Testing and high vax rates will help keep Ontario schools safe this fall: Moore
TORONTO — Regular testing combined with high levels of COVID-19 vaccination among staff and eligible students should keep Ontario schools safe when they open next month, the province's top doctor said Tuesday. Dr. Kieran Moore said schools will be mon...
Ontario to pilot at-home COVID testing for students and staff at certain schools
Vaccinated and asymptomatic students and staff in certain Ontario high schools who are exposed to COVID-19 through an outbreak or cohort will be given an at-home test as part of a pilot project set to begin next month. A memo from
P.E.I. to maintain border screening for unvaccinated visitors until October
CHARLOTTETOWN — Health officials in Prince Edward Island say they'll maintain targeted border screening, testing and self-isolation for unvaccinated travellers until at least the middle of October. Chief medical officer of health Dr. Heather Morrison s...
‘Passport to freedom’: Quebec says vaccine passports available for download Wednesday
MONTREAL — The smartphone applications that will run Quebec's vaccine passport system will be available for download starting Wednesday, one week before the government's latest health order goes into effect, according to Health Minister Christian Dubé....
Manitoba brings back masks, requires COVID-19 vaccination for front-line workers
WINNIPEG — Manitoba is bringing back its mask mandate and requiring all front-line provincial employees who work with vulnerable populations to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. The changes come as health officials predict a fourth pandemic wave in...
N.W.T. reports first death related to COVID-19, outbreak grows to 219 active cases
YELLOWKNIFE — The chief public health officer of the Northwest Territories has confirmed the territory's first death related to COVID-19 as the N.W.T. experiences its worst outbreak since the beginning of the pandemic with 219 active cases in eight com...
Biden rejects U.S. extension in Kabul, as Trudeau, G7 leaders extend offers to stay
OTTAWA — While Prime Minister Justin Trudeau offered Tuesday to keep Canadian military personnel in Afghanistan after Aug. 31, his fellow G7 leaders were not able to persuade President Joe Biden to extend the American deadline for withdrawal. Trudeau, ...
Tunisia’s president extends decree giving him full power
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisia’s president has prolonged the special powers he granted himself a month ago when he began ruling by decree after firing the prime minister, freezing parliament and lifting the immunity of lawmakers.
Some Afghans vow to resist Taliban from mountain enclave
In a mountain valley north of Kabul, the last remnants of Afghanistan's shattered security forces have vowed to resist the Taliban in a remote region that has defied conquerors before. But any attempt to reenact that history could end in
Thailand legalizes kratom, popular plant-based painkiller
BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand on Tuesday decriminalized the possession and sale of kratom, a plant native to Southeast Asia whose leaves are used as a mild stimulant and painkiller and which has a following in the United States for its