Category: Education

Ontario is reporting 2,333 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, the seventh straight day cases are above 2,000, bringing the provincial total to 349,903. Wednesday’s case count is slightly lower than Tuesday’s which saw 2,336 new infections. On Monday, 2,094 new cases were recorded and 2,448 on Sunday. According to Wednesday’s provincial report, 785 cases were […]

Wednesday marks International Transgender Day of Visibility (TDOV), an annual event celebrating trans lives by raising awareness about the systemic problems affecting communities. There’s no shortage of problems in health care; transphobia prevents many Canadians from visiting doctors and emergency rooms, and getting tested for COVID-19, according to national surveys by TransPulse Canada. A lack […]

The federal government has announced a $6-million investment in a new Hamilton-based innovation hub that seeks to solve health care issues using ‘made-in-Canada’ solutions. The funding through FedDev Ontario will help local non-profits Innovation Factory and Synapse Life Science Consortium create a network called the Southern Ontario Pharmaceutical and Health Innovation Ecosystem — or SOPHIE […]

After enduring a year-long pit stop imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic, some city councillors in London, Ont., are looking to push the pedal to the metal when it comes to implementing automated speed enforcement (ASE) in school zones. In 2019, city council approved a five-year contract with Redflex Traffic Systems Canada, allowing the company to […]

The Thames Valley District School Board says active cases of COVID-19 were identified at four of its schools on Tuesday, including one school that will be closing as a result. The board says Central Public School in Woodstock, Ont., will be closed “due to significant exposure and a high number of students and staff required […]

A policy expert says the Canada’s Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine shipment timeline is the result of naivety and a lack of ambition, while an infectious disease physician says it won’t be the country’s ‘workhorse’ vaccine. On Monday, Procurement Minister Anita Anand announced that the first shipments of the single-dose COVID-19 vaccine from Johnson & […]

Western University brass say new safety measures are being implemented on-campus amid increasing coronavirus case counts in the London-Middlesex region and the declaration of another outbreak at a student residence. The announcement comes the same day the region returned to the red-control level of the province’s COVID-19 Response Framework. Read more: 3rd COVID-19 wave will […]

TORONTO — Ontario’s education minister says that spring break for the province’s schools will not be postponed again. Stephen Lecce says the break scheduled for the week of April 12 will go ahead as planned while the government continues to follow advice from the province’s top doctor. He also says the government is planning to […]

The new variants of concern (VOCs) are responsible for a 21 per cent increase in hospital admissions since Ontario went into its province-wide lockdown in December, according to a new report which warns the VOCs are having a “substantial impact” on the health care system. The report from Ontario’s COVID-19 science table published Monday said […]

A proposal to expand Hamilton’s urban boundary has brought community members out in force. A special meeting of the city’s general issues committee heard close to five dozen public delegations on Monday, almost all opposed to adding over 1,300 hectares of farmland to the urban area to accommodate future residential development. City planners and consultants […]

With 39 outbreaks across Hamilton and COVID-19 infections among youth on the rise, the city’s medical officer of health believes there will be “broader discussions” with the province about further local control measures amid a third wave of the pandemic. Amid a “disappointing” weekend in which Hamilton bylaw officers had to enforce provincial orders at […]

Jump to: Hospitalizations – Outbreaks – Schools – Vaccinations and Testing – Ontario – Elgin and Oxford – Huron and Perth – Sarnia and Lambton The London-Middlesex region is moving back into the red-control level of Ontario’s COVID-19 response framework, the province announced Monday. The move will take effect on Tuesday, and comes nearly a […]