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Local uptake of a cancer-preventing vaccine needs to improve, the new acting medical officer of health for Windsor-Essex says.

High school students in Windsor say not enough is being done to stop vaping on school property, given how often they see some fellow students hide the fact that they vape and often they see it. Students see others vape daily and in places like bathrooms to try and hide it, if they try to hide it.

  TORONTO -- In order to convince everyone in racialized communities to get the COVID-19 vaccine, experts are warning officials not to ignore the racist elephant in the room anymore. High-profile racist incidents and damning reports involving racialized patients have deepened mistrust for some in Black, Indigenous and communities of colour, experts told CTVNews.ca. And this in part, has led to vaccine hesitancy -- defined by the World Health Organization as people purposely delaying receivin...