The average price of a home in the Toronto region now tops the million-dollar mark. It’s also a whopping 22 per cent higher than a year ago, according to the latest data.
The latest coronavirus news from Canada and around the world Monday. This file will be updated throughout the day. Web links to longer stories if available.
As the pandemic enters a third wave, Toronto’s downtown office vacancies have hit a 13-year high of 9.1 per cent, according to a first quarter report from CBRE.
The Ontario government intends for schools to be open for in-person learning following the April break, Ontario Minister of Education Stephen Lecce confirmed in a letter issued to the province’s parents Sunday afternoon.
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.
BERLIN — The American author John Naisbitt, whose 1982 bestselling book “Megatrends” was published in dozens of countries, has died at 92, the Austrian news agency APA has reported.
Amid a surge in COVID-19 cases across the province, Police Chief James Ramer is urging Toronto residents to abide by Ontario’s third stay-at-home order.
WASHINGTON—As Canada’s national winter sport and, for many, a quasi-religious preoccupation, hockey has often played an important symbolic role for us: Roch Carrier’s picture book The Hockey Sweater capturing the country’s two solitudes, Paul Henderson’s 1972 goal as a galvanizing Cold War validation, the pond shinny on the back of the old $5 bill conjuring nostalgia for romanticized childhood winters, Sidney Crosby’s Golden Goal in Vancouver in 2010 as a joyful reassertion of identity on the world stage.
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.
Everything godawful aside (the death, the unemployment, the — I’ll stop), I think what a lot of Torontonians will remember down the road about life during COVID-19 was the walking.
Canada and other countries have been largely focused on vaccines with names such as Moderna, Pfizer, AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson during recent months. But around the world, Chinese- and Russian-produced vaccines have been produced en masse to fight against the pandemic, and have been supplied not only to domestic populations, but widely to other countries as well.
With live TV cameras rolling, the president of Indonesia calmly took a seat in front of a wall of large fronded plants and rolled up his sleeve as a health-care worker readied the syringe.
Ontario’s hospitals are confronting a crisis point in the pandemic as the ongoing crush of COVID-19 patients threatens to outpace their ability to cope.
Being nice, tolerant, patient Canadians, we’ve collectively been bending over backwards to give those who are reluctant to step forward to get a vaccination against COVID-19 every benefit of the doubt.