Last year started like any other for the Hamilton Conservation Authority (HCA), but come March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic would force significant changes on to the organization.
The latest coronavirus news from Canada and around the world Wednesday. This file will be updated throughout the day. Web links to longer stories if available.
Seniors aged 80 and up, as well as Indigenous adults, can now preregister for COVID vaccines in some Toronto neighbourhoods, despite messaging from the city at a Monday press conference they’d have to wait for the launch of a provincial online booking portal in mid-March.
Sightings of diseased raccoons and raccoon-related injuries skyrocketed last year — but it’s probably not because Toronto’s masked dumpster-divers are getting sicker and more violent.
Forty boys walked into two rehearsal spaces at St. Michael’s Choir School expecting to sing. Instead, they found piles of PVC pipes, fittings and transparent shower curtains spread out on the floor.
When news got around that Guelph was vaccinating its residents over the age of 80 — well ahead of other regions in Ontario — there were equal measures of envy and confusion. Why Guelph?
Ontario should know by the weekend if it will get the go-ahead to delay second shots of Pfizer and Moderna vaccines by up to four months in a bid to boost the pace of vaccinations against COVID-19.
OTTAWA—Provinces have an “opportunity” to vaccinate younger people sooner with the recently approved AstraZeneca vaccine, based on advice from government-appointed experts and the looming expiration date on thousands of doses arriving this week, says Canada’s top public health officer.
New data that allows the city of Toronto to more closely track the number of homeless people accessing the shelter system shows a steady increase in the amount of new users per month.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, Kelsey Schmitz has been carefully limiting her contact with other people so she can continue to see and help care for her father, Dave, as he lies in bed with an autoimmune disease that puts him at high risk of complications should he get COVID-19.
Here’s a look at some houses that sold locally in January, and what they sold for.WATERDOWN: $1.35 millionAddress: 75 Laurendale Ave., WaterdownNearest main intersection: Parkside Drive and Boulding AvenueAsking price: $1,379,900Selli