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Article content By Raywat Deonandan Recently, Solicitor General Sylvia Jones was asked on CBC Radio why Ontario had waited so long to enact COVID-19 restrictions doctors and scientists had been pleading for. Earlier, Ontario’s Science Table had observed a worrying growth trend in cases and ICU usage and had forecast a dire, explosive situation weeks away. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Deonandan: How Ontario fell for the balanced COVID res...

Article content OTTAWA – As the country battles a crushing third wave of COVID-19 that has filled hospitals and led to deaths and crippling economic lockdowns, provinces have declined to use several supports already available from the federal government, including a new drug treatment, rapid tests and help making contact tracing calls. On Tuesday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced military doctors and nurses would be sent to Ontario and the government is also considering requests for mo...

Posted: Apr 26, 2021 10:23 AM CT | Last Updated: April 26 A GoFundMe page was established to raise money for Ali Syed and his wife, Misbah Zakir. Syed died Sunday from the virus causing COVID-19. His wife, also hospitalized with the virus, delivered their third child by C-section last week, according to the fundraising site.(GoFundMe) Another young father has died in Regina from COVID-19. Ali Syed, a worker at SaskPowers Boundary Dam in Estevan and father of three young children, died Sunday fr...

The science advisory table says vaccine "hotspotting" is an effective way to target many essential workers in areas disproportionately affected.

Article content BRAMPTON — Gigantic Amazon corporation is the first target of Peel Public Health’s new policy to shut down businesses with more than five COVID-19 cases to control outbreaks. Using Section 22 powers, Peel Public Health announced at noon that sections of two Amazon Fulfillment Centres have been ordered closed. Calling it “partial” closures these measures affect the Amazon operations at 8050 Heritage Rd. in Brampton and 12724 Coleraine Dr. in Bolton. We apologize, but this...

34 cases screened positive for variants of concern Sault Area Hospital (SAH) confirmed Tuesday that one COVID-19 positive patient from the Greater Toronto Area will be admitted this week. The hospital is preparing to receive one to two patients a day, depending on critical care capacity in our hospital. The release states that patients transferred to the local hospital could be patients with COVID-19 or without COVID-19. Additionally, the local hospital is ramping down on non-urgent and non-em...

Heres What You Really Need To Get A COVID Vaccine In Ontario An alchemy involving copious free time, a car and loads of social capital—adding up to a terrible way to get jabs into the arms that need them most. Sarmishta Subramanian, Macleans Updated April 23, 2021 Residents of Toronto’s Jane and Finch neighbourhood, in the M3N postal code, line up at a pop-up COVID-19 vaccine clinic on Saturday, April 17, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Cole Burston The must-have item last fall ...

Ontario urged to hold lottery for key drug used on COVID-19 patients 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 Ontario should set up a lottery to allocate one of the few medications known to reduce mortality in critically ill COVID-19 patients in case suppl...

How Ontarios health advisors handled the darkest day of the pandemic Justin Ling: Doug Ford ignored the advice of the Ontario Science Table. Some considered resigning over the weekend. Now, will the premier listen to their plan? April 20, 2021 Brown, co-chair of Ontarios COVID-19 science advisory table, attends a briefing at Queen’s Park in Toronto on April 1, 2021 (CP/Frank Gunn) There are plenty of tough jobs in Ontario right now: From those moving parcels at Amazon warehouses to those gu...

Article content We are facing a new pandemic is what the doctors, the experts and the politicians keep telling us. I believe them, it is different in many ways, not least of all the results that we are seeing so far. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or LILLEY: Context on COVID numbers needed now more than ever Back to video We’ve been told that young or younger people are hitting ICUs as a result of the new wave of COVID-19, that things are chang...