences are not bad, but people do nothing. Whereas, here it’s real life.”
Without schedules or obligations, the quiet lifestyle of this town also seems to benefit its inhabitants, and, as Professor Hélène Amieva highlighted, -
“what we usually see when people enter an institution is accelerated cognitive deterioration. We are not observing that in this town. Here we see a kind of very smooth evolution.”
He considers, therefore, that “this type of residency can influence the trajectory of clinical results.”
About the author
Maria Bonillo. Maria Bonillo has a degree in Audiovisual Communication and Journalism from the Carlos III University of Madrid. He writes mainly about social issues. He also has experience in corporation communication for companies such as OmnicomPRFroup and Pentación Espectáculos.
Below is a related video -
About the author
Maria Bonillo. Maria Bonillo has a degree in Audiovisual Communication and Journalism from the Carlos III University of Madrid. He writes mainly about social issues. He also has experience in corporation communication for companies such as OmnicomPRFroup and Pentación Espectáculos.
Below is a related video -
Note - The speech is not English. To read the subtitling in English, click the gear at the bottom of the YouTube screen -
and choose Subtitles/CC and English as shown below -
Enjoy the video!
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Piano Interlude
Who has heard of Peter Bence?
Material Suggestions and Greeter Messages Always Needed!
Please feel free to forward an approx. 150 - 200 word message or any material suggestions in an e-mail, or in a Word document, along with a JPeg picture or two, to E-Club Administration Chair, Kitty Bucsko.
We'd love to hear from you!
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Just so you're aware -
Our Club's Ongoing Projects -
We provide ongoing support for the following projects:
Click the links below to find out more about each project!
And we're doing great!
Ask for more information if you'd like to be involved!
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Real-time meetings
Each 3rd Thursday of the month is our Fellowship Assembly, and we often invite interesting speakers or Rotary Leaders for this entertaining, educational fun event. Plan to join us.
The time is 9:00 a.m. (Mountain Time) in lieu of the weekly Coffee Chat except for July and August when there are no FA’s. Here is the zoom link:
Everyone is welcome to attend and we encourage your participation.
Please click our Event Calendar for details and access Link.
For further inquiries or suggestions please contact: info@rotaryeclubcanada.ca
All our videos can be viewed on our YouTube channel.
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Environment
A wee change of pace –
what you MIGHT see in our environment
Singing in the Rain
The mime
The gymnast
Finally, the hokey pokey
Humour
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Rotary members' corner
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Rotary minute
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Food for thought
Using the Body as a Ruler
The Evolution of Measurement and the Words that describe it!
The human body has always been an easily accessible measuring tool, but over time, some standard measurements have been added to the definitions.
• “Foot” has been used since medieval times to measure approximately the length of a man’s foot. It was standardized in the United States in relation to a meter as part of the Metric Act of 1866 and later the Mendenhall Order of 1893, which said that 1 foot equals 0.304801 meters.
• “Inch” comes from the Latin uncia, meaning “a twelfth part” — apropos since 1 inch is 1/12 of a foot. At first an inch was roughly equal to the width of a man’s thumb, but in 1324, King Edward II declared it to be equal to three grains of barley lined up end to end.
• “Span” is the length of a spread hand measured from the tip of the little finger to the tip of the thumb. The Romans (and later the English) considered this to be roughly 9 inches, while the Greek span was only 7 inches, as they measured the thumb to the forefinger. That pales in comparison to some modern spans — for NBA legend Michael Jordan, a span is equal to 11.375 inches.
• “Yard” was initially the width of a man’s waistline. This evolved from the 12th century, when King Henry I determined that a yard was the distance from his nose to his thumb when his arm was outstretched. As for the word “yard,” it’s derived from the Middle English yerd, meaning “stick” or “rod.”
• “Handbreadth” is the width of the average hand, generally accepted to be anywhere between 2.5 and 4 inches. Its etymology is quite literal, as it refers to the breadth (or width) of a hand.
• “Pace” is the length of one step, while “double pace” is a step with each foot. The word came about in the late 13th century, from the Old French pas, meaning “a step.”
• “Cubit” is a body-related unit of measurement that may have originated in ancient Egypt around 3000 BCE. One cubit equals the space between the tip of one’s elbow and the tip of the middle finger, which is generally around 18 inches.
Rotary Jukebox
For a small donation, your favorite musician will be featured on one of our next e-meetings for everyone to enjoy.
Every week we'll have a draw and the lucky person will see their song featured!
THIS WEEK - The Beatles
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The Four-way Test
To close the meeting, Rotarian and Club President Judy recites the Four-Way Test of the things that Rotarians think, say, or do.
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