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A group of Quebec residents who volunteered for a vaccine trial by Quebec-based Medicago are frustrated that they are being penalized.

OTTAWA — The final two vaccines on Canada’s purchase list reported positive results from Phase 2 trials this week, including the only vaccine Canada…

  MONTREAL -- Quebec City-based pharmaceutical developer Medicago has announced it’s ready to move forward with a phase three clinical trial of its COVID-19 vaccine candidate, after seeing “positive” interim results from phase two, the company said on Tuesday. An adjuvant or ‘booster’ produced by GlaxoSmithKline and administered along with the vaccine will also be studied. Both the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Health Canada have approved the enrollment of up to 30,000 he...

Print A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has ordered an attorney who worked on a lawsuit against the Department of Water and Power over faulty bills to pay back $1.65 million in fees that he earned in the case. The attorney, Michael Libman, was also ordered to pay more than $116,000 in sanctions, cited for contempt of court and fined $44,000 by Judge Elihu M. Berle. Berle’s ruling marks another significant disciplinary action in litigation stemming from the DWP overbilling debacle. Berle las...

In the new suit, filed in Los Angeles, lawyers for Jones accuse the city of Los Angeles, City Attorney Mike Feuer and two lawyers from Feuers office -- James Clark and Thomas Peters -- of conducting "an egregious scheme and cover-up which defrauded Jones, violated his civil rights, and wasted city funds." Feuer said he hadnt yet reviewed the entire complaint, "but it just appears to be a rehash of old allegations. I can say unequivocally that I have always acted with complete integrity, and any...

By City News Service Dec 21, 2020 LOS ANGELES (CNS) - A man who sued the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power over inaccurate utility billings filed a lawsuit in federal court today against the city over the way in which the city attorneys office handled the case. Antwon Jones, who was a plaintiff in a settlement in 2017 when the DWP was forced to give refunds to customers after a massive billing snafu, claims that city officials used him as an “unwitting pawn and conspired with Paradis...

  MONTREAL -- Now that many residents at Maimonides Geriatric Centre who wanted a COVID vaccine have gotten one, health authorities have a new challenge on their hands: addressing the vaccine hesitancy that exists among its employees. “It is a super-priority,” the associate CEO of the West-Central-Montreal CIUSSS told CTV News during a phone interview. Francine Dupuis confirmed that while 95 per cent of residents agreed to be inoculated, only 35 to 40 per cent of employees have signall...