Canada agrees to take part in WTO talks to waive patent protections on vaccines
Canada's international trade minister says the federal government will take part in talks to waive the global rules that protect vaccine trade secrets.
Canada's international trade minister says the federal government will take part in talks to waive the global rules that protect vaccine trade secrets.
The chair of the National Advisory Committee on Immunization says people who already got the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine should not feel they made a bad choice.
Nova Scotia is reporting a single-day record 182 new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, as the active number of cases in the province rises to 1,309
In a live update, Dr. Deena Hinshaw reported 2,211 new cases of COVID-19. No new deaths were reported in the province as 654 people remain in hospital, including 146 in ICU.
The medical officer of health for one of Ontario’s hardest-hit regions explains why he’s enacted some of the strictest measures in the province throughout the pandemic and what he expects to happen in the coming weeks.
Front-line workers say it's inequitable that only a few Canadian cities have set up vaccine clinics specifically for Black and racialized residents, when these communities are being disproportionately affected by COVID-19.
A new study has found that the majority of Black Canadians suffer from 'severe depressive symptoms' due to racial discrimination.
An Ottawa-designed immunization booking system is gaining praise in Nova Scotia for its simplicity and effectiveness compared to the COVID-19 vaccine rollout in other provinces.
The largest real-world study yet of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine on Thursday confirmed that the jab provided more than 95 per cent protection against COVID-19, but found that the level dropped significantly when people received just one of the two prescribed doses.
The author of a new study that cast doubt on the early efficacy of the Pfizer-BioNech coronavirus vaccine against variants of concern says he believes the data is not applicable to the situation in Canada where doses are being spaced out by up to four months.
Canada is sending as many as 25,000 vials of the antiviral remdesivir and up to 350 ventilators from its National Emergency Strategic Stockpile to help respond to the critical COVID-19 situation in India.
Indigenous groups from across the country held grieving ceremonies on Wednesday to remember the nearly 1,200 missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls in Canada.
The BC Coroners Service says a 12-year-old girl died last month of a suspected fentanyl overdose.
Following Wednesday's announcement that Health Canada has approved the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for children ages 12 and up, provinces are now deciding how their vaccine rollouts will reflect this information moving forward.
A Toronto-based investor and public speaker who’s run into trouble with securities regulators says he's been open about his mistakes and has 'worked hard to move on,' after whistleblower Edward Snowden called him out for past involvement in a multi-million dollar scheme.
The federal government still hasn’t offered its support of the waiver of intellectual property protections on COVID-19 vaccines to enhance their supply worldwide, even as the U.S. announced Wednesday it intends to do so.
New polling data by Nanos Research has found a strong majority of Canadians are in favour of travellers being required to show proof of vaccination prior to domestic travel or to attend a large group gathering.