Children

Children who are severely immunocompromised should get 3rd dose of COVID vaccine, NACI says

The National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) had previously recommended third doses for immunocompromised people 12 years of age and older.A health-care worker high-fives a child who just received the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for children in Montreal on Nov. 24, 2021. Children who are moderately to severely immunocompromised should get a third dose of the vaccine,…

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‘One day there will be no children in care,’ says Cowessess Chief after historic child welfare deal inked

Cowessess First Nation in Saskatchewan is the first Indigenous group in Canada to ink an agreement with Ottawa for federal funding of locally controlled child welfare services since the Act Respecting First Nations, Inuit and Métis Children, Youth and Families came into force last year. Cowessess First Nation Chief Cadmus Delorme said he hopes to see the…

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Husband, children of Huawei’s Meng Wanzhou granted permission to travel to Canada

Immigration officials have given family members of detained Huawei telecom executive Meng Wanzhou permission to travel to Canada, CBC News has confirmed.Meng Wanzhou, chief financial officer of Huawei, leaves B.C. Supreme Court with her husband Liu Xiaozong during a break from a hearing in Vancouver on Wednesday, January 13, 2021. (Jonathan Hayward/The Canadian Press)Immigration officials…

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