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Alice May Bicknell lived to a ripe old age, and then some.The Grimsby resident died at the Deer Park Villa nursing home on Nov. 21 at the age of 110. Sorry, make that 110 years, six months and 14 days 鈥?she was born May 12, 1907.Bicknell lived to be one of the oldest people in Canada. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW According to the Gerontology Research Group, which tracks people older than 110 worldwide, the oldest person in the country is Ellen Gibb of North Bay, who was born April 10, 1905, and is 112.The oldest person on the planet is Nabi Tajima of Japan, who was born August 4, 1900, which would make her 117. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW
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The frustration is palpable in Joans voice, as over the phone from Nova Scotia she recounts how her husband never received the results of his at-home COVID-19 test from Switch Health after he returned to Canada on a recent flight from a country in Africa.And she is incredulous that no one is doing anything about the numerous complaints on the companys Facebook page about delayed results for the 10-day test, which is self-administered at home in front of a nurse who watches online to ensure its done properly. The mandatory testing has been contracted out to Switch Health by the federal government.The complaints range from travellers getting stuck in quarantine past the two-week mark, often on their own dime, to waiting in the online queue for hours to take the test and getting inexplicably kicked off by the computer system, only to go to the back of the line with hundreds of people in front. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW In the end, Joan left quarantine to get g
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