Following last weekend’s big box store inspections in the Toronto and Hamilton areas Queen’s Park says it will visit an expanded range of workplaces across Ontario.
It’s an effort to ensure retailers and businesses are in step with COVID-19 health and safety requirements to protect workers and customers.
Inspectors last weekend...
A group of health experts advising Ontario on COVID-19 says the province should improve working conditions and minimize temporary staffing in long-term care homes to protect residents from the virus.
In a new report, the group says infections and deaths among long-term care residents are speeding up, mirroring the spread...
Students and parents in Durham and Halton Region, along with much of southern Ontario will learn today when schools will be able to return to in-person learning.
Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. David Williams will announce the return date on Wednesday, two and a half weeks into southern Ontario’s...
Ontario is reporting another 89 deaths linked to COVID-19 and more than 2,600 new infections today after the province saw its daily case count drop below 2,000 for the first time in more than a month on Tuesday.
Ontario health officials logged 2,655 new cases of the disease caused by...
Quebec’s premier is urging the federal government to ban non-essential international flights as the novel coronavirus health crisis rages on in the country.
François Legault issued the demand Tuesday, saying he was “very worried” about people returning from vacation abroad while COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations remain high in the province.
“I...
The number of COVID-19 cases in Quebec is nearing a grim new milestone as total cases are nearing a quarter million.
The Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux has added 1,502 cases, increasing the provincial total to 247,236 since the pandemic began last March.
Health officials have also added...
A prominent Ontario CEO has relinquished her position on the provincial task force set up to distribute the COVID-19 vaccine following an overseas trip.
“Today, Premier Ford accepted the resignation of Linda Hasenfratz as a member of Ontario’s COVID-19 Vaccination Distribution Task Force after it was brought to his attention...
Pfizer Inc. (NYSE:PFE) will temporarily suspend all shipments of its COVID-19 vaccine to Canada next week before resuming shipments — albeit at a reduced number — the week after.
Maj.-Gen. Dany Fortin, the vice-president of logistics and operations at the Public Health Agency of Canada, said the pharmaceutical giant would...
Search and rescue crews are lauding a 17 year-old for his quick-thinking and common sense, after the teen was lost in snowy mountain terrain over the weekend.
The teen, who wishes to be identified only by his first name, Robert, said he was snowmobiling Saturday afternoon with his father and...
The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times eastern):
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Nova Scotia is reporting four new cases of COVID-19, giving it a total of 22 active cases.
One of the new cases is in the province's northern zone and is a close contact of a previously reported case.
The other...
