The chair of Hamilton’s Catholic school board says he has “deep, deep concerns” about the province’s proposal to make online and remote learning permanent options for all students once the COVID-19 pandemic threat ends.
Premier Doug Ford will be joined by Christine Elliott, Deputy Premier and Minister of Health, Solicitor General Sylvia Jones, and General Rick Hillier (retired), to provide an update on the province's COVID-19 vaccination plan.
The latest coronavirus news from Canada and around the world Tuesday. This file will be updated throughout the day. Web links to longer stories if available.
As COVID-19 ravaged long-term-care homes during the first wave of the pandemic, a new report finds residents got less access to doctors for treatment of chronic conditions and infections, such as heart failure, pneumonia and sepsis, than in normal times.
Opponents of Hamilton city council’s plan to rezone a grassy municipal property near Fifty Point in Winona to allow a residential building up to 9 storeys high say they won’t give up without a fight.
So Ontario’s deferred spring break is supposed to arrive in two weeks, but it’s hard to plan two weeks ahead, these days. Monday, the premier himself said so. Doug Ford was asked what the government planned to do about spring break as COVID-19 cases rise and ICUs fill up and the variants go rollicking across the province, setting nasty fires.
So Ontario’s deferred spring break is supposed to arrive in two weeks, but it’s hard to plan two weeks ahead, these days. Monday, the premier himself said so. Doug Ford was asked what the government planned to do about spring break as COVID-19 cases rise and ICUs fill up and the variants go rollicking across the province, setting nasty fires.
Second-year medical students aren’t usually called upon to give vaccines, so when Tony Li got the chance to administer the COVID-19 shot at a clinic in Kingston, Ont., he leapt at the chance.
Ontario’s chief medical officer issued a stark new warning for younger adults Monday about the danger of the more contagious COVID-19 variants, which drove the number of new cases 30 per cent higher in the last week.