The federal government has published its coronavirusvaccine delivery list, featuring forecasted shipment dates that outline exactly how many doses of each vaccine provinces and territories can expect, and when.
The webpage features three charts. The first details the total vaccine doses that have already been delivered to the provinces and territories. The other two lay out the projected timelines for the dates further doses will arrive — with one chart for Moderna’s vaccine doses, and another for Pfizer’s jabs.
The chart confirming delivered dose numbers will be updated weekly, the website explains. It also reiterates the federal government’s promised timeline: that everyone who wants a vaccine will receive their jab by September.
“Doses of the vaccines will be distributed in Canada in phases, which began in December 2020. Assuming the continued supply of safe and effective vaccines, it’s expected there will be enough vaccines to immunize everyone for whom vaccines are approved and recommended,” the website reads.
“We anticipate this will be accomplished by September of 2021.”
The published data comes after bristling from the provinces regarding the federal government’s vaccine supply. Ontario Premier Doug Ford claimed on Friday that the province was “running out” of COVID-19 vaccine doses, adding that its Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine supply is slated to run dry at the end of this week.
He implored the government to ramp up its distribution efforts.
“We’re all hopeful the federal government will get us more vaccines. Without them, hospitals will have to start canceling appointments and all the progress we’ve made getting our daily vaccine numbers up will be lost,” Ford said.
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However, the chart quashes some of Ford’s complaints, indicating that the province is due to receive a shipment of 80,925 Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine doses this week as well as another 56,700 Moderna doses before Jan. 17.
In addition to that, a vaccination tracker shows the province has only administered about 62 per cent of the vaccines in its possession. That means many doses are sitting in freezers and, with the projected new arrivals this week, are not on track to run dry any time soon.
However, in a statement to Global News, a spokesperson for Ontario Premier Doug Ford said “several hospitals aren’t vaccinating right now because they don’t have vaccines.”
“Suggesting there is no supply problem is not born out by the facts when hospitals have had to pause vaccinations because they have exhausted their supply,” Ivana Yelich said. “Yes, we are receiving more at some point this week and of course we are thankful for the work the federal government is doing to secure vaccines but it’s not keeping up with Ontario’s capacity to administer, which continues to increase.”
Yelich said the province has exhausted the initial shipment of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.
“We will have exhausted the 48,000 Pfizer doses received last week by the end of this week,” she said.
Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc hinted that this would be the case in a Sunday interview with The West Block‘s Mercedes Stephenson.
“If you knew you had 200,000 in a week, how sincere is it to say, ‘Oh my God, at the end of the week we don’t have any more vaccines?’ Of course you don’t, because there are more coming next week, and then the week after there are even more,” LeBlanc said.
With the publication of the new website, Canadians can see exactly how many more doses are intended to arrive each week. The charts lay out the number of vaccine doses each province can expect to have delivered every week until the end up February, with arrivals increasing every week.
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This week, Canadians can expect 380,450 doses to be delivered. Weekly vaccine deliveries will then continue to ramp up, with hundreds of thousands arriving on Canadian soil every seven days.
By the first week of February, the weekly shipment will have almost doubled, with 600,000 doses landing in Canada that week. The last week sees that number jump even higher, as 617,200 doses are expected to arrive the week of Feb. 22.
The timeline echoes LeBlanc’s Sunday remarks that the delivery schedule will keep ramping up — and, despite some criticism of a slow rollout, he added that Canada is “not actually behind schedule”
“We were able to get almost half a million doses from Pfizer in December. The Moderna doses have also come sooner than we had been expecting and that the premiers had been expecting,” LeBlanc said.
“So I’m very confident that over the coming weeks you’re going to see a very considerable scale up across the country in terms of provinces immunizing their citizens.”
TORONTO – Canada Goose Holdings Inc. says it has signed a deal that will result in the creation of its first eyewear collection.
The deal announced on Thursday by the Toronto-based luxury apparel company comes in the form of an exclusive, long-term global licensing agreement with Marchon Eyewear Inc.
The terms and value of the agreement were not disclosed, but Marchon produces eyewear for brands including Lacoste, Nike, Calvin Klein, Ferragamo, Longchamp and Zeiss.
Marchon plans to roll out both sunglasses and optical wear under the Canada Goose name next spring, starting in North America.
Canada Goose says the eyewear will be sold through optical retailers, department stores, Canada Goose shops and its website.
Canada Goose CEO Dani Reiss told The Canadian Press in August that he envisioned his company eventually expanding into eyewear and luggage.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 19, 2024.
Almost seven years since news broke of an alleged conspiracy to fix the price of packaged bread across Canada, the saga isn’t over: the Competition Bureau continues to investigate the companies that may have been involved, and two class-action lawsuits continue to work their way through the courts.
Here’s a timeline of key events in the bread price-fixing case.
Oct. 31, 2017: The Competition Bureau says it’s investigating allegations of bread price-fixing and that it was granted search warrants in the case. Several grocers confirm they are co-operating in the probe.
Dec. 19, 2017: Loblaw and George Weston say they participated in an “industry-wide price-fixing arrangement” to raise the price of packaged bread. The companies say they have been co-operating in the Competition Bureau’s investigation since March 2015, when they self-reported to the bureau upon discovering anti-competitive behaviour, and are receiving immunity from prosecution. They announce they are offering $25 gift cards to customers amid the ongoing investigation into alleged bread price-fixing.
Jan. 31, 2018: In court documents, the Competition Bureau says at least $1.50 was added to the price of a loaf of bread between about 2001 and 2016.
Dec. 20, 2019: A class-action lawsuit in a Quebec court against multiple grocers and food companies is certified against a number of companies allegedly involved in bread price-fixing, including Loblaw, George Weston, Metro, Sobeys, Walmart Canada, Canada Bread and Giant Tiger (which have all denied involvement, except for Loblaw and George Weston, which later settled with the plaintiffs).
Dec. 31, 2021: A class-action lawsuit in an Ontario court covering all Canadian residents except those in Quebec who bought packaged bread from a company named in the suit is certified against roughly the same group of companies.
June 21, 2023: Bakery giant Canada Bread Co. is fined $50 million after pleading guilty to four counts of price-fixing under the Competition Act as part of the Competition Bureau’s ongoing investigation.
Oct. 25 2023: Canada Bread files a statement of defence in the Ontario class action denying participating in the alleged conspiracy and saying any anti-competitive behaviour it participated in was at the direction and to the benefit of its then-majority owner Maple Leaf Foods, which is not a defendant in the case (neither is its current owner Grupo Bimbo). Maple Leaf calls Canada Bread’s accusations “baseless.”
Dec. 20, 2023: Metro files new documents in the Ontario class action accusing Loblaw and its parent company George Weston of conspiring to implicate it in the alleged scheme, denying involvement. Sobeys has made a similar claim. The two companies deny the allegations.
July 25, 2024: Loblaw and George Weston say they agreed to pay a combined $500 million to settle both the Ontario and Quebec class-action lawsuits. Loblaw’s share of the settlement includes a $96-million credit for the gift cards it gave out years earlier.
Sept. 12, 2024: Canada Bread files new documents in Ontario court as part of the class action, claiming Maple Leaf used it as a “shield” to avoid liability in the alleged scheme. Maple Leaf was a majority shareholder of Canada Bread until 2014, and the company claims it’s liable for any price-fixing activity. Maple Leaf refutes the claims.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 19, 2024.
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TORONTO – TD Bank Group, which is mired in a money laundering scandal in the U.S., says chief executive Bharat Masrani will retire next year.
Masrani, who will retire officially on April 10, 2025, says the bank’s, “anti-money laundering challenges,” took place on his watch and he takes full responsibility.
The bank named Raymond Chun, TD’s group head, Canadian personal banking, as his successor.
As part of a transition plan, Chun will become chief operating officer on Nov. 1 before taking over the top job when Masrani steps down at the bank’s annual meeting next year.
TD also announced that Riaz Ahmed, group head, wholesale banking and president and CEO of TD Securities, will retire at the end of January 2025.
TD has taken billions in charges related to ongoing U.S. investigations into the failure of its anti-money laundering program.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 19, 2024.
