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Wed, 12 Jan 2022 18:25:00 EST
How many COVID-19 cases will force a closure? Are schools really safer than two weeks ago? Answers to some of your most asked back-to-school questions
Ontario’s parents are worried, confused and exhausted, judging by the more than 130 questions they sent in to the Star this week. These are but a few answers. Stay tuned for more.

Wed, 12 Jan 2022 17:25:45 EST
Doug Ford says no to taxing the unvaxxed
Ontario will not follow Quebec’s lead with a health tax on residents not vaccinated against COVID-19, Premier Doug Ford said.

Wed, 12 Jan 2022 13:13:00 EST
Ontario, Toronto public health chiefs split on whether to make COVID-19 vaccine mandatory for school kids
Students return to classrooms Monday after two weeks of online learning due to the surging Omicron variant of COVID-19.

Wed, 12 Jan 2022 16:04:00 EST
Confusion reigns as daycares, parents sort through latest COVID rules
Public health units will no longer dismiss whole daycare cohorts based on a single confirmed case, but some operators say the new rules are unsafe.

Wed, 12 Jan 2022 16:29:00 EST
Law Society disbars Ontario lawyer who faked his divorce, then married his law clerk
Hamilton lawyer James Morton, a one-time president of the Ontario Bar Association, earlier pleaded guilty to criminal charges for forging a divorce order from his wife of 30 years, an Ontario justice of the peace.

Wed, 12 Jan 2022 06:13:00 EST
Today’s coronavirus news: Ontario reports 3,448 people in hospital with COVID-19, 505 in ICU; Premiers in Ontario and Alberta come out against tax for the unvaccinated
Meanwhile, the Canadian Civil Liberties Association calls COVID tax constitutionally vulnerable.

Wed, 12 Jan 2022 22:48:54 EST
Tragic death of high school hockey player Teddy Balkind sparks call for mandatory neck guards
Balkind, 16, was playing in a junior varsity game when he fell to the ice. Another player near him was unable to stop and collided with him. Play was stopped and 911 was called.

Wed, 12 Jan 2022 13:43:08 EST
Millions of COVID-19 rapid tests to be distributed when Ontario reopens schools
Education Minister Stephen Lecce said millions of rapid antigen tests will be provided to teachers and students, as well as to daycares. But absences — for any reason — will now be reported instead of COVID cases

Wed, 12 Jan 2022 13:27:39 EST
Justin Trudeau refuses to say if he supports taxing the unvaccinated
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says further details of Quebec’s proposed tax on unvaccinated residents will be “extremely important.”



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