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Byline: ROBYN URBACK; Staff What can be said about Canada's health care system that hasn't been said countless times over, as we watch more and more people suffer and die [...]

Byline: REBECCA AUER Surgical oncologist and director of cancer research at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute Canadians diagnosed with cancer are being failed by our country's clinical trials system. I [...]

Byline: Joshua Knelman Joshua Knelman is a writer based in Toronto. His most recent book is Firebrand: A Tobacco Lawyer's Journey, from which this essay has been partly adapted. With [...]

Byline: WENCY LEUNG; Staff Monkeypox has caught much of the world by surprise. But to Anne Rimoin, the warning signs have been obvious for years. 'What we're seeing makes perfect [...]

Byline: CARLY WEEKS; Staff Many health experts say they are increasingly concerned by the slow uptake of first booster shots across the country, warning that two doses of COVID-19 vaccines [...]

Byline: Hannah Knowles U.S. health officials on Monday advised against travel to Canada, citing 'very high' levels of the coronavirus in the country. Canada joins scores of countries that the [...]

Byline: ROBYN URBACK, Staff Lead Welcome to the createyour-own-adventure stage of the pandemic, where your individual experience will be determined by some combination of geography, financial resources, intuition and dumb [...]

Byline: MIKE HAGER, XIAO XU VANCOUVER -- Lead As an Omicron-variant-fuelled wave of COVID-19 rips through the country, all of Western Canada and New Brunswick have now joined Ontario and [...]

Byline: CARLY WEEKS, Staff Lead Canadians 18 and older may receive a booster shot of an mRNA vaccine at least six months after their second dose, the country's expert vaccine [...]

Byline: ROBYN URBACK, Staff Lead The news that Pfizer has submitted a request for Health Canada to approve its COVID-19 vaccine for children is being heralded by some as the [...]

Lead Canada is one of the most vaccinated countries in the world, with 86.57 per cent of the eligible population having received at least one dose as of Oct. 2. [...]

Byline: Amanda Coletta and Emily Rauhala Fort Erie, Ontario - Here in this border town just across the Niagara River from New York state, the televisions carry stations from Buffalo. [...]

Byline: MARIEKE WALSH, LAURA STONE, LES PERREAUX OTTAWA, TORONTO, MONTREAL -- Lead Just two-thirds of available vaccine doses in Canada have been administered as provincial and territorial governments struggle to [...]

Byline: GARY MASON, Staff Lead Every time someone talks about how 'Canada' is doing in its fight against COVID-19, I stifle an eye roll - as if we're one amorphous [...]

Byline: Amanda Coletta TORONTO - Several Canadian provinces are imposing new restrictions on social gatherings and businesses in a bid to blunt a resurgence of the coronavirus that is hitting [...]

Byline: THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA -- Lead OTTAWA Canada hit a new daily record and passed a new milestone for vaccinations this week but will need to up its game [...]

Byline: KELLY GRANT, IVAN SEMENIUK, ANDREA WOO TORONTO, VANCOUVER -- Lead Canada's third wave of COVID-19 is escalating at an alarming rate, driven by variants that are sending more middle-aged [...]

Byline: ERIC ANDREW-GEE, Staff Lead This wasn't even Gabriel Alphonso's most important medical appointment of the week. The dapper widower, in a floral mask and flat cap, his phone number [...]

Byline: XIAO XU, JEFF GRAY Lead British Columbia has eased its restrictions on social gatherings, allowing people to get together in small groups outside for the first time in four [...]

Byline: JUSTINE HUNTER, KELLY GRANT, IVAN SEMENIUK Lead More provinces are planning to speed up their schedules for giving residents their first COVID-19 immunization shot after a national expert panel [...]

After quickly approving a vaccine and getting an early start to inoculations, Canadians worry as the country falls behind in vaccinations. OTTAWA -- Canada seemed to be off to a [...]

Byline: JILLIAN KOHLER Lead Professor at the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy and the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto, and director at the WHO [...]

Byline: GARY MASON, Staff Lead When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently announced travel restrictions aimed at thwarting new strains of COVID-19 from entering the country, he no doubt expected a [...]

Lead There are more than 14 million rapid COVID-19 tests available in Canada, yet few are being put to work to stem the spread of the coronavirus. There is a [...]

Byline: PAUL TAYLOR Lead Was a patient navigation adviser at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre at the time of these events. He has since retired. T he 911 call came in [...]

Byline: Amanda Coletta TORONTO - The images of 89-year-old Gisèle Lévesque rolling up the sleeve of her black cardigan to become the first person in Canada to receive a coronavirus [...]

Byline: JORDAN PRESS, THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA -- Lead Officials believed in late summer that an economic recovery would not magically happen if lockdowns and public-health restrictions disappeared, a newly [...]

Byline: J.J. McCullough For Print Use Only. Over the summer, the Canadian media was in a celebratory mood. Canada's covid-19 infection and death rates appeared relatively low by international standards, [...]

Byline: Nora Loreto For Print Use Only. At the end of October, Statistics Canada released a report that examined the impact covid-19 has had on minority communities. Although the report [...]

If evidence were needed that the coronavirus pandemic was far from over in the United States, Tuesday brought calculations from experts. It also brought signs of a significant uptick in [...]

Byline: DEBORA MacKENZIE Lead Author of COVID-19: The Pandemic that Never Should Have Happened and How to Stop the Next One. In a few months, the Northern Hemisphere will head [...]

Byline: ANDREA WOO, Staff Lead Canada has issued national guidelines on reopening schools, recommending staggered schedules, increased ventilation and masks for children 10 and up. The Public Health Agency of [...]

Byline: IVAN SEMENIUK, Staff Lead With 10,000 pinpricks, Prabhat Jha hopes to find out what no one else has been able to discern: How many Canadians have already been affected [...]

Byline: Ivan Semeniuk, Staff Lead How much more contact will be too much? As provinces across Canada lift physical distancing measures, each has a threshold. It's the point where the [...]

Byline: Amanda Coletta MISSISSAUGA, Ontario - It was not how Mary Witkowski pictured celebrating her birthday. But with visits to her nursing home suspended to keep the coronavirus out, she [...]

Byline: MIKE HAGER, MICHELLE ALLAN VANCOUVER -- Lead Tofino Mayor Josie Osborne says her seaside British Columbia community is nervous about an onslaught of sand and surf seekers this long [...]

Byline: IVAN SEMENIUK, Staff Lead The COVID-19 pandemic in Canada could continue for months, but what happens in the next few weeks will be crucial in determining the character of [...]