It is yet another attempt at mitigation, in the face of provincial recklessness. On Wednesday morning Dr. Lawrence Loh, the medical officer of health in Peel, publicly asked the province to leave Peel in its current state of restrictions, including a stay-at-home order, for at least two more weeks. On Wednesday afternoon Dr. Eileen de Villa, Toronto’s MOH, did the same.
Political rivals are calling on Premier Doug Ford to apologize after he told NDP Leader Andrea Horwath her criticisms of the government's handling of COVID-19 are like "nails on a chalkboard," saying the remark smacks of misogyny.
As Ontario's provincewide shutdown lifted in another 27 regions on Feb. 16, the temporary ban on the enforcement residential evictions in those regions lifted too.
Ontario is reporting another 847 COVID-19 cases and 10 more deaths, according to its latest report released Wednesday morning, the fourth straight day the province has reported less than 1,000 cases.
More than 11,000 tables sold exclusively at Winners, Marshalls and HomeSense in Canada have been recalled due to an electrical hazard.The voluntary recall, announced today (Feb. 17) by Health Canada, involves J Hunt Home side accent tables with b
Names were released following a new Ontario law which mandates that any educator disciplined for sexually abusive conduct or child pornography receive a lifetime ban from teaching
Cold weather appears to be playing havoc again with the city's water mains, causing water problems and creating traffic restrictions.City of Hamilton is currently reporting a water main break Wednesday morning on Charlton Avenue East in the area w
Mayor John Tory and public health chief Dr. Eileen de Villa separately urged the Ford government Wednesday to not ease COVID-19 restrictions on Toronto, warning that do so would risk a third wave of the virus and yet another lockdown.
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.
Hamilton’s public school trustees will use “an alternative process” to explore potential breaches of their Code of Conduct by four colleagues whose behaviour was found to be racist by an outside investigation.
The site of Toronto’s largest workplace outbreak does not provide workers with paid sick days — a protection the city’s medical officer has called “critical” to slow the spread of COVID-19.
As tens of thousands of schoolchildren return to in-person learning in the COVID-19 hotspots of Toronto, Peel and York Wednesday, the number of tests coming back positive for B.1.1.7 and other variants continues to increase, prompting infectious disease experts to warn of an all but inevitable third wave.
The reason politicians get a sparkle in their eye when the subject of infrastructure comes up is because the projects usually come with more roads and bridges, jobs, local spending and ribbon-cutting ceremony that voters might remember when they go to cast their ballots.