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Colour-coded stickers are given to each person representing what they have and what they want. Each group has different coloured stickers depending on their needs. A second sticker contains room prices, neighbourhoods, budgets and lifestyle preferences: those who prefer to live with smokers — cigarettes or doobies — pet friendly accommodations, or other homes full of teetotallers. How about Vancouver, where rental vacancies have hovered at less than one per cent for what seems like forever? This, coming from a guy who lived in London, Eng. Wheeler staged his first Speed Roomies event in Toronto earlier this year and suggests 50 to 65 per cent of participants left with some semblance of a match.

Vacancies would go up on message boards, and landlords would conduct mass interviews with dozens of people in one shot. I think the whole process is inefficient.

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Thank you for signing up! An error has occurred while trying to update your details. Please contact us. Use another account. Sign in to complete account merge. Last spring, when vaccine development efforts were well underway, most experts warned it would be a year to 18 months before one was ready, if we were lucky.

Instead, massive investments from governments and the private sector pushed the development, testing and review process forward at lightning speed. Canada expects to vaccinate more than , people by the end of , three million by the end of March, and most Canadians who want the vaccine by the end of September.

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Supriya Sharma, the chief medical adviser at Health Canada, said very early on, Health Canada began talking to regulators in other countries about the standards they should all use, including if any steps could be skipped to make things go faster. The international regulators worked "really, really early" to harmonize standards and let companies know what was expected of a vaccine. Health Canada adjusted the rules to allow its first reviews to happen while the final trials were ongoing, instead of after. Review teams were enlarged, they worked seven days a week and the companies kept their experts on constant standby to answer questions.

That all paved the way for Health Canada to complete its review of Pfizer-BioNTech's vaccine candidate just five days after receiving the final documents from the company. Moderna, which was to submit its final documents Friday, is expected to follow a similar timeline. Together those two vaccines alone should bring enough doses to Canada to vaccinate 30 million people next year.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told The Canadian Press last week that Canada moved early to identify and pre-purchase multiple promising vaccines because it had learned its lesson when it didn't have enough personal protective equipment for front-line workers when the pandemic began. Canada was able to adapt domestic factories to start churning out ventilators, face masks and hand sanitizer pretty quickly. Ramping up vaccine development and manufacturing capacity is going to take a lot longer.