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COVID-19 has fewer people riding transit and this could be good for transit systems Bookmark Please log in to listen to this story. Also available in French and Mandarin. Log In Create Free Account Getting audio file . This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy. Full Disclaimer DARRYL DYCK/The Globe and Mail Rush hour on transit routes across the country will likely never be the same after the pandemic, and transit planners fear that past gains in ridership will be lost forever. But there may also be an opportunity to create more efficient transit services for everyone, say planners and analysts who are spending considerable time trying to figure out the postpandemic future. ....
Stay in the loop Sign up for our free email newsletter. Unsubscribe anytime or contact us for details. Toronto police have been alerted to three separate incidents in the span of three days in which a man intentionally spit on people on the TTC, and officers believe the same culprit is responsible for all three assaults. Though only one victim has come forward, police believe all three were of Asian descent. Police say they first responded to reports that a man had assaulted someone by spitting on them on the eastbound platform at Christie subway station on April 9 around 8:47 a.m., but the man fled the area before he could be caught. ....
TORONTO Ontario s health minister pushed back in Question Period on Monday amid suggestions that politics may have played a role in the selection of which areas of the province are prioritized for COVID-19 vaccine access. Liberal MPP John Fraser pointed to several areas based on the first three letters of a postal code deemed hot spots but data showed were low on the list of COVID-19 case rates and hospitalization rates. For example, a postal code region in Kanata, a riding of a government minister, is deemed a hot spot despite lower rates of hospitalization and death than some 300 other neighbourhoods in Ontario, Fraser said. ....
TORONTO Toronto could see about 2,500 COVID-19 cases per day by the end of April if the current rate of transmission remains the same, the city’s top doctor said Monday. In a presentation to Toronto’s Board of Health, Dr. Eileen de Villa said that the third wave of the pandemic is “wreaking havoc” on the city. “All together this says that right now, what we can anticipate of this third wave, is likely going to be worse than we have seen thus far over the course of the pandemic,” the medical officer of health said. “As I ve mentioned already now a couple of times, this is due to increased transmission, and increased severity associated with that B.1.1.7. variant of concern, which is now the dominant strain.” ....