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Mon, 11 Jan 2021 20:37:00 EST
Toronto to open first clinic for COVID-19 vaccinations next week
The clinic will administer vaccinations to 250 front-line health-care workers a day, including those who work in shelters, and public health workers who will in turn administer the vaccine to others.

Mon, 11 Jan 2021 12:37:00 EST
No COVID-19 curfews planned for Ontario, government source says
Ontario is not planning curfews to curb the stubbornly rapid spread of COVID-19, a senior government source said as Premier Doug Ford and his cabinet debated other new restrictions to be announced Tuesday following new computer modelling on the pande...

Mon, 11 Jan 2021 22:35:49 EST
Susan Delacourt: Justin Trudeau will shuffle federal cabinet on Tuesday
Government sources say the shuffle is a small one, prompted by one cabinet member’s decision to step down.

Mon, 11 Jan 2021 22:05:00 EST
Ontario’s COVID-19 infections continued to rise on the weekend, so why did the number of vaccinations drop?
On Saturday, the province gave 9,983 shots of the new vaccines, down from 15,700 on Friday, a drop of more than 5,700, according to provincial data. The trend continued on Sunday when just 8,859 doses were administered.

Mon, 11 Jan 2021 18:38:44 EST
Former hospital CEO to get more than $1M payout after losing job following Caribbean vacation
St. Joseph’s Health System says its board approved Dr. Tom Stewart’s trip to the Dominican Republic and has parted ways with him “without cause.”

Mon, 11 Jan 2021 01:10:00 EST
U.S. House speeds towards Trump's second impeachment, calling him 'a threat to national security'
Lawmakers are set to introduce the legislation Monday, with voting mid-week. Pelosi’s leadership team also will seek a quick vote on a resolution calling on Vice-President Mike Pence and Cabinet officials to invoke the 25th Amendment.

Mon, 11 Jan 2021 17:53:20 EST
In ‘extremely lenient’ sentence, Toronto man, 82, gets five years for strangling wife of nearly 60 years
Larry Fronczak, who has support from family and friends, earlier pleaded guilty to manslaughter for killing Helen Fronczak, 79, in March 2019. The Crown prosecutor on Monday acknowledged that although the sentence is lenient, “it cannot be said to ...

Mon, 11 Jan 2021 05:00:00 EST
Barry Sherman’s son says his father asked him to repay tens of millions of dollars, two weeks before murders, but Barry was ‘all in’ with son’s business
“I’m not going to kill my dad because he needs $50 million,” Jonathon Sherman told the Star’s Kevin Donovan in an exclusive interview.

Thu, 7 Jan 2021 05:00:00 EST
COVID-19 vaccine tracker: tracing every dose of the coronavirus vaccine administered in Canada
Tracking progress of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout across Canada.

Mon, 11 Jan 2021 09:49:00 EST
‘The time to act is now’: Mayor John Tory calls for complete lockdown over COVID-19, expresses frustration with Doug Ford’s delay
Neither Mayor John Tory nor Dr. Eileen de Villa, the city medical officer of health support a curfew.

Sat, 9 Jan 2021 05:00:00 EST
When will you be vaccinated? This calculator can help you to figure that out
A calculator created by a Canadian researcher and a U.K. scientist estimates timelines for Canadian vaccinations, based on various factors

Mon, 11 Jan 2021 20:30:22 EST
5 things you can do to help bring change to long-term care
As COVID-19 cases and deaths continue to rise in the provinces’s long-term-care homes, we asked experts about what Ontarians can do to help the situation.

Sat, 9 Jan 2021 00:01:00 EST
Sign this open letter calling for urgent action to fix our failing long-term care system
Join the campaign: how governments and you can save the lives of seniors.

Mon, 11 Jan 2021 05:12:00 EST
Today’s coronavirus news: Ontario health officials aren’t recommending curfew ‘at this time,’ source says; Ontario reporting another 3,338 cases, 29 deaths including 13 in long-term care
Meanwhile, the Japanese Health Ministry has found a coronavirus variant in people arriving from Brazil that’s different from the ones in Britain and South Africa.



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