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"Ontario has been surprisingly good these past few months. Maybe we should continue to be surprisingly good and not do things too prematurely."

The scientific director of the Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table says the province should not rush into lifting capacity limits in more places, suggesting that the earliest further easing of restrictions should be at the end of the month.

The scientific director of the Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table says the province should not rush into lifting capacity limits in more places, suggesting that the earliest further easing of restrictions should be at the end of the month.

With the highly contagious delta variant now making up 90 per cent of COVID-19 cases in Ontario, the province is also seeing falling rates of vaccination with the average number of daily shots administered seemingly plateauing at around 43,000. Experts say something has to be done to get those immunization rates back up again.

Dr. Nili Kaplan-Myrth, who led the Jabapolooza clinics in Ottawa throughout the spring and summer, is pushing the province to mandate vaccines for everyone eligible.

Municipal election signs are already peppering the streets of St. John's and other communities. But with a Canadian election now looming, John Gushue writes, the concerns of local candidates may be drowned out by the federal race.

The Bank of Canada is adopting a hybrid work model when employees return to the office once the coronavirus pandemic recedes. The majority of the bank’s employees will have the ability to continue working remotely for up to 50 per cent of the time, balanced over a two-week period, said Alexis Corbett, the BoC’s managing director […]

With COVID-19 cases rising after a summer lull, more signs point to Canada entering an expected fourth wave of the pandemic — one which could be dramatically different from earlier surges, thanks to rising vaccination rates, but not entirely pain-free.

In today's Morning Brief, we look at the conviction and sentencing of Michael Spavor in China, a verdict that will further test the strained relationship between the Canadian and Chinese governments.

The head of Ontario’s science advisory table says that he will not support any further easing of public health measures given the recent rise in case counts driven by the more infectious Delta variant.