Jun 18 2021 — Mia Rabson, The Canadian Press — OTTAWA — The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases attributed to the highly contagious Delta variant jumped 66 per cent in Canada this week. Canada's chief public health officer Dr. Theresa Tam said as of Friday there are just over 2,000 confirmed cases of the variant. Just three days ago, the Public Health Agency told The […]
Jun 18 2021 — Mia Rabson, The Canadian Press — OTTAWA — The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases attributed to the highly contagious Delta variant jumped 66 per cent in Canada this week. Canada's chief public health officer Dr. Theresa Tam said as of Friday there are just over 2,000 confirmed cases of the variant. Just three days ago, the Public Health Agency told The […]
Jun 18 2021 — Mia Rabson, The Canadian Press — OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's promise of a two-dose fall is looking a lot more like it will become a two-dose August. Trudeau says Canada is on track now to have a total of 68 million doses delivered by the end of July, which is more than enough to fully vaccinate all 33.2 million […]
Jun 18 2021 — Mia Rabson, The Canadian Press — OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's promise of a two-dose fall is looking a lot more like it will become a two-dose August. Trudeau says Canada is on track now to have a total of 68 million doses delivered by the end of July, which is more than enough to fully vaccinate all 33.2 million […]
Jun 17 2021 — Mia Rabson, The Canadian Press — OTTAWA — The National Advisory Committee on Immunization said Thursday people who got the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine as their first dose should get Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna for their second shot. On June 1, NACI had said AstraZeneca recipients "could" get Pfizer or Moderna for their second shot if they wanted, but Thursday went further to say […]
Jun 17 2021 — Mia Rabson, The Canadian Press — OTTAWA — It's time for Canada to have a "reckoning" about the RCMP, says the chair of a House of Commons committee that studied systemic racism in policing. John McKay, a Toronto Liberal MP and chair of the House public safety committee, said the Mounties are a globally known Canadian icon, but it's time to […]
Jun 17 2021 — Mia Rabson, The Canadian Press — OTTAWA — It's time for Canada to have a "reckoning" about the RCMP, says the chair of a House of Commons committee that studied systemic racism in policing. John McKay, a Toronto Liberal MP and chair of the House public safety committee, said the Mounties are a globally known Canadian icon, but it's time to […]
Jun 15 2021 — Mia Rabson, The Canadian Press — OTTAWA — Canada is on the cusp of hitting its first national vaccination target, but chief public health officer Dr. Theresa Tam says the Delta variant of the virus that causes COVID-19 might mean the country has to up its vaccine game again. Federal modelling done in April and May suggested that if 75 per […]
Jun 15 2021 — Mia Rabson, The Canadian Press — OTTAWA — Canada is on the cusp of hitting its first national vaccination target, but chief public health officer Dr. Theresa Tam says the Delta variant of the virus that causes COVID-19 might mean the country has to up its vaccine game again. Federal modelling done in April and May suggested that if 75 per […]
Jun 15 2021 — Mia Rabson, The Canadian Press — OTTAWA — Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion says former Liberal MP Yasmin Ratansi violated Parliament's conflict of interest code when she hired her sister in her constituency office. Dion says Ratansi could have done more to avoid the conflict but believes it was an error in judgment that she took steps to fix as soon as […]
Jun 14 2021 — Mia Rabson, The Canadian Press — OTTAWA — A new study in England suggests even just one dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines are extremely good at keeping people from ending up in the hospital if they contract COVID-19 from the Delta variant of the virus that causes it. The news is particularly welcome in Canada, where a focus on […]
Jun 14 2021 — Mia Rabson, The Canadian Press — OTTAWA — A new study in England suggests even just one dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines are extremely good at keeping people from ending up in the hospital if they contract COVID-19 from the Delta variant of the virus that causes it. The news is particularly welcome in Canada, where a focus on […]
Jun 14 2021 — Mia Rabson, The Canadian Press — OTTAWA — Canada's promise to donate almost 13 million vaccine doses to the global vaccine sharing alliance known as COVAX includes none of the 251 million doses of vaccine Canada bought directly from drug companies. International Development Minister Karina Gould confirmed in an interview with The Canadian Press Monday that the 13 million doses are […]
Jun 14 2021 — Mia Rabson, The Canadian Press — OTTAWA — Canada's promise to donate almost 13 million vaccine doses to the global vaccine sharing alliance known as COVAX includes none of the 251 million doses of vaccine Canada bought directly from drug companies. International Development Minister Karina Gould confirmed in an interview with The Canadian Press Monday that the 13 million doses are […]
Jun 12 2021 — Mia Rabson, The Canadian Press — OTTAWA — Canada paid a premium to get more than 250,000 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine delivered last December, weeks earlier than planned. The detail is contained in heavily redacted contracts released to the House of Commons health committee late Friday, but any specifics on what price was paid or how the delivery schedule was […]