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How Canada’s vaccines make it from the factory to your arm

You walk into the vaccination centre at the Palais des congrès, Montreal’s downtown convention centre, and the operation is almost like a dance.  Soon,...

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Mix and match: Canadian officials watching the data on alternating COVID-19 vaccines

As some experts continue to warn of very rare side effects associated with the AstraZeneca vaccine, Canadian health officials are now reviewing the research on...

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Saskatchewan released a road map to reopening after COVID-19. Should Ontario do the same?

Like many Ontarians, more than a year of on-and-off lockdown restrictions has taken a toll on Ross Kutisker-Jacobson. “I’ve lived with immense frustration...

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Does the AstraZeneca vaccine cause more common side-effects than others? | Your Coronavirus questions answered

We’re answering your questions about the pandemic. Send yours to COVID@cbc.ca, and we’ll answer as many as we can. We publish a selection...

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Vaccine envy: Why can’t Canada make COVID-19 doses at home?

With the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic raging on, the demand for vaccine doses continues to outstrip Canada’s relatively thin supply. Canada’s domestic...

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This is your brain on pandemic: What chronic stress is doing to us

Back in the 1980s, there was a public service announcement on TV that you may remember — or may have seen on YouTube....

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Canada’s nursing homes have worst record for COVID-19 deaths among wealthy nations: report

Canada has the worst record for COVID-19 deaths in long-term care homes compared with other wealthy countries, according to a new report released on...

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MPs set to vote on motion to recognize Emancipation Day across Canada

It was called “the greatest freedom show on earth.” From the Depression era until 1967, annual Emancipation Day celebrations on Aug. 1 drew big...

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Anand says AstraZeneca doses could arrive from the U.S. this week

Procurement Minister Anita Anand says Ottawa could take delivery of AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine doses from the United States as early as this week. Ottawa’s...

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A year of misfortune: How the global pandemic has battered N.L.’s oil and gas industry

Amanda Young had her dream job as a cook on the Terra Nova FPSO, one of four oil-producing platforms in offshore Newfoundland and Labrador. “We...

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Ontario moving Sarnia-Lambton into lockdown; N.B. reveals vaccine rollout details

The latest: Ontario will move the southwestern region of Sarnia-Lambton into lockdown on Monday after a recent spike in COVID-19 cases, making it the fifth...

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5 graphs that help tell the story of the pandemic

It’s been one year since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic, and Canada is just beginning to understand how the coronavirus has...

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Canadians shouldn’t shop around for vaccines with higher efficacy rates, experts say

The approval of a fourth vaccine in Canada should not give Canadians the green light to hold off on getting inoculated in order to wait...

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Trudeau says Canada-U.S. relations need to rebuild. Just how bad did it get with Trump?

When Justin Trudeau met virtually with U.S. President Joe Biden this week, the prime minister suggested that relations between the two countries had taken a significant hit...

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Health Canada approves AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine

After a months-long review, Health Canada regulators today approved the COVID-19 vaccine from Oxford University-AstraZeneca for use in Canada — clearing the way...

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Do we know how effective vaccines are against the variants? Your COVID-19 questions answered

We’re answering your questions about the pandemic. Send yours to COVID@cbc.ca, and we’ll answer as many as we can. We publish a selection...