The COVID-19 pandemic has sparked heated and passionate debates about the introduction of vaccine passports. The use of digital vaccination certificates is becoming increasingly common in cities around the globe. Whether they would become a prerequisite for international travel is yet to be determined. In September 2021, proof of vaccination became mandatory for individuals in Ontario, Québec and British…
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More than half of South Asian women in Canada planning to leave their job: study
OTTAWA — South Asian women have faced some of the biggest job challenges during the pandemic in Canada, and a new study looks more deeply at this group and offers insights into their experiences in the workplace. More than half of South Asian women respondents to a survey by CulturaliQ and the Pink Attitude Evolution…
Health: What are green prescriptions and which countries offer them?
Recovering from the physical and mental-health effects of COVID-19 will take more than regular medicine alone. This is why doctors around the world are giving patients ‘green prescriptions’ to spend more time in nature. Five hours a month in nature is the “minimum dose” in Finland, but a walk in a city park can help…
Hong Kong’s Covid Death Rate Is Now One of the World’s Highest
Hong Kong’s Covid-19 fatality rate is now the highest in the developed world amid a wave of deaths among its under-vaccinated elderly population, ramping up pressure on officials to get the city’s worst outbreak since the pandemic began under control. The financial hub averaged eight deaths per 1 million people in the 10 days through…
Young Adults Are Most Vaxed. Let Them Explain Why
We talked to 11 people under 21 to understand why their age group leads the province in vaccination rates. After answering all the media questions about COVID-19 in schools, booster shots and whether or not the fifth wave in B.C. was finally cresting, Health Minister Adrian Dix threw out a surprising fact about vaccinations during…
Vaccination policy to remain in place for City of Toronto employees
While the province has dropped most COVID-19 public health measures, some cities, including the City of Toronto, are keeping the mandatory vaccination policy in place for employees. “The vaccination mandate/policy that said that City [of Toronto] workers should be fully vaccinated remains in place and it will remain in place,” Mayor John Tory said on Breakfast…
More than five million kids orphaned by COVID-19: study
More than 5.2 million children around the world have lost a parent or guardian to COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic, with three quarters of those children losing a father, and more than half of the total losses occurring over a six-month period in 2021, a new study suggests. The modelling study published last week by…
Canadian researchers discover 1st possible case of deer spreading COVID-19 virus to a human
Animal-to-human transmission is rare, but people in close contact with wild deer should be cautious In a world first, preliminary research suggests deer may be able to transmit the COVID-19 virus to humans, following analysis by a team of Canadian scientists monitoring the spread of SARS-CoV-2 in animals. Up until now, researchers have only found evidence…
Ontario judge rules mother doesn’t have to vaccinate children against COVID-19
An Ontario judge has declined to recognize as fact that government-endorsed COVID-19 vaccines are beneficial for children, saying that government decisions have often gone disastrously wrong. In granting a mother’s wishes that two children aged 12 and 10 not be vaccinated – the father wanted them to be – Ontario Superior Court Justice Alex Pazaratz…
As Ontario scraps vaccine passports, where are the COVID numbers heading?
The province is lifting most remaining health restrictions Tuesday, including capacity limits for indoor public settings. We look at the key indicators. Life in Ontario is about to change once again, as the province lifts most remaining health restrictions on Tuesday, including vaccine passports and capacity limits for indoor public settings. But just where do the COVID…