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It could be the fall before consideration is given to removing travel restrictions at the Canada-US border. Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Theresa Tam offered that potential end date to a Commons health committee last week. “I do think that Canada is probably on a good trajectory in terms of its epidemiologically and our own vaccination coverage. I do think that between now and moving towards the fall, we should expect some shift in that policy,” said Dr. Tam. The border has been closed to non-essential travel since last March. The restrictions have been extended month-by-mont...

File photo It could be the fall before consideration is given to removing travel restrictions at the Canada-US border. Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Theresa Tam offered that potential end date to a Commons health committee last week. “I do think that Canada is probably on a good trajectory in terms of its epidemiologically and our own vaccination coverage. I do think that between now and moving towards the fall, we should expect some shift in that policy,” said Dr. Tam. The border has been closed to non-essential travel since last March. The restrictions have been extended mo...

iPolitics By Kady O'Malley. Published on Apr 20, 2021 6:31am Border control was among the topics of the auditor general's report on pandemic preparedness. (Martin Regg Cohn/Toronto Star) Amid another round of surging COVID-19 cases across the country,  PUBLIC ACCOUNTS members will take a closer look at the initial efforts by the federal government to respond to the first wave of outbreaks last year, courtesy of a briefing session with Auditor General Karen Hogan on the findings of her report on “pandemic preparedness, surveillance and border controls,” which was tabled last m...

With Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland poised to deliver her inaugural budget speech on Monday afternoon, the Star’s Heather Scoffield has a sneak peek of what to expect: an across-the-board extension of “all the main pandemic-support programs until the coming fall,” as well as “a completely new benefit that subsidizes employers for hiring more people, or increasing the hours their employees work.” In putting together what was once expected to be the first post-pandemic budget, Freeland “has devoted much of her attention to plotting a long-term recovery strategy for the country...

At committee: COVID second wave, Canada-China relations By Kady O'Malley. Published on Mar 11, 2021 6:31am A sign on Parliament Hill points visitors to the House of Commons on Jan. 15. (Jolson Lim/iPolitics) Justice Minister David Lametti at JUSTICE (11 AM – 12 PM), Employment Minister Carla Qualtrough at HUMAN RESOURCES (3:30 – 4:30 PM), Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau at AGRICULTURE (3:30 – 4:30 PM) and Women and Gender Equality Minister Maryam Monsef at STATUS OF WOMEN (11 AM – 12 PM) Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland is also booked in for an appe...