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    Minister of Health Jean-Yves Duclos participates in a news conference on the COVID-19 pandemic and Health Canada’s approval of the antiviral treatment Paxlovid in Ottawa, Jan. 17, 2022. (Justin Tang/The Canadian Press)

    Health Canada approves new COVID treatment

    Politics Insider for Jan. 18: China baselessly claims COVID originated in Canada; Ottawa says COVID tests at airport will stay in place; calls for Alberta justice minister’s resignation intensify

    Prime Minister Justin Trudeau receives his COVID vaccination in Ottawa, Friday April 23, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld

    Why some people feel COVID vaccine side effects and others don’t

    Vaxx Populi: Some research has found more side effects after one dose of AstraZeneca than of Pfizer. But there’s no evidence that a stronger reaction means stronger immunity.

    A health-care worker prepares a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at a UHN COVID-19 vaccine clinic in Toronto on Jan. 7, 2021 (CP/Nathan Denette)

    Trudeau and Big Pharma: Not a love story

    Paul Wells: Why doesn’t Canada have a robust pharmaceutical industry? Until the COVID crisis hit, Ottawa spent years putting up ‘don’t bother’ signs.

    Will the Pfizer ruling stiffen up Canadian tech patents?

    Canada’s Supreme Court ruled that in order to protect an invention, a patent must actually disclose what that invention is