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Agriculture has been a backbone of Eastern Ontario's economy for generations and today, food processing has an equally important role in the region.

Agriculture has been a backbone of Eastern Ontario's economy for generations and today, food processing has an equally important role in the region.

Here are the latest local, regional and national headlines on the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) for Tuesday, March 2, 2021: There have been 301,839 confirmed cases of COVID-19 across Ontario, an increase of 1,023 (or 0.3 per cent) from the previous day. There are 284,283 people recovered from the virus while 6,986 people have died. The number of Ontario people tested is 11,080,168 of which 13,416 have pending results. Canada’s coronavirus case total is 870,033. The country has 22,017 deaths from the virus – one in the Yukon, one in Nunavut, 1,363 in British Columbia, 1,888 in Alberta, 385 ...

  ST-ALBERT, ONT. -- It was a quick decision Wednesday but one Eric Lafontaine is glad he made.  After two workers at the St-Albert Cheese Cooperative tested positive for a COVID-19 variant of concern, Lafontaine shut down the plant east of Ottawa, and had all of his employees tested the next day.  "Everybody was nervous because when it’s spreading like that you don’t know, and because especially it was the variant," Lafontaine, the director general of St-Albert Cheese Cooperative said.  One additional positive case was found; also a variant of concern. Luckily, it was a worker...

Fast Facts: Front-line workers wait in long, snowy line for COVID-19 vaccine following a "minor booking issue" in Ottawa on Saturday Ottawa's top doctor addresses concerns about the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, saying "62 per cent effectiveness is still better than zero" Ottawa Public Health reports 62 new cases of COVID-19 on Saturday St-Albert Cheese Cooperative re-opens factory store after COVID-19 outbreak COVID-19 by the numbers in Ottawa (Ottawa Public Health data): New COVID-19 cases: 62 new cases on Saturday Total COVID-19 cases: 14,650 COVID-19 cases per 100,000 (previous ...