Tag: pandemic

TORONTO — Ontario will deliver its 2021-22 budget today, its second spending package during the COVID-19 pandemic. Premier Doug Ford says the budget will focus...

TORONTO — As several Ontario school boards grapple with a rise in teacher absences due to the COVID-19 pandemic, at least one Toronto-area board...

TORONTO — Ontario residents who are 75 or older can start booking their COVID-19 vaccines through the government's online system starting today. People in that...

TORONTO — Ontario plans to spend $933 million to create more beds in long-term care and upgrade facilities in the sector that's been devastated...

TORONTO — Ontario has entered the third wave of COVID-19 as more transmissible virus variants account for almost half of new cases, the province's...

Free COVID-19 testing for children and staff could help keep Ontario camps open this summer while the pandemic drags on, organizers say. Day camps in...

Long-term care in Ontario is loosing staff to other industries that due to the pandemic are hiring health-care workers for infection prevention and testing...

TORONTO — Ontario's hotly anticipated COVID-19 vaccine booking system launched Monday for those aged 80 and up, with thousands logging on within minutes. The online...

The Canadian Mental Health Association is urging Ontario to prioritize the sector in its upcoming budget as a new poll suggests the second wave...

Ontario long-term care homes dealing with staffing shortages and absentee leaders were more likely to have a higher risk of mortality during the first...