U.S president Trump isn’t staying in any old hospital room. Walter Reed Hospital has a six-room presidential suite just for the commander in chief that includes an intensive care unit, a kitchen, a living room, a bedroom, & a dining room with a crystal chandelier.
Trump's admission to Walter Reed on Friday is first time in 39 years that a sitting U.S. president has been hospitalized. Ronald Reagan was the last sitting president to be hospitalized as an inpatient on March 30, 1981 following an assassination attempt.
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NEW - There have been *no* changes to blood tests that are covered under OHIP, the Ontario Ministry of Health confirms to CityNews (statement below) this after a number of viral tweets suggested that some were being charged money for bloodwork or screening tests.
NEW - In an additional statement to CityNews, the Ministry of Health says "Since 2017, there have been no laboratory tests de-listed (i.e., removed with no replacement test) from the Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP)"
CityNews has reached out to the privately owned LifeLabs but has yet to hear back.
Premier Ford is now scheduled to make an 11am announcement at Queen’s Park. He will be joined by the Health Minister & the Associate Chief Medical Officer of Health. The announcement will come just after the release of today’s Covid infection numbers. The latest on @680NEWS
While it’s not clear what this is regarding, Premier Ford said Friday that the government may cut gathering sizes in other parts of the province. He said he has received multiple requests from mayors and chief medical offices in different regions for tighter gathering limits.
Ford on Friday regarding the reduction of gathering size limits in other parts of the province beyond Toronto, Peel and Ottawa said "They're coming" “We're going to be rolling out other areas across the province”
#BREAKING - The Ford government will announce that gathering limits will be reduced to 10 indoors and 25 outdoors for Peel Toronto and Ottawa, a senior government source confirms to me.
#BREAKING - The New York Times reports the U.S Government has an active program to investigate UFO’s & that it will report some of its findings to the public. The paper says its main focus is finding whether another nation is using aviation technology that could threaten the U.S.
The NYT article quotes former US Senate majority leader Harry Reid as saying that he “Believed that crashes of vehicles from other worlds had occurred and that retrieved materials had been studied secretly for decades, often by aerospace companies under government contracts.”
Paper says US Senator Marco Rubio “Told a CBS affiliate in Miami this month that he was primarily concerned about reports of unidentified aircraft over American military bases — and that it was in the government’s interest to find out who was responsible.”
#BREAKING - Talks between the union representing high school teachers and the Ford government have been cancelled by the mediator. OSSTF president Harvey Bischof says he was "Shocked the government brought no new proposals to the table"
Talks that were scheduled for tomorrow have also been called off. Bischof tells me compensation was not brought up today.
Bischof tell tells me no new talks are planned and that Wednesdays one day teachers walkout at some boards is a go.