Port hardy canada

TORONTO: Ontario on Monday (Dec 21) announced a province-wide shutdown because of a second wave of COVID-19 in Canada’s most populous province. The lockdown will be put in place for southern Ontario from Dec 26 until Jan 23, but will lift for northern Ontario on Jan 9. READ: Trudeau says good riddance to 2020, Canada to get 500k COVID-19 doses Health officials criticised the delay, with one top infectious disease doctor saying it was ridiculous to wait until the day after Christmas to shut down. Ontario has had seven straight days of more than 2,000 cases a day. Modeling shows that could more than double in January. Health officials earlier said a four- to six-week hard lockdown could significantly stop the spread of COVID-19. Toronto, Canada’s largest city, had already closed restaurants for indoor dining but schools remained open. All high schools in Ontario will now be closed for in-person learning until Jan 25. Elementary schools will be closed until Jan 11. … [Read more...] about Canada’s Ontario to go on province-wide shutdown from Dec 26

TORONTO: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Friday (Dec 18) Canada will be getting 500,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine in January and that Canadians will be soon be saying “good riddance to 2020.” But Anita Anand, the Minister of Public Services and Procurement, said Canada won’t have enough doses for all those who wish to be vaccinated until the end of September 2021. Vaccinations started this week as Canada was among the first to approve and distribute the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. Trudeau expects 125,000 doses next week and 255,000 this month. Trudeau also said he expects to get 168,000 doses of the Moderna vaccine before the end of December, pending regulatory approval. Health officials expect to approve the Moderna vaccine soon. READ: Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna and Sinovac: A look at three key COVID-19 vaccines Trudeau said Canada has the most vaccines secured per capita, and the most diverse portfolio of vaccine options in the world. But he said a vaccine in … [Read more...] about Trudeau says good riddance to 2020, Canada to get 500k COVID-19 doses

MONTREAL: Canada expects to lift its flight ban on the Boeing 737 MAX jetliner in January, the country's aviation regulator said on Thursday (Dec 17), after it approved design changes to the aircraft grounded in March 2019 following two fatal crashes. Transport Canada rolled out its plans for bringing the jets back to the country's skies, first reported by Reuters on Wednesday, following a near two-year flight ban. The regulator joined US and European authorities in insisting on additional pilot training and a software update to the MCAS anti-stall system that contributed to the two crashes which killed a total of 346 people in 2018 and 2019. Canada's decision is widely watched as it carries extra clout as one of a group of aircraft-producing nations that have subjected the MAX to intense scrutiny, alongside the United States, Europe and Brazil. Attention now turns to China, the largest market for the MAX and a rising aerospace-producing nation which has not said when it will … [Read more...] about Canada expects end to Boeing 737 MAX flight ban in January, approves design changes

OTTAWA: Canada will for the first time send an astronaut to circle the moon on a US mission planned for 2023, Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains said on Wednesday (Dec 16), announcing a formal deal with Washington. US Vice President Mike Pence last week unveiled an 18-strong pool of people who could go to the moon under NASA's Artemis program, which Canada is now a part of. Artemis is designed to send several missions to the Moon. The Canadian astronaut - who has yet to be named - will take part in the second trip, which is scheduled to fly around the moon on a 10-day journey in 2023. "All eyes will look to the sky as one of our astronauts becomes the first Canadian to travel around the moon," Bains told a news conference. Canada and the United States have a long history of cooperation in space. Bains also said a Canadian astronaut would one day fly to the Lunar Gateway, an outpost NASA plans to build that will orbit the moon sometime within the next decade. Canada built the … [Read more...] about Canada signs deal to send first astronaut on US mission around the moon

OTTAWA: Nine months into the COVID-19 pandemic, women of colour in Canada still face far higher unemployment than white women, official data shows, in part because they tend to work jobs in hard-hit sectors and often care for children or relatives. The unemployment rate for minority women was 10.5 per cent in November, compared with 6.2 per cent for white women, according to Statistics Canada data provided to Reuters. Women of colour also had a slightly higher unemployment rate than their male counterparts, who had a jobless rate of 10.0 per cent. Canada has recouped more than 80 per cent of the jobs lost at the height of the COVID-19 crisis, but many minority women have not returned to work. "What we're seeing ... is the unequal impact of this pandemic on diverse groups of Canadians," said Lynn Barr-Telford, an assistant chief statistician at Statscan, in an interview before the latest data was released. "These inequities pre-date COVID ... but they've been further … [Read more...] about Black, minority women in Canada left behind in COVID-19 job recovery