But even if the strategy to target virus hot spots starts to bear fruit in four-to-six weeks, enough people will still be vulnerable to the virus that some restrictions will still be necessary.

Physicians hope the latest public health measures will lower the ‘appalling’ numbers in Peel Region, where three-quarters of all positive tests are variants of concern.

Visiting politicians spoke to hundreds of people at Confederation Square.

It really feels like because our skin is brown, our lives mean less. But we didn’t get to choose the colour of skin we were born into our socioeconomic status. We didn’t get to choose the country we were born in, Sabina Vohra-Miller writes.

Tien, president and CEO of Ornge Air Ambulance, is confident about the target to have 40 per cent of adults in Ontario have their first vaccine shot by May 6.

Also, Ontario reporting 4,094 cases of COVID-19 and 24 more deaths, according to its statistics released Saturday morning.

Booking for my spouse in Ontario was a confusing scramble. Booking for my mum in Nova Scotia was the easiest thing I have done this week.

A dozen Ontario doctors want more resources to access and use the only monoclonal antibody COVID-19 treatment that’s been authorized by Health Canada. It could make a difference, they say.

Costco shoppers love the store because of the deals, but it also pays its workers more and offers sick pay and other benefits. Could its example prompt the Big Three Canadian grocers to do more?

“I can never justify paying more than $100 for a phone,” says one BlackBerry user, who also still uses a typewriter and fountain pen.

The Star reached Salming at his home in Stockholm to discuss his latest career twist, a health scare early in the pandemic and the state of the Leafs, past and present