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  TORONTO -- Living paycheque to paycheque and then being forced to choose between the health of your colleagues and money for essentials is a choice that no one should have to make, several essential workers tell CTV News Toronto. That need for around $100 of income a day is one reason the province’s ICU beds have been filling up with patients suffering from more infectious COVID-19 variants, observers said, highlighting the need for paid sick days. “I get upset with people coming int...

Article content And these days, it’ll most likely be another COVID patient. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or TO LIVE OR DIE: Waves of COVID reality hit Torontos paramedics Back to video That’s the reality for Toronto’s paramedics, who say nobody among their ranks thought COVID-19’s third wave would be this bad. “You just don’t believe the news, the news says hospitals are overwhelmed, but are they?” said a veteran Toronto advanced-...

Health officials express continued frustration with province on paid sick leave proposal by Michael Ranger Last Updated Apr 28, 2021 at 6:52 am EDT Ontario Premier Doug Ford puts his mask back on during the daily briefing at Humber River Hospital in Toronto on Tuesday November 24, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn Nearly one week after Premier Doug Ford promised Ontarians the top paid sick leave program on the continent, frontline healthcare workers continue to express frustration with the l...

Last Updated Tuesday, April 27, 2021 11:25AM EDT The Ford government says its plan for improving paid sick leave in Ontario involves topping up payments already offered to workers through the federal governments sick benefits program but Prime Minister Trudeau said Tuesday the solution must involve employers. During Question Period in the Ontario legislature on Tuesday, Labour Minister Monte McNaughton confirmed reports that the province has reached out to the federal governm...

How long do covid-19 vaccine side effects last? The CDC has issued guidance on potential side effects for the coronavirus shots. The symptoms are fairly rare but you may need to contact a doctor if they persist. Jon Cherry AFP The national vaccination effort has been one of President Joe Biden’s top priorities since taking office in January. His American Rescue Plan provided hundreds of billions of dollars to aid the vaccine rollout and the shots are now available to all adults. Biden initia...

Heres What You Really Need To Get A COVID Vaccine In Ontario An alchemy involving copious free time, a car and loads of social capital—adding up to a terrible way to get jabs into the arms that need them most. Sarmishta Subramanian, Macleans Updated April 23, 2021 Residents of Toronto’s Jane and Finch neighbourhood, in the M3N postal code, line up at a pop-up COVID-19 vaccine clinic on Saturday, April 17, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Cole Burston The must-have item last fall ...

What’s happening now All walk-in spots at the Telus Convention Centre vaccine clinic were filled by 11 a.m. Albertans are now guaranteed paid leave to get their COVID-19 vaccine. The province reported 1,699 new cases of COVID-19 Wednesday with a positivity rate of 9.5 per cent. Limited data was provided due to a technical issue. Alberta has shifted some doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine originally intended for local pharmacies to rapid-flow clinics, causing some appointments to be can...

Article content A record number of critically ill COVID-19 patients were moved around Ontario hospitals Wednesday — cumulatively covering thousands of kilometres — as the province struggles to juggle patients between a dwindling supply of available hospital beds. More movement — much more — is coming, as Ontario health officials brace for Toronto-area hospitals to be hit hard by the third wave of COVID, fuelled by more contagious variants. We apologize, but this video has failed to load...

Article content The Brockville General Hospital has opened its doors to patients from across Eastern Ontario and the Greater Toronto Area as part of a provincewide shuttle to ease the burden on overwhelmed hospitals in COVID-19 hotspots. As of mid-week, BGH had received or was expecting 30 patients – some with COVID, some not – from hospitals in Cornwall, Kingston, Scarborough and Oshawa. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. BGH taking patients from...

Article content A record number of critically ill COVID-19 patients were moved around Ontario hospitals Wednesday — cumulatively covering thousands of kilometres — as the province struggles to juggle patients between a dwindling supply of available hospital beds. More movement — much more — is coming, as Ontario health officials brace for Toronto-area hospitals to be hit hard by the third wave of COVID, fuelled by more contagious variants. We apologize, but this video has failed to load...