Category Archives: Health
Military investigating after officer appears in anti-vaccine video
OTTAWA — The Canadian Armed Forces says it is investigating after one of its officers appeared in a video speaking out against vaccine mandates and calling for other military members to stand up against government-imposed pandemic restrictions. Yet whi...
Top German court rejects injunction against vaccine mandate
BERLIN (AP) — Germany's Constitutional Court has refused to temporarily block the implementation of a coronavirus vaccine mandate for care and health workers that is due to come into force in mid-March.
Draft standards for LTC building design, infection prevention publicly released
OTTAWA — Experts have released a new set of draft standards for long-term care, this time focused on building design, materials and infection prevention and control. CSA Group, formerly the Canadian Standards Association, developed the draft in paralle...
NYC workers face firing for not following vaccine mandate
NEW YORK (AP) — Several thousand New York City public workers could lose their jobs Friday if they don’t show they’ve complied with the city’s mandate requiring they receive at least two shots of the COVID-19 vaccine.
French convoys protesting virus rules move toward Paris
PARIS (AP) — From all across France, protesters angry over pandemic restrictions drove toward Paris Friday in scattered convoys of camper vans, cars and trucks in an effort to defy a police ban and blockade the French capital.
Denmark officials see no reason to give more COVID vaccines
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Health authorities in Denmark said Friday that they were considering “winding down” the country's coronavirus vaccination program in the spring and see no reason now to administer a booster dose to children or a fourth shot
Study: Fewer crashes after Utah sets strictest DUI law in US
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Traffic deaths decreased in Utah after the state enacted the strictest drunken driving laws in the nation five years ago, new research published Friday by a U.S. government agency shows.
Concerns about violence make it difficult to know when protests will end: Trudeau
OTTAWA — Government officials invoked stronger measures Friday to stop illegal blockades that were paralyzing the national capital and halting traffic at Canada's busiest border crossing with the United States. The City of Ottawa went to court for an i...
Quebec opposition parties calling for end of COVID-19 state of emergency
MONTREAL — Quebec's opposition parties are accusing the government of taking too long to give up COVID-19 emergency powers and they say the delay is helping Premier François Legault and his ministers avoid scrutiny. Earlier this week, the government re...
Alberta family misses chance to say goodbye to dying mother because of border protest
COUTTS, Alta. — A woman says her family members couldn't say goodbye to their dying mother because of protesters blocking the main U.S. border crossing in southern Alberta. Megan Allan of Medicine Hat, Alta., said her aunts tried to come back
