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.
For some of the poorest Canadians, taxes owed on the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) will be the reason they remain below the poverty line this year, according to a new report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
With its America-first vaccine strategy, the U.S. is nearing a point when it will have enough supply to offer COVID-19 vaccine to all adult Americans. Current predictions suggest that will happen by the end of May.
As the Ontario government issues a stay-at-home order and closes non-essential businesses and stores, experts say even more can be done to ensure that dangerous variants don’t threaten the province’s vaccine efforts.
First, the good. The province has been convinced to turn a firehose of vaccine toward the province’s most vulnerable neighbourhoods, and that is tremendous. Ontario has spent a pandemic year systematically exposing the most vulnerable in society, over and over. Finally, someone convinced the province to stop. We need to focus on the good that some people do.
First, the good. The province has been convinced to turn a firehose of vaccine toward the province’s most vulnerable neighbourhoods, and that is tremendous. Ontario has spent a pandemic year systematically exposing the most vulnerable in society, over and over. Finally, someone convinced the province to stop. We need to focus on the good that some people do.
Lake Shore Boulevard West may be closed to cars after all this summer after city council voted Wednesday to ask city staff to explore options for “full or partial closures” on the roadway “on select weekends.”
There’s so much to be frustrated about in Ontario’s latest response to the pandemic, but in the spirit of Premier Doug Ford’s appeal to avoid negativity let’s first acknowledge a very positive step.
Mobile vaccination clinics will help protect essential workers from COVID-19, but critics say another crucial step is missing from Ontario’s latest emergency order: Sick pay.
OTTAWA—Most Canadians are still waiting for their first coveted COVID-19 vaccine shot, but there’s no rush for the second one, says a federal vaccine advisory panel.
It took a week for the provincial government to pivot from “shutdown” restrictions against public health advice to a “stay-at-home” order in line with public health advice, with admissions to intensive care units reaching unprecedented numbers.