A massive new Toronto vaccine factory, tasked with making flu shots and preparing for the next pandemic, won't start producing shots until 2027 -- as much as a year later than the company initially envisioned when the plant was first announced.
A massive new Toronto vaccine factory, tasked with making flu shots and preparing for the next pandemic, won't start producing shots until 2027 -- as much as a year later than the company initially envisioned when the plant was first announced.
It meant Canada had to pay a premium to get in the queue for the first doses produced, and also led the federal government to invest heavily to quickly build up the biomanufacturing sector. "The first commercial batches are expected in 2027," Sanofi Canada's head of communications said in the statement Thursday.
But many of the aggressive timelines the government set out during COVID-19 have not come to fruition. An NRC spokeswoman said Thursday that the federal government is spending $17 million a year to cover operating costs at the vaccine production plant to maintain all its approvals to produce vaccines and ensure it is ready to do so when needed.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford suggested immigrants are to blame for the shooting of an empty Jewish school in Toronto over the weekend, despite police saying they have little information on the suspects.The federal New Democrats want to amend the Liberal government's electoral reform legislation to scrap the proposal to push back the vote by a week and consequently secure pensions for dozens of MPs, CTV News has learned.
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