Tag Archives: Health
Health Canada confident AstraZeneca vaccine safe and effective against COVID-19
OTTAWA - Health Canada is reassuring Canadians the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is safe and effective, even as it works to add a warning about blood clots and reacts to a new controversy over the compan...
Mar 23, 2021
The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada for March 23, 2021
The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times eastern): 8:45 p.m. Alberta reported 465 new cases of COVID-19 and three more deaths. The province identified 197 new variant cases, bring...
Mar 23, 2021
Officials say coroner to probe case of elderly woman found dead in Montreal hospital
MONTREAL - Health officials in western Montreal said Tuesday they will ask the coroner to investigate the death of an 86-year-old woman reportedly found lifeless on the floor of a hospital emergency r...
Mar 23, 2021
Advocates critique rising jail figures in some provinces after initial COVID-19 fall
HALIFAX - A report by advocates for Canadian inmates is criticizing the rising rates of incarceration in at least two provincial jail systems amid the continuing pandemic.About a year after the first ...
Mar 23, 2021
A look at COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada on Monday, March 22, 2021
The latest numbers on COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada as of 11:00 p.m. ET on Monday March 22, 2021. In Canada, the provinces are reporting 143,559 new vaccinations administered for a total of 4,097,84...
Mar 22, 2021
The latest numbers on COVID-19 in Canada for Monday, March 22, 2021
The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 10:30 p.m. ET on Monday March 22, 2021. There are 938,719 confirmed cases in Canada. Canada: 938,719 confirmed cases (35,844 active, 880,...
Mar 22, 2021
PHAC president given until Friday to explain why two scientists let go
OTTAWA - The president of the Public Health Agency of Canada has been given until the end of the week to explain why two Canadian government scientists were let go 18 months after being escorted from ...
Mar 22, 2021
Family of Filipina woman wants accounting of her death in Montreal hospital
MONTREAL - The family of a woman who died in a Montreal-area hospital last month is calling on the coroner's office to investigate after troubling circumstances of her death came to light in a publish...
Mar 22, 2021
NESD Director of Education weighs in on rapid testing kits being shipped to Sask. schools
The Saskatchewan government announced on Monday that 100,000 rapid test kits were being shipped to Saskatchewan K-12 schools.North East School Division director of education Don Rempel told northeastN...
Mar 22, 2021
Rapid COVID testing heading to Sask. schools
The Government of Saskatchewan says K-12 schools across the province are currently being shipped 100,000 rapid test kits which could start being put to use later this week. The Health ministry says it...
Mar 22, 2021