fourth wave

Mistrust in government can play a big role in where and how refugees and newcomers are accessing COVID-19 information, write Leila El Shennawy and Meral Jamal.

While the fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic is slowly ebbing away, Canada's top doctor said that doesn't mean the pandemic is likely to end this winter — even with widespread vaccinations.

Premier Jason Kenney is rejecting accusations that he is blaming the province's chief medical officer of health for Alberta’s failures in the handling of the fourth wave of COVID-19.

Months before triggering the vote, the federal agency in charge of running elections commissioned its first stand-alone survey into the level of trust Canadians had in the electoral process.

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.

Dr. Katharine Smart says there's a feeling of hopelessness among health-care workers in the country that their governments are not listening to them as they try to manage the pandemic

The core public service, air travel and rail employees and passengers must all be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by the end of October, according to Canada’s new mandatory vaccine policy.

As an emergency alert blared across the province notifying Albertans of another round of public health restrictions, some felt a range of emotions: anger, confusion, exhaustion.

Alberta's top doctor says the province's "Open For Summer" plan set the trajectory for a crushing fourth wave of COVID-19, which her predecessor warns is leading to an "acute care system breakdown."

Federal party leaders jousted over climate change, health care, foreign policy, the economy and Indigenous reconciliation during Thursday's, September 9, 2021, English-language debate — their last, best chance to sway voters before the Sept. 20 election.

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.

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 Canadian business community appears to be largely supportive of the Quebec government's move to impose the country's first vaccine passport system.

Canada's chief public health officer is confident people will be able to cast ballots safely in an expected federal election, despite a fourth wave of COVID-19 fuelled by the highly contagious Delta variant.