Filomena Tassi: Latest News

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is swapping the roles assigned to two members of his cabinet.

Canada Post, Filomena Tassi polled Canadians to see how they felt about making some radical changes at the Crown corporation.Those changes include shutting down rural post offices, ending all home delivery in favour of community mailboxes, and cutting back mail delivery to three times a week.The poll was put in the field in mid-December, six weeks after Tassi was named minister for Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC) and three weeks after the Crown corporation said it lost $264 million on revenue of $5.4 billion in its third quarter, the most recent quarter for which financial results are available. Canada Post reconsidering policy forbidding workers to use their own N95 masks It was clear from the content of the poll questions that Tassi’s office was keen to explore ways to cut costs and reduce losses.But the very fact that Tassi was even asking those questions has angered the union representing 61,000 postal workers.“We’re really concerned and disappointed the government is actually taking a poll right now about reducing postal services when the public is actually asking them to have more services, not less,” said Jan Simpson, president of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW).“Postal workers have been working throughout the entire pandemic and for them to have this poll currently is very insulting to us.”Simpson said CUPW was not informed or consulted about the poll and, coincidentally, it was doing its own poll in December asking Canadians about Canada Post.“They want us to expand services,” Simpson said.

Pfizer’s Paxlovid COVID-19 antiviral pill has been approved for use in Canada.Health Canada gave its approval on Monday, making Paxlovid the country’s first oral COVID-19 treatment that can be taken at home.Paxlovid can be given to adults 18 and older who are positive for COVID-19 and are experiencing mild or moderate illness, and who are at high risk of becoming more seriously ill, Health Canada said.The treatment, which has to be prescribed, involves taking three pills of two different drugs, twice a day, for five days. It should be started after a positive COVID-19 test and within five days from the onset of symptoms.“COVID-19 treatments, along with vaccinations and public health measures, are essential to save lives, reduce illness and lessen the burden on our health-care facilities,” said Dr.

COVID-19 treatments.Filomena Tassi, Canada’s minister of public services and procurement, told reporters on Friday the government has signed agreements with Pfizer and Merck to buy up to 1.5 million courses of their antiviral pills, PF-07321332 and Molnupiravir.Both treatments are under Health Canada review, Tassi added.“We also know that access to effective, easy-to-use treatments is critical to reducing the severity of COVID infections and will help save lives,” she said.“As soon as these drugs are authorized for use, the government will work on getting them to provinces and territories as quickly as possible so that health-care providers can help Canadians who need them most.” Canadians 18+ should be offered COVID-19 booster 6 months

Labour Minister Filomena Tassi discussed components of Bill C2 on Thursday, which was tabled by the Liberal government to expand COVID-19 relief benefits.

Port of Montreal say they are at an impasse with striking dockworkers, contradicting the federal labour minister’s upbeat assessment of talks as the port shutdown hit day 10.Martin Tessier, head of the Maritime Employers Association, told reporters Wednesday that “negotiations are not really progressing” and characterized any progress as “very slow.”The remarks follow Labour Minister Filomena Tassi’s depiction of “encouraging progress made between the two parties” this week, an appraisal that backs Ottawa’s decision to avoid intervening despite pleas from industry groups and the Ontario and Quebec governments.Tessier says he has asked the union to move 477 containers out of about 11,500 now on the waterfront in order to clear essential

WestJet Airlines Ltd. is asking the federal labour minister for an exemption to Canada Labour Code provisions that would facilitate mass layoffs.