Category: Education

Entering its third season, the Canadian Premier League has demonstrated there is an appetite for a domestic soccer circuit. Two-time champion Forge FC has done the CPL proud in CONCACAF club play. Atletico Ottawa joined last year, an addition all the more remarkable in that the expansion franchise arrived during a pandemic. Some 10 CPL […]

Hamilton public health says it will be opening two large scale COVID-19 vaccination clinics at two city arenas in the near future. The city’s medical officer of health Dr. Elizabeth Richardson said First Ontario Place and Rosedale arena will be the sites, with the opening dates and what hours they will keep set to be revealed […]

Jump to: Hospitalizations – Outbreaks – Schools – Vaccinations and Testing – Ontario – Elgin and Oxford – Huron and Perth – Sarnia and Lambton One person has died and 27 others have tested positive, health officials in London and Middlesex reported Monday in a COVID-19 update. The update brings the region’s pandemic case total […]

Gabriella Kikwaki of London, Ont., says she started writing the self-published A Link Between Two Worlds/Un Lien Entre Deux Mondes, “on a day when I had nothing to do.” She was already using the computer for remote learning during the ongoing novel coronavirus pandemic and asked her father if she could write a book on […]

Hamilton’s Mohawk College is now accepting applications to Ontario’s new accelerated training program for personal support workers (PSWs) to help combat the COVID-19 pandemic. The accelerated PSW training program is a tuition-free opportunity for 6,000 new students and is expected to take only six months to complete as opposed to the typical eight months. The […]

Ontario is reporting 1,631 new coronavirus cases on Monday, marking the largest single-day increase in over a month. The provincial total now stands at 309,927. However, in an update late morning, the Ontario government said the case count “is higher than expected due to a data catch-up process related to the provincial CCM system.” Still, […]

For the past three months, Upkaran Deep Singh has woken up inside his small tent perched on Singhu Border, one of India’s busiest highways just north of Delhi, and almost immediately picks up his phone. The 23-year-old farmer scrolls through social media looking for the latest updates, as well as any misinformation, on the farmers’ […]

Hamilton reported 114 new COVID-19 cases on the weekend with 35 on Saturday and 79 on Sunday. The city recorded two more deaths, with one on Sunday involving a person in their 70s and the other on Saturday involving someone in their 60’s. Public health says the outbreak at Hamilton General Hospital’s Unit 5 West […]

The Middlesex-London Health Unit (MLHU) says the positive COVID-19 test of a student at Saunders Secondary School has screened positive for a variant of concern. In a statement issued Sunday afternoon, health officials said the Saunders Secondary School community has been notified about the positive screen and public health staff will follow up with close […]

Jump to: Hospitalizations – Outbreaks – Schools – Vaccinations and Testing – Ontario – Elgin and Oxford – Huron and Perth – Sarnia and Lambton The Middlesex-London Health Unit reported eight new coronavirus cases on Sunday along with 10 recoveries. The update brings the regional pandemic case tally to 6,286, of which 5,962 have resolved. […]

A new app created by Western University graduates aims to demystify sizing when ordering clothes online. Co-founders Shawn Miller and Arpit Bhanot came up with the idea for SizeWize when in-person shopping became more challenging due to the coronavirus. “When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, that got us thinking about shopping more local,” said Miller while […]

Jump to: Hospitalizations – Outbreaks – Schools – Vaccinations and Testing – Ontario – Elgin and Oxford – Huron and Perth – Sarnia and Lambton The Middlesex-London Health Unit reported 25 new coronavirus cases on Saturday along with 11 recoveries. The update brings the regional pandemic case tally to 6,276, of which 5,952 have resolved. […]