As with so much else in 2020, the coronavirus pandemic is forcing Stoney Creek’s Royal Canadian Legion, Battlefield Branch 622 to change its approach to Remembrance Day, starting with the annual poppy campaign.
Sixteen people armed with work gloves and garbage bags were out picking up trash from parking lots and alleyways along Concession Street between Upper Wentworth and Upper Sherman on Oct. 3.
Sixteen people armed with work gloves and garbage bags were out picking up trash from parking lots and alleyways along Concession Street between Upper Wentworth and Upper Sherman on Oct. 3.
Ontario reported 615 new cases of COVID-19 on Monday, the eighth straight day with more than 500 new infections and a level that is consistently higher than the first wave peak of the virus in late April.
The latest coronavirus news from Canada and around the world Monday. This file will be updated throughout the day. Web links to longer stories if available.
Nearly 20 per cent of COVID-19 infections in Canada are among health care workers, which is double the global average and an “irresponsible approach to worker safety,” according to a new report by a former senior adviser on the SARS commission.
When Sarah MacNeil landed a job managing events at Toronto’s swanky Hotel X, she was thrilled at the prospect. The pay and hours were solid, a rarity in the hospitality world that would soon be upended by COVID-19.
Hospitals in Toronto and Peel are facing escalating pressures during the second COVID-19 wave and are calling for more stringent public health measures to prevent emergency departments, intensive care units and other services from being overwhelmed.