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  TORONTO -- The Hospital for Sick Children will begin to accept paediatric inpatients Monday from across the Greater Toronto Area in an effort to help increase capacity in acute-care hospitals. In a statement, the hospital confirmed they have been working with regional hospitals and health-care system partners to prepare to accept pediatric patient transfers. “SickKids routinely accepts paediatric patients from other hospitals and is prepared to provide safe, high-quality care to additi...

Ontario records 4,456 new COVID-19 cases in 24 hours, as health experts warn of rapid rise in intensive care admissions.

Ontario records 4,456 new COVID-19 cases in 24 hours, as health experts warn of rapid rise in intensive care admissions.

  TORONTO -- A critical care doctor in Toronto is urging the province and federal government to begin coordinating the transfer of intensive care nurses from other provinces to Ontario as the number of COVID-19 patients in ICU beds across the province approaches 600. Dr. Michael Warner, the medical director of critical care at Toronto’s Michael Garron Hospital, said Saturday that there are now 572 patients with COVID-19 in Ontario intensive care units, a new record in the province. In a ...

Critical care doctor calling for out-of-province help to mitigate ICU surge in Ontario by News Staff Posted Apr 10, 2021 11:37 am EDT Paramedics transport an elderly man to the hospitals emergency department during the COVID-19 pandemic in Mississauga, Ont., on Thursday, November 19, 2020. Ontario has entered the second wave of coronavirus infections. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette A critical care doctor at a Toronto hospital is calling on all levels of government to work together to bring h...

Last Updated Saturday, April 10, 2021 9:20AM EDT A critical care doctor in Toronto is urging the province and federal government to begin coordinating the transfer of intensive care nurses from other provinces to Ontario as the number of COVID-19 patients in ICU beds across the province approaches 600. Dr. Michael Warner, the medical director of critical care at Toronto’s Michael Garron Hospital, said Saturday that there are now 572 patients with COVID-19 in Ontario intensi...

Published Saturday, April 10, 2021 10:16AM EDT Ontario is reporting 3,800 new cases of COVID-19 today as the number of ICU patients infected with the virus hits another record high. Provincial health officials logged 3,813 new cases today, down from the 4,227 infections confirmed Friday but up from 3,009 last Saturday. The rolling seven-day average of new cases now stands at 3,213, up from 2,552 one week ago. Nineteen more virus-related deaths were confirmed in the province t...

Ontario teacher calls on education workers across Canada: “Join the struggle to make our schools safe!” The World Socialist Web Site received the following letter from an Ontario teacher explaining why they will participate in the inaugural meeting of the Cross-Canada Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee this Sunday (April 11), and why all education staff and working people should attend. The online meeting will begin at 1 PM Eastern Time. You can register to attend here. Protest by t...

Staging Inherited Stories Literatures, Communities, and Learning: Conversations with Indigenous Writers by Aubrey Hanson If You Discover a Fire by Shaun Robinson Kailin Wright In Political Adaptation in Canadian Theatre, Kailin Wright develops a theoretical framework to identify the strategies, functions, and impacts of political adaptation in Canadian theatre, a form of expression that Wright positions as a “leading mode of storytelling and self-definition in Canada” (3). This boo...

Ontarios health system increasingly overwhelmed by pandemic’s third wave Ontario Conservative Premier Doug Ford announced a totally ineffectual stay-at-home order yesterday in response to growing warnings from doctors that the surging third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic has brought the province’s hospitals weeks, and possibly just days, away from collapse. Ontario Premier Doug Ford announcing State of Emergency (Source: CBC News) Already there are more than 500 COVID patients in hospital in...