Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau announced today a plan to increase Guaranteed Income Supplement (GIS) payments by $500 a year for eligible seniors — a boost the party says would benefit more than two million people over the age of 65.
Cases among fully vaccinated individuals — dubbed breakthrough infections if they occur at least two weeks following a second dose — are rare and typically milder, experts say, even against the more transmissible delta variant.
Saskatchewan’s chief medical health officer says the number of COVID-19 patients in hospitals right now is concerning, but he does not think restrictions are needed at this time.
The City of Ottawa fixed the issue of human sewage affecting its beaches, but a new problem has arrived in 2021: gaggles of Canada geese and their droppings.
A foreign athlete participating in the Paralympic Games in Japan has been hospitalized with non-severe symptoms of COVID-19, Kyodo News said on Thursday, citing the Games’ organizing committee.