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.
The odds are looking better for overnight camps to resume operations in Ontario this summer, but there are no guarantees as more contagious variants of COVID-19 remain a wild card.
Health Canada is warning Canadians about a recall involving more than 1,000 units of bubble bath product that could be contaminated with bacteria that could cause serious infections.
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.
“I’m an obnoxious Raptors stan,” says Sidra Alam with a laugh. Fortunately, the law student from Mississauga has a legion of fellow fans with whom to share her passion: Raptors Twitter, one of the most engaged and active fanbases in the entire NBA.
I’ve always been the indoors type, but the pandemic has dramatically increased my homebody tendencies. I’m too embarrassed to reveal how many consecutive days I have spent inside. Even in the summer as people flocked to Trinity Bellwoods and a car-free Lake Shore, I remained cocooned at home. According to the Health app on my iPhone, there was a day in July when I only took 172 steps. Then as the temperature dropped and Torontonians began mentally preparing for a long winter, I came to the horrible realization that I had squandered away the precious warm months. So when the city announced that skating rinks would open in November, I jumped at the chance to make up for lost time. I made a simple pact with myself: go skating as much as possible on as many different rinks as I could.
A diehard Raptors fan since day one, Shankar Sivananthan has spent the past year cherishing the scroll down his Twitter timeline as a way to break up the days (and nights) working as a critical-care doctor during COVID.
The Canadian government has approved its first two viral vector-based COVID-19 vaccines: the AstraZeneca vaccine and the Serum Institute of India’s version of the AstraZeneca vaccine.
The latest coronavirus news from Canada and around the world Friday. This file will be updated throughout the day. Web links to longer stories if available.