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. […] […]
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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 […] […]
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 […] […]
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 […] […]
PETERBOROUGH — The governments of Canada and Ontario are investing more than $1.6 million to protect the health and well-being of residents in six communities across Ontario. Today, the Honourable Maryam Monsef, Minister for Women and Gender Equality and Rural Economic Development and Member of Parliament for Peterborough-Kawartha, on […] […]
In an inquiry into the province’s towing industry, three veteran Ontario Provincial Police officers face charges and four other provincial police force members are suspended due to the investigation that began in October 2019. He operated with the Ontario Provincial Police for at least twenty years, serving either in the […]
This weekend, the first since the latest stay-at-home orders took effect earlier in the week, Major Box stores throughout the province will face greater scrutiny. Provincial labour inspectors would perform a blitz to ensure that laws on public health are followed. In Toronto, Hamilton, Peel Area, York Region and Durham […]
Ontario has announced it is extending for a further 30 days virtually all emergency orders in the province. On Saturday morning, the government made the announcement that the continuation of most orders under the Reopening Ontario Act (ROA) would help “preserve our health care capacity and protect Ontarians until everyone […]
Ontario press release on the extension of emergency regulations to stop the spread of COVID 19 and new injunctions to support people with mental health and addiction problems. The City of Toronto has released a list of “do’s and don’ts” to clarify activities residents can enjoy without risking fines under […]