OPP continues to investigate “circumstances surrounding other recent suspicious deaths” at Hawkesbury and District General Hospital.

“It’s a race between variants and ICU capacity right now,” said Dr. Martin Betts, medical director and chief of critical care at Scarborough Health Network. “From what I’ve seen over the past number of weeks, the variants are winning.”

In Peel, workplace information for vaccinated healthcare staff is missing from a provincial database 60 per cent of the time. “Critically important” information is going unrecorded, says a doctor who sits on the province’s COVID Science Table.

The Toronto Star is tracking the weekly per cent positivity for cases tested for variants of concern or mutations over Public Health Ontario’s most recent rolling 7-day period.

So get outside, and be careful, please. Because there are places indoors that you don’t want to see.

Wear a mask. Go outside. Just, please don’t ease up on this marathon before it’s over, Emma Teitel writes.

It’s an extremely rare thing for female killers to work in a group to murder total strangers, experts say.

Alaska wants cruise ships to be able to bypass B.C. to get cruises going faster after the coronavirus pandemic.

Despite the multiple changes meant to improve Canada’s foreign caregiver immigration scheme, critics say the program is still a hot mess.

The latest coronavirus news from Canada and around the world Saturday. This file will be updated throughout the day. Web links to longer stories if available.

A year ago, ordinary citizens were told not to wear masks as a global shortage threatened the safety of health-care workers. Now, most of us don’t leave home without them. This is the story of that transformation.