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SHARE Dr Peter Juni feels like he has been screaming into the void for the past year. The scientific director of Ontario’s Science Advisory Table has spent the past dozen months advising the politicians of Canada’s largest province on how to get through the pandemic. So when the provincial government announced restrictions last week that went against much of his advice, Dr Juni was shocked. It was not the first time his advice went unheeded. In January, he and his colleagues warned the government that a third wave of Covid-19 cases was coming. But instead of listening, the provincial gove...

Health experts decry Ford government's response to 3rd wave Late Friday afternoon, Premier Doug Ford's government announced a whole host of new measures it intended to help address the third COVID-19 wave — one experts have been forecasting since February. Some of the measures — closing playgrounds, giving police the power to question anyone outside their home under threat of a $750 fine — have already been rolled back amid a groundswell of outrage. A stay-at-home order in the province has been extended until at least May 20. WATCH | Director of Ontario's COVID-19 scientific advisory...

“Our summer is at risk,” Health Minister Christine Elliott said. Ontario’s science advisers recommended that a six-week stay-at-home order and a vaccination rate of at least 100,000 doses a day is the only way to curb the third wave. Police enforcement of the stay-at-home order will also be enhanced, said Solicitor General Sylvia Jones. Police will have the authority to ask anyone who is outside what their address is and to ask why they’re out, she said. Police will also be able to pull over vehicles to check that occupants are only out for essential purposes, she said. Those violat...

Posted: Apr 17, 2021 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: April 17 Doctors say Ontario ignored crucial 3rd wave warnings The National1 day ago 2:59 Public health officials have been warning the Ontario government about a crushing third wave for months, but health-care workers say the government didn't listen and its slow reactions may have cost lives.2:59 When Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced the current stay-at-home order on April 7, he said the province's COVID-19 crisis had become worse than predicted.  "The capacity at the ICUs and these variants have taken off even beyond what they told us," t...

Ontario’s promise to deliver vaccines in hot-spot neighbourhoods via mobile and pop-up clinics has been misguided and haphazardly executed, say public health advocates and officials in Toronto.