Ontario could be clear of pandemic waves by next spring if at least 90 per cent of people soon get vaccinated against COVID-19, the province’s chief medical officer says.
Good news: though the police union strongly opposes the idea, the Toronto Police Service plans to make COVID-19 vaccinations mandatory for all uniform officers and civilian employees. This is the right thing to do, as Star columnist Matt Elliot recently pointed out, because few civilians have a choice in dealing with police.
Ontario's top doctor, Kieran Moore, said while the province has reached its initial target of having 75 per cent of those 12 and over vaccinated with two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine, that target does not apply to the Delta variant.
Ontario is reporting another 486 COVID-19 cases and 18 more deaths. Sixteen of the 18 deaths are part of a data cleanup according to the province’s latest report released Tuesday morning.
Mountain trustee Becky Buck is breaking with her public school board colleagues by opposing requiring trustees to follow a new provincial disclosure policy on COVID-19 vaccinations that will apply to teachers and all other staff when schools reopen on Sept. 8.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made a campaign stop at Meadowlands Community Park in Ancaster Tuesday morning, where he announced the Liberals’ new housing plan.
“We’re looking for backpacks, markers, pencil crayons, rulers, paper, anything the kids need for back to school,” said Kidz Klub director Kathy Archer.
The OPP have identified the victims in Saturday afternoon’s tragic head-on crash on Highway 28 near Big Cedar that claimed the lives of two people and sent another to Toronto hospital with life-threatening injuries.Police say Claudio Benetti, 64,
The latest coronavirus news from Canada and around the world Tuesday. 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 Tuesday. This file will be updated throughout the day. Web links to longer stories if available.
Four days after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic, Ontario’s team of health and safety inspectors received a lengthy document outlining how to enforce workplace laws in a once-in-a-generation crisis.
The dam finally broke last week. After Mayor John Tory announced the city of Toronto would be requiring all employees to be vaccinated — with some very limited exemptions related to “human rights obligations” — the next few days saw a flood of announcements as other city agencies followed suit with similar policies.
This should be a quiescent time of year, but it sure as hell isn’t. COVID rates are flying ahead of last year’s pace, and ICU rates are going up. Delta is a monster. Schools open in two and a half weeks, and online parent groups are full of increasingly wild eyes, and panic-shopping for something better than cloth masks. Meanwhile, the Ontario government is in campaign mode, and the science table hasn’t predicted the fall. The silence feels ominous.
Toronto restaurateur Jen Agg is accusing Toronto Mayor John Tory and Ontario Premier Doug Ford of failing to protect her restaurants from being routinely picketed by anti-vaccine protesters.