In 2009, in Toronto on the production set of John Ringo's brilliant concept movie "The Last Centurion", filming was postponed indefinately on this day; the cause was a real life triple-apocalypse even more terrifying than the dual catastrophoes of the movie which portrayed a new mini-ice age and, nearly simultaneously, a plague to dwarf all previous experiences.
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Infected TorchbearersThe first Olympic torchbearers Catriona Le May-Doan and Simon Whitfield had carried the Olympic flame through a crowd of thousands in Victoria, but they also carried with them a slow-acting variant of the zombie virus known as "Solanum". Yet the prospects for quarantining the crisis had initially seemed favourable because the gestation period was over a fortnight, and patients injected early enough had a survival rate of over 95%.

And so Health Canada confidently informed all provinces and territories that volume shipments of vaccination shots would be sufficient to beat the pandemic. At a press conference in Ottawa, Chief Public Health Officer Dr. David Butler-Jones said the Public Health Agency had already shipped six million vaccinations before the last week of October, and confirmed that GlaxoSmithKline had opened additional production lines at its plant in Ste-Foy, Quebec to fulfil a Canadian order of 50.4 million doses.

Just twenty-fours later, a hijacked Air Canada Jet Liner crashed into the production facility, and a terrorist cell of Al-qaeda launched a devastating follow-up assault. Prime Minister Stephen Harper declared a national emergency, and the prospects for there even being a recognisable Canadian nation to host Vancouver 2010 sharply diminished.