| | | | | | | | | FIVE THINGS TO KNOW | | | | | | Delayed surgeries
Many cancer patients have been stuck waiting for life-saving surgeries, according to a new study using Ontario data, confirming worries about the impact of the enormous and growing backlog of procedures caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| | | | | | Vaccine shipments
The Public Health Agency of Canada is expecting a smaller-than-normal shipment of COVID-19 vaccines this week, with fewer than 445,000 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech shots scheduled for delivery over the next seven days. |
| | | | | | Quarantine hotels
The federal government is expanding the list of authorized quarantine hotels for international travellers and asking them to change their travel plans if a hotel isn't available. |
| | | | | | Repatriated child
A little girl has been rescued from a detention camp in northeast Syria and is on her way to Canada, but her Canadian mother is not with her. |
| | | | | | Fat-shaming
The link between COVID-19 and obesity as a risk factor has led to a rise in weight-shaming on social media -- a worrying trend, experts say, considering how weight stigma already negatively affects many people's mental and physical health. |
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| | | | | | | Clashes broke out over the weekend between police and people who gathered at an unofficial vigil for a London woman whose killing has spurred a national conversation in the U.K. about violence against women. | | | | |
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| | | | | | | Who run the world | | | | At Sunday night's Grammys, Taylor Swift became the first female performer to win album of the year three times and Beyonce, with her 28th win, became the most-decorated woman in Grammy history. |
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