By the time we got to the end of the second wave of the pandemic, about half of Canadian workers had felt the adverse effects of COVID-19 on their jobs.
While delivering an announcement on Friday about funding for nursing education programs, Ontario’s Minister of Long-Term Care Merrilee Fullerton again dodged questions about the Long-Term Care COVID-19 Commission’s final report.
Ontario's New Democrats have tabled a motion calling for the measured reopening of outdoor recreation amenities, the party's deputy leader Sara Singh announced on May 14.
Clare Freeman was looking for a way to thank the team at the Dr. Bob Kemp Hospice for all their hard work during the coronavirus pandemic and to brighten things up.
Workplace clinics in one of the province’s hardest-hit regions have so far delivered the fewest doses of COVID vaccines, behind hospitals, mass sites, pop-ups and even family doctors, according to data from Peel Public Health.
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.
The Canadian National Exhibition, Taste of the Danforth and other crowd-drawing Toronto events are being cancelled for a second straight summer due to COVID-19 risk, the Star has learned.
On the same day the province announced it would expand COVID-19 vaccine eligibility to Ontarians age 12 to 17, around 90 teenagers aged 16 and 17 were denied a jab at a clinic hosted by Michael Garron Hospital at a Scarborough school gym.
Everything anyone needs to know about friends and politics was captured before the cameras on Thursday when Premier Doug Ford explained how he had to let down his “buddies” who want to golf during the now-extended lockdown.
Students will have to stick with online learning “for the time being,” Premier Doug Ford said Thursday after extending the province’s stay-at-home order into next month.
Perhaps when you are being hidden to avoid a negative outcome, it’s easier to tell others to do the same. Premier Doug Ford emerged from much talked-about obscurity Thursday to announce the only logical decision in an illogical province: extending Ontario’s stay-at-home order for two weeks, to at least June 2. The measures themselves could be better. The results have been pretty welcome, though.
The vaccination debate has moved on. It had focused on ensuring that as many people as possible got one shot of a recognized vaccine. It is now zeroing in on the second shot.