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As part of Monday's announcement, the stay-at-home order will apply to 28 public health regions until Tuesday, February 16.

Ontario’s life-and-death emergency triage protocol remains a work in progress Bookmark Please log in to listen to this story. Also available in French and Mandarin. Log In Create Free Account Getting audio file ... This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy. Full Disclaimer Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press If a third wave of COVID-19 overwhelms Ontario hospitals, and intensive care units run out of beds, the province’s doctors could be f...

Fatality rate among COVID-19 patients in ICU is triple the pre-pandemic rate: Ontario data Mike Crawley © Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press Medical staff in the ICU at the Humber River Hospital in Toronto turn a COVID-19 patient who is intubated and on a ventilator from his back to his stomach. The death rate among Ontario intensive care patients with confirmed cases of COVID-19 is triple the pre-pandemic fatality rate, according to a new report obtained by CBC News.  The r...

Incel, the now-widely circulated portmanteau for involuntary celibacy, denotes a growing community of mostly cisgender men who are unable to find sexual partners or forge romantic relationships. Organizing in online networks, these men blame their exile from sexual relations on everything from feminism and sexual liberation to genetics and natural laws of attraction. In this essay, we offer an asexual critique of compulsory sexuality in online incel communities to illustrate how the sexual imp...

by Frederica Mathewes-Green I collect bumper stickers. I keep a notepad on my dashboard, and when I spot a new one, I jot it down. I like bumper stickers because they’re such a curious form of communication. Necessarily brief, every word, even every letter, must count. They’re the Morse code of culture. Over the years I’ve seen a number of stickers that I’ve learned represent gay pride. There’s the Greek lambda symbol, the first letter of the word for homosexual. The...

Patients with the greatest chance of survival beyond 12 months should be prioritized for critical care in the event that overwhelmed Ontario hospitals need to begin rationing life-saving treatments, the provincial government said in a document sent to hospitals earlier this month.

The Globe and Mail Bookmark Please log in to listen to this story. Also available in French and Mandarin. Log In Create Free Account Getting audio file ... This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy. Full Disclaimer Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced plans on Monday to open 500 new hospital beds – including those inside an entire soon-to-open facility north of Toronto – as the government scrambles to head of...

Hospitals in Ontario have received a much-anticipated document that lays out the criteria to be used if intensive ...

Hospitals that have intensive care space available in Ontario were told to reserve one-third of those beds for transfers from hospitals that have reached ICU capacity. Warner said implementing this criteria would mean that not every patient today who needs critical care — COVID-19 or not COVID-19 related — will get the critical care if triage comes into effect. He said doctors will be required to use a checklist of criteria to determine who is most likely to survive their critical illnes...

Posted: Jan 15, 2021 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: January 15 Paramedics transport a patient to Mt. Sinai Hospital in Toronto on Thursday. With hospitals in Montreal under strain from COVID-19, doctors in Quebec and Ontario are now reviewing triage protocols that will help them to decide who gets access to critical care if there is a shortage of beds.(Evan Mitsui/CBC)