After two unvaccinated workers at a Thornhill, Ont., retirement home tested positive for COVID-19, fully vaccinated residents were forced to isolate in their rooms. Now, family members want the province to mandate vaccinations for health-care staff.
Quebec Finance Minister Eric Girard will table a budget on Thursday. He can expect GDP growth of at least six per cent in 2021, according to bank estimates, but the recovery in employment has been uneven.
AstraZeneca said its COVID-19 vaccine had a 76 per cent efficacy rate at preventing symptomatic illness in a new analysis of its major U.S. trial — slightly lower than the level announced earlier this week in a report that was criticized for using outdated information.
A man in Medicine Hat, Alta., has been found guilty of murder and extortion in a bizarre case involving a demand for $1 million, a threat of murder and a victim who was found dead 24 hours later.