Coronavirus: What’s happening in Canada and around the world on Friday
The latest: California issuing waivers allowing hospitals to temporarily bypass the nation’s only strict nurse-to-patient ratios as COVID-19 cases surge. EU makes a deal for 300 million additional doses of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. U.K. regulators approve Moderna vaccine, the 3rd to be OK’d for use in the country. Elementary students in southern Ontario will be learning at home for […]
Hamilton police board to host virtual town halls on community safety, accountability, reform – Hamilton
The Hamilton Police Services Board (HPSB) will be holding a pair of virtual town halls in order to hear from the community about issues related to policing. In a release issued by the board on Thursday, the HPSB said the town halls will take place on Tuesday, Jan. 26 and Wednesday, Jan. 27 between 7:30 […]
‘Better Tobago means a stronger TT’
News Corey Connelly 6 Hrs Ago Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley at the opening of the Roxborough hospital on Tuesday. – DAVID REID The Prime Minister declared on Tuesday he makes no apologies for the money that has been spent on Tobago’s development within the past few years. “As leader of this government, and as […]
How loved-ones are honouring the memory of those killed in Iran’s Flight 752 air disaster
Twelve months after an Iranian missile shot down a plane carrying 176 people, including 55 Canadians and many others with strong ties here, people are honouring and remembering the victims in their own ways. CBC’s The National spoke to family and friends of several of the victims of Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 about their […]
Coronavirus: E-learning extended at most Ontario elementary students
With less than four days before in-class learning was set to resume, the provincial government has announced it’s extending online learning for elementary school students in southern Ontario, leaving many parents and kids frustrated with the last-minute decision. Miranda Anthistle reports.
‘Let go of historical baggage’
News Corey Connelly 2 Hrs Ago PNM candidate for Roxborough/Delaford, Neil Beckles, is urging the people of Roxborough to release the “historical baggage” they have been toting all their lives. He was addressing a political meeting at the Roxborough Secondary School on Tuesday night, ahead of the January 25 Tobago House of Assembly election. The […]
Nova Scotia to ban practice of ‘dry celling’ in jails
Nova Scotia is banning “dry celling” in its jails, doing away with a practice that places prisoners suspected of hiding contraband inside their bodies under strict surveillance at all times. Justice Minister Mark Furey said Thursday the province believes that body scanning technology has reduced the need for it and the practice will be eliminated in provincial correctional facilities. The […]
COVID-19 vigilance still critical amid extended remote learning: MLHU – London
The Middlesex-London Health Unit (MLHU) says it will be imperative that students maintain their COVID-19 vigilance if the region wants to avoid new cases in school-aged children in the coming weeks. That was the message shared during a briefing from the MLHU about an hour before the Ontario government announced that most elementary school students […]
Mystery Trini in Canada gives 62 tablets in La Romaine
News Yvonne Webb Just Now Msgr Christian Perreira, right, with members of the migrant community after they received 62 tablets from an anonymous benefactor at the St Benedicts RC Church, La Romaine. PHOTO COURTESY Msgr CHRISTIAN PERREIRA – A Trinidadian who lives in Canada has donated 62 tablets and $10,000 in cash to the St […]
‘A light at the end of the tunnel’: COVID-19 vaccine begins arriving in Manitoba First Nations communities
The arrival of the first shipment of the Moderna vaccine in Pimicikamak Cree Nation Thursday evening is “a light at the end of the tunnel,” Chief David Monias said. About 10 elders in the northern community became some of the first people in Manitoba First Nations to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. “I’m quite ecstatic about it,” […]
Alberta students to resume in-person learning on Monday
Experts say there’s growing evidence schools can contribute to the spread of the coronavirus in communities. As Heather Yourex-West explains, Alberta students are days away from returning to classrooms.
Castara family homeless again after sixth fire
News Corey Connelly 5 Hrs Ago The Parlatuvier Light House of Praise Ministries church in Tobago which was being used as a shelter for a Castara family. – DAVID REID The latest shelter found for a Castara family was burnt down on Wednesday night in the sixth fire in five weeks. The Parlatuvier church in […]