OTTAWA—Health Canada has given Pfizer/BioNTech the green light to count six doses of COVID-19 vaccine per vial instead of five, meaning the company can ship fewer vials to Canada and still reach their deal to supply Canada with a total of 40 million.
The latest coronavirus news from Canada and around the world Tuesday. This file will be updated throughout the day. Web links to longer stories if available.
Four trustees at the heart of an independent investigation that substantiated several of former student trustee’ Ahona Mehdi’s complaints about racist behaviour at Hamilton’s public school board may yet face discipline.
It could be worse. That’s an underrated lesson of human history, but in Ontario it’s also been an official pandemic talking point. Look at Quebec, or Manitoba, or the United States. The bar may be stapled to the hospital floor, but it’s true: it could be worse.
It could be worse. That’s an underrated lesson of human history, but in Ontario it’s also been an official pandemic talking point. Look at Quebec, or Manitoba, or the United States. The bar may be stapled to the hospital floor, but it’s true: it could be worse.
On Sunday evening, as millions of Americans watched the Super Bowl, Harriet Diamantidis sat down at her computer to continue her endless search for COVID vaccine slots.
Just when life couldn’t get any worse for Ontario’s universities, one campus is on life support and another is dead on arrival. Still others are caught between credit watch and death watch.
New and more contagious variants of COVID are circulating in Ontario — and not just in hot spots like Toronto but as far away as North Bay and Timiskaming.
Toronto needs to remain in lockdown, even as the province moves to ease COVID-19 restrictions in regions with low case counts, the city’s medical officer of health said Monday.
A survey showing about 70 per cent of gender-diverse, Two-Spirit and LGBTQIA+ students were abused at Hamilton public schools in the past year is being called both “shocking and unsurprising” by a community activist.
Canada’s big three telecom companies have collectively received more than $240 million from the federal government’s wage subsidy program while continuing to pay out billions of dollars in dividends to shareholders.