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.
Teddy Bellingham, 16, was brutally beaten for hours before being left to die in August 1992. Steve Allen was convicted of manslaughter in the death of the Smiths Falls teen.
In 2019, prior to the election that year, we connected with Elections Canada to go beyond the FAQs for some examples of unusual questions they may get from voters. We decided to do the same thing this year.Here are the top four unique questions provided by Elections Canada spokesperson Matthew McKenna ahead of the 2021 federal election.
Faster, easier COVID tests are coming to Toronto schools as part of a program to avoid last year’s hours-long testing lineups and encourage more kids to get swabbed — an especially urgent goal this September as unvaccinated students head back to the classroom amid a surging Delta wave.
If you’re looking for the long list of conditions that might entitle you to a medical exemption from mandatory COVID-19 vaccine policies, you can stop looking now.
There are many reasons to be fed up with unvaccinated people, one of them being that their own reasons for being unvaccinated are often stupid and arrogant.
Amid Ontario’s frightening rise in community infections early last December, staff at Hamilton’s Juravinski Hospital were preparing to treat a second wave of incoming COVID-19 patients.
The city of Toronto is prepared to take action up to and including dismissal if employees refuse to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, according to a new policy made public on Thursday.
The accused in a series of alleged vandalism incidents at a Waterdown cemetery had his matter adjourned to Sept. 21 in virtual court on Aug. 24 as his lawyer investigates a possible mental health diversion.
Five of Canada’s largest operators of long-term-care homes will require their staff to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or face an unpaid leave of absence, making the nursing home operators the latest in a string of employers to mandate vaccinations for employees.
Five of Canada’s largest operators of long-term-care homes will require their staff to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or face an unpaid leave of absence, making the nursing home operators the latest in a string of employers to mandate vaccinations for employees.
The Ontario government has recently been reporting the number of breakthrough COVID-19 infections in fully vaccinated people, as part of its daily data collection — and the percentage has been sitting around 20 per cent.
The MPP who was turfed from Premier Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservative caucus for refusing to get a COVID-19 vaccination says he won’t run in next June’s provincial election as an Independent — and he will be allowed into the legislature, despite efforts to have him barred.
Hamilton police have arrested a 36-year-old Hamilton man for the July 18 theft of a motorhome from a lower Stoney Creek business whose security-camera images of the suspects drew widespread social media attention and led to the vehicle’s recovery.