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.
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.
To enforce COVID-19 restrictions, the City of Hamilton is employing after-hours security at its four outdoor skating rinks — including the Waterdown ice loop in Memorial Park.
The latest coronavirus news from Canada and around the world Saturday. This file will be updated throughout the day. Web links to longer stories if available.
We are in the depths of it right now. The COVID-19 pandemic has uprooted and locked down our lives. But as a vaccination effort continues across Canada, there is hope that, in the months ahead, things will get better, and that eventually we will emerge from this crisis. With an eye to that light at the end of our tunnel, the Star’s new series — The Long Road Back — looks at different parts of our world, our society and our lives, and considers how they may emerge from this ordeal forever changed.
If Canadians will not be vaccinated until fall — some say it may be even later — we will have to live in a different way. Life is large. It means economic life, social life, personal life, coffee shop life, outdoor life, a quiet life, a public life.
So, vacation’s over. That isn’t fair, of course: it’s not like Canada’s governments have been taking actual vacations, other than the occasional individual jaunt to St. Barts. So many public servants have been working very hard for a very long time, in one crisis of a lifetime. It’s appreciated.
So, vacation’s over. That isn’t fair, of course: it’s not like Canada’s governments have been taking actual vacations, other than the occasional individual jaunt to St. Barts. So many public servants have been working very hard for a very long time, in one crisis of a lifetime. It’s appreciated.
Amid concerns racialized students are disproportionately targeted, Hamilton’s public school board is asking the province to consider replacing police liaison programs in Ontario schools with alternative supports.
Toronto paramedics attended more calls for people who died of suspected opioid overdoses last month than ever before, the city’s public health unit said Friday.
Ontario will begin mandatory COVID-19 testing of incoming international passengers at Pearson airport on Monday at noon and issue $750 tickets to any travellers who refuse under a new plan to slow the spread of more contagious variants.