Feb 24 2021 — Amanda Connolly — Global News — Procurement Minister Anita Anand is not saying whether the Canadian government waived its right to sue over delays by coronavirus vaccine suppliers in any of the contracts signed, as the European Union appears to have done with AstraZeneca. In an interview with Global News Morning, Anand was asked what recourse the federal government has if […]
Feb 24 2021 — John Paul Tasker — CBC — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau confirmed today that Moderna will meet its contractual obligation to deliver 2 million COVID-19 vaccine doses by the end of March. Speaking in question period, Trudeau said that the Massachusetts-based firm will send 460,000 doses during the week of March 8 and 840,000 doses starting on March 22 — 1.3 million […]
Feb 23 2021 — CTV News — Despite being advised against all non-essential travel outside of the country, Statistics Canada reported that there was an increase in Canadians returning home from travelling abroad in December 2020. According to new data released Tuesday, more than 170,700 Canadians flew home from abroad in December. The agency says that was an increase of 33.7 per […]
Feb 23 2021 — The Canadian Press — TORONTO — The City of Toronto says 29 people living at a shelter have tested positive for an unidentified COVID-19 variant.The city says Toronto Public Health declared an outbreak at Maxwell Meighen on Feb. 3.It says Public Health Ontario is sequencing the samples to identify the COVID-19 variant.The city says all residents who have tested […]
Feb 22 2021 — The Canadian Press — Canada is poised to receive a record number of COVID-19 vaccine doses this week thanks to scheduled deliveries from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna, as the country looks to speed up its vaccination efforts. The Public Health Agency of Canada says it expects more than 640,000 shots from the pharmaceutical giants this week, which would represent the […]
Feb 21 2021 — The Canadian Press — Canadians perusing social media may be coming across photos of their American peers bearing wide smiles and vaccination cards that show they’ve been inoculated against COVID-19. A recent ramping up of the United States’s vaccine rollout has it vastly outpacing its northern neighbour, and some Canadians are wondering why distribution here is lagging so far […]
Feb 21 2021 — The Canadian Press — TORONTO — Ontario is reporting 1,087 new cases of COVID-19 today and 13 new deaths linked to the virus.Health Minister Christine Elliott says the count includes 344 new cases in Toronto, 156 in Peel Region and 122 in York Region. Stay-at-home orders in York Region are set to lift Monday when it returns to the […]
Feb 21 2021 — The Canadian Press — MONTREAL — Quebec is reporting its lowest number of new COVID-19 cases in five months, as well as 15 deaths linked to the virus.Health Minister Christian Dube said on Twitter that the 666 new infections reported today is the "best day" since Sept 23, when the province reported 687 cases.Hospitalizations also fell by 14 to […]
Feb 19 2021 — John Paul Tasker — CBC — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said today that hundreds of thousands of COVID-19 shots are set to arrive each week for the foreseeable future — but Canada’s chief public health officer warned that the relative scarcity of vaccines now means people still have to be vigilant about fast-spreading COVID variants. After convening a call with the […]
Feb 19 2021 — Rachel Gilmore — Global News — The federal government is extending many of its emergency COVID-19 benefits as the pandemic rages on, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Friday. Sickness benefits, caregiving benefits and the Canada Recovery Benefit (CRB) are all getting top ups when it comes to duration during which each can be claimed — meaning Canadians will be able to […]
Feb 19 2021 — The Canadian Press — New federal forecasts project that COVID-19 variants could fuel a surge of 20,000 new cases per day by mid-March if public health restrictions are relaxed further. The Public Health Agency of Canada released modelling today suggesting that while infections continue to decline nationally, the spread of virus mutations threatens to reverse that progress. Canada’s chief […]
Feb 18 2021 — Sophia Harris — CBC — Some Canadians abroad plan to change their route home and cross the border by land, instead of air, to bypass Canada’s pricey new hotel quarantine requirement. “If I can avoid it, I’m going to do it,” said Brian Cross of Burlington, Ont., who is spending the winter with his wife, Anne, in Mesa, Ariz. The […]
Feb 18 2021 — CBC — Whether you’re a traveller getting a mandated COVID-19 test at the airport, or a worker on a job site like a film set or food processing plant that requires a negative test, odds are it’s being done by a private company. Businesses offering polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests are now a crucial part of Canada’s […]
Feb 17 2021 — CTV News — As coronavirus variants pose a threat to declining infection numbers in Canada, another kind of anomaly has been identified. Researchers in New Mexico recently discovered what is believed to be the first recorded “recombination event” of the COVID-19 pandemic between a variant of SARS-CoV-2 that originated in the U.K. and another from California.
Feb 17 2021 — CBC — Officials in Canada’s most populous province are not submitting key COVID-19 data to the federal government’s health agency, making it difficult to get a clear, national picture of how the first phase of the country’s vaccination program is progressing. Since Dec. 19, provinces and territories have been reporting the number of people vaccinated in three […]