Ontario is extending its COVID-19 residential electricity rate relief for another five months, but the fixed price will be going up by nearly three cents per kilowatt hour.
Excitement around reopening the economy has swept the country, but for some, the excitement is trumped by anxiety and a feeling that they’re being left behind.
As the COVID-19 “wildfire” in long-term-care facilities begins to slow, there are signs Ontario’s epidemic is shifting to a new frontier in the GTA where it could prove even harder to extinguish: workplaces, especially factories and warehouses where many workers are lower-income, racialized and precariously employed.
Editor’s note: Some have termed COVID-19 “the great equalizer” because it can indiscriminately infect anyone. But the impact it has on people and families is far from equal. The Star’s Viral Inequality series looks at how people from various walks of life have seen their lives change, and, in some cases, how they’ve slipped through the safety net of government support.
The latest novel coronavirus news from Canada and around the world Friday (this file will be updated throughout the day). Web links to longer stories if available.
With possible coronavirus exposures now numbering in the hundreds as public health officials continue contact tracing, the actions of the doctor at the heart of New Brunswick’s latest COVID-19 outbreak are serving as a cautionary tale.
Testing for COVID-19 is being expanded across the province, including into pop-up locations in neighbourhoods experiencing high burdens of the illness.
It’s a rainy Thursday afternoon and Peter Berbatiotis is in his Toronto Softee ice-cream truck, dropping off frozen treats at the homes of 10 or 15 would-be attendees for a child’s birthday party.
OTTAWA—In the children’s street game of war, you stand in your corner of the world, declare what turf you want to occupy, hit its fleeing leader with a stick, and lean in to redraw your desired boundaries.
It feels like yesterday we were all eating in restaurants, drinking in bars, hugging one another to show we care. Or it feels like a million years ago, either way. Before COVID-19, it was certainly something we used to do.