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Ontario Pulls Emergency Brake to Combat COVID19 Third Wave
By: Laura Steiner The province of Ontario is pulling the Emergency Brake in its bid to slow the spread of COVID19. The province will enter […]
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Ontario Increases Pharmacies offering the AstraZeneca COVID19 Vaccine
By: Laura Steiner 350 additional pharmacies will offer the AstraZeneca COVID19 vaccine in Ontario to adults over 55 years of age. Some locations will begin […]
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Toronto friends help homeless weather COVID-19
By: Ahmar Khan, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Source: National Observer When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, colleges shuttered their campuses and offices shut down in-person operations, […]
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Canada to receive 5M Pfizer doses ahead of schedule in June, Trudeau says
By: Levon Sevunts Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer-BioNTech has agreed to move up delivery of five million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine to Canada from late summer […]
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Halton Residents opens COVID-19 vaccine appointments to residents 65 years of age+
By: Laura Steiner The Region of Halton has opened its COVID19 vaccine appointments to the next age group. Residents born in or before 1956 will […]
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Canada’s vaccine body recommends stopping AstraZeneca jabs for those under 55
By: Levon Sevunts Canada’s National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) is recommending provinces pause the use of the AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID-19 vaccine on those under the […]
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British Columbia imposes ‘circuit breaker’ as COVID variants, cases serge
By: Rochelle Baker, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, National Observer B.C. health authorities clamped down on COVID-19 measures Monday as new cases in the province spike […]
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The “infodemic” is not helping people truly understand COVID and vaccines
By: Len Gillis, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Sudbury.com “Editor’s note: This story was first published on January 13, 2021. This version corrects the misspelling of […]
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Public Health Agency was ‘unprepared’ for the pandemic, says auditor general
By: Levon Sevunts Despite planning for a pandemic response since the 2009 swine flu outbreak, the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) “was not adequately […]
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Moderna comes up way short on another promised COVID-19 vaccine delivery
By: Terry Haig ust when it appeared that Canada’s once-sluggish vaccination campaign was acquiring some momentum, a shipment of the Moderna vaccine that began to arrive this week is […]