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"Premier Ford needs to reverse course and open safe outdoor recreation facilities." In a statement Green Party Leader Mike Schreiner said he has consistently called on the Premier to follow the science, to listen to and act on the advice from the science advisory team.  "The science team has put out what will work and what won't work. What it specially said will not work for our policies that discourage safe outdoor activity will not limit the spread of COVID-19 and will disproportionately harm children and those who do not have access to their own greenspace. COVID-19 will dispropo...

Last Updated Thursday, April 29, 2021 5:13PM EDT Every adult in Ontario will be able to book a COVID-19 vaccine appointment through the provincial portal by around May 24, with a dramatic increase in anticipated supply also allowing them to divert 50 per cent of all incoming doses to hot spot neighbourhoods for two weeks in May. Health bureaucrats told reporters on background on Thursday that the age eligibility for using the provincial booking system will drop to 55+ on Friday, 50+ on the week of May 3, 40+ on the week of May 10, 30+ by the week of May 17 and all the way d...

Jones replied, “We wanted to make sure that the modelling was actually showing up in our hospitals.” This was a curious answer at the heart of the slow, ineffective government responses to the pandemic. It is also why the so-called “balanced response” advocated by those seeking to calibrate public health responses against real-time data was always doomed to fail. The problem, simply, is exponential growth. Most don’t understand it. In a pandemic, that failure of understanding is our undoing. Investors know it as compound interest. Consider the unlikely scenario in which you pay one ...

Ontario’s Chaotic Third Wave: A Timeline Rushed decisions, overstretched hospitals and a scramble for vaccines: how the Doug Ford government fumbled its way into the province’s third wave. Fatima Syed Updated (Screengrab: Twitter/@fordnation) On February 11, one of Ontario’s top doctors gave us a bleak picture of the province’s COVID future. Dr. Adalsteinn Brown, co-chair of Ontario’s COVID-19 Science Advisory Table, and Dr. David Williams, Ontario’s chief medical officer, unveiled modelling data that indicated the province was heading to a third wave, spurred b...

iPolitics By Iain Sherriff-Scott. Published on Apr 29, 2021 5:04pm Ontario Labour Minister Monte McNaughton, pictured at a news conference in June 2020, announced a paid sick leave program on Wednesday. (Richard Lautens/Toronto Star) Ontario’s legislature passed three days of paid sick leave on Thursday, while opposition parties promised to keep fighting for at least 10 paid days of leave. The new benefit provides $200 for up to three days that a worker is off sick. The government will reimburse businesses for the cost of the program, which ends on Sept. 25. Announced Wednesday b...