#StarExclusive: In a pandemic first, the southern Ontario farm where a massive COVID-19 outbreak claimed the life of a migrant worker and sickened scores more is facing prosecution for a raft of alleged workplace safety violations. torstar.co/BoLq50Ghpns
Scotlynn Growers and proprietor Scott Biddle are charged with 20 offences that allegedly occurred last year, when about 200 migrant workers tested positive for the virus. thestar.com/news/ontario/2…
Amongst them was 55-year-old Juan Lopez Chaparro, who died from COVID-19 following the Scotlynn outbreak in June 2020.
He left behind four children in Mexico, as well as his widow, who says there are “no words” to describe losing him. thestar.com/news/ontario/2…
“Juan was a tremendous person as a friend, brother, husband and father,” his wife Agustina Galindo Segundo told the Star.
It is the first COVID-related prosecution of an employer under occupational health and safety laws, labour ministry spokesperson Kalem McSween confirmed. thestar.com/news/ontario/2…
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A predominantly online movement in Canada and around the world is advocating for what they call COVID-Zero, the approach taken by countries in Oceana, East Asia and Atlantic Canada to lock down until there is no community spread of COVID-19. @alex_mckeenthestar.com/news/canada/20…
"The world could see that places like New Zealand and Australia and Hong Kong, Vietnam, China — that they actually could get down to a point, not zero but close to zero COVID cases... Why aren’t we doing this?" thestar.com/news/canada/20…
In many ways COVID-Zero has become the antithesis to the antimasker crowd fighting every public health restriction. Unlike antimaskers, they have rigorous scientific research and real-world examples showing COVID-Zero has worked in some places. thestar.com/news/canada/20…
New construction house prices in the GTA and condo sales hit record levels in August thestar.com/business/2021/…
Newly constructed single-family homes in the GTA hit a new benchmark high price of $1.52 million last month — 30% more than a year earlier — as supply hit near historic lows in the Toronto region. thestar.com/business/2021/…
A flood of new condos offerings pushed sales of those units to an 11-year August record, according to the Building Industry and Land Development Association (BILD) that represents homebuilders. thestar.com/business/2021/…
A massive drop in routine childhood immunizations could be further complicated by uncertainty over whether COVID vaccines can overlap with other jabs, and which ones should be prioritized. thestar.com/news/gta/2021/…
Ideally, timelines for when to receive routine and COVID vaccination shouldn’t clash. But in the chance they do, and parents are forced to prioritize one over the other, family physician Dr. Jeff Kwong suggests getting the COVID jab first. thestar.com/news/gta/2021/…
“Do the COVID vaccine first, because that’s the most imminent danger,” said Kwong, who is also a scientist at Public Health Ontario, lead at ICES’s Populations and Public Health Research Program. thestar.com/news/gta/2021/…
Shots for kids could be a reality within months, after the first look at results from a trial of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine on kids ages five to 11 found the shot appears to work. Here's what we know.
The data has not been published or vetted by other scientists, but the early results have offered a glimmer of hope for families seeking protection from the virus. Results in children under five are expected later this year. thestar.com/news/canada/20…
These trial results are based on 2,268 volunteers aged five to 11 who got about a third of the adult dose in two separate shots. The vaccine has been tested on kids in the U.S., Finland, Poland and Spain. thestar.com/news/canada/20…
If embattled incoming Toronto MP Kevin Vuong refuses to resign his seat in the House of Commons, despite mounting pressure to do so, his fellow members of Parliament could kick him out.
“In theory, the House does have the authority to expel a member. It governs itself (and) it can choose to expel pretty much on any basis it wants,” said @EmmMacfarlane thestar.com/politics/feder…
“But it would be, in practice, an extraordinary step. This isn’t something that’s really happened in the modern era at all.” thestar.com/politics/feder…
Mohamed Salah Saleh made the Egyptian food we were used to back home, @zenasalem_ writes. It was different from the typical Middle Eastern restaurants in the city. He specialized in things beyond the shawarma. thestar.com/news/gta/2021/…
The caterer-turned-restaurant-owner prepared macarona bechamel, a layered pasta dish that every Egyptian mom would make. His grape leaves were stuffed with rice and vegetables, whereas many other Middle Eastern cuisines would add beef. thestar.com/news/gta/2021/…
Now with Masrawy Egyptian Kitchen in Mississauga, the menu has the staple dishes that have become familiar to people outside the Egyptian community, such as koshary, fuul and kofta. thestar.com/news/gta/2021/…