Education accounts for nearly a 42 per cent increase in Sunshine List April 11, 2021 Reading time: 3 min 30 s
By Phillip Blancher, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Photo from Wikimedia Commons.
The education sector was the single largest growth area in reporting for the provincial Sunshine List. The annual report from the province was released March 19th.
The Ontario Sunshine List, which has reported provincial, municipal, school board and crown agency salaries above $100,000 since 1997, grew by 37,508 people in the last year. Some of that growth is attributed to the health care sector where the response to the COVID-19 pandemic has added positions and overtime.
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Ontario’s Niagara public-health unit will offer vaccines to thousands of education workers this week, part of a small but growing effort to minimize disruptions for students attending school.
Only in Surrey, B.C., has a health unit vaccinated more than 90 per cent of its school-based staff as doctors and educators across the country call on provincial governments to prioritize those who work with students as concerns grow about more transmissible variants of the virus that causes COVID-19.
Hastings Prince Edward Public Health reported 18 new cases today, for a total of 169 active cases.
A total of 20 people have recovered since Thursdays report.
Breakdown of active cases:
51 active cases in Quinte West
20 in Central Hastings
7 in Tyendinaga and Deseronto
4 on the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory
1 in North Hastings
There are eight people in hospital, with 4 in ICU and two on ventilators.
There are a total of five outbreaks, as the outbreak at Richmond Retirement Residence has been declared over. The Belleville facility had one case linked to it.
A total of 39,316 vaccines have been administered with 3,204 people fully vaccinated. The health unit announced this week that a person who was at the Loyalist College vaccination was contagious with COVID-19 during their visit. The individual later tested positive for the virus and close contacts have been notified.
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(Adds reaction from restaurant industry group, teachers union, details of Quebec lockdown)
By Allison Martell and Moira Warburton
TORONTO, April 1 (Reuters) - The Canadian province of Ontario will enter a limited lockdown for 28 days on Saturday, as COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations rise and more dangerous virus variants take hold, the premier said on Thursday.
The lockdown for Canada s most populous province will fall short of enacting a stay-at-home order, which new government modeling released earlier on Thursday suggested would be necessary to avoid a doubling to some 6,000 new COVID-19 cases per day by late April.
Ontario s third lockdown since the pandemic began will shutter all indoor and outdoor dining, although retailers will remain open with capacity limits, Premier Doug Ford said, calling the measures pulling the emergency brake on the entire province.
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The Hastings and Prince Edward Counties board of health has voted against earlier vaccination of teachers noting it doesn’t have the authority to override provincial guidelines.
After exiting a closed session of the board Wednesday, a new business item was brought forward in response to a letter received by the City of Quinte West council from the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario (ETFO), the health unit said in a press release.
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