The latest coronavirus news from Canada and around the world Thursday. This file will be updated throughout the day. Web links to longer stories if available.
As the first COVID-19 vaccines are administered across the country, the youngest Canadians are facing a wait of at least several months before they can even start to get the shots.
The private company selected by the province to take over management of an Etobicoke long-term-care home where 27 seniors have died of COVID-19 also manages facilities cited for multiple violations of provincial rules designed to protect residents.
OTTAWA –Canada’s global scramble in the spring to buy personal protective equipment for front-line health workers taught the federal Liberal government a painful lesson — that it had to get a jump on buying vaccines, says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Leaders in the Canadian food and beverage manufacturing industry say they’re facing a projected gap in available labour of almost 25 per cent by 2025, and that attracting more workers to the industry will be crucial to the sector’s economic recovery from COVID-19.
Ontario has surpassed 4,000 deaths from COVID-19 as hospitals in the GTA and beyond race to clear beds for more pandemic patients with daily new cases staying above 2,000 for the second day in a row.
Citing increased concerns over the community spread of COVID-19, Hamilton’s Anglican Churches have suspended in-person worship services for the holidays.
The general manager of CF Lime Ridge is not anticipating any significant increase in shoppers from the GTA now the Upper Wentworth Street Mall is opening an hour earlier at 9 a.m. until Dec. 23.
A restaurant industry group is asking Canadians to imagine a life without their local restaurants after it says the country lost more than 10,000 eateries since the introduction of pandemic lockdowns.
Ontario municipalities are getting an extra $2 billion from the federal and provincial governments to bail them out of the red because of lost revenues from transit, parking and other sources in the COVID-19 pandemic this year.