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Tue, 16 Mar 2021 13:27:00 EDT
This Canadian-made COVID-19 vaccine has reached the final phase of human testing — and volunteers are needed
If you want to volunteer for a vaccine trial now may be your chance, as Quebec-based Medicago is one of the few companies that also plans to trial its vaccine here in Canada.

Tue, 16 Mar 2021 21:41:10 EDT
‘I could just feel it in me:’ The Raptors’ Fred VanVleet on dealing with COVID-19
Raptors guard said he followed all the rules and protocols and guidelines that are in place and still caught the virus.

Tue, 16 Mar 2021 18:32:03 EDT
Power of cities under scrutiny at Supreme Court hearing over Premier Doug Ford’s cut to Toronto city council
The city of Toronto’s appeal of a decision that allowed 2018 legislation that cut council in half was heard on Tuesday.

Tue, 16 Mar 2021 18:21:00 EDT
Don’t relax Toronto’s COVID-19 restrictions now, experts warn: ‘We’re in a very, very tenuous situation’
Current vaccinations efforts won’t rescue city if anti-COVID rules are relaxed, says a specialist, who’s one of four authorities who told the Star that the city’s lockdown must stay.

Tue, 16 Mar 2021 06:39:00 EDT
Today’s coronavirus news: Ontario now in third wave, experts say; Ontario reporting 1,074 more cases, 11 deaths; 36 COVID-19 cases in Toronto South jail screen positive for variant
Meanwhile, China has approved a new COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use.

Tue, 16 Mar 2021 16:15:59 EDT
Ontario getting ready to expand AstraZeneca shots to adults 65 and older
Ontario will continue vaccinating people in their early 60s with the AstraZeneca vaccine for now and adjust the rollout plan now that the National Advisory Committee on Immunization has approved the COVID-19 shots for anyone 65 and older, Premier Dou...

Tue, 16 Mar 2021 16:42:00 EDT
Moderna begins testing COVID vaccine in kids as young as six months in a trial that will include Canadians
The trial announced Tuesday will involve about 6,750 healthy kids, from six months to 11 years old.

Tue, 16 Mar 2021 19:45:00 EDT
Father who won’t stop discussing opposition to child’s gender transition taken into custody pending court decision
It is the latest chapter in a case that has morphed from a family law dispute into a quasi-criminal one

Tue, 16 Mar 2021 05:00:00 EDT
What do the mysterious cases of Barry and Honey Sherman and Jeffrey Epstein have in common? A U-shaped neck bone to which too much significance is attached during a death investigation
A broken hyoid bone means murder; an unbroken one, suicide ... so went the theory, but forensic experts tell the Star that it’s not that simple — context matters a great deal.



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