Once vaccines are in Canada, they could be deployed within days
But the general running the rollout says the distribution of up to seven different vaccines—each with its own storage and handling requirements—poses a logistics challenge
Patricia Treble
Patricia Treble is the royal specialist at Maclean’s. In addition to her interest in all things monarchical—from the Queen’s constitutional role to Kate’s flyaway hems—she writes on everything from TV, books and celebrity culture to history and sports trends.
Community buy-in critical to Nova Scotia’s ’magnificent’ handling of pandemic
Volunteers at pop-up test sites, restaurants asking for a stop to in-person dining. Nova Scotians have rallied to bring the second wave under control.
ICUs in Alberta are drowning, say doctors. ’I’ve never had this happen in all my years of practice.’
Hospitals in Calgary are running out of space and there are also concerns about having enough staff—and enough oxygen—to treat patients
Dr. David Williams is called out—and Doug Ford doubles down on him
The chief medical officer of health takes the worst of a scathing auditor general’s report on the province’s pandemic response
The COVID warning Jason Kenney should have heeded
Alberta doctors begged their premier two weeks ago to impose a ’circuit-breaker’ lockdown. It would be over by now.
How gaps in Canada’s COVID data are making it harder to fight the second wave
On too many key metrics, in too many provinces, messy or incomplete information leaves us flying blind
Why the second wave of COVID is so much worse than the first
The end of outdoor weather came just as we were letting our guard down. And the vast majority of us still haven’t had it.
The Crown is fiction coated by veneer of truth—and Season 4 is the best one yet
The new season of the popular Netflix series focuses on the doomed fairy-tale royal couple and the British prime minister of the day, Margaret Thatcher
Donald Trump: the worst possible COVID-19 carrier
With his complacency and disregard for others, Trump and his White House now epitomize the ’case clusters’ and ’super-spreaders’ researchers say are driving the global pandemic
COVID-19 in schools: The runny-nose dilemma that has authorities stumped
Here’s the latest on outbreaks, closures and case numbers as students across Canada return to class