TORONTO The federal government says it has not received a formal request from Ontario to add further restrictions on international travellers, despite three letters sent by the Ford government in April calling for more measures at the border. In a letter obtained by CP24, Canada’s Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc responded to the two latest letters issued by the Ontario government about the need to enhance measures at the border to curb COVID-19 transmission. Ontario Premier Doug Ford has increasingly been vocal about his call to ban all non-essential travel to Canada as variants of concern are spreading across the province and country, amid a third wave of the pandemic.
A drive-thru vaccination clinic is held at the Primacy Medical Centre in a parking lot on Lasalle Boulevard in Sudbury, Ont. on Monday, May 10, 2021. The medical centre provided the Moderna vaccine in collaboration with Public Health Sudbury and Districts. Photo by John Lappa /Postmedia Network
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Ontario will offer the Pfizer vaccine to youth aged 12 to 17 when there is sufficient supply, Solicitor General Sylvia Jones says.
The vaccine has been approved in Canada for that age group.
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Provincial police reviewing NDP request to look into long-term care deaths
by News Staff
Last Updated May 10, 2021 at 2:17 pm EDT
Paramedics take away an elderly patient at the Tendercare Living Centre, long-term-care facility during the COVID-19 pandemic in Scarborough, Ont., on Wednesday, December 23, 2020. Nearly half of its 254 residents along with 47 staff members so far have tested positive for the coronavirus. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
Provincial police say they are reviewing a request from Ontario’s NDP party to see if criminal charges are warranted in the deaths of long-term care residents during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Last week, NDP leader Andrea Horwath sent a letter to OPP Commissioner Thomas Carrique, calling on the service to investigate deaths that were the result of “neglect” mentioned in several reports that looked into the Ford government’s handling of the COVID-19 crisis in long-term care settings.
TORONTO Every person 18 and over in Peel Region will be eligible to book their COVID-19 vaccine starting tomorrow. Mississauga Mayor Bonnie Crombie made the announcement on Wednesday, saying that all residents will be eligible regardless of whether or not they live in a hot spot. I m going to say it again and again and again because it makes me so happy, Crombie said. We will all be eligible for the vaccine as of 8 a.m. tomorrow. To book an appointment residents must visit this website. For people unable to book an appointment online they should call 1-888-999-6488.