COVID19

The deadlines the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) announced in an email Wednesday were a delay on its original plan, while Premier Doug Ford remains committed to making such inoculations voluntary — for education staff and students.

Despite the international climate conference rolling out a vaccine and quarantine plan, other inequities hinder participation from countries in the Global South, and those who are on the U.K's "red list."

Solid information, conversation persuade people to roll up their sleeves for COVID shots.

The death toll from a self-inflicted fourth wave along with the thousands of postponed surgeries and medical procedures will be his ultimate political legacy in Alberta, says columnist Max Fawcett.

Several countries, including the United States, only recognize people with two identical doses of an approved vaccine as being fully vaccinated. As well, Oxford-AstraZeneca is not on the list of approved vaccines in many places. 

Direct passenger flights to Canada from India resumed Monday as Transport Canada lifted a months-long ban imposed due to high COVID-19 case counts.

Dr. Paul Parks said that in recent days, some critically ill COVID-19 patients who should be on ventilators are not getting them. That's on top of previously announced mass cancellations of surgeries, along with patient transfers.

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, experts are divided over the potential risks and benefits of masks for preschoolers.

Younger voters make up around 40 per cent of the electorate but are often seen as unmotivated to participate in the electoral process. Here are some of those who did show up on Monday on what matters to them.

In a territory with low vaccination rates, a shortage of health workers, and thousands of unvaccinated kids heading back to class, federal assistance may not be enough.

COP15 negotiations to set this decade’s targets on nature to be split into two, with face-to-face meetings delayed until 2022.

While 90 per cent of health-care workers in the province are already vaccinated, Premier François Legault said the remaining 10 per cent pose a risk to patients.

The Ford government will require workers in publicly funded Ontario schools to disclose, but not prove, their COVID-19 vaccine status. And those who say they have not gotten the shot, will be required to test regularly.

The University of Toronto now says all who wish to walk its reopened halls must declare they are fully vaccinated or get tested twice a week, and a federation of the province’s faculty associations says the Ford government should enforce the same on all Ontario campuses.

It’s as if everyone is waiting for someone else to make the first move — and draw the ire of the anti-vax movement so they don’t have to, writes columnist Max Fawcett.