Premier Doug Ford will lift COVID-19 capacity limits in restaurants, bars, and gyms when he unveils additional benchmarks for further reopening Ontario’s economy.
The TTC’s largest union is ramping up its fight against the transit agency’s vaccine mandate, claiming in new legal filings that the policy requiring employees to get their COVID-19 shots is a violation of provincial labour law.
As worker shortages persist and government subsidies approach their end, a growing number of industry groups — largely in food services — are asking the federal government to let them host more temporary foreign workers to fill jobs.
Just over 14 per cent of all schools in Ontario have reported COVID-19 cases since classes resumed in September, with a total of 2,963 lab-confirmed cases involving students.
WASHINGTON—It just so happened that on the day the U.S. announced that it was finally, after all these months, going to reopen its land border to Canadian travellers, Canada’s Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland — the Trudeau government’s all-purpose handler of important stuff — was in Washington. Standing in a park in front of the White House as anti-pipeline environmentalist protesters shouted behind her, she was asked Wednesday morning about the long-awaited good news for snowbirds, cross-border shoppers, and those who miss their families and friends living in the U.S.
NEW YORK (AP) — A publishing division started by the conservative media company the Daily Wire will include releases by Daily Wire co-founder Ben Shapiro, former “Mandalorian” actor Gina Carano, and a book by one of the officers involved in the Breonna Taylor shooting that was dropped by its original distributor.
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.
When people prophesize about the End of History, it’s often hard to take them seriously. Usually this is a political rant about a new and lamented ideological direction. It signifies a trend someone is unhappy about.
As the deadline looms for all city of Toronto employees to get fully protected from COVID-19, a patchwork of penalties means the public won’t know whether key front-line workers are vaccinated or not.
Contract talks between the union representing full-time community college faculty, counsellors and librarians and the province’s employer council are continuing and remain under a news blackout.
The Hamilton Conservation Authority is hoping community and city royalties from the Taro industrial dump will cover the estimated $3-million bill for building a wetland at the new Saltfleet Conservation Area in upper Stoney Creek.