A series of planned protests at hospitals in all 10 province against pandemic-related restrictions is being roundly denounced by federal party leaders.
NDP Leader @theJagmeetSingh is vowing criminal sanctions to dissuade similar gatherings if his party is elected to govern. He said he would make changes to the Criminal Code to dissuade anyone from protesting near hospitals or health-care workers.
Speaking in the rural Ottawa suburb of Carp, Conservative Leader @erinotoole said the planned protests are “completely unacceptable,” calling for unity even as he denounced Trudeau with sharpened personal attacks.
“There is the ability to peacefully protest and things like this, but to harass and to try and block people from accessing health care in a pandemic is completely unacceptable,” O’Toole said.
On the campaign trail, Liberal Leader @JustinTrudeau outlined a pledge of criminal sanctions for anyone blocking access to hospitals, vaccine clinics, testing centres, and those intimidating or harassing health-care workers.
Trudeau said the Criminal Code already has provisions about intimidating people who work in the justice system, but there is now a need to protect doctors and nurses in a similar way.
“It’s not OK any day to know that a nurse going into a late shift crossing a parking lot might be afraid that there could be someone there to spit on her or shout obscenities at her,” Trudeau said in his opening remarks in Vancouver.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is ditching vaccine passports, mandatory face mask rules and work-from-home regulations – and will instead rely mainly on vaccinations to get the country through the winter months.
The strategy centred largely on expanding vaccinations to younger teenagers and launching a booster shot program for front-line health care staff and people over the age of 50.
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Alberta’s intensive-care units are nursing a record number of patients ill with the coronavirus, and physicians are warning the province’s health system could fail within four weeks.
There were 209 patients with COVID-19 in Alberta’s ICUs as of Monday afternoon, according to Alberta Health Services’ internal data, obtained by The Globe and Mail.
The province is cancelling surgeries and procedures to free up the equipment, space and health professionals needed to care for this surge of patients, most of whom are not immunized against the virus.
With the Delta variant dominant across Canada and cold weather approaching, scientists & health authorities have turned their attention to the question of who may need a third dose of the COVID-19 vaccine – and when.
NACI recommends immunocompromised people 12 and older – who have not yet been immunized – should receive 3 doses of a mRNA vaccine. Those in this group who have been vaccinated should be offered an third dose.
Alberta, Ontario and Quebec have already been offering additional doses – not only to the immunocompromised but also to people travelling to countries that do not currently recognize their primary vaccine series.
Two of Netflix’s most-prized 2021 festival movies have leaked online after debuting as part of the at-home digital offerings of the Toronto International Film Festival.
Jane Campion’s drama “The Power of the Dog,” starring Benedict Cumberbatch, and the Antoine Fuqua thriller “The Guilty,” led by Jake Gyllenhaal, both appeared on pirate websites as of early Monday.