Coronavirus: Hamilton reports 27 new COVID-19 cases, 2 deaths – Hamilton
Hamilton Public Health reported 27 new COVID-19 cases on Friday and two more virus-related deaths. Grace Villa, a long-term care home with the city’s largest outbreak as of Dec. 11, recorded its 11th death tied to COVID-19 after a woman in her early 80s died on Thursday. Cases at the facility grew by one more […]
Minister of Labour, Training and Skills Development to Make Announcement in London
Monte McNaughton, Minister of Labour, Training and Skills Development, will be joined by Caroline Mulroney, Minister of Francophone Affairs and Jeff Yurek, MPP for Elgin-Middlesex-London, to make an announcement about a new employment and training program.
Coronavirus: 1 death, 33 cases in London-Middlesex as province moves region to red-control tier – London
Jump to: Hospitalizations – Outbreaks – Schools – Testing – Ontario – Elgin and Oxford – Huron and Perth – Sarnia and Lambton The region’s total coronavirus case tally eclipsed the 2,000 mark on Friday as the Middlesex-London Health Unit reported one death, 33 new cases and 32 recoveries. At least 2,013 cases have been […]
Looking for COVID-19 trends: Academic experts and private forecasting company form pandemic partnership
Some of Canada’s top academic experts on pandemics are partnering with a company in the Greater Toronto Area to work on national and provincial pandemic forecasts, including modelling different scenarios to help guide officials on how COVID-19 vaccination programs might be rolled out in the new year. The University of Toronto’s Institute for Pandemics (IFP) […]
What will change as Middlesex-London moves to red control COVID-19 level – London
The Middlesex-London Health Unit will be moving to the red level of the province’s COVID-19 response framework, up from the orange level, starting Monday, Dec. 14. The move to red comes just one week after the region was moved to the orange level. Read more: York Region to enter lockdown zone in Ontario’s COVID-19 pandemic […]
3-digit suicide prevention hotline gets green light from House of Commons
The House of Commons took a step closer to establishing a national three-digit suicide prevention hotline today. MPs voted unanimously in favour of a Conservative MP’s motion calling on the federal government to act immediately to set up a national 988 number that would consolidate all existing suicide crisis numbers. Before the vote, B.C. MP Todd Doherty implored the […]
COVID-19 outbreak declared at London’s St. Thomas Aquinas Secondary School – London
The London District Catholic School Board’s St. Thomas Aquinas Secondary School is the latest school in London, Ont., to have a COVID-19 outbreak as declared by the local health unit. Earlier this week, the health unit declared outbreaks at four local schools. Read more: COVID-19 outbreaks declared at 4 London, Ont. schools The Middlesex-London Health […]
Ontario Invests in Virtual Learning Strategy
TORONTO — The Ontario government is investing $50 million in virtual learning and educational technologies to help expand access to high-quality, market-responsive, and globally competitive “Ontario Made” education. The move will strengthen the province’s position as a global leader in the postsecondary sector.
Canadians now owe $1.71 for every dollar they have to spend, StatsCan says
Statistics Canada says Canadian households owed an average of $1.71 for every dollar of disposable income in the third quarter. The agency says that household debt as a percentage of disposable income rose to 170.7 per cent in the third quarter, up from 162.8 per cent in the second quarter. The ratio was still below […]
Ontario reports 1,848 new coronavirus cases, 45 deaths
Ontario reported 1,848 new cases of coronavirus on Friday, bringing the provincial total to 136,631. Friday’s case count is a decrease from Thursday’s which saw a record breaking 1,983 new cases. On Wednesday, 1,890 cases were recorded and 1,676 on Tuesday. According to Friday’s provincial report, 469 cases were recorded in Toronto, 386 in Peel […]
Premier Ford to Make an Announcement at Queen's Park
Premier Doug Ford will be joined by Christine Elliott, Deputy Premier and Minister of Health, Solicitor General Sylvia Jones and General Rick Hillier (retired), Chair of the COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution Task Force, to make an announcement.
The pandemic unexpectedly saved thousands from financial ruin. But there’s a reckoning on the horizon
This story is part of The Big Spend, a CBC News investigation examining the unprecedented $240 billion the federal government handed out during the first eight months of the pandemic. As the COVID-19 lockdown ruled the day this spring, Rod Gilroy, a 37-year veteran of the real estate industry in Amherst, N.S., figured bankruptcies in the area […]