More than almost anything else, what’s needed to defeat COVID-19 is public trust. Trust that we will (mostly) pull together to do the right thing. And trust in the public officials who are calling on us to make sacrifices.
Toronto public school parents are waiting for portable air purifiers in classrooms, a measure experts say can help reduce the risk of transmitting the coronavirus indoors.
As MPPs debate a Liberal motion designed to thwart the possibility of Premier Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives calling a snap election, a new poll suggests most Ontarians do not want a campaign before the scheduled 2022 vote.
Wendy McQuaig has owned and operated her psychotherapy practice in Orillia, Ont., for the better part of her 30-year career. But the last six months have brought many firsts.
Prepare to buy your boughs of holly early this year — or just have them delivered — as store owners adjust to a holiday season that may prove far from jolly.
The latest coronavirus news from Canada and around the world Sunday. This file will be updated throughout the day. Web links to longer stories if available.
Every day around Toronto’s campuses young people are doing what young people do naturally. Clustering in groups, entwining on benches, panting on the playing fields. And all without masks, or a hint of social distancing.
Toronto Public Health will no longer reach out to close contacts of people with confirmed COVID-19 infections in the community, to triage resources amid an overwhelming number of new cases in the city.
Over the last four months, kids in Toronto got on bikes and followed their parents around like goslings behind a mother goose each weekend. It’s a sight not as common as it should be in Toronto, where the speed and erratic skills of drivers, along with roads designed for cars first, can make such an outing fraught.
WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump has COVID-19, and it may be difficult to reliably determine how he is doing. His physician reported to the media Saturday morning that he is “doing very well,” that his fever is gone and other symptoms are improving, and said he had not required oxygen on Thursday, nor since his admission to Walter Reed hospital, though he carefully worded his oxygen answers in a way that raised doubts.
Big number: 1.5%, the percentage of Toronto’s GDP made up by eating and drinking establishments, according to 2017 data. These establishments are a small part of the city’s economy, but have represented a significant source of COVID-19 spread.
Ontario’s newly released school screening rules are not yet in effect in Toronto, where the medical officer of health indicated Friday that she may push back against the changes, and a growing chorus of physicians are raising questions about the policy.
The latest coronavirus news from Canada and around the world Saturday. This file will be updated throughout the day. Web links to longer stories if available.