TORONTO – Children aged five to 11 in Ontario will be eligible to book COVID-19 vaccine appointments starting Tuesday. Health Minister Christine Elliott said the province is set to receive a little over 400,000 vaccine doses from the federal government on Monday, followed by another shipment of a little over […]
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ORILLIA, Ont. – The province says it is expanding a training program to help those looking for work in a different field. Ontario says there are 300,000 jobs available right now, but the province needs more workers to fill those roles. Premier Doug Ford says with the Second Career Program […]
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TORONTO – A new audit has found the Ontario government ignored the public’s rights to consultation on environmentally significant decisions. The auditor general’s annual report on the environment found the Ministry of the Environment and several others deliberately avoided consulting the public on such decisions. Ontarians’ rights to public information […]
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TORONTO – The Toronto District School Board is granting temporary exemptions for roughly 290 unvaccinated staff who otherwise would be placed on administrative leave until it can find temporary staff to fill the positions. In a memo sent to families, the school board says it continues to implement its COVID-19 […]
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OTTAWA – Members of Parliament return to the House of Commons today for the first time in five months. It’s a new Parliament that looks almost identical to the old one, after an election Sept. 20 that saw only a handful of seats change hands and gave Justin Trudeau’s Liberals […]
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British Columbia residents are being told to brace for more rain as an atmospheric river moves south, bringing more precipitation to areas already hit hard by last week’s floods and mudslides. Environment Canada has issued a special weather statement for British Columbia’s North Coast, warning of potential flooding and landslides […]
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The first shipment of COVID-19 vaccines for children has arrived in Canada. A UPS plane touched down in Hamilton at around 5:15 p.m. carrying thousands of pediatric doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. Health Canada approved the modified shot for use in kids aged five to 11 on Friday, and the […]
By Barbara Surk
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PARIS (AP) – Human rights groups and Western lawmakers are warning that Interpol’s powerful network of global police officers could end up under the sway of authoritarian governments, as the world police agency meets in Istanbul this week to elect new leadership. Representatives of countries like China and the United […]
By Frank Jordans
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BERLIN (AP) – Germany’s health minister said Monday that the rapid rise in coronavirus cases means it’s likely everyone in the country who isn’t vaccinated will have caught COVID-19 by the end of the winter – and some of those will die. Official figures Monday showed more than 30,000 newly […]
By Stephen Wade
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A video call between Olympic officials and Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai, whose nearly three-week disappearance from public view sparked an outcry, was meant to reassure the world that she was safe – but instead has raised more questions. Concern grew in the last week for the former No. 1-ranked […]
Members of the Sunset Country Métis Community gathered at the Fort Frances Civic Centre to raise the Métis Nation Flag on Tuesday. Tuesday was Louis Riel day, marking the anniversary of the execution of the Métis leader on Nov. 16, 1865. Métis week has been celebrated all week. Sunset Country […]
