Category Archives: Canada
Provinces shift vaccination efforts to teens and younger adults as rollout advances
A day after Canada officially reported partially immunizing 50 per cent of residents against COVID-19, efforts are shifting to vaccinate younger age groups.Ontario today became the latest province to ...
May 23, 2021
Canadian troops lining up in droves to be vaccinated with 85% receiving one dose
OTTAWA - The Department of National Defence says Canadian military personnel are coming forward in droves to be vaccinated, with more than 85 per cent of all troops receiving at least one dose. That s...
May 23, 2021
Community involvement key to safe, reclaimable coal mines: industry scientists
Coal mines can be environmentally safe and can become useful, enjoyable landscapes when the seam runs out, say scientists working with industry. But they admit that there are risks and costs, and urge...
May 23, 2021
Families vow to continue land battle in New Brunswick's Kouchibouguac National Park
KOUCHIBOUGUAC, N.B. - A group of 50 people gathered last week on a grassy area overlooking the Fontaine River on New Brunswick's east coast to share memories and erect a teepee. Their answer for why t...
May 23, 2021
Amateur fossil hunter finds 84-million-year-old fossilized turtle on Vancouver Island
COURTENAY, B.C. - Russell Ball was taking one of his usual walks along Vancouver Island's Puntledge River on a cool, grey day in January when he noticed something out of the ordinary. As he knelt down...
May 23, 2021
Film producer Avi Lewis named as NDP candidate in B.C. riding
HALFMOON BAY, B.C. - Documentary film producer Avi Lewis has been acclaimed as the federal NDP candidate in a riding in southern British Columbia. Lewis, the grandson of former federal NDP leader Davi...
May 22, 2021
Cloistered nuns get vaccinated to do their 'duty as citizens' and neighbours
MONTREAL - Cloistered nuns in Montreal's Carmelite monastery lined up to complete their COVID-19 vaccinations yesterday. Inside a 125-year-old convent in the city's Plateau neighbourhood, 11 sisters -...
May 22, 2021
More than half of Canadians have now received at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose
MONTREAL - More than 50 per cent of Canadians have now received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. Data compiled from provincial and territorial health authorities shows that more than 20.6 mill...
May 22, 2021
Canada's 50 per cent vaccine milestone a psychological boost to keep going: experts
Raywat Deonandan is feeling more hopeful these days, and he's noticed a renewed optimism in many of his epidemiology and infectious disease colleagues. After months of observing negative COVID-19 tren...
May 22, 2021
'Proved that they care': Man who held hunger strike hopeful after suicide bill passes
Last summer, a 24-year-old fiddle teacher walked more than 600 kilometres from his home in northern Saskatchewan to the legislature in Regina after a bill to address suicides was voted down a second t...
May 22, 2021