The city’s vaccination progress, expected to accelerate with increased shipments of the Pfizer vaccine, combined with local COVID-19 infection rates that seem to have plateaued and possibly started to drop, is good news, health experts say.

A plan to send 50 per cent of new vaccine doses into high-risk areas for the next two weeks should be enough to make important progress in blunting the third wave of COVID-19, the province’s table of scientific advisers said Thursday.

Canada's first shipment of 300,000 vaccines made by Janssen, the pharmaceutical arm of Johnson & Johnson, arrived on Wednesday night and is now being repacked for a cross-country journey.

While federal Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole swears he doesn’t want an election anytime soon, the party is taking no chances, leasing a ballroom at a swank downtown Ottawa hotel to serve as a broadcast studio for a campaign.

The choice of Norm Sterling to replace David Crombie, who resigned in protest in November, touched off a new wave of criticism of the Ford government’s environmental policies.

Seven COVID-19 patients transferred to other hospitals as Michael Garron experiences a potential exhaustion of its supply of oxygen.

Meanwhile: Ontario marked a grim COVID-19 milestone Thursday as its virus-related death toll passed 8,000.

MPPs immediately and unanimously passed Progressive Conservative legislation to give workers three paid sick days in a move designed to curb the spread of COVID-19.

With coach Nick Nurse resting Kyle Lowry, OG Anunoby and Pascal Siakam to open the fourth quarter, the Nuggets took control of the game and rolled to what turned into an easy victory.

All that was missing from their old-time 4-1 win over the Vancouver Canucks at Scotiabank Arena was the likes of Wendel Clark, Tiger Williams and Darcy Tucker cheering them on from the alumni box.