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‘Another upheaval:’ Toronto board moving hundreds of elementary teachers online
TORONTO — Hundreds of elementary school teachers will trade the chalkboard for the keyboard next week as Canada's largest school district adjusts to soaring enrolment in online education. The Toronto District School Board plans to reassign about 570 te...
West Bank winery wins say on ‘Product of Israel’ case; judge slams other judges
TORONTO — An appeal over wine labelling that threatened to put Middle East politics on trial in Canada's courts has been firmly reined in, with a judge rejecting a dozen groups' bid to weigh in. In his ruling, Federal Court of
Toronto adds 560 new beds for homeless for winter, advocates warn it’s not enough
Toronto plans to make an additional 560 beds available to the homeless this winter but advocates warn the spots won't be enough for the growing number of people living in encampments across the city since the COVID-19 pandemic began. The increase ...
Intermittent sentence law unfair to Indigenous accused from remote areas: judge
TORONTO — The difficulty Indigenous people in isolated communities have in serving jail sentences intermittently violates their equality rights, a judge has ruled. In his decision, Ontario court Judge David Gibson agreed the law discriminates against r...
Diagnostic technician shortage contributing to Ontario’s testing backlog: Ford
TORONTO — Ontario is facing a shortage of diagnostic technicians that is contributing to medical laboratories being overwhelmed, Premier Doug Ford said Monday, acknowledging the province is reaching its limit when it comes to testing for COVID-19. Ford...
Quebec reports more than 1,000 new COVID-19 cases for third straight day
MONTREAL — Quebec reported over 1,000 new cases of COVID-19 for the third straight day on Sunday, public health officials said, as the province moved three more towns to the highest pandemic alert level. In a statement Sunday afternoon, the Quebec...
Ontario reporting 566 additional COVID-19 cases, seven deaths
Ontario continued to report high numbers of COVID-19 cases and unprocessed tests on Sunday, though both figures had declined slightly from levels seen in recent days. The province's latest data showed 566 new cases of the novel coronavirus and seven mo...
For the second day in a row, more than 1,000 new COVID-19 cases in Quebec
QUEBEC — For the second day in a row, Quebec is reporting more than 1,000 new cases of COVID-19. The province says 1,107 new cases were reported in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of cases in the province
Protesters march through Montreal, calling for ‘Justice for Joyce’
MONTREAL — Crowds of protesters marched through downtown Montreal on Saturday, calling for justice for Joyce Echaquan, an Indigenous woman who was subjected to insults as she lay dying in hospital. Echaquan, an Atikamekw woman, filmed hospital staff in...
Toronto’s COVID case counts too high for full-scale contact tracing
TORONTO — Soaring COVID-19 case numbers in Ontario's most populous city prompted local authorities to scale back their contact tracing efforts on Saturday as tightened public health restrictions took effect in some of the province's other hardest-...