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Thunder Bay could see renewed lockdown as COVID-19 case numbers surge

Ontario’s top doctor is recommending the province consider a full lockdown in the Thunder Bay district. the northern community struggles with surging COVID 19 case numbers. The.. District Health Unit...
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COVID-19 variants likely to make up 40 per cent of Ontario cases by mid-March, hospitalizations expected to climb

... second week of March, new modelling data suggests, leading to a likely increase in daily infections and hospitalizations. The new projections released Thursday predict the province could see about...
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‘An unexpected prize for young Canadians’: How the pandemic helped a wave of first-time home buyers get into the market

Stephanie Chouinard always carried a bottle of Purell in her handbag while visiting prospective homes. Like many things, house hunting during the pandemic required some precautions. For Chouinard and...
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Today’s coronavirus news: Vaccine hesitancy declining among Quebec health-care workers, researchers say; New COVID-19 variant spreading in New York City

... updated throughout the day. Web links to longer stories if... schools across Toronto have been linked to COVID 19 variants of... more contagious, the city said in a release Wednesday...
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Loss of taste and smell due to COVID-19 could last up to five months, new study suggests

TORONTO A preliminary study involving 813 Quebec health care workers... study was conducted through an online questionnaire where participants were... to 10, with higher numbers indicating a...
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Selfie-taking tourists could be spreading COVID-19 to gorillas

. who take selfies with wild mountain gorillas could put the primates at risk of developing COVID 19 , according to new research. Scientists... England, looked at hundreds of Instagram posts...
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Single doses of COVID-19 vaccines might be enough for now, Ottawa says

... top public health officials says provinces may move to a single dose of authorized two dose vaccinations and delay a second dose, based on early data showing a high level...
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Today’s coronavirus news: COVID-19 cases drop in Quebec nursing homes, experts credit vaccine, other factors; U.S. life expectancy drops a year in pandemic, most since WWII

... updated throughout the day. Web links to longer stories if available. 6 17 a.m. Life expectancy in the United States dropped a staggering one year during the first half of......
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Rush Limbaugh dies at 70 following battle with lung cancer

.. Rush Limbaugh speaks at the Turning Point USA Student Action Summit in West Palm Beach, Fla., ... used his perch as the king of talk radio to shape... 70 years old....
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Stratford glass factory project suspended ‘indefinitely’ following backlash over minister’s zoning order

Residents of Stratford are claiming victory after the company behind a controversial glass factory project in the theatre town said it was suspending its plans “indefinitely to avoid further...
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Pfizer Canada president praises Canada s rollout, says U.S.-made doses may be an option later

. Canada is doing “quite well” in the global vaccine race, the president of... deliveries of the company’s COVID 19 vaccine drop off completely. While... doses of Pfizer...
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Stunning NASA photo shows gold Peruvian Amazon rivers, but there s a dark backstory

.. to be rivers of gold running through the Amazon rainforest in Madre de Dios state in eastern Peru are in fact prospecting pits, likely left by independent miners, according...
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‘We aren’t going to sleep’: Doug Ford’s government fast-tracked a glass factory in Stratford. Then local residents decided to fight back

... Lesley Walker Fitzpatrick have faced snowstorms, freezing rain and the deep winter cold to stand vigil... day except Sunday — each taking a turn for one.. they have only one...
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Who is an essential worker in the GTA? Millions of us, data shows. This is life — outside lockdown — in five graphs

Since arriving in Toronto in 1994, Lily Wong has assumed many roles driving school secretary, software saleswoman, .. outlet worker, and now, a nursing home dietary aide. In all those...
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Order to stand trial in Paris bombing flies in face of evidence, Diab s lawyer says

... trial for a decades old synagogue bombing is the latest misstep in a long odyssey of injustice. Donald Bayne told a. conference Wednesday the decision delivered in Paris flies in...
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Hospital fires Ontario nurse who travelled to U.S. for anti-lockdown event

... they have fired a neonatal intensive care unit NICU nurse with cause following an internal investigation. The hospital launched an internal investigation into Kristen Nagle, back in November after...
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Betty White celebrating her 99th birthday by eating a hot dog, feeding her favourite ducks

White s low key plans include feeding a pair of ducks... dog and French fries brought in along with a... to a 2019 voice role in Forky Asks a...
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Why some tourists believe travel restrictions don t apply to them

As pandemic quarantines go, this might be the best sprawling on a hotel balcony overlooking azure Caribbean waters as you bake gently in the sun. But it... of high profile...
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‘Sometimes I think my 12 years with Dante were a dream’: A Toronto father on life after his child’s senseless murder

Some details are seared into Sebastian Andreatta’s mind the beautiful weather that November morning as he dropped Dante... p.m. when he got a terrifying call about the shooting. That...
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Hundreds of babies are born into homelessness in Toronto each year, even under COVID-19. Their mothers scramble to find them a safe place to live — in city shelters or a friend’s apartment

In a sterile hospital room, ... 28, 2020, Toronto’s homeless population increased by one. A six pound, 12 ounce infant with a shock of dark hair came into the world without a......