The City of Toronto laid out new details Wednesday explaining how people can book an appointment to get vaccinated against COVID-19 when an interim booking system for the city’s mass vaccination clinics goes online Friday. While a provincewide booking portal is set to go live on March 15, the city is rolling out access to…
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Resiliency Dialogues (15)-Vaccines: Everything You Want To Know And Are Concerned About (English)
Presentation slides of Dr. Darrell Tan Presentation of Dr. Stephanie Go Presentation of Domenico Calla of TPH Presentation Slides of Councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam Project PROTECH’s 15th Resiliency Dialogue will take place on Thursday, March 18th, 2021, at 7:30 pm EST. Mark it down and don’t miss it, we have many great speakers to answer your questions regarding COVID19 vaccines. In…
“I can’t ask the staff to do something I won’t do myself”: When his facility had a Covid outbreak, this long-term care CEO stepped up to nurse patients himself
In the 1960s, my grandparents emigrated from Canton, China, to Toronto, and ended up at 7 Kensington Avenue. Growing up, I’d spend every weekend in the market with them. I lived with my parents in Scarborough, where we were the only Asian family in the neighbourhood, so being near Chinatown felt like home. I even…
Ontarians In Their Early 60s Can Now Get COVID-19 Vaccine At Select Pharmacies
Shoppers Drug Mart, Rexall, Loblaws and Costco are among the pharmacy chains participating in the rollout of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine in three regions of Ontario this week, Premier Doug Ford announced Wednesday. As part of a new pilot program, 325 pharmacies in Toronto, Windsor-Essex, and Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox & Addington, are offering COVID-19 vaccination appointments…
Hong Fook Virtual Film Screening and Panel Discussion
It has been a year since the World Health Organization declares COVID-19 a pandemic. The hidden risk factors impacting immigrant mental health have been increasingly influential now more than ever, but are still largely ignored and rarely heard. Hong Fook Mental Health Foundation presents the film The World is Bright in partnership with Story Money…
The J&J vaccine is approved in Canada. What do we know about it?
Vaxx Populi: It’s a single-dose vaccine with standard refrigeration requirements and a 65 per cent efficacy at preventing moderate-to-severe infection. First, let’s sort out the nomenclature. The COVID-19 vaccine Ad26.COV2.S is technically the Janssen vaccine, as that’s the name of the division in Belgium of Johnson & Johnson where the vaccine was developed. But it’s most popularly known…
Which COVID-19 vaccine is best? Experts say it’s the first one that’s offered to you
OTTAWA—Now that Canada has an expanding menu of COVID-19 vaccines, you’re probably hearing chatter about how this one is better and that one is worse. Dr. Alan Bernstein has this advice for you: take the first shot you can. That’s what he’s going to do. “All the vaccines are working really well — that’s the bottom…
Stratford Director Keira Loughran to Tell Story of Chinese-Canadian Activist Foon Hay Lum in Upcoming Documentary
Stratford’s Ballinran Entertainment has partnered with Stratford director Keira Loughran to tell the story of the late Chinese-Canadian activist, Foon Hay Lum. Once a leader in the movement seeking redress for the Canadian government’s discriminatory Chinese head tax and subsequent Chinese Exclusion Act, the late Chinese-Canadian activist Foon Hay Lum is the subject of an…
All Retail Stores Can Reopen to Customers in Toronto, Peel Region Next Week as Regions Enter Grey Zone
Non-essential retail stores across Toronto and Peel Region will reopen to customers again next week for the first time in more than three months as the two regions move to the grey zone of Ontario’s tiered reopening framework, the province announced Friday. With the exception of stores that offer essential goods, retail shops in both…
‘Seismic shift’ in Ontario Vaccination Program; Those 60+ Expected To Get a Shot Months Earlier
The Ford government says that it expects to administer the first dose of COVID-19 vaccines to all Ontarians over the age of 60 by the end of May, a full two months ahead of schedule. Premier Doug Ford, along with Health Minister Christine Elliott, Solicitor General Sylvia Jones, Dr. David Williams, chief medical officer of…