Mike Anderson
CGIFN may expand drone-delivery pilot project to include non-medical supplies
By: Mike Anderson
A drone-delivery pilot project, which provides contact-free delivery of personal protective equipment (PPE) and COVID-19 testing supplies to the Chippewas of Georgina...
Ontario’s infection prevention team sidelined due to politics, commission hears
Bureaucratic turf concerns prevented a highly trained team of infection prevention and control experts from helping Ontario long-term care homes in the early days...
Opinion: Should Johnston Cemetery be moved?
By: Daryl Urquhart
What’s in a memory? What’s the point of Remembrance Day? Why do we honour the accomplishments of people long dead? How...
Ontario ramping up rapid testing in schools, LTC and some workplaces...
TORONTO — Ontario says it will expand the use of rapid COVID-19 testing in schools, long-term care homes and essential workplaces.
Once the program has...
Non-essential retailers set to reopen on February 22
By: Mike Anderson
Non-essential retailers will be allowed to reopen on February 22, after the provincial stay-at-home order lifts and York Region is allowed to...
Non-essential retailers set to reopen on February 22
By: Mike Anderson
Non-essential retailers will be allowed to reopen on February 22, after the provincial stay-at-home order lifts and York Region is allowed to...
‘Everything is up in the air’: Local fish hut operators brace...
By: Ewa Chwojko-Srawley
As soon as Lake Simcoe freezes, a small 'town' of colourful tents and ice huts appears along its 240-kilometre shoreline. Every winter,...
Canada’s sluggish COVID-19 vaccination program won’t get better this week
OTTAWA — Canada's languid vaccination efforts have no chance of improvement this week with just 70,200 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine scheduled to start...
York Region opens free isolation centre for COVID-19
By: Mike Anderson
York Region has opened a free COVID-19 Voluntary Isolation Centre for residents who can't self-isolate safely from others in their household.
The centre...
Top doctor warns of COVID-19 variants taking root across Canada
OTTAWA — Chief public health officer Dr. Theresa Tam says Canada is in "a very delicate period" as case counts for fast-spreading COVID-19 variants...
