Construction of a new St. James the Apostle Catholic Elementary School in upper Stoney Creek is expected to begin as early as January now that the project is finally ready to go to tender.
While the Ontario government announced that almost three million Ontarians at higher risk for COVID-19 will soon be eligible for booster shots, the disease continues to emerge in big-name grocery stores.
You’d think the province would want people to get vaccinated, right? Vaccines are a ticket to what Ontario’s government wants: a stronger economy, a healthier health-care system, a simpler election, and an easier time pushing highways that benefit party donors but which almost certainly won’t cure congestion. We all want to get back to normal.
You’d think the province would want people to get vaccinated, right? Vaccines are a ticket to what Ontario’s government wants: a stronger economy, a healthier health-care system, a simpler election, and an easier time pushing highways that benefit party donors but which almost certainly won’t cure congestion. We all want to get back to normal.
It’s obvious: health workers, all of them, ought to be vaccinated against COVID-19. It’s their professional, even their moral, duty. The ones who won’t get their shots and keep going to work are putting their patients in danger.
Ontario is offering COVID-19 booster shots to another 2.75 million citizens at higher risk of infection, including those over 70 years of age, anyone who got two doses of AstraZeneca or one of Janssen and front-line health-care workers.
The latest coronavirus news from Canada and around the world Wednesday. This file will be updated throughout the day. Web links to longer stories if available.
The latest coronavirus news from Canada and around the world Wednesday. This file will be updated throughout the day. Web links to longer stories if available.
To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the poppy as a symbol of remembrance, the front gardens of Waterdown’s Memorial Hall are being filled with the flower.
When they first landed on the market, the concept of a test you could do by yourself in 15 minutes — no lab or swab-wielding professional required — was billed by some as a game-changer in curbing the pandemic.