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Canada is not getting any COVID-19 vaccine doses from Pfizer-BioNTech next week and the federal government says it can't tell provinces exactly how many doses to expect over the next month.

Some provincial authorities saw encouraging signs in the fight against COVID-19 on Monday, January 18, 2021, even as experts warned that it's too soon to draw conclusions from the data and provinces scrambled to deal with a looming shortage of Pfizer vaccines.

Canada’s largest province laid out its plan Wednesday to administer the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine in all nursing and high-risk retirement homes by the middle of next month as it works to boost its immunization capacity.

Nick Kouvalis, a veteran conservative operative, tweeted and retracted a false claim that "antifa" and Black Lives Matter activists were responsible for the Capitol riots. The office of Ontario Premier Doug Ford didn't answer when asked if Kouvalis is still doing work for the Progressive Conservatives.

New restrictions to fight skyrocketing rates of COVID-19 were being considered by Ontario's cabinet on Monday, January 11, 2021, night, although a curfew was not one of them.

Protected areas are home to more than three-quarters of Ontario’s species at risk, but shockingly few plans to manage them actually contain actions to protect or even track their populations, writes Katie Krelove, Ontario campaigner for the Wilderness Committee.

The Conservative Party of Canada has a full-blown case of Trumpism, Canada's National Observer columnist Max Fawcett writes, and the real question its members need to answer is whether it’s terminal or not.

It was a day of disparity in Canada's protracted battle against the novel coronavirus, with some provinces recording alarmingly high numbers of infections on on Sunday, January 10, 2021, while at least one province managed to whittle new cases to zero.

Experts who advocate for improvements to long-term care in Canada say the provinces need to move faster to vaccinate residents and the people who look after them.

A number of politicians have admitted to leaving the country over the December holiday period, even as their constituents adhered to public health guidance meant to curb the spread of COVID-19 and hunkered down at home.

"I wonder if there is not a risk that people are tiring of the standard COVID-19 messaging. How do we encourage positive behaviour, even as the situation becomes more dire?" author and consultant Ingrid Stefanovic asks.

How well endangered species fare under the 2019 changes will depend on how the Ford government implements the new rules, some of which have “ambiguous” wording, researchers from Simon Fraser and Western universities say.

The federal government defended its approach to securing Canada's border against COVID-19 on Tuesday, December 22, 2020, as Ontario Premier Doug Ford once again called for more testing at points of entry.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford blasted the federal government Monday for not moving faster on COVID-19 testing for incoming international travellers as a new variant prompted more border closures.

The COVID-19 pandemic continued to wreak havoc across the country on Sunday, Dec. 20, causing the first deaths in Nunavut and, according to media reports, pushing Ontario towards a provincewide lockdown.