Toronto: A national panel of vaccine experts in Canada recommended Wednesday that provinces extend the interval between the two doses of a COVID-19 shot to four months to quickly inoculate more people amid a shortage of doses in Canada.
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Enjoy it while it lasts. Modelling warns another mass lockdown may be needed to control Ontario’s looming third wave
In the worst-case scenario, Ontario could see as many as 5,000 cases per day by early April, mostly made up of new variants, according to modelling by Scarsin Corporation, a Markham, Ont.-based company specializing in disease forecasting for global pharmaceutical companies such as Gilead, Bayer and Jansen.
Ottawa to announce $2.7-billion fund to electrify Canada’s public buses
In an interview with The Globe and Mail, federal Infrastructure Minister Catherine McKenna said the money, which will be announced Thursday, is in addition to the $1.5-billion funding for electric buses that was announced earlier this year by the Canada Infrastructure Bank.
Canadian government invests $3.5 million towards a safer supply of opioids
The Canadian government has announced $3.5 million in funding to expand an initiative that aims to offer a new way to provide people with a safer and regulated supply of opioids to prevent overdoses.
I just got a call from a federal agent
I just got a call from a federal agent asking if I am sleeping with my partner while special conditions are applied to my lifestyle, having just entered Canada. I told them that was a little too personal, and they said an officer might be by to check. Totally normal.
— Keean Bexte (@TheRealKeean) March 4, 2021
Analysts see Canada’s new push for permanent residents as a short-term solution
Canada’s recent move to offer permanent residency to more foreigners living and working in the country is a short-term solution to the economic problems spurred by a pandemic-related immigration slowdown, analysts say, while critics argue the strategy excludes too many vulnerable people.
Ontario is reporting another day below 1,000 new cases
#BREAKING: Ontario is reporting another day below 1,000 new cases. There are 994 new cases today with more than 65,600 tests completed. There are 298 new cases in Toronto, 171 in Peel and 64 in York. More details to come re: deaths, hospitalizations and vaccinations. #onpoli
— NEWSTALK1010 (@NEWSTALK1010) March 4, 2021
Why mandatory hotel quarantine is almost certainly doing nothing to curb COVID-19
Everything Should Be Better: Canada tried to copy New Zealand’s mandatory quarantine policy, but the government did it with staggering ineptitude.
Whistleblower laws in Canada nearly dead, says lawyers’ group
Canada’s whistleblower protection is nearly dead and lies dead last among other countries surveyed on their “track record for compliance with best practices” behind Albania, Bangladesh, Latvia, Pakistan, Romania, Tanzania, Uganda and Vietnam.
The International Bar Association said Tuesday federal whistleblower protection law is “nearly entirely dormant.”
Doctors Call For Safer Cocaine Supply
As drug toxicity deaths and overdoses in Canada continue to soar to unprecedented levels due to the increasingly volatile illicit market, advocates and doctors are calling for more stimulants including cocaine to be part of safe supply efforts.
‘Racism is a real problem’: Muslim women fearful following attacks in Edmonton
Edmonton’s Al-Rashid Mosque began offering Muslim women self-defence lessons following the recent attacks. The classes are full.
Keean Bexte is in a Canadian COVID jail
I have been detained in a COVID jail.
It’s not a surprise to me — we knew that Trudeau was doing this to innocent Canadians, even though the CBC lied and said that it was a conspiracy. I entered the belly of the beast to document firsthand what it is like in these facilities.
Allegedly, people were being assaulted, denied water and all-around treated like animals. It seems like the situation is more dire out east, but where I am it is no cakewalk either.