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Doctors are seeing a growing number of non-smokers, especially women, with lung cancer

08/19/2025

Although smoking remains the leading risk factor, the Canadian Cancer Society estimates about a quarter of lung cancer cases in the country are non-smokers. In addition, more [...]

Canada makes vaccines mandatory for public servants, air and rail workers, travellers

10/06/2021

The core public service, air travel and rail employees and travellers must all be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by the end of October, according to Canada’s new [...]

Canada reopens border for fully-vaccinated US visitors

08/10/2021

The Canadian border, which has been closed to travellers from the United States since March 2020, finally reopened on Monday to US tourists who can prove they’ve been [...]

Avoid Canada due to ‘very high’ risk of COVID-19, CDC urges travellers

04/10/2021

COVID-19 cases continue to rise domestically and now the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is warning people in the U.S. about international travel to Canada. [...]

PM Trudeau addresses AstraZeneca COVID-19 concerns

03/31/2021

Following the announcement of changes to the guidelines for the administration of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau maintains that “the [...]

Fake COVID-19 vaccines seized, arrests made in South Africa & China: Interpol

03/04/2021

South African police have seized hundreds of fake COVID-19 vaccines and arrested four suspects in connection with the haul, the Interpol global police co-ordination agency [...]

Coronavirus in Canada: New, stricter, pricier rules for travellers

01/29/2021

‘Now is not the time to be flying’. In what appears to be a measure to curb non-essential travel, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says all travellers will pay more [...]

Ontario declares province-wide state of emergency and stay-at-home order

01/12/2021

Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced a second state of emergency, and a stay-at-home order which will go into effect this Thursday. “Everyone must stay home to save [...]

Travellers to Canada will soon need negative COVID-19 test

01/02/2021

Anyone arriving in Canada starting Jan. 7 will need to have a negative COVID-19 test before boarding a flight, the federal government said Thursday as the Liberals urged [...]

Ontario goes into shutdown the day after Christmas

12/22/2020

Ontario Premier Doug Ford, citing rising numbers of Covid-19 cases that are accelerating at “an alarming rate,” announced Monday that the entire Canadian province [...]