Alberta Vaccine

• Alberta premier defends charging Albertans for COVID-19 vaccinations, questions its effectiveness

  Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is defending her government's decision to start charging most Albertans for the COVID-19 vaccine, despite widespread criticism.

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  Jun 15, 2025
  
• Alberta kids to get access to more COVID vaccine options

  The Alberta distribution of the Pfizer bivalent doses for kids aged 5 to 11 and the Novavax vaccine for youth aged 12 to 17 comes nearly a month after Health Canada's approvals.

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  Jan 4, 2023
  
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• Alberta’s vaccine passport starts Monday amid growing fourth wave

  Starting Sunday, Albertans were able to download cards with the dates they'd received their COVID-19 vaccinations.

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  Sep 20, 2021
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• What the new mRNA COVID-19 vaccine recommendation means for Alberta

  The AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine will continue to be offered to Albertans getting second doses, despite a new recommendation from the National Advisory Committee on Immunization.

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  Jun 17, 2021
• Northeast Calgary to get drive-thru COVID-19 vaccines

  Alberta's first drive-thru COVID-19 vaccine site will open in Calgary's northeast in early June, following concerns of low vaccination rates in east Caglary.

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  May 27, 2021
• Alberta to begin booking COVID-19 vaccines for people ages 12+ by May 10

  Alberta Premier Jason Kenney announced on Wednesday that the province’s vaccine rollout will expand to include anyone over the age of 12 by Monday, May 10.

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  May 5, 2021
• ‘A cautious relief:’ COVID-19 vaccinations to begin at two Alberta meat plants

  Both the Cargill plant, near High River south of Calgary, and the JBS Canada facility in Brooks, Alta., were hit hard by outbreaks last year.

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  Apr 29, 2021
• Vaccination clinic at Alberta’s Cargill meat-packing plant postponed

  A COVID-19 vaccination clinic has been postponed at a southern Alberta meat-packing plant, where last year nearly half the workers contracted COVID-19 and two employees died.

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  Apr 21, 2021
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• More calls for COVID-19 vaccines to be offered to a wider range of people in Alberta

  A walk-in clinic opened on Saturday in Calgary, offering the AstraZeneca vaccine to people ages 55 to 64, but some people say the government should be expanding the rollout.

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  Apr 17, 2021
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• Plans underway for COVID-19 vaccination clinic at southern Alberta meat-packing plant

  Plans are underway to establish an immunization clinic in the Cargill meat packing plant that saw a major COVID-19 outbreak in 2020.

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  Apr 8, 2021