In British Columbia, Canada, the Penticton HG (3 July) and the Campbell River Highland Gathering (10 August) have not yet been cancelled. I suspect the Penticton organizers are being a bit too optimistic and, with our provincial new COVID-19 cases reaching a daily record of over 1260 yesterday, I'm not hopeful for the Campbell River games either. Since we are now in a rampaging third wave of the pandemic, fuelIed mostly by the new variants, I really can't see large public events being allowed here before at least the late fall and perhaps not until next year.