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Pfizer and BioNTech announced Monday that their vaccine candidate against COVID-19 has shown promising preliminary results in Phase 3 clinical trials. How close are we to getting the vaccine? What needs to happen first? And what kind of vaccine is this anyway? Here are some answers.
Over the past months, many Canadians have worked from home, taken classes, shopped online, and accessed government services remotely.
The winter storm in Saskatoon brought 20 to 30 centimetres of snow on Sunday on top of the 10 to 15 centimetres the city got on Saturday.
Today, the Minister of Health, the Honourable Patty Hajdu, highlighted an investment of $1.75 billion to help connect Canadians to high-speed Internet across the country. Originally announced in Budget 2019 as a $1 billion program, the Government is now providing additional funding to advance large, high-impact projects, which will leverage partnerships including with the Canada Infrastructure Bank broadband initiative. The program will include a $150 million Rapid Response Stream with an accelerated application process that will allow shovel-ready projects to get started right away. The UBF will also allocate $50 million of its total budget for mobile Internet projects that primarily benefit Indigenous peoples. This investment will help connect 98 per cent of Canadians across the country to high-speed Internet by 2026 so that they can better participate in the digital economy.
The Government of Canada, together with the Government of Nunavut, is funding a major project to expand Nunavut’s only French-language school