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'It was a difficult decision': Waterdown's Oh Canada Ribfest will not be held June 26-28
The 11th annual Waterdown Oh Canada Ribfest has been cancelled for June 26-28 due to concerns about COVID-19 - and it remains uncertain if the event could be held later in the summer.
Health-care workers make up 26 per cent of Hamilton’s COVID-19 cases
Considering health-care staff are also most likely to be tested, is the staggering number a true reflection of the community?
Ideas are like viruses, writes Nobel Prize winner George P. Smith. They need community spread
With many convocations postponed or cancelled, the Star asked some prominent people receiving honorary degrees to give the speech they would have given in the current climate.
Emma Teitel: These workers deserve more than our praise. They deserve a fair wage and a safe place to work
Grocery store cashiers, warehouse employees, delivery drivers: the workers few people talked about mere months ago (let alone exalted) are called “superheroes” today.
Getting back to business in Hamilton
How many COVID-19 recovery task forces does the city need? Andrew Dreschel writes that one will probably pass muster for now.
Ramadan is the key fundraising time for GTA mosques. Some may not survive COVID-19
This has been an unusual Ramadan for Alaa Elsayed.
May 1: Long-term care crisis has a long history, Roosevelt would have liked LRT and other letters to the editor
Kudos to Councillor Maureen Wilson for having the spunk to speak up. Too bad she does not have more support on council, writes Laurel Thompson.
COVID-19 threat grows for Indigenous People
COVID-19 threat to First Nations, Inuit communities grows as it eases elsewhere
Day 3 of search for missing Canadian service members
Day 3 of search for 5 Canadian service members after helicopter crashes into sea
Brampton tells residents to skip ‘iconic’ annual cherry blossom bloom due to coronavirus
The annual cherry blossom bloom is a popular event in Brampton, often drawing crowds of people, but this year the city is asking residents to stay home due to COVID-19 physical distancing rules.
O'Toole more donors, MacKay dollars
Push on for Conservative leadership candidates as contest resumes
B.C. RCMP issues warning after seizing 1,500 unauthorized COVID-19 tests
RICHMOND, B.C.—Health Canada and the RCMP have seized more than 1,500 unauthorized COVID-19 test kits from a British Columbia resident.
Every COVID-19 outbreak in Ontario, mapped
The COVID-19 crisis has laid bare shortcomings in Ontario’s long-term-care system, which is tasked to look after some of our most vulnerable populations.
Looming rent May 1 might force small business owners to close as government aid falls short
With another month’s rent due, Celina Blanchard says this will probably be the last week her restaurant Lambretta Pizzeria will be operating as she can no longer afford the monthly rent of close to $13,000 she pays for the space on Roncesvalles.
Toronto may say bye to these small businesses for good as May 1 rent looms and government aid falls short
With another month’s rent due, Celina Blanchard says this will probably be the last week her restaurant Lambretta Pizzeria will be operating as she can no longer afford the monthly rent of close to $13,000 she pays for the space on Roncesvalles.
PBO: Federal deficit could top $252 billion
Budget officer says federal deficit could top $252 billion
Former NHL player Georges Laraque tests positive for coronavirus
Former NHL player Georges Laraque has tested positive for COVID-19.
Former NHLer Georges Laraque tests positive for coronavirus
Former NHL player Georges Laraque has tested positive for COVID-19.
Global groups call for vaccine rollout plan
Global philanthropists, experts call for COVID-19 vaccine distribution plan
As businesses in Ontario reopen they’ll need to follow these rules
There will be a new way of doing business once things begin to reopen.
Music has changed the way I home school my children during COVID-19 lockdown
No one signed up for this. None of us was prepared for the dramatic shift in our day-to-day “normal.” I know I did not sign up to home-school my two children; no matter how much I love them, teaching them is a whole other ballgame.
One new COVID-19 death in Hamilton
While Hamilton recorded just four new cases Thursday, outbreaks are ongoing at 14 locations throughout the city
Damien Cox: CFL needs to try and save itself before begging government for a $150-million bailout
The Canadian Football League should save itself.
COVID in all regions as Nunavut sees 1st case
Parliamentary budget officer weighs costliest federal emergency aid programs
Parole board says Muzzo unlikely to reoffend
Marco Muzzo more self-aware, unlikely to drive drunk again, parole board decides
Fairfax loses nearly US$1.3 billion
Fairfax Financial loses nearly US$1.3B in Q1, less than it forecast two weeks ago
Man loses in crimes against humanity case
Judge rules against Quebec man accused of crimes against humanity
Shree Paradkar: Anger grows over an Ottawa trustee whose ‘park patrol’ snared a Black teen shooting hoops
Calls for a white Ottawa school board trustee to resign are growing louder a month after a Black Ottawa man accused her of berating his son while he shot hoops in a public park and publishing the interaction on Facebook along with a photo of the teen.
Open Text plans restructuring
Open Text plans restructuring including real estate consolidation
Epic poker faces, cuddly Maltipoos and 1970s-style grooming: Toronto city council holds its first online meeting
Coun. Ana Bailao kept her dog in her lap — the Maltipoo she adoped after being elected because she needed unconditional love.
‘I think closing the park is too much’: Police, barricades block off High Park during cherry blossom season
Fabio Bezerra stared at the usually welcoming entrance of High Park, now blocked by barricades and police, as if he couldn’t believe his eyes.
Alberta takes first steps to reopen economy beginning May 4
EDMONTON—Alberta will take its first steps toward reopening the economy beginning May 4, the province announced Thursday.
MPs summon Canadian WHO expert to testify
MPs issue mandatory summons for WHO's Bruce Aylward to testify before committee
Rosie DiManno: A ban on window visits at long-term-care homes? One Ottawa bureacrat’s monstrous decree adds insult to injury
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back at you.
Stelco extends deal to buy iron ore from U.S.
Stelco signs eight-year deal with U.S. Steel to buy iron ore pellets from mine
Poloz: Monetary help needs to reach borrowers
Monetary help from Bank of Canada needs to reach borrowers, Poloz says
SIU probing fatal officer-involved shooting
Police watchdog investigating fatal officer-involved shooting in Toronto
Most actively traded companies on the TSX
Most actively traded companies on the TSX
S&P/TSX composite down to end a strong April
North American stock markets fall at the start of trading, oil trades higher
College 'optimistic' about return to campus
Ontario college 'optimistic' students will return to campus this fall
Feds to move on assault-style rifle ban
Feds to ban gun used in Montreal massacre, other assault-style rifles
Legault defends decision to reopen Quebec
Legault says politics not overriding public health in plan to reopen province
Opioid crisis worsens during pandemic
Opioid crisis worsens during pandemic as services for drug users scale back
Ottawa mayor orders end to ban on window visits
Ottawa mayor orders end to ban on window visits in city nursing homes
French teachers ratify new contract
Ontario's French-language system teachers ratify new contract with province
Toronto moving some homeless to apartments
City of Toronto begins moving some homeless people from tents into apartments
Maple Leafs’ Jack Campbell cooking up a storm in isolation
Goaltender Jack Campbell has been with the Maple Leafs for just under three months, but he can essentially lay claim to being the team’s most positive player.
Doug Ford announces scores of new rules for businesses once they are allowed to open
Premier Doug Ford has blasted Ottawa civic officials for a “ridiculous” prohibition on safe outdoor visits to long-term-care residents even as he slapped scores of new regulations on private businesses once they are allowed to open.
Ontario releases business safety guidelines
Ontario reports 459 new COVID-19 cases and a record 86 more deaths
‘It’s really made it here’: Coronavirus hits Nunavut as tiny community of Pond Inlet records region’s first case
Early Thursday morning, Eva Kadloo woke up to the telephone ringing. It was her aunt, telling her someone in their tiny, fly-in community of Pond Inlet, Nunavut, had COVID-19.
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