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Fri, 23 Jul 2021 19:48:01 EDT
University Health Network to implement mandatory COVID-19 home testing for unvaccinated staff
The UHN will be the first major hospital and research organization in Ontario to create requirements around immunization for health-care workers.

Thu, 22 Jul 2021 05:00:00 EDT
COVID-19 conspiracy theories are spreading online like a virus. An inside look at a dangerous misinformation movement that’s spilling into the real world
Like the virus, the hashtag #nomorelockdowns has spread across borders, taking root in India, the U.S., the U.K. and Canada, where its use has intensified.

Fri, 23 Jul 2021 05:00:00 EDT
Conspiracy theories. Donald Trump followers. Pandemic sees rise in right-wing extremism online in Canada — and report warns of a ‘surge’ as lockdowns lift
A study by the U.K.-based Institute for Strategic Dialogue warns of a potential rise in right-wing extremist activity online in Canada with participants capitalizing on people’s COVID-19 fears while stoking hate against government and minorities, p...

Fri, 23 Jul 2021 21:04:03 EDT
Toronto, Peel urge students to get fully vaxxed before school starts
In Toronto, about 73 per cent of 12- to 17-year-olds have had a single dose, and pop-up clinics targeted at youth will continue to be scheduled so that they can get a second dose.

Fri, 23 Jul 2021 18:30:00 EDT
Toronto police hit with formal complaint over violent homeless clearance as Tory asks: ‘Who started it?’
In her complaint to the OIPRD, Alicia Soerenson says she was “aggressively” arrested for trespassing and that officers were “violently physically forceful with me while I was handcuffed despite my compliance.”

Fri, 23 Jul 2021 17:30:00 EDT
Erin O'Toole draws fire from party insiders, his own MPs over staff member who works for social conservatives
Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole is facing questions from within his own party over allowing his deputy chief of staff to help social conservative candidates secure party nominations.

Fri, 23 Jul 2021 16:04:00 EDT
America is on fire, and a lot of people want to let it burn
Even as disasters unfold, the appropriate responses to them are available and reasonably obvious — the problem is convincing people to take accept them, Edward Keenan writes.

Fri, 23 Jul 2021 08:05:00 EDT
Today’s coronavirus news: Ontario reports 192 cases, one death; 80 per cent of adults in Ontario have received at least one dose of vaccine and 66 per cent are fully vaccinated
Meanwhile, Pfizer Inc.’s COVID-19 vaccine was just 39 per cent effective in keeping people from getting infected by the contagious Delta variant in Israel in recent weeks, according to the country’s health ministry.

Fri, 23 Jul 2021 11:26:52 EDT
Thousands to be eligible under new Canadian program to resettle former Afghan interpreters threatened by the Taliban
Ottawa announced Friday it would immediately process the resettlement applications of its former Afghan interpreters and local employees who risked their lives to assist Canada on its missions and who are being condemned and threatened by the Taliban...

Sat, 24 Jul 2021 02:26:09 EDT
NHL draft: Canadiens select Logan Mailloux in controversial first-round pick
Mailloux had asked not to be drafted after it came to light he was charged in Sweden for taking and distributing an offensive photo without consent during a consensual sexual encounter last November.



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