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Aug 12, 2022 • 13 tweets • 5 min read
Canada has not needed to declare an emergency over the monkeypox virus the same way the United States and the World Health Organization have as mechanisms are already in place to tackle the outbreak, the country’s top doctor said Friday.
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Dr. Theresa Tam’s comments came a week after the U.S. declared a public health emergency in response to the monkeypox outbreak, which followed the WHO declaring monkeypox a global health emergency last month.
As the world continues to grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic and a concerning monkeypox outbreak, a new zoonotic virus likely transmitted to humans from animals has caught the attention of scientists.
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In China, between December 2018 and August 2021, 35 people were infected with the Langya virus that is believed to have spread from shrews — small mole-like mammals — according to researchers.
A majority of Canadians remain supportive of COVID-19 vaccine booster doses to better protect themselves from the virus, a new Ipsos poll shows — even though the number of people actually rolling up their sleeves for additional shots has stalled.
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The Ipsos poll found 66 per cent of those surveyed said they would take a booster shot without hesitation, and three-quarters agreed that boosters reduce the risk of hospitalization.
The annual rate of inflation in Canada hit 8.1 per cent in June as prices on gasoline surged, Statistics Canada reported on Wednesday, with economists starting to wonder whether price pressures have peaked.
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Gasoline prices were up 54.6 per cent year-over-year and 6.2 per cent month-to-month in June, contributing the most to the headline inflation jump, the agency said.
A majority of Canadians are willing to make at least one sacrifice in their lives in order to afford a home amid high prices and rising interest rates, a new report suggests.
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Remax Canada’s latest 2022 Housing Affordability Report found Canadians are also willing to consider different types of homes if they are more affordable, as well as co-owning with friends or family and renting part of their home for additional income.
On the U.K.’s hottest day ever recorded, a teacher in Buckinghamshire, England, is using a $1.5 hack to beat the heat as the recorded temperature surpassed 40 C for the first time in the country.
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The intense heat is forcing residents to be creative in a country ill-prepared for such extremes.
Those with access to air conditioning had an easier time on Tuesday.
Many Canadian animal shelters have been seeing an increase in pressure on the system lately.
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Many shelters are either close to or are at capacity as inflation puts cost pressures on pet owners. At the same time, there's also a rise in calls for help and a growing waitlist to bring animals in to them, said Barbara Cartwright, CEO of Humane Canada.
There is a new Canadian research trial looking at patients suffering from post-COVID syndrome — a study that has identified a potential key culprit causing some people to continue experiencing breathing issues months after contracting COVID-19.
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A team of researchers based at five centres across Ontario have zeroed in on a microscopic abnormality in the way oxygen moves from the lungs and into the blood vessels of long COVID patients in their trial.
A vast majority of drivers say they’re worried they won’t be able to afford the cost to fill up at the pumps this summer as record gas prices continue to climb, according to a recent Ipsos poll.
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As the average price for regular gasoline topped the $2-per-litre mark earlier this month, the poll found that 69 per cent of Canadian respondents said they were concerned they might not be able to afford gas.
Several states across the U.S. moved quickly to ban abortion Friday in the hours after the Supreme Court voted to overturn the legal right to access established by Roe v. Wade.
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Thirteen states have so-called “trigger laws” on the books that were written to go into effect as soon as the landmark precedent fell.
Russian forces have ramped up attacks in and around Kharkiv city in recent days, destroying buildings, killing and injuring civilians, and putting the city on edge.
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The increased missile, rocket and artillery barrages are a step back for Ukraine’s second-biggest centre, which appeared to be returning to normalcy only a month ago.
Canada is seeing an increase in several fast-spreading COVID-19 variants that have been fuelling new outbreaks in the United States and Europe, Canada’s top doctors said Friday.
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The BA.4 and BA.5 strains of the virus, which are subvariants of Omicron, have been detected in Canada since May, and the BA.2.12 subvariant has been showing growth in the country since March.
The federal government’s COVID Alert app has been taken offline.
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With the COVID-19 pandemic easing in Canada, Ottawa moved on Friday to shut down its exposure notification app that was launched early in the pandemic.
Even as new COVID-19 cases in Canada are declining, the highly-transmissible Omicron variant is causing a high rate of reinfection among the Canadian population, experts say.
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Another case in point: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tested positive for COVID-19 again on Monday, almost five months after catching the virus the first time around.
The federal government plans to change its definition of what it means to be fully protected against COVID-19 to reflect advice that a number of health experts have been recommending for months, including Canada’s top doctors.
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Currently, federal employees are considered fully vaccinated if they have two doses of one of Health Canada’s approved vaccines.
“I don’t think that any other day of my life has had as much intensity as what happened on 9/11,” former transportation minister David Collenette said.
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People in the Newfoundland and Labrador town that restored faith in humanity, following the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, are filled with both pride and sorrow 20 years later.
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Butts says he takes responsibility for what he calls a “break down” of trust between former attorney general Wilson-Raybould and Justin Trudeau. He says that is why he resigned from the PMO.
