Later-than-expected deliveries of COVID-19 vaccines are forcing Ontario to delay its plan to give first vaccinations to all residents of nursing homes and high-risk retirement homes by five days, to Feb. 10, officials said Tuesday.
Upper Wentworth Street, in front of Lime Ridge Mall, was closed for several hours on Feb. 1 as Hamilton police attended to a lone male who was in crisis around 5 a.m.
Since arriving in Toronto in 1994, Lily Wong has assumed many roles: driving school secretary, software saleswoman, part-time postal outlet worker, and now, a nursing home dietary aide.
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.
Throughout this pandemic, I’ve kept walking. I will soon pass 1,500 consecutive days of walking more than 10,000 steps — for me, that’s about eight kilometres — according to the app I use. I can’t stop. Each day, no matter how much the weather sucks or how many deadlines I’m facing, I go out for a long walk. The app, and the streak, control me. I’m glad that public health guidelines have allowed me to keep it up.
As tens of thousands of Ontario students headed back to their classrooms Monday, the province has promised that asymptomatic COVID-19 testing will be expanded beyond hot spots.
They say kids crave structure, and certainty. Parents, too, these days. On Monday, Ontario’s minister of education held a press conference to explain that federal money would now be spent in schools to fund safety measures that have largely been implemented, and which should probably have been installed back in September.
They say kids crave structure, and certainty. Parents, too, these days. On Monday, Ontario’s minister of education held a press conference to explain that federal money would now be spent in schools to fund safety measures that have largely been implemented, and which should probably have been installed back in September.
Ontario has identified its first case of the more contagious South African variant of COVID-19, and will keep business lockdown measures in place until the number of COVID-19 patients in hospital intensive care units fall by more than half the current levels, says chief medical officer Dr. David Williams.
Celebrated in the namesake funeral home that made him a pillar of Stoney Creek’s business community, Donald Brown is being remembered as a devoted family man who helped people move on from “the scars of death.”