As Ontario heads into its second week of lockdown, cases of COVID-19 in the province continue to climb with five more health units moving into an escalated risk category — with greater restrictions — in an effort to tamp down infections.
Ontario is being urged to expand testing of staff and students — especially in hot spots — after the first site in Toronto uncovered some 19 cases at one elementary school.
Think of what you got away with when you were a kid, or what other kids at your school got away with. It could be elementary; it could be high school. When we grow up, some things happen that remain a secret.
OTTAWA – The Trudeau government will spend another $25.1 billion to boost immediate health and economic measures to get Canada through the pandemic, and plans an additional three-year stimulus package of up to $100 billion to juice an economic recovery it admits is still well off on the horizon.
The federal government announced $1 billion for long-term-care homes in its fall economic statement Monday, and reiterated a commitment made in the recent throne speech that it will work with the provinces on setting national standards for long-term care.
The trustee for wards 11 and 12 has announced she won’t seek a third one-year term when she and her colleagues hold annual elections at the board’s Dec. 7 meeting.
VICTORIA – An investigation sparked by allegations that health-care workers were making a "game" out of guessing the blood-alcohol level of Indigenous patients before treating them will yield a report Monday into the racism in B.C.'s medical system.
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