Quebec is shortening the minimum time between first and second doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to eight weeks, Health Minister Christian Dube announced Thursday. Second doses of the vaccine will start being administered at walk-in clinics on Saturday to people who received their first dose before April 3, Dube...
Thousands of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines expiring next week were still undergoing quality checks in Ontario on Thursday, as pharmacists set to administer the doses expressed frustration over the delay. A stockpile of 45,000 doses expires Monday, while 10,000 more expire at the end of June. The province said about 5,000 were...
Ontario is reporting another 1,135 COVID-19 cases and 19 more deaths, according to its latest report released Thursday morning. Ontario has administered 143,748 vaccine doses since its last daily update, with 8,530,698 vaccines given in total as of 8 p.m. the previous night. According to the Star’s vaccine tracker, 7,935,844 people...
Ontario Liberal Leader Steven Del Duca is calling on the province to let local public health units decide if schools in their regions should reopen this year as COVID-19 case numbers continue to drop — and at least one regional medical officer of health agrees. Del Duca told reporters at...
B.C. health officials announced 250 new cases of COVID-19 and three more deaths on Wednesday, bringing the seven-day rolling average of new cases to its lowest point since early November. In a written statement, Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry and Health Minister Adrian Dix said there are currently 3,580...
Karoline Gagnon has worked as a bartender or bar manager for 25 years in Montreal and while she says she had often considered changing careers, the money and the freedom that lifestyle offered were too tempting. But more than a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, Gagnon says she won’t be...
The Saskatchewan RCMP officer charged with first-degree murder in the death of a man in Prince Albert has resigned from the force. Bernie Herman, 53, is charged with the death of Braden Herman, 26. The two are not related. Braden’s body was found near Little Red River Park on May 11....
Two Mississauga parents have been charged with abandoning their infant in an overheated vehicle, police said. Police responded to reports of a distressed child under the age of one left alone in a car in the Tranmere Drive and Derry Road E. area Tuesday. The infant was removed from the overheated...
Member of Parliament for Medicine Hat–Cardston–Warner Glen Motz is baffled by the decision to stop the collaboration between Canada and the United States to share surplus COVID-19 vaccine. “What a perfect scenario to not have to quarantine, to use the graciousness of the people of the U.S. with excess vaccines,...
Seven individuals have been placed under arrest by police following an incident in which an adult male was kidnapped in Mississauga, Ont.. Peel Regional Police say they received a call regarding the kidnapping at approximately 4 p.m. on April 10. After a 14-hour investigation, police say the victim was located in...