Flooding in B.C. has put intense pressure on Canada’s railways as nearly 100 freight trains carrying farmers’ annual harvest remain stalled across Western Canada.
Flooding in B.C. has put intense pressure on Canada’s railways as nearly 100 freight trains carrying farmers’ annual harvest remain stalled across Western Canada.
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Every now and again there are good days in this slog through the choppy waters of history, and Tuesday was one: appointments to vaccinate five-to-11-year-olds, and a website that didn’t even crash. If felt a little like Christmas morning in Ontario.
The latest coronavirus news from Canada and around the world Wednesday. This file will be updated throughout the day. Web links to longer stories if available.
Trustees agreed to write a letter to the Ministry of Education after hearing their own plan to provide menstrual pads to all schools as of next September will cost $300,000 to set up, and another $100,000 to $125,000 per year for pads and liners for disposal receptacles.
Now that the throne speech is said and done, one of the first things out of the legislative gate will be a bill for a new, slimmed-down package of COVID-19 benefits.
A man who worked in Ontario’s vaccination booking call centre is one of two facing criminal charges in a security breach of the provincial COVID-19 immunization system.
Parents seeking to book more than one child for a COVID-19 shot can use the provincial telephone hotline to get appointments together, Health Minister Christine Elliott said Tuesday amid concerns about difficulties with the online system.
The head of a trucking industry association says thousands of Canadian truckers won’t be vaccinated against COVID-19 by a deadline imposed by governments on both sides of the border, throwing a supply chain already stretched thin by the global pandemic into even more chaos.