Federal government takes over troubled vaccine injury compensation program set up during COVID pandemic

The federal government has taken over running a controversial, no-fault vaccine injury compensation program launched in tandem with the COVID-19 vaccine rollout.

The program — designed to compensate anyone who experienced a rare but serious injury after receiving any Health Canada approved vaccine, including COVID vaccines — has seen a growing volume of “negative correspondence” from claimants, families and members of Parliament in its five years of operation, officials with the Public...