Ministry tells Ontario school boards to prepare for remote school in...
TORONTO — Ontario is telling its school boards to prepare for the possibility of fully remote learning in the new year, prompting calls for...
Ontario reports 2,432 new COVID-19 cases today, and 23 new deaths...
TORONTO — Ontario is reporting a single-day record of 2,432 new cases of COVID-19 today, and 23 new deaths due to the virus.
Health Minister...
Canada Post moves up Christmas delivery deadlines amid unprecedented holiday demand
OTTAWA — Canada Post has moved up deadlines for pre-Christmas parcel delivery within Canada in response to unprecedented holiday demand caused by COVID-19 but...
Sixteen more COVID deaths in Ontario; 1,677 new cases reported
TORONTO — Another 16 people in Ontario have succumbed to the ravages of COVID-19, 10 of them residents of nursing homes, provincial authorities reported...
Canada’s first COVID-19 vaccine given to Toronto health-care worker
TORONTO — A personal support worker from a Toronto nursing home received Canada's first COVID-19 vaccine on Monday, kicking off what will be a...
Provinces awash in second wave, sharpen focus of vaccine rollout plans
TORONTO — Canada's initial rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine came into clearer focus Thursday as Ontario announced it would go ahead with its first...
Ontario moving Windsor-Essex and York Region into lockdown on Monday
TORONTO — Two more of Ontario's COVID-19 hot spots will move into lockdown next week, a day before the province administers the first vaccines...
Health Canada approves Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine
OTTAWA — Health Canada has approved the COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech, paving the way for vaccinations to begin countrywide next week.
Prime Minister...
Revera report calls out ‘cracks’ in long-term care amid swipes at...
TORONTO — A new report from Revera Inc. calls out shortcomings in the public health system’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, even as the...
Premier Ford under fire over mass resignations at Ontario conservation authority
TORONTO — Premier Doug Ford said Monday he would not "touch" a protected stretch of land surrounding the Greater Toronto Area, pushing back against...
Virtual care expansion too slow, AGCO not transparent, funeral sector needs...
TORONTO — Ontario's expansion of virtual health-care services has been too slow, its retirement homes have an increasing number of residents who should be...
Ontario lays out priority COVID-19 vaccine list, revealing multi-part rollout plan
TORONTO — Vulnerable seniors, their caregivers, and health-care workers will be among the first to receive the COVID-19 vaccine in Ontario, but the province...
First doses of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, not yet approved, to land...
OTTAWA — A small number of the most vulnerable Canadians could be immunized against COVID-19 before the holidays as the first doses of Pfizer's...
Pandemic financial pressures deplete finances, spirits as festive season approaches
TORONTO — Pandemic restrictions and financial strain mean Christmas will look different than past years for Tia Cyr and her family, so she enlisted...
Former federal cabinet minister leaves Ontario role over proposed environment laws
A former Conservative federal cabinet minister and Toronto mayor has stepped down as head of Ontario's Greenbelt Council in protest over proposed rules he...


















































