Variability in instructions for performance of nasopharyngeal swabs across Canada in the era of COVID-19 – what type of swab is actually being performed? by Nole M. Hiebert, Breanna Ashley Chen, Leigh J. Sowerby

“…The instructions provided by the majority of provinces and territories in Canada would not be effective in reaching the nasopharynx. …”
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Lepidoptera of Canada by Gregory R. Pohl, Jean-François Landry, B. Chris Schmidt, Jeremy R. deWaard

“…The known Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies) of the provinces and territories of Canada are summarised, and current knowledge is compared to the state of knowledge in 1979. …”
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Breaking the Cycle of Abuse and Closing the Housing Gap: A Mixed Methods Community-Based Study on Second-Stage Shelters by Krys Maki

“…Seventeen semi-structured interviews were conducted with executive directors and current and former residents of second-stage shelters in five provinces and territories across Canada. The results indicate that these shelters provide many benefits to survivors, but operate in a challenging context of chronic underfunding, which affects their capacity to maintain their programming and staffing. …”
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Market of tissue engineering in Canada from 2011 to 2020 by Ning Tate Cao, Subhiksha Muthukumaran, Xiongbiao Chen, Xiongbiao Chen

“…Our results also show that Ontario has the largest number of headquarters of tissue engineering companies among the provinces or territories of Canada. It is expected that the number of new products undergoing clinical trials is increased, based on our results of current clinical trials. …”
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“I would love for there not to be so many hoops … ”: recommendations to improve abortion service access and experiences made by Indigenous women and 2SLGTBQIA+ people in Canada... by Renée Monchalin, Danette Jubinville, Astrid V. Pérez Piñán, Willow Paul, Madison Wells, Arie Ross, Kimberly Law, Meagan Chaffey, Harlie Pruder

“…With representation from nine provinces and territories across Canada, participants identified with Anishinaabe, Cree, Dene, Haudenosaunee, Inuit, Métis and/ or Mi’kmaq Nations. …”
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COVID-19 Vaccination and Public Health Countermeasures on Variants of Concern in Canada: Evidence From a Spatial Hierarchical Cluster Analysis by Daniel A Adeyinka, Cory Neudorf, Cheryl A Camillo, Wendie N Marks, Nazeem Muhajarine

“…Our study objective was to identify provinces with disproportionate prevalence of VOCs relative to COVID-19 mitigation efforts in provinces and territories in Canada. MethodsWe analyzed publicly available provincial- and territorial-level data on the prevalence of VOCs in relation to mitigating factors, summarized in 3 measures: (1) strength of public health countermeasures (stringency index), (2) the extent to which people moved about outside their homes (mobility index), and (3) the proportion of the provincial or territorial population that was fully vaccinated (vaccine uptake). …”
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Characterizing cheat meals among a national sample of Canadian adolescents and young adults by Kyle T. Ganson, Mitchell L. Cunningham, Eva Pila, Rachel F. Rodgers, Stuart B. Murray, Jason M. Nagata

“…Specifically, over half of adolescents and young adults across all 13 provinces and territories in Canada reported engaging in > 1 cal dense cheat meal per week, over the past 12 months. …”
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A Virtual Community of Practice to Support Physician Uptake of a Novel Abortion Practice: Mixed Methods Case Study by Sheila Dunn, Sarah Munro, Courtney Devane, Edith Guilbert, Dahn Jeong, Eleni Stroulia, Judith A Soon, Wendy V Norman

“…ResultsFrom January 1, 2017, to June 30, 2019, a total of 430 physicians representing all provinces and territories in Canada joined the VCoP and 222 (51.6%) completed a baseline survey. …”
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Introducing an Organ Donor Registry in Saskatchewan by Amy Zarzeczny, Luiza Radu

“…Saskatchewan's introduction of this registry brought the province in line with other provinces and territories across Canada that use similar systems, and provided a response to the surge in public interest around organ donation that followed the Humboldt Bronco bus crash tragedy and related "Logan Boulet Effect." …”
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Canadian Covid-19 pandemic public health mitigation measures at the province level by Anna Akanteva, David W. Dick, Shirin Amiraslani, Jane M. Heffernan

“…We introduce the Covid-19 Policy Response Canadian tracker (CPRCT) database that tracks and records implemented public health measures in every province and territory in Canada. The implementations are recorded on a four-level ordinal scale (0–3) for three domains, (Schools, Work, and Other), capturing differences in degree of response. …”
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