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OPINION: Affordable, high quality, licensed child care should be a Canadian priority

OPINION: Affordable, high quality, licensed child care should be a Canadian priority

Policy-makers need to ensure that an increase in parent demand for child care is accompanied by regulatory frameworks that support the delivery of high-quality care
OPINION: Immigrant parents support children’s home language learning

OPINION: Immigrant parents support children’s home language learning

Moments of intimate playing, learning and teaching are among the ways that immigrant parents extend and expand their home languages with their children
BEYOND LOCAL: The Panama Papers expose financial crime enablers

BEYOND LOCAL: The Panama Papers expose financial crime enablers

The world’s wealthiest people wouldn’t be able to shield their riches from tax authorities without enablers
BEYOND LOCAL: Pfizer to seek approval for its vaccine for kids as young as five in about a week

BEYOND LOCAL: Pfizer to seek approval for its vaccine for kids as young as five in about a week

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
BEYOND LOCAL : Virtual reality may help develop empathy for sea life and oceans

BEYOND LOCAL: Virtual reality may help develop empathy for sea life and oceans

Virtual reality may be a useful tool to increase public awareness and empathy for ocean environments
ONTARIO: Province willing to discuss optometrist costs, but won't write blank cheque: minister

ONTARIO: Province willing to discuss optometrist costs, but won't write blank cheque: minister

Each side is calling on the other to return to the table
COVID-19: Canada must convince countries who reject mixed-dose travellers, travel association says

COVID-19: Canada must convince countries who reject mixed-dose travellers, travel association says

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
CANADA: Emergency summit grapples with health system debilitated by COVID-19

CANADA: Emergency summit grapples with health system debilitated by COVID-19

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'
CANADA: Moderna asks Health Canada to authorize booster shot of its COVID-19 vaccine

CANADA: Moderna asks Health Canada to authorize booster shot of its COVID-19 vaccine

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'
CANADA: Trudeau says Tofino trip on National Day of Truth and Reconciliation a 'mistake'

CANADA: Trudeau says Tofino trip on National Day of Truth and Reconciliation a 'mistake'

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'