TORONTO – After last week’s news that 22 million doses of vaccine delivered to Canada are still unused, now Canada is going to buy another 40 million doses of Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine over the next two years. (more…)
OTTAWA – Senate Chamber: an elder Inuk lights the qulliq, the traditional Inuit lamp that represents the light and warmth of family and community. And the Aboriginal Mary Simon, 73, “accompanied” in the Senate by the rhythm of a group of Inuit percussionists, after walking the red carpet to the applause, pronounces her first words: “I am honored, honored and ready to be the Canada’s first indigenous Governor-General”. (more…)
TORONTO – While the Ontario Chief Medical Officer of Health Kieran Moore continues to reiterate that the province should reach a vaccination rate of 90% to better protect itself from the Delta variant, Eileen de Villa says she is confident that Toronto will be able to further increase the percentage of those vaccinated against Covid-19. (more…)
TORONTO – Freedom Day in England, with the elimination of almost all anti-Covid restrictions. But at what price? Britain becomes, at a time when the whole world still has to deal with the pandemic, an immense laboratory in which the government led by Prime Minister Boris Johnson has decided to carry out a dangerous social-health experiment. At first sight, this is a political breakthrough that is difficult to understand. (more…)
Life seems to appear a little more normal. Declining daily new infections and increasing vaccinations rates mean easing of more restrictions. A light at the end of a dark tunnel. At the current rate, Canada is on track to exceed its target of having all eligible Canadians fully vaccinated by the end of the summer.