Apr 23 2021 — Global News — As Canada continues its COVID-19 vaccine rollout, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Friday that the government has secured 35 million Pfizer booster shots for 2022. Another 30 million Pfizer vaccines have been secured for 2023, he told reporters at a press conference. “Pfizer has been a solid partner for Canada in this fight against COVID-19, […]
Apr 23 2021 — Global News — The Ontario government has confirmed the first known case of a rare blood clot linked to the Astrazeneca-COVISHIELD COVID-19 vaccine in the province. According to a statement issued by the government Friday morning, the man in his 60s received his first dose of the vaccine. It’s not clear when he was inoculated. Officials said the […]
Apr 23 2021 — Global News — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his wife Sophie Grégoire Trudeau will receive their first doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine on Friday, according to the prime minister’s office. The prime minister’s itinerary for Friday says the couple will receive their shots at 12:45 p.m. in Ottawa. Trudeau, 49, told reporters Tuesday that his office was […]
Apr 22 2021 — Amanda Connolly — Global News — Maj. Kellie Brennan says former chief of the defence staff Gen. Jonathan Vance told her he was “untouchable” and that he “owned” the military police. She also said “he fathered two children to me.” “I asked bluntly the [Canadian Forces National Investigation Service] if they had the mandate to investigate and did they have the […]
Apr 22 2021 — Global News — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is indicating the federal government is looking at additional COVID-19 measures to protect international borders but won’t stop flights into Canada from India. In an interview with Global News Wednesday, Trudeau said community spread continues to be the main concern and not international travel. “We are looking at a range of […]
Apr 21 2021 — Global News — The woman who shared an allegation of inappropriate behaviour by Gen. Jonathan Vance with the military ombudsman in 2018 says she did so hoping the matter would be handled discreetly. And she says she brought it forward hoping Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan would be made aware and weigh the allegation as he considered both the […]
Apr 21 2021 — Global News — Bloq Quebecois MP Sébastien Lemire is apologizing for having taken a photo of Liberal MP William Amos, who was caught nude during a virtual meeting of Parliament last week. “Today I would like to present my apologies to the House for breaching the standing orders by taking a picture of a member on April 14th,” […]
Apr 21 2021 — Global News — U.S. President Joe Biden says he’s planning to give surplus COVID-19 vaccines to other countries, including Canada, in the future as his country’s vaccination rollout hits another milestone. Biden said he spoke to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Wednesday about providing additional vaccine assistance to Canada, but also suggested some of the extra vaccines could go […]
Apr 21 2021 — Rachel Gilmore — Global News — It’s almost “impossible” to keep concerning mutations of COVID-19 out of the country, Canada’s top doctors warned on Wednesday. Since April 6, more than 100 international flights landing in Canada have carried at least one positive COVID-19 case on board, according to the federal government. “We know that, with viruses, it’s practically impossible to prevent […]
Apr 20 2021 — Global News — As the Liberal government unveiled its proposals for the coming years of federal spending in its first budget in over two years Monday, it also started to paint a rough outline of what Canada might look like after the COVID-19 pandemic that shattered lives and shuttered businesses finally ends. From childcare aimed at paving the […]
Apr 20 2021 — Global News — The Ontario government’s COVID-19 Science Advisory Table is calling for urgent and stronger action to reign in the spread of cases, noting the province’s hospitals are “buckling.” “Ontario is now facing the most challenging health crisis of our time. Our case counts are at an all-time high. Our hospitals are buckling. Younger people are getting […]
Apr 20 2021 — Global News — Telecom giant Rogers says wireless calls, SMS and data services have been restored for “a vast majority of our customers” after a mass outage that lasted several hours on Monday. “A small number of services with other carriers are continuing to come back online,” the company said in a tweet just after 11 p.m. ET.
Apr 19 2021 — Global News — From COVID-19 benefit extensions through new taxes to a bump in Old Age Security payments and a new pay floor for some minimum-wage workers, the 2021 federal budget outlines a slew of measures that will impact Canadians’ bottom lines. The Trudeau government’s first budget since 2019 runs at whopping 724 pages and contains a number […]
Apr 19 2021 — Amanda Connolly — Global News — The federal Liberals are betting big that ambitious new spending programs like childcare and a potential economic reopening as early as July will be enough to prevent deep scarring on what many economists have feared could become another Lost Generation. And while federal officials have so far been reluctant to talk timelines for any COVID-19 […]
Apr 19 2021 — Rachel Gilmore — Global News — The Liberal government has laid out billions in fresh spending after over two years without a federal budget — and while many of the government’s recent pledges graced its pages, others were notably absent. It’s possible some policies were pushed out of reach as COVID-19 variants sent a third wave hurtling through Canada, forcing the […]