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Oceans grocer in Brampton charged after city says it ignored multiple COVID-19 bylaw violation warnings
One of Oceans Fresh Food Market’s Brampton locations has been charged by the city for allegedly violating COVID-19 mitigation regulations in place since March.
Cyclist suffers life-threatening head injures after being struck by vehicle in Burlington
Driver of car treated for minor injuries
Ottawa pledges $100 million for Canadian Red Cross
Ottawa pledges $100 million for Canadian Red Cross response to COVID-19, disasters
Crash closes Upper James Street at Fennell Avenue
Motorcycle rider taken to hospital with serious injuries
Trudeau hopes government can help Air Canada
Trudeau sees travel between PM's 'cottages' as trips between work and home
Toronto asks for more testing, funding
Ontario reports 391 new COVID-19 cases, 33 new deaths
Amazon says it will end pandemic-related pay incentives in its Canadian warehouses after May
Amazon says it will be ending its pandemic-related pay incentives for workers in its Canadian warehouses at the end of the month.
Traffic watch: Scofflaws and fender benders in Hamilton area
What’s happening on regional roads, from area police services
Woman suffers burns in Burlington kitchen fire
Suspected cooking fire causes $50,000 damage
ATM stolen from Hwy. 6 gas station; police seek suspects
Duo fled south, OPP says
Ontario reports 391 new COVID-19 cases
Ontario reports 391 new COVID-19 cases, 33 new deaths
Hamilton to present reopening strategy to May 27 council
"The city is working on a plan to slow and safely reopen regular service," said EOC director Paul Johnson.
As Quebecers cover faces for COVID-19, some hope for tolerance of religious garb
MONTREAL—Three years ago, Warda Lacoste was at the centre of a fight against Quebec’s attempt to ban religious face coverings for people who were giving or receiving public services.
O'Toole attacked for using Hill resources
O'Toole attacked for using Parliamentary resources on leadership campaign
Man charged in fatal fire at Toronto apartment
Man charged with second-degree murder in fatal fire at Toronto apartment
Susan Delacourt: COVID-19 has made Canada wary of newcomers. So how can Ottawa make the case for the immigrants we so desperately need?
On the fateful day in March that the COVID-19 virus officially became an international pandemic, Canada’s immigration minister, Marco Mendicino, was paying tribute to employers who hire newcomers to this country.
German soccer resumes in empty stadiums; Italy says it will reopen borders on June 3; For-profit nursing homes paid out $1.5B in dividends; Homeless encampments springing up throughout Toronto; India
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.
For-profit nursing homes paid out $1.B in dividends; Homeless encampments springing up throughout Toronto; India surpasses China in confirmed coronavirus cases; Air Canada plans to lay off at least 20
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.
Two dead in Oakville, Ont., shooting
Two dead, two in hospital in suspected targeted shooting in Oakville, Ont.
This single mother whose four children all have disabilities had to cut off PSW supports amid the pandemic. She says families like hers are in desperate need of help
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, Christine Hill relied heavily on the services of personal support workers for the care of her four children, all born with a maternally inherited congenital neuromuscular disease. But she knew that continuing with PSW services would pose a significant risk. Exposing her vulnerable children to the coronavirus would be “like a death sentence.”
Feds toss claims after vets die while waiting
Federal government tosses dozens of claims from vets who died without survivors
To bidet or not to bidet: Ron and Marcia answer the COVID question with a yes
The Spectator asks people of different profiles in the community how they’re getting by with isolation, working at home and such. What pleasures help
Ontario is slowly revving up again. Here’s a guide to what’s open and when
The first stage of economic recovery includes the opening of select workplaces and seasonal activities
It’s no longer a crime to visit your cottage in Haldimand-Norfolk
Just in time for the Victoria Day weekend, the controversial health unit order barring cottage owners who live outside Haldimand-Norfolk from using th
Eager golfers book up opening day at Hamilton club within 75 minutes of Doug Ford’s COVID-19 announcement
Some golf courses open Saturday, but King’s Forest will not open until May 20 and Chedoke courses will open weekend of May 23.
Ajax hospital's air scrubbed clean by Whitby company
Some COVID-19 patients at Lakeridge Health Ajax and Pickering hospital are breathing a little easier, thanks to ServiceMaster of Durham.
Tony Burman: How Britain is paying the price for a fumbling Boris Johnson’s sluggish pandemic response
As much of Europe slowly gets back to its feet and reopens, Britain’s Boris Johnson presides over a country still reeling from his own government’s sluggish response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Grounded for good: the famed 747 flies into the twilight of its career, thanks in part to COVID-19
OTTAWA—In a world where the masses aren’t travelling, what to do with the jumbo jet that defined the era of mass air travel?
Here’s why reopening will not be business as usual
You don’t need experts to see that any business serving the public is in trouble. By the end of 2019, many retail analysts and consultants were already speculating which retailers would fail next, especially given their already weakened positions from growing shifts in consumer behaviour favouring e-commerce for greater selection, convenience and pricing.
Nepean, Ont., resident killed in crash
Nepean, Ont., resident killed in multi-vehicle crash in Rideau Lakes Township
May16: More uplifting features, please, Trump fans should rant elsewhere and other letters to the editor
Story of being cooped up with baby chickens was “sweet and uplifting in these dreary days of confinement,” writes Wendy Merling
No winning ticket for Lotto Max jackpot
No winning ticket for Friday night's $10 million Lotto Max jackpot
Quarterly earnings guidance drives CEOs’ ‘hysteria.’ Time to let it die
With earnings season in full swing, one notable phenomenon in the stock market these days is that many firms have withdrawn financial guidance — a forward-looking statement to investors which includes revenue estimates and projected earnings — for the remainder of the year. Based on an analysis by IR magazine, since mid-March, 779 companies have withdrawn annual guidance and 69 companies have withdrawn quarterly guidance.
Trudeau travelling between 'cottages'
Trudeau sees travel between PM's 'cottages' as trips between work and home
It’s not about you, it’s about unleashing them
How you can make yourself essential as a leader
For-profit nursing homes have had far worse COVID-19 outcomes than public facilities — and three of the largest paid out $1.5 billion to shareholders
Three of the largest for-profit nursing home operators in Ontario, which have had disproportionately high numbers of COVID-19 cases and deaths, have together paid out more than $1.5 billion in dividends to shareholders over the last decade, the Star has found.
Will you hunker down or head out? How Canadians will face our post-lockdown reality
For months, the COVID-19 lockdown has removed choice from personal equations: We couldn’t go out, couldn’t travel, couldn’t eat at restaurants, couldn’t spend time with friends.
Oceans grocer in Brampton charged after city says it ignored multiple COVID-19 bylaw violation warnings
One of Oceans Fresh Food Market’s Brampton locations has been charged by the city for allegedly violating COVID-19 mitigation regulations in place since March.
Yukon issues COVID-19 plan outlining reopening phases, impacts
WHITEHORSE—More households will be allowed to mingle together, but Yukon’s border will remain closed as the government issued its plan Friday to gradually loosen COVID-19 related restrictions.
COVID-19 ravages research in Hamilton
Federal aid may not be enough as seemingly overnight, a large portion of the university’s researchers found themselves with no lab when the campus shu
Racism, addiction and a pandemic: Vancouver bus attack a violent flashpoint of city's long-standing tensions
VANCOUVER—City councillor Pete Fry was walking his dog in Vancouver’s Chinatown when he saw a man yelling racial slurs and obscenities at a group of elderly Chinese-Canadian women who had been practising tai chi in the park.
We all have a date COVID-19 changed our world. The Star is looking ahead to what comes next
Certain dates stick in the mind.
Committee recommends electronic voting for MPs
Parliament must resume to guide recovery, Conservative Leader Scheer says
What you can and can’t do in Hamilton this Victoria Day long weekend
High chance of showers most of the weekend.
Martin Regg Cohn: A school year is a terrible thing to waste. Why are teachers’ unions losing time opposing live-video learning?
Imagine if some doctors refused to conduct virtual (but essential) medical consultations online — or if OHIP refused to pay for it — unless every patient in the province had a computer with broadband access.
Martin Regg Cohn: A school year is a terrible thing to waste. Why are teachers’ unions losing time opposing live-video learning?
Imagine if some doctors refused to conduct virtual (but essential) medical consultations online — or if OHIP refused to pay for it — unless every patient in the province had a computer with broadband access.
Ontario to decide in ‘near future’ whether COVID-19 will shut down overnight summer camps
Ontario’s chief medical officer is promising an answer in the “near future” on the fate of overnight summer camps, but industry sources say it’s probably light’s out because of COVID-19.
Quebec considers contact-tracing phone app
Montreal converting streets temporarily to help confined residents get around
Resignation the right decision: Scheer
Next Conservative leader will inherit party on a solid footing: Scheer
Should face masks be beautiful?
With all due respect to medical illustrators, the singular symbol of the COVID-19 pandemic will not be the digital rendering of a red virus spore that floats in the background of newscasts like a nightmare balloon. No, the definitive visual of the pandemic is the face mask. It’s on the cover of Vogue Spain and on the faces of a papparazzi-ed Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas strolling through L.A. Like your keys, it’s the thing you don’t leave your house without. Home sewers the world over are making masks from spare cloth and evoking a wartime effort of pitching in. Many of us are wearing our masks dutifully — and complaining about fogged-up glasses and pinched ears in the process. Life Science Intelligence, a medical tech analysis firm, puts mask sales at 305 per cent higher than pre-pandemic estimates.
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