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A Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine dose is prepared at The Michener Institute in Toronto on Monday, Dec. 14, 2020. File photo by The Canadian Press/Frank Gunn
A consensus appears to have developed that educating reluctant health-care workers to get vaccinated against COVID-19 is better than trying to force them to get the shots.
While most of those on the pandemic front lines are eager to get their doses, a small but significant minority have indicated their opposition to mandatory vaccinations. Coercion is certainly a method that s available to the government but I don t believe it s the most effective mechanism, said Michael Hurley, president of the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions of the Canadian Union of Public Employees.
TORONTO — Touting the need for drastic action, Quebec became the first province to impose a curfew Wednesday as soaring COVID-19 infections across Canada intensified the strain on hospitals and . . .
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A grey minivan belonging to a local funeral home parks in front of a storage container that’s been converted into a temporary morgue at the rear of Windsor Regional Hospital Met Campus in Windsor, Ont., on Jan. 6, 2021. Photo by the Canadian Press
Touting the need for drastic action, Quebec became the first province to impose a curfew Wednesday as soaring COVID-19 infections across Canada intensified the strain on hospitals and prompted some Ontario morgues to run out of space.
Quebec s premier pointed to the province s overburdened hospitals as he announced a four-week curfew, to begin Saturday, that would bar people from leaving their homes between 8 p.m. and 5 a.m., unless they are going to work.