WASHINGTON—Friday marked two years, officially, of living with the COVID-19 pandemic, which occasioned very little fanfare, at least here in the U.S. President Joe Biden had other concerns on his mind: announcing new trade measures against Russia, celebrating his economic policy in advance of upcoming congressional elections.
Hamilton’s public school board is defying the province by continuing to require students and staff to wear masks in school until April 15 even though its own education director says it can’t enforce compliance.
Toronto’s Catholic and public school board trustees want a bit more time before having to comply with the province’s lifting of covid restrictions in schools.
In the months before September 2008, as physicists were getting ready to test-drive the Large Hadron Collider, a massive machine designed to smash bits of atoms together at high speed, public panic set in, fuelled by a debate between a handful of physicists about a theoretical possibility. What if the device, the most powerful ever made, created black holes by mistake that would swallow Earth? Physicists calculated that the chances were infinitesimal, but they couldn’t absolutely guarantee that the risk of such a surreal catastrophe was zero.
The latest coronavirus news from Canada and around the world Friday. This file will be updated throughout the day. Web links to longer stories if available
Just over a week ago, Ontarians could venture into public indoor spaces fairly secure in the knowledge that people around them were vaccinated, not ill with symptomatic COVID, and curtailing their potentially virus-spreading breath with masks.
Stoney Creek trustee Cam Galindo is asking the Taro industrial dump’s new owner to help assure parents they needn’t fear sending their kids to the public elementary school to be built kitty-corner from the site.
Kids playing anywhere in the yard during recess. Young children reading with a buddy from an upper grade. And no more lineups outside school waiting for teachers to check the daily COVID-19 screening tool.