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Employers in COVID-19 hot spots can apply to bring vaccinations directly to workers, but the requirements are confusing and pricey
Essential workers in factories, construction, and manufacturing — sectors that have been hit hard by COVID-19 in the past year — remain ineligible for vaccination in Ontario based on their employment status alone.
Martin Regg Cohn: Doug Ford may have done his ‘absolute best,’ but it wasn’t good enough
Doug Ford believes it’s never too late to say you’re sorry.
Warnings of never-before-seen sudden COVID deaths at home
Fifteen more COVID patients from GTA transferred to Hamilton’s hospitals in 24 hours
The ‘double mutant’ variant: what we know and don’t know about the COVID-19 strain found in B.C., Alberta and Quebec
Sabina Vohra-Miller wants to cry every time she thinks of the COVID-19 surge that’s devastating India — and fears Canada could face a similar scenario.
Think you’re in a postal code targeted for the COVID vaccine? Some GTA health units are prioritizing the hottest of the hot, for now
Some Ontarians who thought they were next in line for a jab of the COVID-19 vaccine, because their neighbourhoods were identified by the province as vaccination hot spots, are discovering they might have to wait longer.
Hamilton man arrested after east-end Tim Hortons was robbed at knifepoint
Police say the man entered restaurant around 11 p.m. and ordered a drink before telling cashier he was armed with a knife
Hate crimes spiked 51% in Toronto, police report
Hate crimes jumped 51 per cent in part spurred by pandemic, Toronto police report
'PLEASE STOP USING': Major vitamin recall at Walmart, Costco and other stores triggers Health Canada warning
Certain vitamins sold at Costco and Walmart might contain fragments of metal wire that could damage your digestive system, Health Canada said in a warning to shoppers.
COVID reduces traffic on Toronto toll road
COVID-19 takes a big bite out of Highway 407 traffic, revenues and profits
COVID-19 variants are making people sicker so much faster that some are dying at home, coroner says
In an alarming new trend, people are dying at home from COVID-19 as the third wave of the pandemic increasingly fills hospitals with patients who are younger and sicker.
Canada bans flights from India, Pakistan as COVID-19 surges across region
OTTAWA—The Canadian government is banning all direct passenger flights from India and Pakistan for 30 days as COVID-19 makes a deadly resurgence in that region.
Bruce Arthur: Doug Ford, ‘sorry’ doesn’t cut it and tears don’t count
The premier crying in front of his late mother’s poolhouse as the hospitals struggle to cope with his mistakes was a spectacle, but it was not the point. The premier is in self-isolation after exposure to a positive COVID case, and broke down talking about not being able to hold a parent’s hand as they die, and maybe that was part of the emotion. Maybe it really was the accumulated weight, but then, we are all carrying accumulated weight. Talk to an ICU nurse sometime. Mostly, Doug Ford didn’t look like he was up to the job.
Quebec using honour system to expand vaccinations
Quebec sets daily high for COVID-19 shots with AstraZeneca vaccine in demand
Most actively traded companies on the TSX
Most actively traded companies on the Toronto Stock Exchange
Rumour of Biden tax hike hurts stock markets
North American stock markets fall on report of near doubling of U.S. capital gains
Ontario’s paid sick-day program should last beyond COVID-19 pandemic, say health experts
Premier Doug Ford must give essential workers a full-fledged, possibly permanent guarantee of paid sick days — not a “Band-Aid” solution that fails to protect their health through the pandemic and beyond.
Ford 'sorry' for COVID rules, vows paid sick leave
Ford to hold first news conference from self-isolation after possible COVID exposure
Scenes from the ‘Hunger Games’ of trying to get a vaccine in a COVID-19 hot spot
The early bird gets the vaccine — maybe.
Teen says he feared being targeted during assault
St. Mike's sex assault trial set to resume, accused teen may testify
Upgrades coming to St. Peter’s Residence at Chedoke and Idlewyld Manor on the west Hamilton Mountain
The sound of cranes and work crews will be buzzing at St. Peter’s Residence at Chedoke and Idlewyld Manor on the west Mountain by or before the end of September.
Record 1,783 active COVID cases in Hamilton
As workplaces dominate Hamilton’s active COVID outbreaks, Ontario Premier Doug Ford is bringing in a provincial paid sick leave program.
York constable found guilty on 11 charges
Verdict expected today in case of Toronto-area cop charged in corruption probe
VIDEO: York region closes road nightly to allow endangered salamanders to cross safely
Mating season has arrived for these little traffic-stoppers and Stouffville Road in Richmond Hill is being closed intermittently overnight to allow them to get to breeding grounds.
Teen says he held down friend's arm in sex assault
St. Mike's sex assault trial set to resume, accused teen may testify
Toronto van attack victim remembered three yrs on
Toronto van attack victim Betty Forsyth remembered fondly three years after tragedy
Is scientific and medical advice leading Ontario’s COVID response?
Guests: Kenyon Wallace and May Warren, Toronto Star reporters
Top court won't hear appeal in alleged porn case
Supreme Court won't hear appeal in case of novelist acquitted on child porn charge
Hamilton’s Tower Poetry Society marks the time with big 7-0 anniversary
The Tower Poetry Society is still going strong in this city — and attracting poetry submission from abroad as well — after 70 vibrant years, Jeff Maho
After 13 exhausting COVID-filled months, how are you feeling?
We’ve been seeing regular outbursts of rage and frustration during the pandemic. You might be feeling it too. This last week was full of frustrating health news and new restrictions that are a flashpoint across social media. There are a lot of factors right now that contribute to us feeling more frustration and expressing this more readily toward others.
Canadian Civil Liberties Association questions Hamilton's enforcement of escarpment stairs
"What legal authority are they providing to close the stairs," said Abby Deshman, of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association.
Quebecers with chronic illnesses to be vaccinated
Quebec sets daily high for COVID-19 shots with AstraZeneca vaccine in demand
Hamilton police report drop in hate crimes, but annual report is ‘incomplete,’ advocates say
More than 30 hate incidents involved members of the Black community
Hamilton police report ‘notable’ decrease in collisions in 2020
Drug-related driving offences saw an increase of 94 per cent compared to 2019, according to the latest figures from police.
Here's how Ontario's sick leave program should look, according to public health officials
After months of public and political pressure, Ontario is developing a paid sick leave program to help ensure workers exposed to COVID-19 can stay home and still receive their wages. But what will that program look like?
Dundas Extreme Green Makeover controls stormwater run-off
Green Venture looking for publicly accessible properties for demonstration project
New COVID-19 death in Haldimand-Norfolk as active cases near 300
Variants account for half of current Six Nations cases
Hamilton restaurants aim to put an end to ‘toxic kitchen culture’
Sexual assault allegations against a once-celebrated Hamilton chef have prompted some entrepreneurs in the local food scene to take a hard look at the
Wireless customers 'unimpressed': study
J.D. Power says Canadians 'unimpressed' with their wireless service
Ontario reports 40 more deaths from COVID-19, highest since Feb. 19
Ontario is reporting another 3,682 COVID-19 cases and 40 more deaths, the highest since Feb. 19, according to its latest report released Thursday morning.
Ontario hospitals to halt non-emergency surgeries immediately: top doctor
Ontario's chief medical officer Dr. David Williams has directed hospitals to immediately stop all non-emergency surgeries and procedures, due to the rising number of COVID-19-related hospitalizations and ICU admissions in the province.
Stoney Creek trustee Paikin Miller’s ‘this is war’ quip prompted sanctions
A previously confidential report is offering a glimpse into the unravelling relationships that led Hamilton public school board trustees to sanction Ward 5’s Carole Paikin Miller for a second time this year.
Several Ontario gyms are reopening. They’re citing a ‘physical therapy’ exception intended for people with disabilities
Several Ontario gyms have recently reopened under an exception in the province’s lockdown regulations intended to serve people with disabilities — raising concerns that they are exploiting a legal loophole and creating a public health risk.
'We made a mistake': Ford apologizes for latest lockdown measures, addresses paid sick days
From a virtual news conference while in self-isolation Thursday, Premier Doug Ford addressed the issue of paid sick days in Ontario while also apologizing for the latest lockdown measures.
Quebec sets daily record for COVID-19 vaccinations
Quebec sets daily high for COVID-19 shots with AstraZeneca vaccine in demand
LIVE VIDEO: Ontario Premier Doug Ford to share COVID-19 update while in isolation
Premier Doug Ford will hold a virtual news conference from his self-isolation at his late mother’s home at 9:45 a.m. Thursday.
From Trailer Park Boys to pandemic therapist: Jonathan Torrens will see you now
In the winter of 2000, the Canadian television star Jonathan Torrens broke his femur in a car crash. Torrens was 27. He had been an actor since high school. At the time of the crash, he was entering his fifth year as host of “Jonovision,” an after-school show for teens that combined talk-show style interviews with sketch comedy and musical guests, filmed with a live audience. “Jonovision” was fun and weird and full of random delights; in one skit, Torrens played all five members of a boy band singing a power ballad in a music video.
Hamilton doctor suspended after he ‘knowingly endangered patients’ by performing nerve blocks at unapproved clinics
Dr. Suneel Upadhye, a chronic pain and emergency medicine physician who doubles as a McMaster University professor, was barred from practice for four
Doug Ford holds first news conference since Friday
Ford to hold first news conference from self-isolation after possible COVID exposure
Cold snap freezes early asparagus harvest in Norfolk
Spring freezes are not unprecedented, but one farmer said the wintry scene that greeted him in the fields on Wednesday was a first
Hamilton ICUs on a ‘knife-edge’
Hamilton doctors describe facing a threat like never before as COVID fills ICUs — and the anguish of caring for younger patients on life support
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