Mia Rabson The Canadian Press OTTAWA–Jo-Anne Miner, a personal support worker at an Ottawa long-term care home, was the first in the city to receive the COVID-19 vaccine as the national capital rolls out its inoculation program. She is one of thousands of front-line staff and seniors-home residents slated for […]
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The Canadian Press A COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer has arrived in Ontario and Quebec, with the first inoculations scheduled to happen on Monday morning in Toronto, Montreal, and Quebec City. Canada is set to receive 249,000 doses of the drug from the U.S. pharmaceutical giant and its German partner BioNTech […]
TORONTO – Ontario will administer the province’s first COVID-19 vaccination today, with a health-care worker set to receive the dose in Toronto. Premier Doug Ford’s office has said the first shots will be administered at the University Health Network. The province received doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine on Sunday, […]
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THUNDER BAY, Ont. – A verdict is expected today in the manslaughter trial of a man who threw a trailer hitch at an Indigenous woman in Thunder Bay, Ont. The trial surrounding the death of Barbara Kentner in Thunder Bay, Ont., took place last month. Kentner died in July 2017, […]
The Canadian Press OTTAWA – Canada’s foreign aid budget is swelling noticeably today with International Development Minister Karina Gould’s announcement of $485 million in new funding towards the global effort to provide COVID-19 vaccines to poor countries. The new funds are going towards the Access to COVID-19 Tools, or “ACT […]
Colin Perkel The Canadian Press TORONTO – Another 16 people in Ontario have succumbed to the ravages of COVID-19, 10 of them residents of nursing homes, provincial authorities reported on Sunday. The province has now had almost 4,000 people die from the novel coronavirus, data show. With just days before […]
The Canadian Press China’s Foreign Ministry said Thursday that two Canadians held for two years in a case linked to a Huawei executive have been indicted and put on trial, but gave no details. Former diplomat Michael Kovrig and businessman Michael Spavor have been confined since December 10, 2018, just […]
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Ontario is reporting a record 1,983 new cases of COVID-19 today, and 35 new deaths due to the virus. Health Minister Christine Elliott says 515 cases are in Peel Region, 496 in Toronto, and 208 in York Region. In the province’s long-term care homes, 623 residents currently have COVID-19 and […]
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OTTAWA – Lynn Beyak, the senator who posted derogatory letters about Indigenous people on her website, once again faces the prospect of expulsion from the Senate. The Senate’s ethics committee recommended in June that Beyak’s one-year suspension from the upper house be lifted because she had taken anti-racism training and […]
The Canadian Press TORONTO–A psychiatrist retained by the defence is set to testify for the seventh straight day at the trial for the man who killed 10 people on a Toronto sidewalk with a rental van. Dr. Alexander Westphal is nearing completion of his testimony in the trial of Alek […]
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TORONTO–Vulnerable seniors, their caregivers, and health-care workers will be among the first to receive the COVID-19 vaccine in Ontario, but the province is still a long way from being able to offer the shot to the broader public. Premier Doug Ford laid out his government’s three-part vaccination rollout plan on […]
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Ontario is reporting 1,676 new cases of COVID-19 today, and 10 new deaths due to the virus. Health Minister Christine Elliott says 588 new cases are in Toronto, 349 in Peel Region, and 141 cases are in York Region. It also reported 333 new COVID-19 cases related to schools, including […]
