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.
There should be reckonings when this is over, and attempts to assign or escape blame are already underway. Browsing Dr. Merrilee Fullerton’s testimony to the Long Term Care Commission — the one the government is trying to bury in a ditch under a mountain of late-arriving documents, while refusing to extend its deadline — is an exercise in both. Fullerton is the minister of long-term care. Ontario’s record on taking care of our older population has been grim.
A COVID-19 outbreak involving a variant of concern has forced the closure of a Scarborough elementary school — believed to be the first school closure since in-person classes resumed last month.
Ontario’s long-term care minister — a retired doctor — feared the world was seeing asymptomatic spread of COVID-19 early on last year, wanted to “lock down” nursing homes sooner and call in military medical teams faster.
Lynda Lukasik says she’ll participate in the Ford government’s consultation on growing Ontario’s Greenbelt, even if its record makes her skeptical about its intentions.
Nine large city-run clinics will be the “backbone” of Toronto’s vaccination plan that includes more than 350 clinics in total, officials announced Monday — the largest mass immunization in the city’s history as the number of suspected variant cases grows.
Health Canada is warning Canadians about a major recall of nearly 900,000 glue-type products sold at stores across the country, including Lowes, Home Depot and Canadian Tire.
The incidents leading former Hamilton public school board student trustee Ahona Mehdi to complain about racist conduct by trustees Kathy Archer, Becky Buck, Alex Johnstone and Carole Paikin Miller started about a month after Mehdi began her one-year