When Kim Tait saw a tweet from Middlesex-London Health Unit late last week announcing the Pfizer COVID vaccine was available to all kids born in 2009, she knew she had to hurry. Her 11-year-old daughter, Emily, hadn’t been vaccinated yet, because, with a birthday in September, she wasn’t eligible. […] […]
The S&P/TSX Composite Index moved down marginally to close out the week on August 13. Energy and healthcare stocks were hit the hardest. Today, I want to look at two TSX stocks that look cheap as we cross the midway point in August. Let’s jump in. Why I’m buying […] […]
University of Calgary reports record number of first-year students living on campus. Many Alberta post-secondary schools are not requiring COVID-19 vaccinations for students and staff even as others across the country are making different choices. The University of Calgary , University of Alberta , Mount Royal University in Calgary, […] […]
The Resilient Communities Fund was developed to help non-profit organizations rebound and recover from the impacts of COVID-19. In late 2020, Opera Atelier learned that it was the recipient of an $83,000 Resilient Communities Fund grant from the Ontario Trillium Foundation, an agency of the Government of Ontario, to […] […]
FILE: Dr. Kieran Moore. Photo by Meaghan Balogh /Postmedia Warning that Ontario faces a “difficult fall and winter”, the province’s Chief Medical Officer of Health introduced a series of steps Tuesday aimed at better protecting the province’s most vulnerable against the Delta variant of COVID-19. Article content Those steps […] […]
Canada’s Foreign Minister Marc Garneau talks with the Icelandic Foreign Minister (unseen) at the Harpa Concert Hall in Reykjavik, Iceland, on May 19, 2021, on the sidelines of the Arctic Council Ministerial summit. While on the campaign trail on August 17, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau walked back comments Garneau […] […]
Ontario has become the first Canadian province to approve a third COVID-19 vaccine dose for vulnerable people amid heightened concerns over the spread of the highly-transmissible Delta variant . Starting as early as this week, booster shots will be given out to those who received transplants, patients with hematological […] […]
Maj.-Gen. Dany Fortin, Vice-President of Logistics and Operations at the Public Health Agency of Canada, participates in a news conference on the COVID-19 pandemic in Ottawa, on Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2020. Article content Maj.-Gen. Dany Fortin, who became familiar to Canadians for his key job in the COVID-19 vaccine […] […]
online learning TORONTO — Ontario’s teachers are gearing up for another pandemic-altered school year and for certain educators that will mean presiding over classrooms where students learn in-person and online at the same time — a model some say comes with a host of challenges. The so-called hybrid classroom […] […]
Journey Behind the Falls COVID-19 Update Be sure to stay on top of the latest pandemic-related restrictions in Canada . The country opened its borders on Aug. 9, though U.S. visitors coming by land or air will need to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination, uploaded using the ArriveCAN app […] […]