Waze partners with Clinia to help users find COVID-19 testing centres

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Waze has partnered with Montreal-based Clinia Health Inc. to help make it easier to locate COVID-19 testing and screening locations. Clinia draws information from public health departments to build a directory of testing centres across Canada. The database has over 340 data points, and the info on Waze is being refreshed a few times a week. It shows the information on testing and screening sites at hospitals, clinics, and mobile drive-through sites to show you what options are available to you.

Twitter will introduce an edit button if you wear masks

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Is this a display of Twitter's faith in humanity? Or is this the push some people need? The social network shared in a tweet that it'll bring the much-requested edit button into its service under one condition: people wear masks. Face masks or coverings help stop the spread of COVID-19, but some are still refusing to use them. 

Facebook and Instagram are also encouraging users to wear face masks to help stop the spread of the virus alongside a link to learning more information from the US's CDC. Will these reminders be enough? We don't know.

Report: Ottawa goes mostly cash-less during COVID-19 pandemic

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Cash is no longer the preferred method of payment for Ottawans, at least according to a new report from Square. The payments company says Ottawa is now the country's most cashless city, with its residents preferring to pay with plastic because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Before the pandemic, 31.3% of purchases in the city were paid by cash. But since COVID-19 hit, cash sales have dropped to 1.7%. 

Now, most purchases in Ottawa are paid for with cards at a rate of 98.3%. Montreal comes in a close second at 97.2%. The highest percentage of purchases paid for with cards includes breweries, wineries and distilleries, food and drink vendors, and leisure and music entertainment.

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Rogers family to donate $60 million to charities assisting Canadians affected by COVID-19

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The Rogers family hopes to lend some assistance to Canadians deeply affected financially by the COVID-19 pandemic. And just in time for Rogers Communications 60th anniversary, the family will be donating $60 million to different charities across Canada, with the promise that all the money will be given this year so they can "make as immediate an impact as possible."

The donations will be given to organizations like Food Banks of Canada, Salvation Army, Women's Shelters Canada, and Children's Aid Foundation, among others.

"Our father, the late Ted Rogers, was a proud Canadian. He always worked to make Canada better and make our communities stronger," said Melinda Rogers-Hixon, deputy chair of Rogers Communications. "With our mother, Loretta, Lisa, Edward, Martha, and I as well as our families are committed through this donation to organizations supporting those living with food insecurity, homelessness, domestic violence, and at-risk children and youth."

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