On Feb. 8, the Ontario government announced three public health units will be moving out of the provincewide shutdown and into a revised version of the COVID-19 response framework, which allows the province to rank health units based on case numbers and trends, using colour-coded categories.

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OTTAWA—Moderna’s delivery of COVID-19 vaccines to Canada has hit delays because the company has encountered problems with its European supply chain and restrictions on exports of vaccine supplies, the Star has learned.

Michael White, convicted of killing pregnant wife, to appear before parole board

It will be at least Feb. 16 until stay-at-home order ends in Hamilton and most of the province

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OTTAWA –Ontario’s vaccination boss has instructed all 34 public health units in the province to be ready to gear up to deliver 10,000 vaccine doses a day, with big centres like Toronto expected to hit 100,000 a day.

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The Ontario government has announced that three public health units will be transitioning out of the provincewide shutdown and back into the former colour-coded framework this week.

Ontario is starting to ease COVID-19 restrictions, lifting stay-at-home orders Wednesday for three eastern regions that have low infection rates, but keeping the rest of the province in lockdown another week with Toronto, Peel Region and York Region not slated to emerge until Feb. 22.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford is expected to announce plans Monday to reopen the province

More Ontario schools reopen to in-person learning today

Local engineer questions lack of requirement for escarpment assessment

GTA home sales, prices up in January and won't slow down later in the year: TRREB

Waterdown’s Sameer Kochhar wants to know why the new artificial turf field and track at Waterdown District High School is not open for free community use — particularly as the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown are causing people to struggle to find places to exercise.

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The new Greensville Elementary School officially opened for the first time Monday, Feb. 8, as students returned to in-class learning.

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The Ontario government is allowing pet grooming businesses to open under specific conditions and Waterdown dog groomers are rejoicing.

Flashbacks: The city’s first blast furnace set the stage for Hamilton’s Industrial Age

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The medical officers of health in two regions among the highest risk categories for school transmission of COVID-19, as per thresholds set by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, say they are cautiously monitoring Monday’s return to in-person learning for thousands of students.

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Health agency has no Moderna doses scheduled this week, with future amounts uncertain

Hamilton police say windows at the Hamilton courthouse sustained damage, along with five other locations.

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A breakdown of events in Hamilton’s worst outbreak that took the lives of 44 long-term-care residents

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Five-year-old Zachary Frohwein shuffled into his parents’ room in the middle of the night. He was wearing his favourite pyjama shorts when he tapped his dad’s shoulder. “My room is warm,” he said.

Birgit Umaigba begins a recent nursing shift by looking at the board, scanning the names of those who will be working alongside her that day in the intensive care unit. The first thing she notices is that the unit is short-staffed — again.

When the pandemic struck last spring, Rido Creer struggled with whether to ride it out with his family in Regina, or make the move to Toronto to study nursing at Ryerson University.

Health agency has no Moderna doses scheduled this week, with future amounts uncertain

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Michael White, convicted of killing pregnant wife, to appear before parole board

Before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Reed Zhao visited his grandmother, Ping Qiu, every week in her room at Tendercare Living Centre, a long-term-care home in Scarborough.

Toronto Public Health on Sunday confirmed the city’s first cases of two COVID-19 variants that were first identified in Brazil and South Africa.

Weeks ago, Katie Willette-Felstein’s son wept on the floor in protest at having to attend school virtually.

An opposition MPP is calling on the province to place a long-term-care home in northern Ontario under hospital management, following news that a possible COVID-19 variant has been linked to an outbreak at the home.

An audio recording was uploaded to social media Feb. 4 where Clark can be heard discussing the city's building department.

Clark said the conversation touched on ‘unfounded rumours and inferences’ that were baseless.

Clark said the conversation touched on ‘unfounded rumours and inferences’ that were baseless.

The outbreak at the Canada Bread bakery on Nebo Road grew to 44 cases over the weekend.

‘As soon as I read his story, I just really wanted to help if I could.’

On a pandemic day trip last summer, we meandered along Lake Ontario’s south shore, heading east from Hamilton, avoiding the QEW and taking the slower roads.