Ontario premier under fire for hurling misogynist attack at NDP Leader Andrea Horwath
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iPolitics By Iain Sherriff-Scott. Published on Jan 6, 2021 4:43pm A man speaks to a worker at a long-term care home in Toronto in April. (Richard Lautens/Toronto Star)
With the Ontario government promising to vaccinate everyone living and working in nursing homes in the province’s COVID-19 hot spots by mid-January, opposition parties say the governing Tories are still dragging their feet.
On Tuesday, government officials said Ontario would be increasing throughout the month of January the number of sites where the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is delivered, and that the province expects to start receiving new shipments of both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines in the coming days and weeks. However, those officials couldn’t say when they expect all residents, staff, and essential family caregivers in long-term care homes to get the jab.
Last Updated Friday, January 1, 2021 6:08AM EST Ontario Finance Minister Rod Phillips has resigned from his key role in cabinet over his secret vacation to a luxurious Caribbean island as the COVID-19 pandemic ran rampant in the province. Today, following my conversation with Rod Phillips, I have accepted his resignation as Ontario s Minister of Finance, Ontario Premier Doug Ford said in a statement. At a time when the people of Ontario have sacrificed so much, today’s resignation is a demonstration that our government takes seriously our obligation to hold ourselves to a higher standard, he said. The Ajax MPP left for St. Barts, a tiny, 10,000-inhabitant island known as a hideaway for yachts and boutique luxury hotels, on Dec. 13, calling the decision a “dumb, dumb mistake.”