Hamilton’s public school board no longer faces having to cut some $2 million in supports for special education thanks to a bigger than anticipated provincial grant in another area used to help cover past funding shortfalls.
Throughout Canada’s COVID-19 pandemic, doctors and experts have become the heroes (and social media heroes) distilling information to the public. In Twitter’s 2020 year-end roundup, they were highlighted as one of the top-growing personalities, with hundreds of thousands of followers watching daily, sometimes hourly, tweets from health-care professionals updating the public on COVID-19 numbers and their studies.
Hamilton is reducing the speed limit on the Red Hill Valley Parkway to 80 km/h for the entire length of the roadway, from the Lincoln M. Alexander Parkway to the Queen Elizabeth Way, effective May 17.
Hamilton is reducing the speed limit on the Red Hill Valley Parkway to 80 km/h for the entire length of the roadway, from the Lincoln M. Alexander Parkway to the Queen Elizabeth Way, effective May 17.
The latest coronavirus news from Canada and around the world Thursday. This file will be updated throughout the day. Web links to longer stories if available.
Last week Canada became the first country in the world to approve the Pfizer vaccine for children aged 12-15. In response to this news, I made the case that the Ontario government should enable kids to preregister for their vaccines, ASAP, in a centralized system so that their parents can avoid the scavenger hunt-like experience that has defined the rollout so far.