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Article content TORONTO — Furious criticism of new anti-pandemic powers that allow police in Ontario to stop any motorist or pedestrian and ask where they live and why they’re not home prompted the provincial government on Saturday to reconsider the measures. As the number of infected people in hospital reached record levels, Premier Doug Ford tweeted that the measures, which also included shutting down all outdoor recreational facilities and playgrounds, would be clarified. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. Ford backtracks on some new measur...

Civil libertarians and politicians denounced random stops as overkill

TORONTO — Ontario's government has walked back sweeping new police powers a day after they were announced. Solicitor General Sylvia Jones says officers will no longer have the right to stop any . . .

After false starts and supply glitches, Canada's immunization campaign makes progress cbc.ca 2 hrs ago John Paul Tasker © Evan Mitsui An employee of Apotex pharmaceuticals gets her first dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at a mobile clinic run by Humber River Hospital on Tuesday. The nationwide vaccination campaign to immunize adults against COVID-19 is now well underway after a series of false starts and severe supply disruptions. Nearly four months to the day after the first Pfizer shots were given to a small group of health care workers in Toronto, the provinces a...

  TORONTO -- It's been a bad week for Ontario's vaccine rollout. Multiple clinics around the GTA have said that they are either temporarily shutting down or no longer taking bookings because they don't have enough doses to vaccinate people. At the same time, some critics charge that there are more than 1 million doses sitting in freezers that could be distributed. They point to the number of vaccines delivered to Ontario and compare it to the number of doses administered. As of Wednesday night, Ontario had given out a total of 3,528,404 doses, according to provincial data. According to f...