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What to know ahead of Wimbledon: Novak Djokovic won’t get COVID-19 vaccine
Serbia's Novak Djokovic practices on Center Court ahead of the 2022 Wimbledon Championship at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, in London, Thursday, June 23, 2022. (Steven Paston/PA via AP)
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Pfizer says tweaked COVID-19 vaccines boost Omicron protection
FILE - A syringe is prepared with the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination clinic at the Keystone First Wellness Center in Chester, Pa., Dec. 15, 2021. Pfizer says tweaking its COVID-19 vaccine to better target the omicron variant is safe and boosts protection. Saturday, June 25, 2022 announcement comes just days before regulators debate whether to offer Americans updated booster shots this fall. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
british columbia
Staffing challenges, huge demand leave ferry travellers in B.C. scrambling as sailings cancelled
A boat heads to Duke Point from the B.C. Ferries terminal as new non-essential travel restrictions between provincial health authority regions were announced, in order to help limit the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Tsawwassen, British Columbia, Canada April 23, 2021. REUTERS/Jennifer Gauthier
canada
Coronavirus Update: COVID-19 pandemic inflamed problems overwhelming Canadian hospitals, health professionals say
Head intensivist Dr. Ali Ghafouri, second left, meets with his health-care team doing his morning patient rounds in the intensive care unit at the Humber River Hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic in Toronto on Tuesday, April 13, 2021. The scientific director of Ontario’s COVID-19 advisory group says he would have preferred that the province keep masking rules in high-risk settings a little while longer. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
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Amplify: The benefits of multigenerational living in a post-COVID-19 world
Transparency about the vision, goals and objectives of family members helps to ensure that potential concerns can be addressed.
canada
Canadian ERs face record wait times, closures amid labour shortages and resurgence of viruses
A paramedic loads his stretcher back into the ambulance after bringing a patient to the emergency room at a hospital in Montreal, Thursday, April 14, 2022. Quebec is reporting five more deaths linked to COVID-19 and an 11-patient drop in the number of hospitalizations associated with the disease. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz
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Without a playbook, one of the first expectant moms severely ill with COVID-19 at Mount Sinai Hospital on road to recovery
Samuel Viera (Janice’s husband), Janice Nguyen, Flora Viera (Janice’s daughter) Photo by Colin Dewar / Sinai Health
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Quebec’s St. Jean Baptiste Day celebrations return after pandemic hiatus
Fiver year old Ariane smiles as she holds a balloon during a Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day event in Montreal, Friday, June 24, 2022. Quebec is celebrating the St-Jean Baptiste Day, its national holiday, for the first time after most festivities were cancelled for the past two years due to COVID-19. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes
world
U.S. CDC backs Moderna’s COVID vaccine for teens, older children
A vial of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine for children 6 months through 5 years old is seen, Tuesday, June 21, 2022, at Montefiore Medical Group in the Bronx borough of New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
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Children in Latin America slid into education black hole during COVID-19 pandemic
(FILES) In this file photo taken on February 22, 2021 children and grown-ups wear face masks as a precautionary measure against the spread of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, as they attend the start of classes ceremony at the Ramona Gil School in Chimaltenango, 60 km west of Guatemala City. - Between 80% and 90% of the children of Latin America and the Caribbean will not be able to understand a simple text due to an "educational catastrophe", as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic, according documents of international organisms released on June 23, 2022. (Photo by Johan ORDONEZ / AFP) (Photo by JOHAN ORDONEZ/AFP via Getty Images)
canada
Lifeguard shortages impacting pools, water programs across Canada
A lifeguard keeps an eye on the water as people swim at Second Beach Pool located in Stanley Park in Vancouver, British Columbia, Tuesday, August 16, 2011. Rafal Gerszak for The Globe and Mail
olympics
Gilbert said De Grasse’s big-game mentality will help him at post-COVID worlds
From left, Benjamin Azamati from Ghana, Andre De Grasse from Canada and Akani Simbine from South Africa compete in the men's 100 meters race during the Diamond League Bislett Games, in Oslo, Norway, Thursday, June 16, 2022. (Stian Lysberg Solum/NTB Scanpix via AP)
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Passport delays, customs chaos, lost baggage all wreaking havoc on travel industry
Rita Trichur
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Coronavirus Update: The Bay warehouse workers go on strike, demanding retroactive pay increase for working through COVID-19
A pedestrians walking past an entrance to the Hudson’s Bay department store in downtown Toronto, is photographed, on April 12, 2022. Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail.
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The Bay warehouse workers go on strike, demanding retroactive pay increase for working through COVID-19
A pedestrians walking past an entrance to the Hudson’s Bay department store in downtown Toronto, is photographed, on April 12, 2022. Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail.
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U.S. delivers more than four million doses of COVID-19 vaccines for children under age of five
FILE PHOTO: A child reacts while receiving a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine at Smoketown Family Wellness Center in Louisville, Kentucky, U.S., November 8, 2021. REUTERS/Jon Cherry/File Photo
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California’s top court to consider employer liability for COVID-19 infections
CORRECTS TO JAN. 2, 2019-File - In this Nov. 2, 2018, file photo, people walk past the Earl Warren Building that houses the California Supreme Court in San Francisco. The California Supreme Court has denied a last-minute challenge to a state law opening police records to the public. The justices on Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2019, denied an appeal saying that the law should apply only to incidents that happen after the law took effect Tuesday. The law was written partly in response to fatal police shootings of unarmed minority men. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)
u.s. politics
Trump’s COVID-19 response co-ordinator tells panel she was asked to water down guidance to states
Former White House coronavirus response coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx testifies about the Trump administration’s Covid response during a U.S. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S. June 23, 2022. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
politics
Conservative MPs meet soldier charged with criticizing COVID-19 vaccine requirements while in uniform
A Canadian flag patch is shown on a soldier's shoulder in Trenton, Ont., on Oct. 16, 2014. The Canadian Armed Forces says long-awaited rights for victims of military-related crimes will come into effect in June. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Lars Hagberg
world
South Africa repeals some COVID-19 restrictions as fifth wave dissipates
People wearing masks on an escalator at a shopping mall, in Johannesburg, South Africa, Friday Nov. 26, 2021. Advisers to the World Health Organization are holding a special session Friday to flesh out information about a worrying new variant of the coronavirus that has emerged in South Africa, though its impact on COVID-19 vaccines may not be known for weeks. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell)
international business
U.K. economy ‘running on empty’ as recession signals mount: PMI
FILE - In this Wednesday, March 11, 2020 file photo, pedestrians wearing face masks pass the Bank of England in London. The U.K. economy has officially fallen into a recession after official figures showed it contracting by a record 20.4% in the second quarter as a result of lockdown measures put in place to counter the coronavirus pandemic. The slump recorded by the Office for National Statistics follows a 2.2% quarterly contraction in the first three months of the year. ( (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)
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Coronavirus Update: As new variants emerge, fourth COVID-19 shots should be more accessible, experts say
A person draws out a vaccine during a drive-through COVID-19 vaccine clinic in Kingston, Ont., on Sunday, Jan. 2, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Lars Hagberg
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Alberta health minister wants to reduce stress on health care after COVID-19
Alberta Health Minister Jason Copping gives an update in Edmonton on Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2021. The Alberta government has approved a bid by the Enoch Cree Nation near Edmonton to build a private clinic to perform thousands of publicly covered hip and knee surgeries. Copping says the clinic is to be build by the middle of next year to reduce a backlog of orthopedic operations in and around the capital city. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson
alberta
Experts explore long COVID-19 treatments as thousands of Albertans seek relief
Dr. Neeja Bakshi outside of Park Integrative Health in Sherwood Park, Alta. on Thursday, March 24, 2022. Megan Albu / Globe and Mail
canada
Quebec begins releasing data on COVID-19 levels in wastewater
Student Patrick D'Aoust places a wastewater collection container inside a pump station used to collect wastewater samples that are screened for COVID-19 at the University of Ottawa campus on April 8, 2021 in Ottawa. Quebec has been screening wastewater for COVID-19 in Quebec City and the Montreal area since late March, but only began releasing the data today. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
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Wedding costs soar in Canada amid inflation, COVID-19 and supply chain issues
Alexandria Gilles and Eric Thang embrace in an undated handout photo. The Newmarket, Ont., couple will celebrate their nuptials this fall at a community hall -- a location they are moving their big day to because of costs. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Alexandria Gilles and Eric Thang **MANDATORY CREDIT**
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As new COVID-19 variants emerge, fourth vaccine doses should be more accessible, experts say
A person draws out a vaccine during a drive-through COVID-19 vaccine clinic in Kingston, Ont., on Sunday, Jan. 2, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Lars Hagberg
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Manitoba Premier Heather Stefanson self-isolating after testing positive for COVID-19
Manitoba Premier Heather Stefanson speaks to media prior to the reading of the Speech from the Throne at the Manitoba Legislature in Winnipeg on Nov. 23, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/John Woods
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Disappearing downtowns: How cities can reuse office buildings that COVID-19 emptied out
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Coronavirus Update: Medical leaders call for urgent federal action on health care exodus
Paramedics transfer patients to the emergency room triage but have no choice but to leave them in the hallway due to an at capacity emergency room at the Humber River Hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic in Toronto on Tuesday, January 25, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
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Trudeau to attend international meetings in Rwanda, Germany, Spain
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arrives at a community celebration of National Indigenous Peoples Day at Mādahòkì Farm in Ottawa, on Tuesday, June 21, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang
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Defence chief Gen. Wayne Eyre reviewing Canadian military’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate
Chief of the defence staff Gen. Wayne Eyre speaks during a military announcement at CFB Trenton in Trenton, Ont., on Monday June 20, 2022. Eyre is reviewing the military's COVID-19 vaccine mandate after a similar requirement for most other federal employees was suspended on Monday. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Lars Hagberg
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Quebec should offer another round of COVID-19 boosters to vulnerable groups in fall, immunization panel says
A person draws out Moderna vaccine during a drive through COVID-19 vaccine clinic at St. Lawrence College in Kingston, Ontario, on Sunday January 2, 2022. American vaccine maker Moderna will announce Friday it intends to build its promised Canadian production facility in the Montreal area.  THE CANADIAN PRESS/Lars Hagberg
olympics
Tokyo closes books on delayed Games; $13-billion price tag
FILE - A person walks near Tokyo 2020 logo in Haneda Airport on June 14, 2021, in Tokyo. Tokyo Olympic officials, meeting Tuesday, June 21, 2022, before the body is dissolved at the end of the month, were to detail the final numbers that were driven up by the pandemic, but were in record range even before that. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)
sports
Andre De Grasse withdraws from national championship with COVID-19; still eligible for worlds
Canada's Andre De Grasse celebrates after crossing the finish line to win with his team the Men's 4x100m during the IAAF Diamond League athletics Birmingahm meeting at the Alexander Stadium, Birmingham, on May 21, 2022. (Photo by Paul ELLIS / AFP) (Photo by PAUL ELLIS/AFP via Getty Images)
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COVID-19 vaccine rollout in U.S. for children under six to pick up pace in coming days, official says
A 4-year-old receives the Moderna coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine at Skippack Pharmacy in Schwenksville, Pennsylvania, U.S., June 20, 2022. REUTERS/Hannah Beier