A 30-year-old man is accused of stabbing a TTC employee early Wednesday. The attack occurred around 6 a.m. on a subway train near the Dupont station stop when a man confronted a 46-year-old employee and an altercation started. “The TTC employee was on his way to work this morning and suffered...
Ontario is reporting 3,369 new cases of COVID-19 today and 29 more deaths linked to the virus. Health Minister Christine Elliott says there are 1,050 new cases in Toronto, 819 in Peel Region, 286 in York Region, 158 in Ottawa and 157 in Durham Region. The province says 2,152 people are...
COVID-19 case counts in Simcoe Muskoka are on a downward trend, as the health unit logs 244 infections for the week, compared with 443 the week prior. On Friday, the health unit lists 57 new COVID-19 infections in the region. But while case counts decrease, the number of deaths continues to...
Manitoba reported 250 new cases of COVID-19 (coronavirus) on Wednesday, bringing the provincial total to 53,403. Two additional deaths were also reported: • A male in his teens from the Winnipeg health region • A man in his 50s from the Winnipeg health region, linked to the B.1.1.7 variant of concern Health officials...
A court injunction prohibiting old-growth logging protests on Vancouver Island will come to an end Tuesday, after a judge declined to extend the order. British Columbia forestry company Teal Cedar Products Ltd. was seeking a one-year extension to its injunction preventing protesters from blockading forestry activities in the Fairy Creek...
Ontario reported its highest COVID-19 case count in nearly 40 days on Sunday, as the number of so-called “breakthrough” cases in fully vaccinated individuals rivaled cases among the unvaccinated for the first time since the summer. The seven-day rolling average of new cases now stands at 563, up from 468...
A majority of Canadians believe this summer will be another disappointment as COVID-19 restrictions are set to remain in place despite increased vaccinations, a new poll suggests. The Ipsos poll conducted exclusively for Global News found seven in 10 Canadians are anticipating a second lost summer. Yet 61 per cent...
Thousands of Ontarians are getting their COVID-19 vaccines not at pharmacies or doctors' offices, but at a clinic pulled together by a construction company through a public-private partnership. The clinic run by Mississauga, Ont.-based EllisDon has seen more than 15,000 people book appointments, scheduled between May 19 and 26. “We're completely...
The province has announced seven new deaths and 145 new cases of COVID-19 since Wednesday, including 54 on Friday. Front of mind for Dr. Jazz Atwal, deputy chief provincial public health officer, was the continued spread of the Delta variant (B.1.617.2), which the World Health Organization says it is the...
Alberta reported 1,315 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday, a nearly four-month high, as hospitalizations continue to spike. The last time the province saw new case numbers above 1,300 was on May 13, when 1,468 cases were reported. As of Sept. 2 there were 54 active cases reported in the County...