Category Archives: Ontario/Quebec
Quebec Premier Legault to announce additional COVID-19 lockdown measures today
MONTREAL — The Quebec government is set to announce new COVID-19-related restrictions later today in an effort to get transmission of the virus under control. Premier Francois Legault told various media on Monday that the holidays presented an opportun...
Moderna vaccine key to immunization of Ontario nursing home residents: Hillier
TORONTO — Long-term care residents in Ontario will be getting the Moderna vaccine once it receives approval from federal regulators, the head of the province's COVID-19 vaccine distribution task force said Tuesday. Retired Gen. Rick Hillier said the sh...
Ontario to administer first COVID-19 vaccines today
TORONTO — Ontario will administer the province's first COVID-19 vaccination today, with a health-care worker set to receive the dose in Toronto. Premier Doug Ford's office has said the first shots will be administered at the University Health Network. ...
Sixteen more COVID deaths in Ontario; 1,677 new cases reported
TORONTO — Another 16 people in Ontario have succumbed to the ravages of COVID-19, 10 of them residents of nursing homes, provincial authorities reported on Sunday. The province has now had almost 4,000 people die from the novel coronavirus, data show. ...
COVID-19 kills another 17 in Ontario as cases jump again, province reports
TORONTO — The grim march of COVID-19 across Ontario continued unabated on Saturday, with authorities reporting another 17 people dying from the disease. As several more regions prepared for tighter restrictions next week and total pandemic deaths in th...
‘The quicker I get that shot in me, the better.’ Quebec readies for vaccine
Montreal long-term care residents due to receive a first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine in the coming days. and their families say they're ready as the province continues to report high numbers of infections and deaths. "The quicker I get that
Ontario moving Windsor-Essex and York Region into lockdown on Monday
TORONTO — Two more of Ontario's COVID-19 hot spots will move into lockdown next week, a day before the province administers the first vaccines against the virus to several thousand health-care workers. Premier Doug Ford said Friday that the decision t...
Crackdown on land protests in 2020 infringes on liberties, future activism: experts
TORONTO — Months after a group of Haudenosaunee people set up camp on a construction site near Caledonia, Ont., an provincial court granted Haldimand County an order permanently forbidding people from “interfering” with any public road. A lawyer for th...
Crackdown on land protests in 2020 infringes on liberties, future activism: experts
TORONTO — Months after a group of Haudenosaunee people set up camp on a construction site near Caledonia, Ont., an provincial court granted Haldimand County an order permanently forbidding people from “interfering” with any public road. A lawyer for th...
Health minister defends Quebec’s COVID-19 rules as province reports 1,842 new cases
MONTREAL — Quebec's health minister defended his government's decision to go further than public health recommendations by shuttering restaurant dining rooms in regions hard-hit by the second wave of the pandemic earlier this fall. Christian Dube told ...