With the recent COVID-19 lockdown of Toronto and Peel Regions, we in York Region find ourselves precariously close to a similar fate. The daily case counts are on the rise in our region and across the province. Breaking news alerts announcing record daily high case counts flood our newsfeeds.
OTTAWA–Hundreds of thousands of doses of a new COVID-19 vaccine produced by Pfizer/BioNTech will arrive in Canada before the end of December, possibly allowing an national vaccination campaign to begin earlier than announced.
Ontario has set a new record of daily COVID-19 cases for the third day in a row, reaching 1,925 new infections on a day that Toronto and Peel mark two weeks in lockdown.
On the same weekend Stoney Creek’s Santa Claus Parade was originally scheduled, there was a different kind of celebration happening along Gray Road last Sunday.
Against the backdrop of a pandemic’s blight and wounds from an acrimonious election, a group of acclaimed actors on Sunday will stage an online reading of a religious text with remarkable relevance to the current moment: the Book of Job.
While the federal and provincial governments grapple with COVID-19, we have seen the private sector and Canadian firms take initiatives in addressing business gaps and also combat the pandemic to benefit their workers and customers.
Jan Willis found herself in Puerto Vallarta when COVID-19 was declared a worldwide pandemic in March. Before she could return to her native British Columbia, the 66-year-old was met with a flurry of cruise passengers, most of them sick with the virus.
On the occasion of the first practice of another training camp, Raptors head coach Nick Nurse preferred there be no ambiguity about the nature of the bedrock on which he will be building his team. It will be about defence, from the first day to the last.
For almost as long as the real-world horror show of 2020 has been playing out in the United States, President Donald Trump has been promising that his country is “turning the corner.”