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Amid accusations that professional athletes are jumping the queue for flu shots, immunization clinics for vulnerable people face the prospect of closing because of a vaccine shortage. Some players and staff of the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Toronto Raptors...
Tags: Toronto Maple Leafs, Toronto Raptors, Deb Matthews, Ontario Health, health minister, minister deb, flu shots, received h1n1, h1n1 shots, Ottawa
Montreal police say the reports of two attempted kidnappings in Pointe-Claire last month were unfounded. Some worried parents are keeping their healthy children out of daycare because of concerns about swine flu in Montreal's preschool population. The...
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Canada is taking its seal hunt dispute with the European Union to the World Trade Organization. Trade Minister Stockwell Day said Monday that Ottawa has formally requested WTO consultations on Europe's ban of Canadian seal products, the first stage of...
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Ottawa residents will no longer be able to reserve a place in line at the city's swine flu vaccination clinics for friends and relatives waiting at home. An Ottawa man who grew up in a Jewish orphanage in Poland has inspired a new play about his extraordinary...
Canada is facing a dramatic shortage of H1N1 flu vaccine that will mean a scaling back of mass incoculation efforts, Ontario Health Minister Deb Matthews said today. Matthews said the federal government advised the province that there are only 500,000...
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Alberta is opening three clinics so people with mild flu symptoms can get assessed without clogging hospital waiting rooms. Alberta Health Services is freezing wages of management and non-unionized staff for two years for a savings of $12 million next...
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Healthy school-age children who show up at Ottawa's swine flu vaccine clinics will not be turned away even though they are not on the city's original list of priority groups. An Ottawa construction company is being summoned to court after fines didn't...
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Finance Minister Jim Flaherty introduced new rules for public pensions on Tuesday, aimed at putting plans at Crown corporations and other firms on more solid ground. Finance Minister Jim Flaherty. (CBC) "We understand the value of secure and sustainable...
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When he was Canada's top soldier, Rick Hillier commonly referred to Canada's new insurgent enemy in Afghanistan as a "bowl of snakes." But the retired general views the bureaucracy in Ottawa as an altogether different beast — a "boa constrictor" Hillier...
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Michael’s Majors are one of the hottest teams in the Ontario Hockey League at the moment. The Majors, with the backing of a four-goal performance from sophomore forward Devante Smith-Pelly, walloped the Ottawa 67’s 7-4 tonight in front of a crowd of 9,862...