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Doctors are noticing patients are drinking more, fuelling more hospitalizations
In the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Sam Elfassy noticed a worrying trend.
Today’s coronavirus news: Ontario reporting 3,957 people hospitalized with COVID-19, 558 in ICUs andat least 10,732 new cases
The latest coronavirus news from Canada and around the world Saturday. This file will be updated throughout the day. Web links to longer stories if available.
Today’s coronavirus news: Canada’s public health leaders navigate choppy waters as pandemic drags on; Djokovic back in detention in Australia
The latest coronavirus news from Canada and around the world Saturday. This file will be updated throughout the day. Web links to longer stories if available.
Area-rating preview offers hints of potential tax changes on Hamilton’s horizon
From street lights to transit and rec centres, policy a source of debate
Floral designers team up with artists to chase away winter blues
Regina Haggo: ‘Art in Bloom’ exhibition at the Carnegie Gallery
Overwhelmed by Omicron: Five Ontarians tell their stories
It felt like there was light at the end of the COVID-19 tunnel. The Delta variant had been suppressed due to the vaccine rollout. And another dark winter was not expected.
How Omicron changed our pandemic — and ended the ‘new normal’ of 2020
Over a chilly week in December, Avi Finegold, his wife and three daughters all got sick.
Soybean snowfall, sugar rain — you never know what industrial polutant will fall from the sky in Hamilton
Soybean fallout isn’t so bad, but industrial pollution sometimes includes scarier toxins.
Public-health doctors have never been needed more — but the strain and burdens have never been clearer
The pandemic is not David Naylor’s first rodeo.
No winning ticket for Friday's Lotto Max jackpot
No winning ticket for Friday's $17 million Lotto Max jackpot
Concrete falls from Brantford Hwy. 403 overpass, multiple people injured in crashes
Westbound lanes on the 403 between the Wayne Gretzky Parkway and Highway 52 will be shuttered for several hours
'Pivotal time': Employees at Metro, Food Basics, FreshCo, Sobeys, Walmart, Farm Boy and other Ontario grocery stores test positive for COVID-19 and here are the impacted locations
With all signs pointing to Ontario remaining in modified Step Two restrictions well past the initial Jan. 26 timeline, new COVID-19 cases continue to emerge in big-name grocery stores across the province.
Dundas condo offers escarpment views and ‘open, airy feeling’ for $1.45M, realtor says
Condominium features an open-concept kitchen, detached garage and 18-foot ceilings.
Condo showroom on the bay: Hamilton councillors will debate future of waterfront restaurant
The city is proposing to lease out the Discovery Centre as a condo showroom as its long-term future is studied.
Take what you love and make it your hobby
Do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life is lousy advice, according to the authors of ‘Out of Office’, writes Jay Robb
Three new COVID deaths on Six Nations
The deaths bring the total COVID death count in the community to 18 throughout the whole pandemic
Most actively traded companies on the TSX
Most actively traded companies on the Toronto Stock Exchange
S&P/TSX composite recovers to snap two-week skid
S&P/TSX composite and U.S. stock markets down in late-morning trading
'We will stay open': Waterdown's The Dream Centre remaining open despite COVID-19 restrictions
The Dream Centre in Waterdown is staying open despite public health orders, which have closed indoor sports and recreation facilities until at least Jan. 26 in an effort to limit the spread of COVID-19.
Emma Teitel: The loved ones we lost in long-term care get artistic tribute in this new exhibition
The end came for Maggie Fraser at the beginning. She died of COVID-19 in a downtown Toronto long-term care facility on April 16, 2020. According to her daughter Kim Fraser, the “90-and-a-half”-year-old community volunteer possessed a terrific sense of humour, a love for her grandchildren and great-grandchild, and a fondness for leopard-print sweaters.
City rolls out walk-in COVID booster shots for pregnant women and their families
Additionally, anyone 18 or older in Hamilton can walk-in to the Centre on Barton clinic for a booster dose beginning Saturday at noon
Hamilton says to its employees, get vaccinated or be fired
ATU Local 107 President Eric Tuck says the union will seek legal advice, but his goal would be to fight the city.
Loaded handgun and drugs seized by Hamilton police
A 19-year-old faces multiple charges
‘Spiralling crisis’ as Hamilton records 101 outbreaks and increasing COVID hospitalizations
Five patients transferred out of region and urgent care centre shut down amid health care staffing crisis
Watson named new prez of Rogers Sports and Media
Colette Watson named new president of Rogers Sports and Media
Have you seen Emily Bailey? Hamilton woman disappeared Jan. 2
Worried family and friends organizing search for missing Hamilton woman
How Canada and the U.S. differ in Omicron response
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Hamilton issues extreme cold weather alert Friday
The wind chill is expected to drop to -26 C overnight
Federal modelling shows cases expected to surge in Canada even with restrictions
OTTAWA—New federal modelling suggests an estimated peak of 170,000 new COVID-19 cases a day, even with the range of public health restrictions in place across the country.
S&P/TSX composite and U.S. stock markets down
S&P/TSX composite and U.S. stock markets down in late-morning trading
Twitter legend ghost story films in Burlington, Hamilton
Writer started tweeting in 2017 he was being stalked by spirit of a boy, Dan Nolan writes.
Today’s coronavirus news: Marine Corps becomes first branch of U.S. military to grant religious exemptions to COVID vaccines
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.
Hamilton man charged in child pornography case with victims in U.S. and Nova Scotia
Joshua Bryk is accused of coercing people online to send pictures of young children
Have your say: Has COVID-related absences affected your place of work?
Has absenteeism changed your workplace?
‘It has been devastating’: Hamilton businesses close doors, pivot amid rise in COVID absenteeism
Cake and Loaf Bakery has temporarily closed their doors due to not having enough staff to operate amid the Omicron-fuelled COVID wave.
Action on Hamilton shelter crisis urged ahead of forecast deep freeze
Councillors back meeting of partners to find solutions to encampments
Dundas Lioness fish fry ends after 34 years
After 34 years the annual Dundas Lioness Club fish fry fundraiser has ended, but the club is still active and working on a new “socially-distanced” fundraising event.
Hamilton councillors approve 10-unit townhouse development on Wilson Street West
The residential development will be located at the corner of Wilson Street West and Hamilton Drive.
Hamilton to spend $750,000 over two years to help businesses in BIAs
The motion, introduced by Mayor Fred Eisenberger, is to help BIAs hold street festivals and support art projects.
Thousands of students are ‘no shows’ after forced switch to remote learning
Thousands of students have been absent from class for “no reason,” according to recent data from Toronto’s public school board.
Patients transferred out of Hamilton area by strained hospitals
Ontario’s chief medical officer of health can’t guarantee province will reopen Jan. 26
Should Canadians be insulted by a U.S. travel warning — or relieved?
WASHINGTON—From reactions I’ve heard, when the U.S. State Department elevated its travel recommendation for Canada this week to “Level Four: Do Not Travel,” some Canadians took it as an insult.
Bruce Arthur: Some hopeful signs that Omicron cases have peaked in Ontario. But schools will be a delicate operation
If you squint, or you live in hope, things might be getting better even as they get worse. The near-vertical Omicron wave has produced record COVID hospitalizations, rocketing ICU occupancy, more people on ventilators, and deaths that match the peak of the third, only partially vaccinated wave. Like every wave, this isn’t the flu.
Bruce Arthur: Some hopeful signs that Omicron cases have peaked in Ontario. But schools will be a delicate operation
If you squint, or you live in hope, things might be getting better even as they get worse. The near-vertical Omicron wave has produced record COVID hospitalizations, rocketing ICU occupancy, more people on ventilators, and deaths that match the peak of the third, only partially vaccinated wave. Like every wave, this isn’t the flu.
Most actively traded companies on the TSX
Most actively traded companies on the Toronto Stock Exchange
Vaccine mandate for cross-border truckers stands, Ottawa says
OTTAWA — The federal government said late Thursday there’s no change being made to an incoming policy forcing unvaccinated Canadian cross-border truckers into quarantine once they arrive in the country.
Sure, there are issues. But in principle a ‘vax tax’ is justified
The idea of imposing a fine or tax on people who refuse to get vaccinated (as Quebec Premier François Legault plans to do) sounds at first hearing like a step too far in the fight against COVID-19.
S&P/TSX composite falls along with U.S. markets
S&P/TSX composite falls on slump in technology, commodity sectors
No guarantee of Jan. 26 re-opening with Omicron peak still to come in weeks ahead: Ontario chief medical officer of health
Ontario’s Chief Medical Officer of Health says the Omicron variant of COVID-19 is expected to peak in the next few weeks.
Ontario’s latest COVID-19 restrictions likely to continue past Jan. 26, top doctor warns
Don’t make dinner reservations just yet.
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