News Source: Toronto Star
| about 1 month ago
The federal government is being accused of wasting millions of taxpayers' dollars by forcing cash-strapped Ontario and municipalities to help pay for billboards advertising the Conservatives' economic program at thousands of infrastructure projects.
News Source: The Globe and Mail
| about 1 month ago
Last updated on Thursday, Nov. 05, 2009 2:25AM EST F ewer than half of the available doses of H1N1 vaccine have been administered to Canadians, leaving millions of vials in warehouses or health-unit fridges across the country while people anxiously...
News Source: Delhi News-Record
| about 1 month ago
More details of the total price tag of the pandemic vaccine program emerged Wednesday...In addition to the previously announced $403 million for the vaccine, Ottawa will spend another $78 million on related costs incurred by Health Canada, the Public...
News Source: Delhi News-Record
| about 1 month ago
Ontario will run out of the regular swine flu vaccine by the end of the week, forcing many immunization clinics to close and preventing priority groups from receiving the flu shot, Health Minister Deb Matthews said Wednesday. She declined to name the...
News Source: Macleans
| about 1 month ago
Fears that countries would close borders to key pharmaceutical exports in a pandemic drove Canada's decision to award its pandemic flu vaccine contract to the only company that makes the product in this country, people who were involved in pandemic...
News Source: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
| about 1 month ago
A staff member has been fired after an Alberta Health Services probe into why some members of the Calgary Flames and their families received the H1N1 shot without lining up at public clinics. A secondary school and several nearby homes in Burnaby, B.