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https://theturtleislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Today-in-History-Header_web.jpg1024600Dec 3 In 2021, the National Advisory Committee on Immunization strongly recommended COVID-19 vaccine booster shots for people over the age of 50 in response to the spread of the Omicron variant. And it strongly suggested boosters for anyone who got two shots of the Oxford-AstraZeneca or Janssen vaccine, as well as front-line health care workers and First Nations, Inuit and Metis people. Dec 5 In 1989, former Indian and northern affairs minister John Munro was charged with breach of trust, conspiracy, corruption, fraud, theft, uttering forged documents and other related offences. In 1990, Manitoba Indians signed an agreement with the federal government that would lead to native control of education on reserves. Dec 6 1869 Red River Rebellion – Governor General John Young, Lord Lisgar proclaims a pardon for