RICHMOND HILL, ONT. All Ontario adults in hot spot communities will qualify to book a COVID-19 vaccine by May 3. York Region s medical officer of health, Dr. Karim Kurji, is urging the province to provide more doses. On the week of May 10, we are getting about 50 per cent of that which Peel Region is getting. The region s top doctor says that just doesn t cut it, not with hot spots identified from Vaughan to Richmond Hill and Markham. You have to have targeted vaccine interventions in order to bring down the cases faster. Vaccine clinics are currently working at 60 per cent capacity. Instead of seeing per capita supply increase next month, the region says it will have its vaccine supply slashed by about 30,000 doses a week in mid to late May.
BARRIE, ONT. The Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit (SMDHU) reports 74 new COVID-19 cases Thursday, plus one new virus-related death of a Simcoe County woman. Public health has recorded 224 COVID-19 deaths, 22 this month alone. Dr. Barry Nathanson, Stevenson Memorial Hospital s chief of staff, said he s never experienced anything like this throughout his career. We ve never had to redeploy human resources the way we have had to do this time. We ve never had to reconfigure resources such as critical care units the way we have had to do this time. We ve never had to outfit children s hospitals for the provision of adult care. We ve never had our skies darkened by helicopters travelling, carrying patients from place to place.
Nearly 1 in 5 Toronto homeowners own at least two residential properties
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A disturbing new report from The Globe and Mail based on Statistics Canada data reveals that 17 per cent of all Toronto homeowners have at least two residential properties in their portfolio.
Meanwhile, per the last federal census, 33.5 per cent of Toronto residents don t own any homes at all.
While the comparison between these two numbers isn t entirely precise one set of data is from 2019, the latter from 2016 the figures suggest what many in this city already know to be true: Home ownership is a lot more accessible to people who are already wealthy.
BRADFORD WEST GWILLIMBURY, ONT. An apartment building fire in Bradford West Gwillimbury that forced 118 residents to evacuate ignites frustration for many left uprooted from their homes for nearly a month. Not one resident has been allowed back into their apartments since the fire broke out on March 22, not even to gather belongings left behind. Al Collings recalled being trapped in the elevator when smoke began to pour in. I pushed the second floor - the floor I lived on, and it took me up to the eight, and then it went to the seventh, and the smoke started coming in, he said. I thought I was done because it wouldn t stop.
Grower association in Ontario coordinates vaccination clinic
Over the past week, just over 90 percent of the Holland Marsh’s ag workers were vaccinated through pop-up clinics and appointments.
Organized by the Holland Marsh Growers’ Association (HMGA), in collaboration with the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit (SMDHU), York Region Health Unit and local municipalities, the vaccination effort was necessary to ensure the spring growing season could begin safely, with farmers and ag workers inoculated against the spread of COVID-19. The HMGA continues to work with both health units to identify agri-workers in both regions needing vaccines.
“Getting the vaccine into the arms of our farmers and their workers is a huge relief to all the families across the Marsh. But it is also critically important to ensure we are able to safely grow the produce that Canadians across the country require,” said Jody Mott, executive director of the HMGA.