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Article content The Johnson & Johnson vaccine should be limited to people over the age of 30 who don’t want to wait for Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna, the National Advisory Committee on Immunization said Monday. The advice is almost identical to that issued by the expert panel for the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine last month and comes as both are suspected of causing a new and exceedingly rare blood-clotting syndrome. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or COVID-19: NACI says those who can wait for Pfizer or Moderna should; Fullerton vows to 'do right' b...

  TORONTO -- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said he is working to formalize a request made by Ontario Premier Doug Ford to suspend the arrival of international students in the province. Speaking to reporters late Friday morning, Trudeau said Ontario is the only province making such a request and they are “happy to work more narrowly with them.” “We’ll be reaching out to their officials today to formalize that request,” Trudeau said. International students are currently exempt from Canada’s COVID-19 travel rules. All students must be able to provide a valid study permit or...

Article content Nobody should underestimate the difficulty of governing a country like Canada. Contrary to popular belief, our political leaders are not idiots — at least many of them are not. But they face competing interests that often makes inertia the path of least resistance. In the case of Canada’s border policy during the pandemic, the federal government is under pressure to relax restrictions from businesses and returning Canadians insisting on their Charter mobility rights. A group of Snowbirds lost a case in Federal Court this week that argued being forced to stay in a quarantin...

  BARRIE, ONT. -- A long-time personal support worker for Roberta Place, sickened by COVID-19 during an outbreak at the Barrie long-term care home, is recovering from a double lung transplant. Edwin Ng's family tells CTV News the 48-year-old father of three underwent surgery on Sunday. His son Joey calls the nine-hour surgery a success and says his dad should be able to sit up by Tuesday. Ng first experienced symptoms of COVID-19 on Jan. 11 and tested positive for the virus two days later. By Jan. 21, he was in intensive care in a Toronto hospital and on a ventilator. Ng is one of more...

Article content Before Prime Minister Justin Trudeau got around to thinking of closing the barn door, the horse has bolted and there is no getting it back. I’m talking about the appearance of COVID-19 variant B.1.617 being discovered in a town north of Trois-Rivières, Que. The B.1.617 variant is the double-mutant variant, first discovered in India and thought to be ripping through that country now as it deals with a horrible and deadly upsurge of COVID. With this case confirmed, it looks like we have the answer to Conservative leader Erin O’Toole’s question. We apologize, but this vide...