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  TORONTO -- A member of Ontario’s vaccine task force says that there will “absolutely” be some people jumping the line for COVID-19 vaccines in the second phase of the province’s rollout but he says the issue can be at least partly mitigated by having more family doctors administer shots. The Doug Ford government has said that it will prioritize nearly three million people with pre-existing conditions as part of the next phase of its vaccine rollout but it has released few details ...

Ontario is reporting more than 1,000 new COVID-19 cases as the province’s testing positivity rate dropped below three per cent on Wednesday.

A Boston man found guilty of first-degree murder in the shooting death of an innocent bystander during a 2014 street festival even though he did not fire the fatal shot had his conviction overturned by the state’s highest court on Monday. Boston Sep 5, 2019 Community members gathered Wednesday evening in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to voice their frustrations after a popular annnual event was abruptly cancelled. Organizers of the Cambridge Carnival International and city offici...

Canada’s governments lift COVID-19 restrictions despite warnings of deadly third wave Highlighting “the emergence and spread” of more contagious variants of the COVID-19 virus, Canada’s chief medical officer, Dr. Theresa Tam, told a press conference last Friday, “Unless we maintain and abide by stringent public health measures, we may not be able to avert a re-acceleration of the epidemic in Canada. These variants have been smouldering in the background and now threaten to flare up.�...

Ontario reopens all schools, delays March break ignoring warnings of a third COVID-19 wave Ontario Education Minister Stephen Lecce delivered a tirade of lies at a press conference last week to cover over the deadly implications of the province’s school reopening policy. His remarks came in the run-up to Tuesday’s return to in-class learning in the only remaining parts of the province with predominantly online instruction—Metro Toronto and the neighbouring Peel and York regions. All three...

This Week in Uses of American Poetry in Public Last month, we wrote about Amanda Gorman’s poetry performance at the presidential inauguration. This month, earnest uses of American poetry in public continued to amaze. On Sunday, February 7th, a month after the insurrection at the capitol and two days before the beginning of the impeachment trial, some of America watched the Superbowl. The 2021 Superbowl began with a blessing of sorts in the form of Amanda Gorman performing, via video, another ...

  TORONTO -- Niagara police said Saturday they are investigating alleged threats made to the regions medical officer of health that were posted on social media. "We are aware of the social media posts in reference to Dr. (Mustafa) Hirji (Niagaras medical officer of health) that have been reported in the media," Niagara police tweeted. "We will not be commenting any further at this time regarding that investigation." The alleged threats were posted on Facebook the same day as the Ontario go...

The second wave of COVID-19 in Ontario caused more death and required more specialized, life-saving hospital care than the first wave, internal healthcare system documents obtained by CP24 confirm.

Following the release of new provincial modelling that predicts a deadly third wave if public health restrictions are lifted thanks to the presence...

Some applauded Ontario's approach to a gradual easing of COVID-19 measures though many are worried it could lead to another wave of surging cases.