On his first day of school this month, nine-year-old Lionel was nervous and excited — a combination as old as time when September rolls around. Excited, because he wanted to know who his teacher would be for the fourth grade. But his nerves weren’t about new classmates, harder lessons or other typical adjustments to a new school year.
This story is part of an ongoing series — The Road to a Vaccine — that looks at Canada’s quest to secure a COVID-19 vaccine amid the global pandemic, as well as the hurdles and history it faces to do so.
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.
When Melanie Ethier vanished from New Liskeard in 1996, the internet was just starting to catch on. Now it could be the engine that drives this case home, once and for all.
If you have a small business without any office space or last access to your workplace there is a new business in Grimsby that could help you. Boone Dog Office Space, located at 35 Main St. W. in Grimsby, opened for its first phase on October 1.
Health Canada has given the green light to a rapid test for coronavirus, but experts say people shouldn’t expect the testing backlog — and lineups — will disappear anytime soon.
In what’s being called a “shocking” misuse of personal health information, Ontario police services made unauthorized searches of the province’s COVID-19 first-responder data portal — including querying entire postal codes to find active cases of the virus, according to documents obtained by two civil rights groups.
Families who enrolled their children in the TDSB’s virtual French immersion stream have been told their kids may not be able to remain — and might not get back into the face-to-face program at their homeschool if it’s full.
Residents of long-term-care homes in Ontario were at much greater risk of dying during the first wave of COVID-19 compared to their counterparts in British Columbia because B.C’s health-care system was better prepared and responded more effectively than Ontario’s, according to a new study.
At last, some good news on the testing front in the battle against COVID-19. Health Canada has finally approved a rapid testing device that may cut down the need for people to line up for hours to see if they’re infected by the coronavirus.