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Ontario has announced that it will be the first province to mandate immunization policies for long-term care homes. The requirement, set out in a minister’s directive under the Long-Term Care Homes Act, requires homes to have COVID-19 immunization policies for staff as of July 1. The directive requires that staff members in LTC homes must do one of three things: provide proof of each dose of vaccination; provide a documented reason for not being.
Ontario Catholic colleges feel effect of tuition freeze May 20, 2021
“The bottom line is: yes,” St. Jerome’s University president and vice chancellor Peter Meehan told
The Catholic Register when asked if the freeze would be bad for Catholic colleges. “Most of us get flow-through funding from the public university based at least in part on tuition for enrolments. The tuition freeze has meant significant losses for the public universities.”
The Ontario government announced a second year of tuition freezes April 30, following its 2019-20 across-the-board 10-per-cent tuition cut.
“The financial uncertainty due to the COVID-19 pandemic further underscores the need to keep college and university programs affordable,” Colleges and Universities Minister Ross Romano said in a release. “By freezing tuition our government is continuing to reduce the financial strain on families’ pocketbooks.”
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Educators, politicians and health-care experts will be airing their concerns this week regarding a plan to make the Northern Ontario School of Medicine a separate entity.
The issue is set to be debated in committee at Queen’s Park on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.
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Among those sharing concerns will be Lakehead University president Moira McPherson; the Northwestern Ontario Municipal Association; Ryerson University president Sheldon Levy; the Lakehead University Student Union; former Metrolinx chair and TorStar president Robert Prichard; and Arnold Aberman, dean of the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine.
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