Ottawa must address mistakes regarding pandemic preparedness, experts say theglobeandmail.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from theglobeandmail.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Alberta, two members of Premier Jason Kenney’s caucus have joined a national coalition against lockdowns.
Pandemic warning: An independent panel commissioned by the World Health Organization to investigate the failures of the global response to COVID-19 is calling for better circuit breaker systems, similar to Canada’s Global Public Health Intelligence Network, which was curtailed just before the COVID-19 pandemic.
COVID-19 vaccines: Ottawa says the vaccine-tracking system it acquired from Deloitte is up and running, but has yet to release details of the system, such as what gaps it will address, in Canada’s inconsistent vaccine-tracking protocols.
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A panel put together by the World Health Organization is urging countries around the world to develop and invest in pandemic early warning systems, similar to the one Canada shuttered a year before COVID-19 hit, saying such systems are crucial to support the world against future crises.
The panel’s findings echo concerns about Canada’s handling of its own operation, known as the Global Public Health Intelligence Network, or GPHIN. A Globe and Mail investigation found that Ottawa curtailed its pandemic early warning unit prior to COVID-19, which federal scientists have said hurt the country’s ability to respond to the outbreak.
To the editor:
It was once considered the proper role of government to ascertain the general will of the people, and to advance it. Citizens could expect their lives to be more secure, even to improve over time. Today, citizens may be excused for believing that role has been re-cast, mandating government instead to set fire to each of the rooms of their home, leaving them scrambling for a way out.
Nothing acquaints you with your mortality quite like a pandemic. Fortunately, the Martin Government, by Order in Council, created the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) - an entire arms-length health bureaucracy to prepare us for it. We counted on it. The world counted on it. It wasn’t there.
PMO e-mails reveal frustration with Public Health Agency as pandemic worsened theglobeandmail.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from theglobeandmail.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.