The Ontario government will not allow fans inside Scotiabank Arena Monday for the Game 7 showdown between the Leafs and the Habs — despite calls for the province to follow Quebec’s lead and let a limited number of spectators through the doors.
Nightly cheers with clanging of pots and pans and neon hearts in windows have become symbols of Toronto’s appreciation for front-line workers through the pandemic. Still, as health workers have stepped up at great personal risk, community members, advocates and members of the health community have done crucial — yet less visible — work to support the health effort and ensure no one gets left behind.
Michael Amichand was feeling “a little anxious” Friday heading into the Toronto South Detention Centre on a mission to nudge naysayers to rethink their reasons for not getting the COVID-19 vaccination.
The latest coronavirus news from Canada and around the world Sunday. This file will be updated throughout the day. Web links to longer stories if available.
One thing about Steini Brown is you can rely on him in the hard times, and maybe especially then. When the co-chair of Ontario’s science table gives regular public briefings about COVID-19, it is a serious, honest, even dour comfort; he tells you what the science says about the pandemic as best he can, and so has almost accidentally become the most trusted public health voice in Ontario. In an uncertain time, Steini Brown has been a certainty.
Down to the wire, Health Canada has extended the expiration date of thousands of AstraZeneca vaccine doses that were set to expire Monday — an initial deadline that had pharmacies packing in appointments to avoid spoilage.
Ontario is stuck in a rut on schools. An interminable debate between science and political science now pits politicians against politicians, and scientific experts against each other.
Ontario is stuck in a rut on schools. An interminable debate between science and political science now pits politicians against politicians, and scientific experts against each other.
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.
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.
For 2,500 hockey fans with tickets to Saturday’s Game 6 showdown between the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Montreal Canadiens, entering the Bell Centre will be a dreamlike moment.
The pandemic has rapidly accelerated a transformation in the way Canadians work. Thousands of enterprises have pivoted to remote employment, connecting staff through online collaboration and video-conferencing platforms like Zoom and WebEx. At the same time, workers whose jobs cannot be carried out virtually, or who were employed in sectors where customer demand has collapsed, face unemployment.