The National Advisory Committee on Immunization is coming under fire after contradicting the advice Canadians have been receiving for weeks to take the first vaccine against COVID-19 that they’re offered.
NACI said Monday that the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines are “preferred” and that Canadians should weigh the risks of waiting for one of them before deciding whether to take a more immediate jab of either of the other two approved for use in Canada.
Ontario is reporting 2,791 cases of #COVID19 and over 33,700 tests completed. Locally, there are 931 new cases in Toronto, 653 in Peel, 275 in York Region, 147 in Durham and 128 in Hamilton.
— Christine Elliott (@celliottability) May 4, 2021
Group of Ontario police officers launches charter challenge of pandemic restrictions
A group of 19 Ontario police officers has launched a constitutional challenge against the provincial and federal governments and several police chiefs, claiming that enforcing sweeping pandemic health restrictions puts them at odds with their oath to uphold the charter.
Fifteen active and four retired members of law enforcement agencies — including the Toronto Police Service, York Regional Police Service, Ottawa Police Service, Niagara Regional Police Service, Hamilton Police Service and the RCMP — are behind the civil action.
It was filed in the Superior Court of Justice against the premier, the attorneys general of Canada and Ontario, as well as five police chiefs.
Home invasion by Irish police of a man who filmed them disrupting Catholic mass, which went viral after it was posted on CFP last week. The police broke down his door at 3am, surrounded his bed, chased and captured his children, who have now disappeared into the infamous Irish foster system.
On Friday, the court authorized a request from Ontario’s attorney general to shutter Trinity Bible Chapel over to prevent the congregation from meeting in-person on Sunday.
More than a quarter have been issued unlawfully. They must be scrapped.
What kind of cruel, Byzantine parallel universe have we entered, when two students can be fined £10,000 each for organising a snowball fight, as they were in January?
How did this come to pass?
A vast majority of Canadians support the idea of requiring a vaccine passport for international travelers to enter the country, a move already embraced by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Almost eight in 10 Canadians (78%) agree that all travelers entering Canada should be required to have a vaccine passport…
In basketball, they would call this foul and send the player to the line for a free throw.
But in the weird COVID world, the nets are covered and people are technically not supposed to even go out of their house.
When Dr. Kate Greenaway entered Tendercare nursing home amid a COVID-19 outbreak in December she was stunned.
“We’ve been in a pandemic for quite a number of months, at that point, it was pretty shocking to me that it was possible to seem so unprepared for an outbreak,” she said.
A family physician, she had answered an urgent call on social media that the home was in dire need of help. When she arrived at the home she raced from one resident to the next in a desperate attempt to provide assistance.
Ontario reports more than 3,400 new COVID-19 cases, 16 deaths
Ontario is reporting 3,436 new COVID-19 cases on Monday. The provincial total now stands at 473,901.
Monday’s case count is lower than Sunday which saw 3,732 new infections. On Saturday, 3,369 new cases were recorded.
Church of God, defiant despite contempt ruling, faces new charges
Aylmer police say more charges loom for members of the town’s Church of God, where a large service was held Sunday despite a recent contempt finding against the church and its pastor.
Monday morning, Aylmer’s police chief, Zvonko Horvat, announced that charges “against the organization and directors who actively participated and organized the service are pending.”
Canada is holding back its 1-shot J&J COVID-19 vaccine. Here’s what you need to know
On Friday, Health Canada announced it is holding back the J&J vaccine, a one-shot dose that experts and health officials touted as crucial in stemming the spread of the virus amid a devastating third wave of the pandemic, after it was revealed that parts of the batch were made in the same Baltimore plant where millions of other doses meant for the U.S. market had spoiled.
Trinity Bible Chapel in Ontario has refused to close, despite more than $40 million in fines and harassment of its members. Months ago, the church published a statement explaining why they believe this defiance honors Christ.
This weekend, authorities forcibly locked the doors.
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The rare disorder, usually caused by a virus, has been linked to COVID-19. But following a number of reports from Israel of patients developing the inflammation in conjunction with receiving vaccines, the Israeli Health Ministry is exploring a possible link, Israel’s Channel 12 reported Friday, according to the Jerusalem Post.
India has recorded its highest daily coronavirus death toll since the pandemic began – a day after it became the first country to register more than 400,000 new cases in a 24-hour period.
Its health ministry said 3,689 people had died within the past 24 hours.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi met the health minister on Sunday morning to review the crisis.
Hospitals are battling to treat patients amid a chronic shortage of beds and medical oxygen.
The Canadian government is talking to international partners about the development of COVID-19 vaccination certificate systems that might one day help facilitate travel across international borders but bureaucrats in Ottawa, as well as some politicians, wonder if such a system is the best way to proceed.
“We are working on it on a scientific basis and we will have more to announce when we have it to announce,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told reporters on Tuesday. “Right now we’re focussed on getting through this pandemic and being prepared to come roaring back once we’re through it.”
Ontario reports 3,700+ new COVID-19 cases; P.1 variant cases have doubled in a week
Ontario reported 3,732 new COVID-19 cases and 23 additional deaths on Sunday, as the province’s active caseload continued its slow, trickling decline and the burden on hospital ICUs stayed flat.
The vast majority of new cases detected are screening positive as the B.1.1.7 variant first discovered in the United Kingdom last year, but the number of cases found to be the P.1 variant from Brazil has more than doubled in the past week.
On April 26, 351 examples of the P.1 variant had been detected in the province. By Sunday, that number had grown to 875.
WARMINGTON: Good luck sinking baskets off this Mississauga hoop’s backBOARD
It’s a perfect day to shoot some hoops.
But at this park in Mississauga, not only is there a sign saying the court is closed, there are also two pieces of wood blocking the basketball nets.
