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The manager of Dunn’s Famous restaurant in Montreal scans the vaccination pass of a patron. Ontario: Universities requiring all visitors to campus be vaccinated, with limited medical exemptions, and no testing alternative for unvaccinated staff, students or faculty, include the following: the University of Toronto, Queen’s University, the University of Western Ontario, Carleton University and McMaster University.

The University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, University of Victoria, Thompson Rivers University and Emily Carr University have all said they will require everyone visiting their campuses to disclose whether they have been vaccinated.

B.C.: Five universities have stopped short of making vaccinations mandatory, but are requiring unvaccinated students, staff and visitors to undergo regular testing.

The schools are: University of Alberta, University of Calgary, University of Lethbridge, MacEwan University, Medicine Hat College, Mount Royal University, NAIT, SAIT, and NorQuest College. The schools said they would not allow unvaccinated visitors to undergo rapid testing instead unless they had a valid reason.

Alberta: Nine postsecondary institutions have a joint plan to require all visitors to campus, including faculty and students, to be vaccinated.

George campus this past July.įred Lum/The Globe and Mail What universities are doing New graduates, whose actual ceremony was held virtually, walk along King’s College Road at the University of Toronto’s St. In this section we’ll deal with the federal government, business and education on a national scale later sections will address what each province and territory is up to. Here’s what you need to know about the vaccine rules that are taking shape across Canada. In Corporate Canada, dozens of banks, airlines, long-term care operators and other businesses have unveiled their own vaccine requirements. Postsecondary institutions are similarly divided on vaccine mandates: Some require everyone visiting campuses to be fully vaccinated, and others allow unvaccinated visitors to undergo regular testing. But across the country, Canadians are facing a patchwork of vaccination rules.

Governments and businesses are embracing vaccine mandates as the country tries to stem a fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Federal government, business and postsecondary education.

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