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The Globe and Mail Letters Feb. 5: ‘I, a Canadian, am ashamed.’ Readers react as Ottawa taps into vaccines for poorer countries, plus other letters to the editor Contributed to The Globe and Mail Published February 5, 2021 Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press Keep your Opinions sharp and informed. Get the Opinion newsletter. Sign up today. For richer Re Ottawa Taps Into Vaccines For Poorer Countries (Feb. 4): On the world stage, our government cultivates an image of the altruistic middle power that punches above its weight to help the less fortunate. This image now feels empty as we ...

COVID-19 vaccination programmes in China and India will stretch until late 2022 due to the sheer size of their population, and more than 85 poor countries will not have widespread access to vaccines before 2023, a study showed on Wednesday. While rapid development of vaccines has raised hopes for an end to the year-long pandemic, concerns over unequal distribution have also mounted due to production problems and large bilateral deals between wealthy countries and drug makers. U.S. President Joe Biden said on Tuesday that the United States aims to secure an additional 200 million doses of COV...

UK Supermarkets Sold 57 ‘Bags for Life’ Per Household in 2019 — More Than 1 a Week Britain's biggest supermarkets produced plastic with the equivalent weight of 90 Eiffel Towers. Why Global Citizens Should Care The UN’s Global Goal 13 calls for action on the environment, including restricting plastic use — a material that can take hundreds of years to break down. But if we’re going to cut plastic out of our lives, supermarkets must step up to remove it from supply chains. You can join us in taking action on these issues  . Everyone has one: a little space under the stairs, a cu...

The Atlantic One Country Has Jumped Ahead on Vaccinations Israel has vaccinated six times more of its population than the United States. Can others learn from its success? January 23, 2021 Oded Balilty / AP One nation has already provided more than a quarter of its people with at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine, outpacing every other country in the world and more than sextupling the percentage in the United States. During one recent three-day period, in fact, it administered a dose of the vaccine to a higher percentage of its population than the U.S. has altogether. Nearly three-fourths of...

U.S. Hospital Rates Fall; N.Y. Vaccines Run Short: Virus Update Bloomberg 1/22/2021 Bloomberg News © Bloomberg U.S. President Joe Biden speaks on his administrations Covid-19 response in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, Jan. 21, 2021. Biden in his first full day in office plans to issue a sweeping set of executive orders to tackle the raging Covid-19 pandemic that will rapidly reverse or refashion many of his predecessor's most heavily criticized policies. (Bloomberg) -- President Joe Biden turned to executive action to help...