Category Archives: Ontario/Quebec
Ontario reports over 6,000 COVID-19 cases over two days as ‘shutdown’ takes effect
Ontario's daily COVID-19 case count surged back up over the 3,000 mark on Saturday, hours after a new provincewide "shutdown" took effect in a move meant to bring soaring infection rates back under control. The measures, introduced to combat what Premi...
Essential workers worried Ontario’s latest COVID-19 ‘shutdown’ won’t protect them
Some essential workers fear the latest "shutdown" Premier Doug Ford is imposing on Ontario will do little to protect them from COVID-19. The measures announced Thursday shutter personal care services and restaurant dining rooms across the province, bu...
Essential workers worried Ontario’s latest COVID-19 ‘shutdown’ won’t protect them
Some essential workers fear the latest "shutdown" Premier Doug Ford is imposing on Ontario will do little to protect them from COVID-19. The measures announced Thursday shutter personal care services and restaurant dining rooms across the province, bu...
COVID-19 cases continue to spike in Quebec with 1,314 new infections, five deaths
MONTREAL — Quebec's public health institute says the majority of new COVID-19 cases in the province likely involve variants of concern as the government reported the highest number of new daily cases since January. The Institut national de sante publi...
What’s changing under Ontario’s four-week ‘shutdown’
Ontario is going into a provincewide "shutdown" starting Saturday, with stricter measures imposed for at least four weeks. Here are some of the changes set to take effect in all 34 of the province's public health units: - Indoor public events
Officials say COVID-19 situation worsening in Quebec City as it enters lockdown
MONTREAL — Health experts and politicians are blaming a more virulent novel coronavirus variant and the public's waning adhesion to health orders for rapidly rising infections in three Quebec cities. Quebec City reported 261 new cases of COVID-19 Thurs...
Stay-at-home order needed to control third wave, Ontario science advisers say
TORONTO — The latest COVID-19 modelling in Ontario shows a stay-at-home order is necessary to control the third wave of the pandemic, which is being driven by the more deadly and contagious variants of concern.Without those measures, the Ontario Scienc...
Ontario loses bid to quash $30M segregation ruling; immunity argument rejected
TORONTO — A $30-million class-action award against Ontario for its mistreatment of inmates in solitary confinement will stand, the Court of Appeal ruled on Wednesday. In its decision, the court dismissed the province's challenge to an earlier finding t...
Winnipeg’s drinking water source of frustration for Indigenous community
TORONTO — About 100 million litres of fresh water flows west to the city of Winnipeg every day but the struggling Indigenous people who live on the shores of Shoal Lake say no benefits have ever flowed east to them. Compensation
COVID-19: Quebec premier moves three cities into lockdown for at least 10 days
Quebec Premier Francois Legault is moving three cities, including the provincial capital, into lockdown Thursday following a sharp rise in COVID-19 infections. Schools and non-essential businesses are to close and the curfew will move ahead to 8 p.m. f...