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Canada approves AstraZeneca vaccine
By: Lynn Desjardins Canada’s health department has approved the AstraZeneca vaccine enabling health authorities to receive shipments within days and add it to vaccines already […]
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PHAC Cooperating with HRPS over Screening Officer Arrest
By: Laura Steiner The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) is aware of the situation in Halton Region involving one of its Quarantine Screening Officers. […]
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Concern after elderly St. Catharines man narrowly misses out on COVID-19 vaccination
By: Jordan Snobelen, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Source: Niagara this Week The daughter of an 82-year-old St. Catharines resident and veteran of the Royal Canadian […]
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Federal Conservatives call for suspension of hotel quarantine policy following reports of sexual assault
By: John Paul Tasker Some Conservative MPs are asking the federal government to suspend the mandatory hotel quarantine policy in the wake of two reports […]
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I do, but when? Couples debate a wedding with COVID restrictions
By: Max Martin, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, London Free Press This summer may be an I-do redo for many couples forced to scrap their wedding […]
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Sudbury Board of Health endorses Permanent paid sick leave for Ontario
By: Len Gillis, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Sudbury.com Sudbury’s board of public health has endorsed the idea that workers in Ontario should get permanent paid […]
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Large decline in retail sales in December 2020
By: Lynn Desjardins December 2020 retail sales in Canada posted their largest decline since a low in April attributable to the COVID-19 pandemic. Figures from […]
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COVID-19 and Saying a Final Farewell at Funerals
By: Gary Horseman, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Four-Town Journal COVID-19 has definitely changed the way we live, how we interact with each other and how […]
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Facebook user using group to reconnect social circles
By: Morgan Hampton, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Merritt Herald A Lower Nicola resident is planning ahead and making the effort to connect folks once the COVID-19 […]
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Variants will drive pandemic resurgence without stronger measures: modelling
By: Levon Sevunts While COVID-19 numbers have been steadily declining across the country for over a month, the spread of new variants of the virus […]