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Canadians immunized with the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine will be able to travel to the U.S. when new travel rules come into play next month

'The curve is just bending,' Tam said Friday, emphasizing how basic measures, like masking, should remain in place to avoid another surge in the winter 

Pfizer Canada says it is preparing to ask Health Canada to authorize its COVID-19 vaccine for kids as young as five by mid-October

Each side is calling on the other to return to the table

Several countries, including the United States, only recognize people with two identical doses of an approved vaccine as being fully vaccinated, AstraZeneca not on the list of approved vaccines in many places

Tuesday night's summit, held by the Canadian Medical Association, Canadian Nurses Association, discussed how to move forward since the pandemic has 'brought the health system to a breaking point'

Public health, vaccine experts leery of recommending booster shots for most Canadians because 'the vaccines thus far are showing to maintain strong protection against severe disease even if protection against infection at all is dropping'

Letter of complaint alleges that some polling stations opened late 'or not at all,' disenfranchising voters, many of whom were in Indigenous communities

A spokesman for the prime minister said he 'spent several hours on the phone with eight people who lived through residential schools, and denied that the prime minister had used the historic day to take a vacation'

Government has said employers in settings considered high-risk for COVID-19 need to have workers immunized against the virus or regularly tested for it before coming to work