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Looking to learn some football skills, or just get back out on the field and play? A free non-contact football skill and touch football camp has just been given the green light. It starts tonight, Monday July 19. The camp is free of charge, and will run Monday July 19-Thursday […]
TORONTO – The plan to reopen schools in Ontario for in-person learning is based on the expectation that most of the students and staff will be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by September. But the province, school boards and five unions representing teachers and education workers say they don’t know what […]
Three grads wave to residents of Rainycrest Long Term Care, in the opening event of prom on Saturday. Several events were planned by a group of volunteer parents, with a twist on tradition, including an outdoor dinner catered by Flint House, and a Grand March at Sorting Gap Marina. – […]
TORONTO – Ontario post-secondary institutions are being asked to prepare for a fall semester with no capacity limits on in-person classes and activities. The Ministry of Colleges and Universities is also directing schools to finalize and publicly post their back-up instruction plans in the event of a COVID-19 outbreak. A […]
OTTAWA – Canada joined the United States and other allies on Monday in blaming China for a massive cyberattack that compromised tens of thousands of computers around the world earlier this year. The attack saw hackers exploit weaknesses in Microsoft Exchange email servers, with the federal government estimating 400,000 servers […]
TORONTO – Ontario is reporting 130 new cases of COVID-19 today and no new deaths. Eighteen of the new cases are in Toronto, 17 in Peel Region, 16 in the Region of Waterloo, 14 in Hamilton and 10 each in Grey Bruce and Middlesex-London. There were 11,567 tests completed in […]
THE CANADIAN PRESS
DELMAS, SASKATCHEWAN – For elder Jenny Spyglass, returning to the site of a former residential school in Saskatchewan where a search for unmarked graves is underway brought back memories of what she lost. Spyglass, now in her 70s, was taken to the Delmas/Thunderchild Indian Residential School, located 160 kilometres northwest […]
THE CANADIAN PRESS
OTTAWA – Annamie Paul is no longer staring down the barrel of a booting from her perch atop the Green party. Party executives have called off a non-confidence vote that was slated for Tuesday and could have led to the leader’s ouster, according to two party sources who were granted […]
TORONTO – Family and friends of former federal NDP leader Jack Layton will host a virtual event next month to mark the 10th anniversary of his death. The lineup — announced Sunday, on what would have been his 71st birthday — includes Steven Page, William Prince, Donovan Woods, Raffi, Rupi […]
THE CANADIAN PRESS
OTTAWA – Harvard University microbiology student Indumathi Prakash was just seven years old when a tick bite near her home in Massachusetts gave her Lyme disease and left her to spend most of her childhood battling rheumatoid arthritis. Now Prakash, 21, is working with a Queen’s University professor, although virtually, […]
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
A Florida man who breached the U.S. Senate chamber carrying a Trump campaign flag was sentenced Monday to eight months behind bars, the first resolution for a felony case in the Capitol insurrection. Paul Allard Hodgkins apologized and said he was ashamed of his actions on Jan 6. Speaking calmly […]
