Emeka Machie, his wife and son left their hometown of Onitsha in Nigeria on March 15 for a 500-kilometre ride on dirt roads to Lagos, where they were to board a flight to start a new life in Canada.
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.
The bodies of Daniel Babineau, 11, and his nine-year-old sister Monique were found behind an Orangeville school. A Grade 9 boy confessed to strangling them.
Ontario’s premier is warning that hot spots are potentially days away from a lockdown, COVID-19 community cases are soaring, and the education minister has publicly contemplated extending winter break.
Peel’s medical officer of health is “running out of ammunition” to control the COVID-19 epidemic in his region and warns of further restrictions if the curve doesn’t begin to bend.
From the barbaric East Asians and their bat-eating habits to the villainous South Asians and their dangerous socializing habits, the COVID-19 narrative has traced an interesting if richly racist trajectory in the eight months since it has afflicted us.
The L-word — as in lockdown — is back. Premier Doug Ford is hinting strongly at something along those lines for the COVID-19 hotspots of Toronto, Peel and York regions. And a group of doctors are making waves by calling for a much stricter “#COVIDZero” strategy that would involve a hard lockdown over much of the winter.
OTTAWA—Canada and the United States will extend COVID-19 restrictions on non-essential cross-border travel for at least another month, to Dec. 21, the Star has learned.