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The Ontario government’s decision not to require health care workers to be vaccinated against COVID-19 won’t change that requirement at Quinte Health Care.

The deadlines the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) announced in an email Wednesday were a delay on its original plan, while Premier Doug Ford remains committed to making such inoculations voluntary — for education staff and students.

The Ontario COVID-19 Science Table has released the latest modelling for the province and for once, it's not all bad news!

Ontario NDP leader Andrea Horwath said she would put a comprehensive plan in place across the province to hire and and retain health care workers.

Ontario NDP leader Andrea Horwath said she would put a comprehensive plan in place across the province to hire and and retain health care workers.

Ontarios chief medical officer of health says rapid antigen tests will be sent to select schools at the highest risk of closure due to COVID-19 spread, saying a review of data “over the last couple of weeks” changed his mind about their value for unvaccinated asymptomatic students.

The Ford government had an opportunity to reset its roadmap on Monday in a throne speech that was set to describe a fresh agenda in advance of a provincial election.

Ontario’s publicly-funded schools now account for nearly one-third of the active COVID-19 cases in the province after another 146 infections were added to the tally on Monday.

Ontario students are going back to class, full-time, in person in a more normal learning environment. We know students benefit enormously when they interact in…

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.