Herd immunity looks like an increasingly high bar, and it may be out of reach. But that’s no reason to despair. It’s not herd immunity or bust. The closer we get, the more we can return to normal life.

A traditional Anishinaabe law on alcohol possession is now in effect in Grassy Narrows north of Kenora, Ont., a clear departure from the Indian Act and a rare move that Chief Randy Fobister hopes will help address social problems exacerbated by the pandemic.

The number of complaints of harassment, bullying and even sexual misconduct involving civilian employees at the Department of National Defence has increased in tandem with those being reported on the military side, say two unions representing workers.

Canadians should take the first vaccine that becomes available to them even though the federal government’s advisory committee on vaccines may have sown confusion with conflicting messaging about preferred doses, some health experts say.

The federal government has doled out more than 500 fines to air passengers who refused to quarantine in a hotel upon arrival in Canada. But there appears to be no evidence of any fines being issued to passengers who landed in Calgary and Montreal, two of four cities where international flights are currently allowed to land. 

A Canadian army investigation of a troubled reserve unit at the centre of allegations of right-wing extremism identified several members as “vulnerable” and “at risk” of being swept up into “a hateful ideology.”

A group of 19 Ontario police officers has launched a constitutional challenge against the provincial and federal governments, claiming that enforcing sweeping pandemic health restrictions puts them at odds with their oath to uphold the charter.

Fort McMurray, Alta, has seen it all in the last decade — fire, flood, a pandemic and an economic downturn. Businesses are hoping better days are ahead.

COVID-19 vaccines developed in China are in use around the world. Those developed in India, Kazakhstan and Cuba are being used domestically. Here’s a closer look at the inactivated and conjugate vaccines developed in middle-income countries and not available in Canada.

Seven rural Manitoba churches hope to convince a judge that the province’s lockdown measures are unjustified violations of Charter-protected freedoms, in one of several cases that will pit those freedoms against the need for public safety in the pandemic.