Quebec Premier Francois Legault made the announcement to reporters today in Montreal, adding that the levy will only apply to people who do not qualify for medical exemptions. thestar.com/news/canada/20…
It is the first time a government in Canada has announced a financial penalty for people who refuse to be vaccinated against COVID-19.
The plan is for everyone to initially receive two rapid tests, and officials say the goal is to provide a stable supply to schools and child cares. thestar.com/politics/provi…
Families will only be notified by local public health units when absences at their schools hit 30% — although that threshold includes all reasons for absenteeism, not just Omicron — given limits to lab-based COVID testing the government previously enacted. thestar.com/politics/provi…
The idea came to Kirsty Fan in 2020 when she was scouring the web for cool places to visit on an upcoming trip to Spain. She saw a place selling penis waffles. “This is so fun. We should totally have this in Toronto," she told her boyfriend. thestar.com/news/gta/2022/…
Now, the rest is history. After popular pop-ups throughout the city over the summer, Fan opened Members Only Waffle Shop in 2022. What has the reaction been?
“I can’t believe I’m saying this,” one user posts to Twitter, “but those look good as hell." thestar.com/news/gta/2022/…
She joined a masters of social work program, hoping to have real discussions around anti-Black racism to create a more equitable society for the Black communities. Instead, she was silenced in the classroom.
"There was no shortage of discussion in the classroom, Dialogue about gender inequality, reconciliation for Indigenous peoples, and the impacts of capitalism. However, whenever I raised the topic of anti-Black racism, I was met with silence," she writes. thestar.com/opinion/contri…
Once, a student suggested that white individuals touching Black individuals’ hair was possibly their attempt at “learning.” When she explained that this is an inappropriate way to express curiousity she says she received a backlash. thestar.com/opinion/contri…
Ontario is throwing hundreds of internationally trained nurses into the fight against COVID-19 as thousands of hospital staff call in sick or isolate daily and an Omicron wave of hospitalizations is expected to peak in early February. torstar.co/WTXo50HslsT
About 300 nurses are being deployed to 50 high-need hospitals “immediately” to care for patients under supervision and work toward getting their licences in the province, Ontario Health chief executive Matthew Anderson said Tuesday. thestar.com/politics/provi…
They will be among the 6,000 extra health-care workers — including nursing students, medical students and other students from health-care programs — to join the COVID-19 effort by March 31, Health Minister Christine Elliott said. thestar.com/politics/provi…
Ontario is changing its wording around COVID hospitalizations to distinguish between patients hospitalized because of COVID and those admitted for other reasons, but who ended up testing positive for COVID. thestar.com/news/gta/2022/…
On Tuesday, Minister of Health Christine Elliott tweeted, “While this doesn’t change the serious situation in Ontario’s hospitals, it is important to share this data to provide additional context on the state of the pandemic.” thestar.com/news/gta/2022/…
On Dec. 29, the province directed hospitals to collect data on COVID patients to distinguish between those admitted because they are ill with the virus and those who test positive when admitted for other reasons. thestar.com/news/gta/2022/…
New school guidance from the Ontario government says that only certain students and teachers who show symptoms of COVID-19 will have access to PCR tests when schools reopen to in-person learning next week. thestar.com/news/gta/2022/…
The Ministry of Health document says take-home PCR self-collection kits will only be provided to elementary and secondary students as well as education staff who become symptomatic while at school. thestar.com/news/gta/2022/…
The test kits will only be given to students or staff who have fever or chills, a cough, shortness of breath or a loss of taste or smell, or two or more of the less common symptoms such as a runny nose, sore throat or muscle aches. thestar.com/news/gta/2022/…