The Planting Imagination Team is a group of Chinatown community organizations and X University (Ryerson) Toronto researchers who are working together to bring the local community together to come up with new visions for the future of Chinatown. We’re working with project partners and local organizations to recruit up to 40 diverse Chinatown Community Activators…
Health officials have said Canada’s fourth wave of COVID-19 is a “pandemic of the unvaccinated.” According to data compiled by the Our World in Data project at the University of Oxford, when it comes to Canada as a whole, eight per cent of residents remain unvaccinated. A new poll from the non-profit Angus Reid Institute suggests unvaccinated Canadians’ top reasons…
Health Canada says comments it made on Twitter on Tuesday that its review of a COVID-19 vaccine for kids would still take months was incorrect and the posts were deleted. The comments drew the ire of parents who on the same day saw regulators in the United States approve the use of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine…
Justin Ling: Vaccines, masks and ventilation are working. So why do governments keep doubling-down on the measures that don’t effectively stop COVID? You open the door and prepare to step outside when a pang of guilt hits, as though leaving the house is an act of transgression in and of itself. You go to the…
U.S. health officials on Tuesday, Nov 2nd, 2021 gave the final signoff to Pfizer’s kid-size COVID-19 shot, a milestone that opens a major expansion of the nation’s vaccination campaign to children as young as 5. The Food and Drug Administration already authorized the shots for children ages 5 to 11 – doses just a third of…
7 things you need to know now about COVID-19 in York Region 1. Vaccines for York Region children are coming soon Vaccines for the 5-11 age group in York Region are anticipated sometime in November, said Dr. Richard Gould, York Region’s acting medical officer of health. To accommodate expanded eligibility groups, the region plans to…
Ontario will make available booster shots to anyone over 70, and anyone who has received two doses of the AstraZenca COVID-19 vaccine or the one-dose Janssen vaccine starting this weekend. Eligible individuals can begin booking their third dose appointment starting at 8 a.m. on November 6 using the provincial COVID-19 vaccine portal, select pharmacies or directly through public…
When the pandemic started, Noah Little created a website to keep track of rising case numbers. Today, it’s one of Canada’s most-viewed sources of COVID information. There wasn’t one case of COVID-19 in his home province of Saskatchewan when Noah Little started collecting pandemic data on March 8, 2020. With just 67 cases in all…
Nursing schools in the province are seeing a huge uptick in applications, with interest driven, in part, by the pandemic. It comes at a moment when the province is facing a dire shortage of nurses. When 23-year-old Srisudhakar (Sri) Nowduri was 16, he suddenly developed severe lower back pain that eluded an explanation as well…
More than 800 Air Canada employees are suspended without pay for not getting fully vaccinated against COVID-19 in accordance with government and airline rules. Michael Rousseau, chief executive officer of Montreal-based Air Canada, said on Tuesday almost all the airline’s 27,000 pilots, flight attendants and other employees have had both shots. “Our employees have done…