As the Second City Toronto became the first professional company to resume live indoor performances on Thursday night, I approached its “Safer, Shorter & Still So Funny” thinking about the five performers about to premiere the show — to an anxious crowd of 50 people seated eight feet part, their laughs muffled under masks, the performers recoiling if their comedic energy propelled moist globules too far off the stage.
That the first Monday in September is a statutory holiday in Canada has roots that go all the way back to 1872, when Toronto printers went on strike for decent working conditions.
Dundas and Ancaster financial advisors, Thie Convery, Letitia Fluit and Marie Phillips each authored chapters in the a book, Financial Success for Women, by Women.
Premier Doug Ford’s push against retailers’ pandemic price gouging has triggered more than 26,000 consumer complaints to the government, newly available data reveals.
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.
Ontario’s public health agency will soon begin evaluating a rapid and purportedly highly accurate COVID-19 test — an indication we are edging closer to the day when screening for the virus becomes a routine chore, experts say, while warning that scientific and logistical hurdles remain.
Ontario’s largest children’s mental health advocacy group is warning that kids struggling with serious mental health issues amid the pandemic could be left behind unless the province steps up with more support.