Category Archives: Ontario/Quebec
‘It’s unbelievable’: Quebec City residents mourn victims of deadly sword attack
QUEBEC — Residents of Quebec's picturesque capital grappled with grief and shock on Sunday as they mourned the deaths of a beloved neighbourhood hairdresser and a well-respected museum employee slain in what police describe as a deliberate sword attack...
Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he hopes OHL can return with bodychecking
TORONTO — Ontario Premier Doug Ford is leaving the door open for bodychecking to remain in the Ontario Hockey League for the upcoming season. Ford tweeted Saturday night that he is working on a return to play plan with the OHL
Returning land defenders, new faces take up familiar fight in Caledonia, Ont.
CALEDONIA, Ont. — The more things change in Caledonia, Ont., the more one group of long-standing land defenders says things stay the same. Tense tableaus played out for months in the southwestern Ontario town in 2006 as Indigenous protesters clas...
Quebec reports 1,064 new cases of COVID-19, 15 additional deaths
MONTREAL — Public health officials in Quebec reported 1,064 new cases of COVID-19 in the province on Saturday, but stressed that not all the latest diagnoses took place during the current wave of the global pandemic. Saturday's figures mark...
COVID-19 cases in Ontario surpass 1,000 for second time in one week, data shows
TORONTO — Ontario recorded more than 1,000 new cases of COVID-19 for the second time in a week on Saturday, days after politicians and health officials indicated provincial case loads were beginning to ease. The 1,015 new diagnoses recorded over ...
Ontario hospitals face ‘unprecedented’ financial pressure, need funding: OHA
TORONTO — Ontario's hospitals say they are facing "unprecedented" financial pressures and many of them have been forced to use lines of credit to cover COVID-19-related costs. The head of the association representing the province's hospitals aske...
COVID-19: A second Olymel meat plant in Quebec dealing with outbreak
MONTREAL — Quebec food-processing company Olymel says it doesn't plan to close either of its two plants in the province dealing with COVID-19 outbreaks. A hog-slaughter facility in Princeville, Que., northeast of Montreal, reported 14 infections ...
Fierce fight brewing as unhappy jail guards in Ontario seek to form new union
TORONTO — Disaffected Ontario correctional officers are pushing for their own union in an increasingly bitter battle to win the hearts and cards of thousands of front-line jail workers. Backed by a well-heeled Quebec-based labour organization, the raid...
Premier Ford says plan to ease COVID-19 restrictions coming for hot spots
TORONTO — A plan to ease COVID-19 restrictions in the province's hot spots is coming next week, Premier Doug Ford said Friday, indicating he's asked health advisors for a strategy to allow shuttered businesses to safely reopen. Ford's comments came a
Canadian Rangers deployed to Neskantaga First Nation during water crisis, Miller says
OTTAWA — Canadian Rangers were expected to arrive in Neskantaga First Nation on Friday to help the remote community in northern Ontario as it grapples with a water crisis. Much of the First Nation was evacuated earlier in the month after