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 […]
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Natali Trivuncic
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The Northwestern Health Unit (NWHU) announced a workplace outbreak in Pickle Lake on Friday. There are two confirmed cases and no probable cases at this time. Dr. Kit Young Hoon, medical officer of health at the NWHU said in confirming 134 COVID-19 cases since March, the NWHU has also followed […]
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, […]
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 […]
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Northwestern Health Unit has received a report of one new positive COVID-19 test result in the District of Rainy River. Follow up with the person involved and their contacts has started according to protocol. Anyone who is identified as a contact for this case will be contacted directly. For reasons […]
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 […]
Mark Kennedy The Associated Press NEW YORK – Charley Pride, one of country music’s first Black superstar whose rich baritone on such hits as “Kiss an Angel Good Morning” helped sell millions of records and made him the first Black member of the Country Music Hall of Fame, has died. […]
The outbreak at the Soutbridge Roseview Manor in Thunder bay has expanded, to include 44 residents and 22 staff, with the death toll climbing to seven. The outbreak was first declared on November 17. Outbreaks at the John Owen Evans residence in Geraldton, involving one staff, the Walford, involving one […]
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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 […]
Dr. Kit Young Hoon, medical officer of the health at the Northwestern Health Unit (NWHU), said they are frequently communicating with the province regarding the logistics of the vaccine rollout. Young Hoon adds that they have been preparing in order to be ready as soon as the vaccine arrives. […]
Natali Trivuncic
Staff Writer
Staff Writer
The government of Canada has released its Supporting Canadians and Fighting COVID-19: Fall Economic Statement 2020. The plan lists provisions laid out by the federal government to help Canada restart its economy in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. The plan is said to continue ‘protecting Canadians’ health, jobs and […]
Cassandra Szklarski The Canadian Press TORONTO – Pandemic restrictions and financial strain mean Christmas will look different than past years for Tia Cyr and her family, so she enlisted Santa in breaking the news to her son. The Alberta mom says she told her six-year-old that the big guy has […]
