Murray Wood: Feint by numbers?
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Public health agency president says employee's trip to Jamaica is 'unacceptable'
OTTAWA - The president of the Public Health Agency of Canada says it is "unacceptable" that one of the agency's managers ignored advice and vacationed in Jamaica last fall.Iain Stewart says although t...
Jan 07, 2021
At least two senators left country amid COVID-19 pandemic, five not saying
OTTAWA - Sen. Don Plett is facing calls for his resignation as Conservative leader in the Senate after choosing to vacation in Mexico over the holidays.But Plett is not the only senator who travelled ...
Jan 07, 2021
Health-care professionals ready to help but some say vaccine rollout too slow
VANCOUVER - Marcia Carr returned to nursing during the first wave of the pandemic after four years in retirement and now wants to "hit the ground running" to help vaccinate as many people as possible....
Jan 07, 2021
Canadian snowbirds flock to vaccinate in Florida as rollouts lag north of the border
OTTAWA - Snowbirds are rushing to get inoculated against COVID-19 down south as provincial vaccine rollouts lag north of the border. While many of the roughly one million Canadians who flock to sunnie...
Jan 07, 2021
Quebec COVID curfew raises concerns over enforcement, profiling, advocates say
MONTREAL - Civil rights advocates on Thursday expressed concern Quebec's new provincewide curfew is not justified by science and will be enforced in a way that will have a disproportionate impact on r...
Jan 07, 2021
Education said key in overcoming health-care worker opposition to COVID-19 vaccine
TORONTO - A consensus appears to have developed that educating reluctant health-care workers to get vaccinated against COVID-19 is better than trying to force them to get the shots. While most of thos...
Jan 07, 2021
Canadian Armed Forces lay out COVID-19 vaccination plans for troops
OTTAWA - The Canadian military's surgeon general says the Canadian Armed Forces have received enough doses of the Moderna vaccine to immunize 1,200 members against COVID-19.Maj.-Gen. Marc Bilodeau say...
Jan 07, 2021
Health Canada delays drug-pricing reforms, citing COVID challenges for manufacturers
Health Canada says it's delaying its long-awaited overhaul of drug-pricing regulations by another six months. While pharmaceutical manufacturers and patient advocates welcomed the decision, they say t...
Jan 07, 2021
National group launches legal action to increase abortion access in New Brunswick
FREDERICTON - A national civil liberties group is launching a legal action against New Brunswick in order to increase abortion access in the province.The Canadian Civil Liberties Association filed a s...
Jan 07, 2021
The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada
The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times Eastern): 6:30 p.m. British Columbia's top doctor says ongoing COVID-19 restrictions that were set to expire Friday have been extended to ...
Jan 07, 2021
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Sarah Mills: CUSMA negotiations are telling in what is not being said
Like most negotiations, Canada and the U.S. are laying their cards on the table publicly, but Sarah Mills says in Canada...
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