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  As we are getting near September, parents are becoming anxious to see how the new school year will look like, even though we learned by now that anything can change dramatically in a matter of days.  Ontario's schools stayed closed longer than any other province since the pandemic began. This school term Ontario's more than two million students (and maybe their parents more than the students) are hopeful that back to school will resemble some sort of normalcy and will look much better than last year.  Even with the Delta variant progressing exponentially we have reasons to believe this...

    Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), known as “The Lady With the Lamp,” was a British nurse, social reformer and statistician best known as the founder of modern nursing. In honour of Florence Nightingale’s birthday, May 12, May 6-12 is celebrated as National Nursing Week.   Her experiences as a nurse during the Crimean War were foundational in her views about sanitation. She established St. Thomas’ Hospital and the Nightingale Training School for Nurses in 1860. Her efforts to reform healthcare greatly influenced the quality of care in the 19 and 20 centuries.    Florence Nightingale: Early Life Florence Nightingale was...

    Canada officially turned the second year of the pandemic Today marks the first anniversary of the day Canada's first COVID-19 case was confirmed. Our very first case in Canada was an Ontarion who had recently been in Wuhan, China and fallen ill after coming back to Canada. Prior to today last year, the 25th of January, most of us had never imagined being locked down at our homes, quarantined at a cruise ship for months, keeping our physical distance when talking to each other, wearing a mask, not being able to touch and hug our family members or...

    Majority of our customers are well-informed about the importance of wearing a good quality mask. They typically find us as they search with the keywords such as 'antimicrobial face masks in Canada',  'kids masks in Canada' and so on. And some of our customers are already well familiar with the Silver Ion technology and its use in medicine and sanitation.  Therefore, one of the most frequent inquiries we receive from our customers is regarding the efficacy of our masks. We do not want to unintentionally give a misleading indication that by simply wearing our masks you would be COVID-proof....

  Proteq is proud to support our school community that we have been part of 13 wonderful years.  A shout out to the TFS Parents: Do not forget to indicate TFS at the Check-out Comment field so we can tag the TFS Donations. 20% of all mask proceeds during the next 3 weeks of Marche D'hiver Extravaganza  will be donated to TFS PA (except, of course, the Pink The Princess Margaret Masks).