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Families cope with rocky school start when sniffles could mean COVID-19 tests, self-isolation

TORONTO The start of school is typically a... could mean COVID 19 tests, days of isolation, and interruptions to... would be a second wave of cases in...
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Shree Paradkar: Scandal-hit U of T law school internal emails contradict dean’s new email to staff over key hiring decision

The fallout of bombshell accusations that University of Toronto’s Faculty of Law gave in to... school allegedly rescinded a job offer to reputed scholar Valentina... job was for the...
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‘We’re playing pandemic roulette with our children.’ After all the province’s promises, parents shocked to see some class sizes are bigger than ever

. disconnect between the province’s assurances of smaller in person class sizes... and doctors worried. As thousands of in the age of COVID 19 , some parents... in a senior kindergarten class...
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A Toronto doctor wants to make sure Black people don’t bear the brunt of a COVID-19 second wave. Here’s what he’s doing about it

... Dr. Upton Allen, the head of the hospital’s infectious diseases... wave in the fall. Two of the goals of the study are to... persist in the bloodstream and offer...
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Federal funding to increase COVID-19 testing as long lines reported across Canada

TORONTO As... contact tracing, improve the capacity of provincial health care systems, ... in part to the return of school classes. Federal public health officials told The...
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Why can Canadians still fly to the U.S.? It s not up to Canada

TORONTO As... country. Ambarish Chandra, an associate professor of economics at the University of Toronto, told CTVNews.ca that this... the case since the start of the...
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Canadian workers aren’t too worried about robots taking their jobs, web survey finds

... 5, 000 Canadians over the age of 18 between February 28... for automation impacting them are office support workers and workers... More highly educated workers and professionals are at a...
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Canada’s largest private retirement home operator wants to stop quarantining new residents — but experts say that could put seniors at risk

... vulnerable seniors at greater risk of exposure to COVID 19 ... the company believes new residents of its retirement homes shouldn’t... Chartwell spokesperson Sharon Ranalli. York University professor Tamara Daly,...
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The ABC’s (algorithms, big tech and cops) of predictive policing and surveillance

... these tools. These are some of the findings of , a new report from University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab which took a look at the use of these technologies...
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How wearing a mask at school can impact a child s development

TORONTO The mandating of face mask use in... the masks may hide some of the ways children process. use information, Kang Lee, a professor of applied...
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What constitutes a COVID-19 outbreak? Experts say classification isn t clear-cut

... positive, some on social media scoffed at the seemingly low... for that classification The labelling of an outbreak, including the... the positive tests from Western University students, isn t...
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Is it time to start tightening COVID-19 restrictions in Ontario? These 4 charts explain what’s happening across the province and in Canada

... isn’t concerned because the number of cases are pretty high... almost certainly a substantial undercount of how many cases there... specialist at Sinai Health and University Health Network, and...
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Popular radio G98.7 FM is about to change ownership hands, and members of the community hope it stays Black-owned

Amid the imminent sale of Toronto’s only Black owned commercial radio... Black communities around the Greater Toronto Area for nearly a... is expected this month. Members of Black communities and...
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Six years. More than $150,000 in legal fees. She stood up to sexual harassment inside Toronto police, and won — but at what cost?

... closing arguments in the promising Toronto police constable’s case. There... her dog, Star, and fled Toronto’s midsummer heat for northern... with her dad, a retired Toronto police homicide detective...
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The COVID-19 pandemic changed the way we buy food. How the industry is responding could mean big changes at the grocery store

... lot, shoppers with carts full of toilet paper and dried... industry has been taking note of how we’ve been shopping.. last months and keeping track of how our buying...
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Back to school puts ‘another log’ on a ‘really scary fire:’ These 3 charts sum up where Ontario and Canada are right now in the COVID-19 battle

The growing number of new daily cases has... hold on any further loosening of public health restrictions in... Furness, an epidemiologist at the University of Toronto. However, it takes...
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Welcome to the start of the school year. It’s going to be rocky

... virtually. Welcome to the start of the 2020 21 school year... be rocky. With the threat of COVID 19 looming, students in... areas will get a mix of in person and online....
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Is Canada’s wage subsidy benefiting workers or employers? One economist worries companies are using it to pad their bottom line

... the pandemic swept away much of Canada’s economy, millions of workers faced the prospect of lost jobs and wages... 6, it quickly became York University economist Amin Mawani’s favourite......
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Despite COVID-19, these universities will hold in-person classes. Here’s how they’re preparing for the risk

... the Inn, St. Francis Xavier University’s student run pub. This year... be no games to kick off this school year. The... for the sporadic belching out of the students already...
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How do you celebrate in a pandemic? What COVID-19 means for Toronto’s fall and winter festivals

... missed all the traditional markers of spring and summer in Toronto, from the St. Patrick’s. Parade in March to Pride Toronto in June and the... it expires at the...