Denise Paglinawan The Canadian Press Several Ontario universities are urging students living on campus not to travel during the upcoming mid-semester break known as reading week in an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19. While most university students are attending classes virtually as the pandemic wears on, a number […]
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Press Release TORONTO – Today, Stephen Lecce, Ontario’s Minister of Education, issued the following statement regarding March break: “In support of our collective efforts to keep schools safe, we are postponing March break until April 12-16, 2021. This decision was made with the best advice of Ontario’s Chief Medical Officer […]
Holly McKenzie-Sutter The Canadian Press Toronto’s top doctor says now is not the time to prepare to ease pandemic restrictions in the city, even as the province starts rolling back restrictions in regions with lower case numbers. Dr. Eileen De Villa said Monday that the concerning presence of new, more […]
The Canadian Press OTTAWA – The Public Health Agency of Canada says Ottawa plans to distribute more than 70,000 Pfizer-BiotNTech vaccine doses this week ahead of a major ramp-up, but no Moderna doses are on the schedule. The agency says 70,200 Pfizer doses are forecasted for delivery to the provinces […]
Adina Bresge The Canadian Press \As concerns about internationally imported COVID-19 variants hit closer to home, public health authorities are asking – and increasingly, ordering – people to find alternative accommodations so they can self-isolate safely. Here are some examples of how hotels and quarantine facilities are being used to […]
Nicole Thompson The Canadian Press TORONTO – Ontario’s first case of a highly transmissible COVID-19 variant that originated in Brazil was discovered in Toronto on Sunday, the day before the province was expected to unveil its plan to emerge from a month-long state of emergency. The patient, who is now […]
Shawn Jeffords The Canadian Press TORONTO – Ontario will reopen the majority of its shuttered schools on Monday, while those in Toronto, Peel Region and York Region will resume in-person learning the following week. Students in 13 public health units, including Hamilton and Windsor, will return to physical classrooms on […]
The Canadian Press TORONTO – Ontario is reporting 1,563 new cases of COVID-19 today and 88 more deaths linked to the virus. Public health officials have noted, however, that updates to a provincial database are causing data fluctuations in this week’s case counts. Health Minister Christine Elliott says there are […]
The Canadian Press TORONTO–A data issue has resulted in an underestimation of new COVID-19 cases in Ontario, with the province reporting 745 new cases of the virus today. The government says the figure does not include data from Toronto, which is migrating its information to the provincial case system. The […]
The Canadian Press HALIFAX–A winter storm is sweeping over the Maritimes, forcing the closure of schools and making driving treacherous. Snowfall and winter storm warnings remain in effect for much of the region, though most of Nova Scotia is bracing for up to 80 millimetres of rain and winds gusting […]
Nicole Thompson The Canadian Press A central Ontario long-term care home devastated by an outbreak of a highly contagious variant of COVID-19 is facing a proposed class-action lawsuit from residents’ families who allege their loved ones were neglected by those charged with keeping them safe. The unproven statement of claim […]
The Canadian Press Canada’s best-known weather-predicting groundhogs called for an early spring Tuesday as they delivered their annual forecasts over video due to the COVID-19 pandemic, though one was missing in action. Nova Scotia’s most famous groundhog, Shubenacadie Sam, was the first to make his prediction, hesitantly emerging from his […]
