Melissa Couto Zuber

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Reporter with The Canadian Press

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Indigenous children play in the water-filled ditches in the northern Ontario First Nations reserve in Attawapiskat, Ont., Tuesday, April 19, 2016. Photo by: The Canadian Press/Nathan Denette

Health of Indigenous children depends on housing

A study on indoor air quality and housing characteristics in isolated First Nations communities found elevated rates of respiratory infections and wheezing in young children, which authors associate with poor conditions within their homes.

People wait in line at a COVID-19 testing and vaccination site in Montreal, on Wednesday, December 29, 2021. File photo by The Canadian Press/Graham Hughes

Ontario delays return to school, Quebec calls in military as Omicron spikes

Provinces are putting new measures in place to deal with an Omicron-fuelled rise in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations, including delaying in-person schooling in Ontario by two weeks and bringing in the military to help Quebec speed up its third-dose vaccination program.

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Healthcare workers prepare for the opening of a Hello Fresh vaccination site for it's employees, in Mississauga, on Tuesday, December 28, 2021. Photo by The Canadian Press/Chris Young

Record COVID cases in Quebec, Ontario care homes in semi lockdown

Some provinces announced new measures for long-term care homes as others reported record-breaking COVID-19 infections propelled by the highly contagious Omicron variant.

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More than 30,000 Canadians have died from COVID

Canada has recorded its 30,000th COVID-19 death since the pandemic began in early 2020, surpassing a grim milestone just as the country braces for the potential fallout of surging infections driven by the Omicron variant.

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The Calgary Stampede grounds and Saddledome are flooded due to the heavy rains in Calgary on June 21, 2013. File photo by The Canadian Press/Jeff McIntosh

New maps show parts of Vancouver and Montreal underwater as climate change worsens

Low-lying areas of major cities like Vancouver and Montreal could become inundated with floods in the next 80 years under various climate change scenarios, suggests a floodplains map developed by a Western University researcher.

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Jimmy Staveris, manager of Dunn's Famous restaurant scans the COVID-19 QR code of a client in Montreal, on Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2021, as the Quebec government's COVID-19 vaccine passport comes into effect. Photo by The Canadian Press/Graham Hughes

Poll finds most Canadians favour vaccine passport for non-essential places

A new poll suggests eight out of 10 Canadians backed the notion of a COVID-19 vaccine passport in the days leading up to this week's rollout of a certificate system in Quebec and news that Ontario would soon follow suit.

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People line up at a COVID-19 testing clinic on Wednesday, March 24, 2021 in Montreal. File photo by The Canadian Press/Ryan Remiorz

Canada's COVID-19 to rise?

Federal officials are "anxious" over new modelling showing an increase in daily COVID-19 cases, which they say comes at a bad time with several religious holidays nearing, and people wanting to gather with families.

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Everything you need to know about the Johnson & Johnson vaccine

Canada added a single-dose COVID-19 vaccine to its pandemic-fighting arsenal on Friday, approving Johnson & Johnson's product a week after it was authorized in the United States.

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New vaccine brings optimism

Canada's vaccine rollout received a boost on Friday, February 26, 2021, with the approval of a third COVID-19 inoculation, giving the country another immunization option at a time when case counts remain nearly 75 per cent higher than they were at the peak of the first wave of the pandemic.

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