The number of Ontarians requiring hospital care for COVID-19 unexpectedly shot upward after weeks of decline and the province has recorded the first death of a child, according to figures released Tuesday by the Ministry of Health.
Dejan Rajsic is just happy his Scout Café can once again serve people on its patios — even if the Stoney Creek restaurant’s 20th year isn’t shaping up as the celebration he and his partner envisioned.
As any homeowner knows, the components that make up your heating, ventilation and air conditioning system are big-ticket items. They cost a lot to purchase, are absolutely necessary for the operation and enjoyment of your home, and need to be proper
OTTAWA—The parliamentary budget officer estimates in a new report that it will cost the federal government $17.9 billion to provide eight extra weeks of payments through the Canada Emergency Response Benefit.
BELGRADE, SERBIA—Novak Djokovic tested positive for the coronavirus on Tuesday after taking part in a tennis exhibition series he organized in Serbia and Croatia.
Editor’s note: The Star is taking a broad look at what entering the second phase of reopening after COVID-19 lockdowns will mean for Ontario. Every day, we’ll try and answer a different question about post-lockdown life. You can read a recap of all of the questions we’ve answered here.
If you think French exiting a Zoom meeting (i.e. leaving without saying goodbye) is rude, and you’ve already exhausted every excuse in the book about why you’re sorry but you “really must go right now,” there is hope for you yet in the form of a new and ingenious product out of Japan: the YOUMECOME machine, or the “Video call emergency escape machine.”
The latest coronavirus news from Canada and around the world Tuesday. This file will be updated throughout the day. Web links to longer stories if available.
Big number: 34,100 – the city’s count of the number of cyclists using closed-to-cars sections of streets on Saturday, May 23 as part of the city’s ActiveTO program. That’s more than the population of towns like Orillia and Stratford.
Entry into gang life was all at once slow and rapid for Rohan George as he went from straight-A student to the subject of a Canada-wide warrant for murder.
As many provinces move to cautiously open some services in the wake of COVID-19, advocates say Indigenous women still struggle to navigate a variety of challenges that have been exacerbated by the pandemic.
VICTORIA—British Columbia’s top doctor is warning people not to let their guard down against COVID-19 as the province prepares to allow more travel this summer.
Here was something we hadn’t seen since the world changed: The Toronto Raptors took a road trip Monday, their first since the coronavirus shut down sports more than 100 days earlier. Not that there was an actual road game in the immediate offing. With the NBA’s July 30 restart still more than a month in the distance, the defending champions flew to Fort Myers, Fla. to begin the next phase of the league’s return-to-play plan at Florida Gulf Coast University.
What are you most excited about? Is it a haircut? Personally, when facing the wind, I now flip my hair back like it’s a mane. Maybe it’s to order beers on a patio with friends and see their real-life faces light up with laughter? Or to get the most ill-advised and regrettable tattoos of your life? A high bar, surely, but some will clear it.