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February 7, 2021 Reading time: 3 min 30 s
Jim McDonell, MPP Jim McDonell.
Over the past week, the last of our eligible Long-Term Care (LTC) residents received their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. The current shortage required a delay in the rollout to LTC staff, essential caregivers, frontline medical practitioners, and our most vulnerable groups, until more supplies are received from the Federal Government later this month. Pfizer is in the midst of its Belgium plant-retooling project that will significantly increase production over the year, but unfortunately, will cut Canadian shipments by 80 percent during February. The federal minister in charge of procurement continues to be confident the expected four million doses will be distributed to Canadians by the end of March. As vaccine stock increases, vaccination will expand to more population groups, under the direction of the Eastern Ontario Health Unit (
One Ontario initiative to standardize and streamline the development application approval process hits critical mass
One Ontario initiative to standardize and streamline the development application approval process hits critical mass
TORONTO, Feb. 01, 2021 One Ontario, a collaborative research and development initiative, is ready to move forward on a program that will standardize and streamline the development application approval process. One Ontario was spearheaded in June 2020 by AECO Innovation Lab (AECO); since then, they have formed a coalition of key stakeholders with the goal of unifying data exchange to achieve efficiency and transparency throughout the development approvals process, and enable data aggregation for reporting and measurement in support of continuous improvement.