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Manitoba is marking the one-year anniversary of the first COVID-19 vaccines given to health-care sta...

Manitoba is marking the one-year anniversary of the first COVID-19 vaccines given to health-care sta...

  WINNIPEG -- Manitoba reached a vaccination milestone on Saturday, with 100,000 doses administered, according to Health and Seniors Care Minister Heather Stefanson. The milestone comes one year this month after the first Manitoban died from the virus and three months removed from the start of the vaccination campaign that began on December 16 of last year. The first vaccination clinic was for healthcare workers and took place at the University of Manitoba's Bannatyne campus. Health Science Centre physician Brian Penner got the first shot. "I'm very fortunate and it's a luck of the draw...

Premier Brian Pallister finally acknowledged, after weeks of denial, his government did not adequate...

For Alaska state employees, temporary pandemic telework may become permanent Published December 17, 2020 Share on Facebook Print article More than 6,000 of Alaska’s 14,000 state employees are working from home in an effort to slow the spread of the coronavirus. For some, the alternate working conditions will soon become permanent. For many more, a long-term change is in the works. According to public records, the state of Alaska is spending at least $58.2 million in federal COVID-19 aid on a permanent telework program for state employees. The effort, called the Pandemic Preparedness ...