Category Archives: Science
Nova Scotia won’t initially set up team to enforce proof-of-vaccination rules
HALIFAX — Nova Scotia's premier says the province won't initially set up an enforcement team to ensure compliance with rules requiring people to show proof-of-vaccination documents for activities such as going to bars or theatres. As of Oct. 4, people ...
New strategies must be implemented to deal with opioid crisis: Ontario science table
A wide variety of strategies must be implemented across Ontario to tackle the opioid crisis that has worsened significantly during the pandemic, according to the province's science table. In its latest brief published Wednesday, the group of experts sa...
Rising COVID-19 hospitalizations won’t overwhelm hospitals in short term: report
MONTREAL — Hospitalizations related to COVID-19 are expected to rise across Quebec but shouldn't exceed dedicated capacity over the next two to three weeks, a government health-care research institute said Thursday. About 80 per cent of new COVID-19-re...
Appeals court restores several Indiana abortion restrictions
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana’s ban on telemedicine consultations between doctors and women seeking abortions and several other abortion restrictions are back in force after a federal appeals court set aside a judge’s ruling that they were unconstitution...
Los Angeles requires COVID-19 vaccine for students 12 and up
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles board of education voted Thursday to require students 12 and older to be vaccinated against the coronavirus to attend in-person classes in the nation’s second-largest school district.
Sweeping new vaccine mandates for 100 million Americans
WASHINGTON (AP) — In his most forceful pandemic actions and words, President Joe Biden on Thursday ordered sweeping new federal vaccine requirements for as many as 100 million Americans — private-sector employees as well as health care workers and fede...
Minnesota’s Klobuchar says she had breast cancer; doing well
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar announced Thursday that she has been treated for breast cancer that was found in February and the treatment “went well.”
France to offer free birth control to all women up to 25
PARIS (AP) — France will offer free birth control to all women up to age 25 starting next year, the health minister announced Thursday.
‘Boiling point’: Alberta doctors warn of health system collapse as COVID cases climb
CALGARY — Alberta's health-care system is on the verge of collapse, warns a group of physicians who are pleading with the government to strengthen public health measures to fend off a relentless fourth wave of COVID-19. Dr. Shazma Mithani, an emergency...
Toronto parents describe nerves, excitement as Ontario’s largest boards resume class
TORONTO — Parents said they were excited but nervous as they dropped their children off to school on Thursday - the first day of classes in Ontario's largest school boards - amid a fourth wave of the pandemic. Other boards started
