Ontario legislators clash over bill to reduce salaries during pandemic
TORONTO — Ontario legislators voted Wednesday to reduce a politician’s salary during the pandemic after he introduced a similar motion intended for all members.
Speaker...
Toronto, Peel top docs ask for delay in lifting restrictions until...
TORONTO — Ontario's two largest COVID-19 hot spots are asking the province to delay loosening restrictions in their regions for at least two weeks,...
Toronto-area school boards prepare for in-class learning to resume on Tuesday
Enhanced safety measures will be in place when in-person learning resumes at Toronto-area schools on Tuesday.
The COVID-19 hot spots of Toronto, York Region, and...
Overheated stock market at risk of bubble in a disconnect from...
TORONTO — “We’re all in this together” has been a common refrain since the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic last March, but the yawning...
Ontario lifts stay-at-home order in 27 regions as economic reopening continues
TORONTO — A stay-at-home order lifts for 27 Ontario public health units today.
The units will now return to the province's COVID-19 colour-coded tiered ranking...
Web portal, service desk in the works for Ontario COVID-19 vaccine...
TORONTO — Ontario is developing a web portal for booking COVID-19 vaccine appointments when mass immunization is underway, but experts said Monday that more...
Ontario reopening must be cautious because of variants, mayor of hard-hit...
TORONTO — The mayor of a community that was hit hard by a COVID-19 variant outbreak is urging people to continue following public health...
In-person classes resume in COVID-19 hotspots of Toronto, Peel Region and...
TORONTO — In-person classes will resume today at schools in three Ontario COVID-19 hotspots.
School boards in Toronto, Peel Region and York Region are restarting...
Ontario reports 1,300 new cases of COVID-19, 19 associated deaths
Ontario is reporting 1,300 new cases of COVID-19 today and 19 more deaths linked to the virus.
Health Minister Christine Elliott says there are 433...
Ontario announces framework designations for regions to reopen Tuesday
TORONTO — Pandemic restrictions will loosen in 27 Ontario health units next week as the province moves ahead with a reopening plan criticized in...
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...
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...
Threat from variants means provinces must be ready to lock down...
OTTAWA — With new and more contagious variants of COVID-19 escalating in Canada, provincial governments lifting lockdown restrictions must be ready to slam them...
Ontario to begin gradual reopening of economy Wednesday, state of emergency...
TORONTO — Ontario will begin to gradually reopen its economy on Wednesday but the government said it would move regions back into lockdown if...
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...
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