Day: June 18, 2021

June 17, 2021 | The National Advisory Committee on Immunization is recommending provinces to stop administering the AstraZeneca vaccine in most cases, citing better protection by mRNA vaccines. Trudeau nominates Justice Mahmud Jamal for the Supreme Court, making him the first person of colour to receive one. Plus, the At Issue panel tackles the turmoil facing Green Party leader Annamie Paul.

Jimbo, a contestant from the first season of Canada’s Drag Race, says a Windsor, Ont., shop’s refusal to feature an image of the drag queen on a cake could serve as an opportunity to educate people about the LGBTQ+ community and what it has to offer.

Heated discussions are ramping up over whether certain settings, like colleges and universities, should require COVID-19 vaccination to return to campus. While hundreds of U.S. institutions are doing so, only a handful of Canadian schools have made shots mandatory — and thus far only for students living in residence. 

Looking for a drug den, police smashed their way into an Alberta couple’s home firing tear gas. But their evidence “amounted to a hill of beans,” one lawyer says. No-knock raids like this are executed hundreds of times a year in Canada — though some police forces have mostly abandoned the practice.

The business of owning and renting out homes has a long history in Canada and around the world. But in the current era of house envy, plans to corporatize single-family rentals have sparked a backlash.