Universities, students prepare to deal with holiday breaks

It will be a different kind of Thanksgiving this year for Jack Irvin. In each of his first three years at St Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, the Almonte, Ontario native would return home with his siblings for the long weekend to see friends and family.
But that was before COVID-19 and the Atlantic bubble, writes Michael Gorman for CBC News.

With anyone entering Nova Scotia from outside Atlantic Canada required to self-isolate for 14 days, Irvin and the other approximately 4,000 university students here from outside the Atlantic region will be sticking close to campus during the upcoming long weekend. "I'm actually quite excited for Thanksgiving in Antigonish," said Irvin, a fourth-year human kinetics student. "Me and my roommates, we're all going to get together and do kind of a Friendsgiving, because we all [come] from outside the bubble."

Elizabeth Yeo, vice president of student services at the university, said a variety of activities are being organized for the long weekend. That includes movie marathons, sporting events on big screens and an outing to a local outdoor recreation complex for hiking, mountain biking and other activities. A Thanksgiving dinner is also part of the plan as well as non-traditional festivities.
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