François-Philippe Champagne replaces Navdeep Bains in the second significant shuffle of the Liberals’ economic portfolios during the worst economic crisis in generations
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Dr. Deena Hinshaw, Alberta s chief medical officer of health, had strong words on Wednesday for business owners around the province who have broken public health restrictions. Businesses that reopen despite restrictions are increasing close contacts in their community and making it harder for others, Hinshaw wrote on Twitter.
She said those who follow restrictions are helping to ensure those restrictions can be loosened more quickly.
Alberta identified another
875 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday, bringing the province to 12,838 active cases with a testing positivity rate of 5.3 per cent. Hinshaw had said on Tuesday
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said today the federal government has reached an agreement to purchase another 20 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, bringing the total number of vaccine doses scheduled to arrive this year to 80 million.
Canada has exercised an option with pharmaceutical giant Pfizer-BioNTech to secure an additional 20 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine, with the first deliveries of some of these doses expected in April at the earliest.
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