By Marnie Cathcart There are currently no active recalls of strawberries in Canada, but the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) said it is in close contact with American authorities following news that the popular berry has been linked to a hepatitis A outbreak in the United States. The U.S. recall, updated on April 11 at the time of…
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Head of World Health Organization tells Montreal conference progress on HIV at risk
By Jacob Serebrin Updated at 23:54 EAT on Monday 1st August 2022 MONTREAL- Growing inequality could reverse a decade of progress made in the fight against HIV, the director-general of the World Health Organization told an international AIDS conference in Montreal Monday. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who addressed the AIDS 2022 conference by video, said the…
Canada’s Parliament Approves Trudeau’s Emergency Powers.
Updated at 0804 EAT on 22nd February 2022. OTTAWA, Canada’s parliament on Monday backed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s decision to invoke rarely-used emergency powers to end pandemic-related protests that have blocked streets in the capital Ottawa for more than three weeks. The Emergencies Act was approved in parliament by 185 to 151, with the minority…