Tag Archives: Health
Canada on verge of deal to make COVID-19 vaccines at home
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau today is expected to announce the makings of an agreement to produce COVID-19 vaccines within Canada. Industry Minister Francois-Phillipe Champagne tells The Can...
Feb 02, 2021
LGBTQ businesses, hit hard by COVID-19, look for shifts in federal programs
OTTAWA - It had been a while since Alana Fiks had been able to open her shop in Winnipeg when she spoke about the impact of COVID-19. The co-owner of Black Market Provisions, which sells food and hous...
Feb 02, 2021
Poll finds overwhelming support for new travel restrictions
OTTAWA - The vast majority of Canadians support tighter restrictions on international travel imposed by the federal government, a new poll suggests.Eighty-six per cent of respondents agree with strict...
Feb 02, 2021
Canada signs deal with Novavax to make its COVID-19 vaccine at new Montreal facility
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced a tentative deal Tuesday with U.S. vaccine-maker Novavax to produce its product in Canada if the COVID-19 vaccine gets approved for use here. "This is ...
Feb 02, 2021
COVID-19 Case at St. Mary School
A positive case of COVID-19 was diagnosed in an individual at St. Mary School in North Battleford.Light of Christ Catholic School Division (LCCSD) was informed earlier today by officials from the Sask...
Feb 01, 2021
Province records 147 new COVID-19 cases, two more deaths
The province administered 88 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine yesterday, bringing the total amount to 35,447.As of Feb. 1, 108 per cent of the doses received were administered in the province. The overag...
Feb 01, 2021
Federal government provides $15 million for safer drug pilot programs in B.C.
VANCOUVER - Four pilot projects in Vancouver and Victoria have received $15 million in federal funding to provide safer drugs for people at risk of dying from overdose as British Columbia faces a reco...
Feb 01, 2021
Vaccine shortages throw province’s plan off track, minister says
Saskatchewan Health Minister Paul Merriman told a Commons standing committee Monday the province's vaccine shipment for Feb. 8 will only be a third of what was originally promised.The shortages from P...
Feb 01, 2021
Single-shot vaccine's other advantages may soon outweigh lower efficacy, Fauci says
WASHINGTON - Johnson and Johnson's forthcoming single-shot COVID-19 vaccine has more going for it than just a middling ability to prevent infection, the pre-eminent U.S. expert on infectious disease s...
Feb 01, 2021
Canada prepping trade options in case EU breaks promise to keep vaccines flowing
OTTAWA - Canada is putting together options to retaliate if Europe breaks its promise not to cut off Canada's shipments of COVID-19 vaccines, though Europe appears to be keeping that promise at least ...
Feb 01, 2021