Thunder Bay Police investigate a shooting incident on Archibald Street on Friday, May 7, 2021. (Leith Dunick, tbnewswatch.com)
THUNDER BAY – A Toronto man was rushed to hospital with life-threatening injuries on Thursday night and no suspects have yet been taken into custody following a shooting incident on Archibald Street on Thunder Bay’s south side.
Thunder Bay Police said the major crimes unit has been on scene since the incident was first reported and urged anyone with any information to come forward, as neither a suspect nor the weapon used in the shooting has been recovered.
It’s the third shooting incident in Thunder Bay in less than a week.
Michael Hurley is the president of CUPE s Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (TBNewswatch file)
TORONTO The Canadian Union of Public Employees says current spending proposals by the provincial government will put Northwestern Ontario hospitals under significant cost pressures.
CUPE held a news conference Wednesday to release a union research paper called
Ontario Hospital Crisis: Overcapacity and Under Threat.
It said it used government data to extrapolate spending projections, and found that province-wide hospital funding will fall almost $600 million behind in the first year, and over $4.4 billion in eight years.
Assuming that staffing follows funding, CUPE said this would mean about 15 per cent less staff relative to demand.
THUNDER BAY Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre has increased its Intensive Care Unit capacity, as requested by the Critical Care Services Ontario Command Table.
So far, however, it has only received two patient transfers from southern Ontario where ICUs are under strain because of the rising prevalence of COVID-19.
Last week, provincial officials asked TBRHSC to increase its ICU ventilator capacity to 30, as a precaution.
The hospital said it expected to add the requested four additional beds by this past weekend.
On Monday, however, it reported that it has accepted only two transfers to date. TBRHSC is prepared with contingency plans for potentially receiving more patient transfers from other parts of the province, the hospital said in a statement.
6 new COVID-19 cases confirmed in both Thunder Bay district and the northwest on Tuesday
Six new cases of COVID-19 were confirmed in the Thunder Bay district on Tuesday. The Northwestern Health Unit also reported six new cases.
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Posted: May 04, 2021 11:02 AM ET | Last Updated: May 4
Six new COVID-19 cases were confirmed in the Thunder Bay district on Tuesday.(Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press)
Six new cases of COVID-19 were confirmed in the Thunder Bay district on Tuesday.
The Thunder Bay District Health Unit (TBDHU) said four of the cases are due to close contact, one is the result of travel outside of the region, and one remains under investigation.
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The number of active COVID-19 cases has dropped slightly in the Thunder Bay District.
The health unit says there are six new cases Tuesday, putting the active count at 44.
Ten people have had their cases resolved.
There is one case of variant concern.
Four people got the virus through close contact with someone else
One after travelling outside northwestern Ontario
One is pending results
The Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre adds two patients have been sent here from hotspots in southern Ontario, and is ready should more be sent.
As of May 4th, the local health unit says roughly 45% of the eligible population over 16 years old has received at least one dose of vaccine.