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Article content They’ve replaced the general with a colonel, the tank commander with the combat surgeon and in doing so, Ontario is also moving up the vaccination of frontline workers. The change at the top of Ontario’s vaccination task force comes as Rick Hillier, the retired general hired to establish Ontario’s vaccine distribution system left his four-month post on Wednesday. On Thursday, Homer Tien, a member of the task force, a colonel in the Canadian Armed Forces and a former combat...

Posted: Apr 04, 2021 2:41 PM ET | Last Updated: April 4 Dr. Homer Tien, president and CEO of Ornge Air Ambulance and a trauma surgeon, will be operational lead of the task force as the province prepares to move into Phase 2 of its COVID-19 vaccine rollout, according to Stephen Warner, spokesperson for Solicitor General Sylvia Jones.(Rachel Scott/Ornge) The Ontario government says it has chosen Dr. Homer Tien, the CEO and president of Ornge Air Ambulance, to lead its COVID-19 Vaccine Distribut...

Ornge CEO Dr. Homer Tien replacing Hillier as head of vaccine task force by News Staff Last Updated Apr 4, 2021 at 4:12 pm EDT Dr. Homer Tien, trauma surgeon and President and CEO of Ornge Air Ambulance. TWITTER Dr. Homer Tien, CEO and president of Ornge Air Ambulance, will lead the province’s vaccine task force following the end of retired Gen. Rick Hillier’s term. In a statement, Stephen Warner, spokesman for the Solicitor General Sylvia Jones, says the trauma surgeon will serve as the �...

Toronto began vaccinating members of its police force against COVID-19 on Monday after the province identified front-line officers as a priority group.

Toronto began vaccinating members of its police force against COVID-19 on Monday after the province identified front-line officers as a priority group.

Winnipeg Free Press By: Holly McKenzie-Sutter, The Canadian Press Posted: Last Modified: 2:38 PM CST Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2021 The mayor of Sudbury, Ont., is calling for highway checkpoints that would discourage non-essential travel to northern Ontario as more cases of highly infectious COVID-19 variants are detected in the province. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau adjusts the microphones for...

Court reporter Published: 2:58 PM February 1, 2021    Updated: 3:09 PM February 1, 2021 Ryan Kirk, from Letchworth, has been sentenced to eight years detention after being found guilty of rape. - Credit: Herts police A teenage rapist from Letchworth has been sentenced to eight years’ detention after being found guilty of orally raping two girls.   Ryan Kirk, 19, of Highover Road, was 18 when he overpowered a 13-year-old girl in a spinney.  St Albans Crown Court heard he walked off and sh...

The City of Toronto has received nearly 2,000 complaints about apartment and condo residents who remain unmasked in common building areas but has not issued a…

SIOUX LOOKOUT, Ont. — As medical interpreter Tom Chapman received his COVID-19 vaccination on Thursday, 85-year-old patient Eunice Fiddler told him in Ojicree: "Don't cry." Fiddler was the first person at the William A.

Hundreds of recruits from across Ontario will arrive in Aylmer next week for training at the Ontario Police College despite surging COVID-19 caseloads locally…