The leader of Ontario’s New Democrats is facing criticism for opposing mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations for education workers. Andrea Horwath has said she supports regular rapid virus tests for unvaccinated education workers before they come to work. She told CBC in an interview Wednesday that she considers it a charter right […]
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TORONTO – Ontario is sending updated guidance on COVID-19 protocols to child-care centres, including allowing singing indoors and letting visitors in the centres. The updated guidance follows calls from parents and operators for the government to review some of the rules that were brought in last summer when centres reopened, […]
By Jacob Serebrin
THE CANADIAN PRESS
THE CANADIAN PRESS
MONTREAL – Quebec will receive its final scheduled shipment of COVID-19 vaccine next week, and the province says its remaining stock is enough to cover everyone who hasn’t yet received two doses, the Health Department said Wednesday. The province said in a news release 585,000 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine […]
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MONTREAL – Quebec Premier Francois Legault says the government will impose a vaccine passport system following a recent rise in COVID-19 infections. Legault said today that Health Minister Christian Dube will announce details in the coming days about how the system will work and when it will begin. The announcement […]
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OTTAWA – Federal Health Minister Patty Hajdu has sent a letter to her Alberta counterpart saying she shares concerns about the province’s plan to lift all of its COVID-19 health restrictions. In the letter, addressed to Alberta Health Minister Tyler Shandro, Hajdu says she agrees with the Canadian Paediatric Society’s […]
By Rod Mcguirk
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) – Australia’s government on Thursday pledged 1.1 billion Australian dollars ($813 million) to address Indigenous disadvantage, including compensation to thousands of mixed-race children who were taken from their families over decades. The AU$378.6 million ($279.7 million) to be used to compensate the so-called Stolen Generations by 2026 […]
By Dave Campbell
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
EAGAN, Minn. (AP) – Minnesota Vikings quarterback Kirk Cousins was activated from the COVID-19 reserve list on Thursday, having completed the NFL’s required five-day quarantine for unvaccinated players deemed a high-risk close contact with an infected person. The Vikings also activated Nate Stanley, bringing their quarterback cadre much closer to […]
By Natali Trivuncic
Staff Writer
ntrivuncic@fortfrances.com
Staff Writer
ntrivuncic@fortfrances.com
As the Northwestern Health Unit’s (NWHU) vaccination rates climb, there is now discussion about what restrictions will look like outside of step three of the province’s reopening plan. With the Delta variant on the rise in the province, it could mean not much change. Dr. Kit Young Hoon, medical officer […]
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TORONTO – Ontario is reporting 164 new cases of COVID-19 today and one death. The province also added 168 cases and one death on Monday, numbers that were not reported that day due to the holiday. Today’s numbers are based on more than 11,500 tests completed over the previous day, […]
By Holly McKenzie-Sutter
THE CANADIAN PRESS
THE CANADIAN PRESS
TORONTO – Ontario pharmacists say thousands of doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine are set to expire soon and they warn the supply could go to waste if people don’t show up to get a shot. The CEO of the Ontario Pharmacists Association said some Moderna shots are set to […]
By Melissa Couto Zuber
THE CANADIAN PRESS
THE CANADIAN PRESS
Researchers say there was “no unusual change” in the rate of preterm or stillbirths in Ontario during the COVID-19 pandemic compared to previous years stretching back to 2002. A study from Sinai Health in Toronto, which was published Tuesday in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, looked at more than 2.4 […]
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TORONTO – Ontario Health Minister Christine Elliott says more than 80 per cent of people in the province aged 12 and older have now received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. That means one of three conditions the province has set for moving beyond Step 3 of its […]
