Category: Education

Ontario has done a decent job administering COVID-19 vaccines thus far given its limited supply of doses, but as variants continue to send more younger people to hospital, the province needs to switch up its strategy, infectious disease experts suggest. The province has begun its Phase 2 of the vaccination plan, which targets people aged […]

On the morning the far-right Proud Boys were added to Canada’s list of proscribed terrorist organizations, a video appeared in a private group on Telegram. It showed a man seated at a wooden table, wearing a red Make America Great Again hat and holding up a coin inscribed with the Proud Boys logo. He then […]

Hamilton Health Sciences has begun setting up a mobile health unit (MHU) to create more bed space as the city’s ICU fills amid ongoing COVID-19 infections. The Hamilton-based MHU is expected to house 80 beds and serve as a provincial resource to accommodate pressures on hospitals across southern Ontario. “We expect the unit will be […]

Global News has learned the Ontario government is currently considering implementing a stay-at-home order and closing non-essential retail businesses provincewide in a bid to slow the spread of COVID-19. Sources told Global News that under the plan still being considered late Tuesday, non-essential retail stores would be limited to curbside pickup. Big-box stores, meanwhile, would […]

Fanshawe College announced Tuesday that its planned spring concovation ceremonies would be postponed until further notice as a result of restrictions on indoor gatherings due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Officials with the college say the more than 8,200 graduating students from its London campus will be honoured by way of a virtual graduation celebration webpage […]

The Ontario government is poised to impose additional COVID-19 restrictions as the province grapples with rising COVID-19 cases and increased admissions to intensive care units. During separate news conferences on Tuesday, both Premier Doug Ford and Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. David Williams indicated all options are “on the table.” However, they didn’t provide […]

Members of Chippewas of the Thames First Nation and staff and students at a high school in Strathroy-Caradoc, Ont., are in mourning following the death of a 17-year-old girl late last week in Southwest Middlesex. First responders, including an Ornge air ambulance, attended a home on Gentleman Drive, west of Melbourne Road, around 2:20 p.m. […]

Ontario is reporting 3,065 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, bringing the provincial total to 367,602. Tuesday’s case count is higher than Monday’s which saw 2,938 new infections. On Sunday, 3,041 new cases were recorded and 3,009 on Saturday. According to Tuesday’s provincial report, 955 cases were recorded in Toronto, 561 in Peel Region, 320 in […]

The medical officer of health for Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph has decided to order the temporary closure of schools in the region effective Wednesday amid a “troubling rise in cases of COVID-19 among children,” officials say. In a news release issued Monday evening, health officials said Dr. Nicola Mercer will issue the order under the Health Protection and […]

Global News has confirmed educators, school bus drivers and crossing guards with the Niagara Catholic District School Board will soon be able to receive a COVID-19 vaccine. An all-staff memo obtained by Global News scheduled to be issued Tuesday from Director of Education Camillo Cipriano states, “All active full-time, part-time, occasional and casual Niagara Catholic […]

TORONTO — Ontario long-term care operators are being asked to do more to improve COVID-19 vaccine uptake among staff, with the government recommending on-site vaccinations or paid transportation to clinics. The associate deputy minister of long-term care wrote to licensees last week about next steps for the sector during the pandemic, noting that nearly 80 […]

Students in Peel Region will not be returning to school on Tuesday. Instead, they will be learning remotely for at least two weeks. Caryn Lieberman reports.