Canadian parents have become more likely to question routine childhood vaccinations since the pandemic, according to research. Immunization rates “have declined since COVID-19” according to research commissioned by the federal government and conducted by Ekos Research Associates. The resulting report, “Childhood Vaccination Marketing Campaign Survey 2022,” was delivered to Health Canada on Feb. 15, 2023,…

A British Columbia registered nurse has been suspended for six months by the province’s College of Nurses and Midwives (BCCNM) for creating fraudulent COVID-19 vaccination cards, according to a notice released by the college. The college says the nurse created four fake vaccination records in 2021. Sarah Jones from Castlegar, B.C., was investigated by a panel of the…

Commentary “The principal task of the State today is to justify its own existence. To do so, it has to annihilate society’s capacity to survive by itself. Surreptitiously undermining all forms of spontaneous regulation, deregulating, desocializing, breaking down the traditional mechanisms of bodies and antibodies, in order to substitute its artificial mechanisms—such is the strategy…

OTTAWA—The “big lift” for Canada’s COVID-19 vaccination efforts this week has been sideswiped by a big snowdrift. UPS temporarily closed its operations in Louisville, Ky., Monday because the city received more than 15 cm of snow. While Canada’s doses of vaccine from Pfizer-BioNTech are made in Belgium, they are being shipped through UPS, which flies…

Quebec will continue to administer COVID-19 vaccine doses, despite calls for a change in plans following an Israeli report showing the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine having lower than expected efficacy. “The game plan remains the same, despite new info from Pfizer. Goal has 225k as of February 8. The principle remains: we vaccinate the most people as…

VANCOUVER—Doses of COVID-19 vaccine are expected to reach close to 60 First Nations in British Columbia by the end of next week. There have been significant increases in the number of COVID-19 cases in Indigenous communities in the last two weeks, said Dr. Shannon McDonald, the acting chief medical officer for the First Nations Health…

OTTAWA—Canada should start getting two million doses of COVID-19 vaccines delivered weekly in April, meaning the “ramp up” phase of Canada’s vaccine rollout is still more than two months away. Maj.-Gen. Dany Fortin, the vice−president of logistics for the Public Health Agency of Canada, says the specific delivery schedules for vaccines from both Pfizer-BioNTech and…