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A non-profit that represents health-care professionals and patients called Friday for military intervention to help control outbreaks of COVID-19 in Ontario's long-term care homes.
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TORONTO -- A non-profit that represents health-care professionals and patients called Friday for military intervention to help control outbreaks of COVID-19 in Ontario's long-term care homes.
Redeploying the Canadian Armed Forces to the hard-hit facilities is not the Ontario Health Coalition's first choice, the group's executive director said, but short-term options are scarce.
"The issue is that we're in such an emergency," Natalie Mehra said. "There are so many homes with outbreaks that are growing extremely quickly, the death counts are mounting, and the hospitals are overstretched now."
Mehra said hospitals are treating a worrying number of patients, and some are experiencing outbreaks of their own.
As of Thursday -- the most recently available data -- the province was reporting 1,235 people in hospital with COVID-19, including 337 in ICU. The same day, the province said there were 187 long-term care homes experiencing active outbreaks of COVID-19.
North York General Hospital, which has taken over management at Tendercare Living Centre in Toronto, said 52 residents have died due to an outbreak at the home.
The Toronto long-term care home has seen 122 residents and 56 staff with COVID-19, with 78 active cases remaining in residents as of Thursday.
Meanwhile, an outbreak at The Village at St. Clair in Windsor, Ont., has sickened 115 residents and 74 staff, and has been linked to 24 deaths.
When the military was deployed to seven long-term care homes in the first wave of the pandemic, it came out with a damning report that included accounts of aggressive feeding that caused choking, bleeding infections and residents crying for help for hours.
It was the first time the Forces had been called upon for such a deployment, Brig.-Gen. Conrad Mialkowski has said. He led the two-month mission that began in April.
The military report was part of what spurred the province to launch an independent commission examining the disproportionate spread of the novel coronavirus within the facilities.
The commission has so far come out with two sets of interim recommendations for long-term care facilities.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan. 1, 2021.
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"TORONTO -- A non-profit that represents health-care professionals and patients called Friday for military intervention to help control outbreaks of COVID-19 in Ontario's long-term care homes.\nRedeploying the Canadian Armed Forces to the hard-hit facilities is not the Ontario Health Coalition's first choice, the group's executive director said, but short-term options are scarce.\n\"The issue is that we're in such an emergency,\" Natalie Mehra said. \"There are so many homes with outbreaks that are growing extremely quickly, the death counts are mounting, and the hospitals are overstretched now.\"\nMehra said hospitals are treating a worrying number of patients, and some are experiencing outbreaks of their own.\nAs of Thursday -- the most recently available data -- the province was reporting 1,235 people in hospital with COVID-19, including 337 in ICU. The same day, the province said there were 187 long-term care homes experiencing active outbreaks of COVID-19.\nNorth York General Hospital, which has taken over management at Tendercare Living Centre in Toronto, said 52 residents have died due to an outbreak at the home.\nThe Toronto long-term care home has seen 122 residents and 56 staff with COVID-19, with 78 active cases remaining in residents as of Thursday.\nMeanwhile, an outbreak at The Village at St. Clair in Windsor, Ont., has sickened 115 residents and 74 staff, and has been linked to 24 deaths.\nWhen the military was deployed to seven long-term care homes in the first wave of the pandemic, it came out with a damning report that included accounts of aggressive feeding that caused choking, bleeding infections and residents crying for help for hours.\nIt was the first time the Forces had been called upon for such a deployment, Brig.-Gen. Conrad Mialkowski has said. He led the two-month mission that began in April.\nThe military report was part of what spurred the province to launch an independent commission examining the disproportionate spread of the novel coronavirus within the facilities.\nThe commission has so far come out with two sets of interim recommendations for long-term care facilities.\nThis report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan. 1, 2021.",
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The Ontario government has issued an emergency alert to all cellphones, televisions and radios warning that the province's stay-at-home order is now in effect.
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TORONTO -- The Ontario government has issued an emergency alert to all cellphones, televisions and radios warning that the province's stay-at-home order is now in effect.
The alert was issued at 10 a.m. on Thursday by Ontario's Solicitor General Sylvia Jones.
"A stay-at-home order is in effect. Only leave home for essential purposes such as food, healthcare, exercise or work. It’s the law. Stay home, stay safe, save lives," the alert read.
The stay-at-home order began at 12:01 on Thursday morning and has been put in place by the Ford government to curb the spread of COVID-19 as it threatens to overwhelm the province’s healthcare system.
The order requires residents to stay home except for essential outings, such as accessing health care, shopping for groceries, or outdoor exercise.
The province has said there's no set definition for what is "essential" because everyone has their own unique circumstances and regional considerations.
There's no limit on how many times people can leave their homes per day, or on how long they can be out. Premier Doug Ford has urged people to use their "best judgment" in deciding whether to go out.
Confusion surrounding what Ontarians are allowed to do during the stay-at-home order prompted the provincial government on Wednesday to release a list of answers to the most-asked questions they have received since the measure was announced.
"A common theme is recognizing government's inability to implement a single set of restrictions that are perfectly responsive to the unique circumstances of every single Ontarian," a spokesperson for Ford said Wednesday. "How someone in downtown Toronto adheres to the stay-at-home order, where there is easy and immediate access to online shopping or a big-box retailer, will look very different than someone in a rural or remote area who relies on smaller, independent retailers, many of which are limited to curb-side pickup or delivery."
Ontario issues an emergency alert for the stay at home order. #onpoli pic.twitter.com/sJ8fcMAMCj — Colin D'Mello CTVNews (@ColinDMello) January 14, 2021
"As such, and as we have from the very outset of this pandemic, we will continue to rely on the best judgment of Ontarians as they stay at home as much as possible and only leave their homes for essential purposes."
The stay-at-home order will remain in effect for at least 28 days. Unless an outing is considered essential, Ontario residents are being ordered to stay home at all hours.
With files from The Canadian Press.
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"TORONTO -- The Ontario government has issued an emergency alert to all cellphones, televisions and radios warning that the province's stay-at-home order is now in effect.\nThe alert was issued at 10 a.m. on Thursday by Ontario's Solicitor General Sylvia Jones.\n\"A stay-at-home order is in effect. Only leave home for essential purposes such as food, healthcare, exercise or work. It’s the law. Stay home, stay safe, save lives,\" the alert read.\nThe stay-at-home order began at 12:01 on Thursday morning and has been put in place by the Ford government to curb the spread of COVID-19 as it threatens to overwhelm the province’s healthcare system.\nThe order requires residents to stay home except for essential outings, such as accessing health care, shopping for groceries, or outdoor exercise.\nThe province has said there's no set definition for what is \"essential\" because everyone has their own unique circumstances and regional considerations.\nThere's no limit on how many times people can leave their homes per day, or on how long they can be out. Premier Doug Ford has urged people to use their \"best judgment\" in deciding whether to go out.\nConfusion surrounding what Ontarians are allowed to do during the stay-at-home order prompted the provincial government on Wednesday to release a list of answers to the most-asked questions they have received since the measure was announced.\n\"A common theme is recognizing government's inability to implement a single set of restrictions that are perfectly responsive to the unique circumstances of every single Ontarian,\" a spokesperson for Ford said Wednesday. \"How someone in downtown Toronto adheres to the stay-at-home order, where there is easy and immediate access to online shopping or a big-box retailer, will look very different than someone in a rural or remote area who relies on smaller, independent retailers, many of which are limited to curb-side pickup or delivery.\"\nOntario issues an emergency alert for the stay at home order. #onpoli pic.twitter.com/sJ8fcMAMCj — Colin D'Mello CTVNews (@ColinDMello) January 14, 2021\n\"As such, and as we have from the very outset of this pandemic, we will continue to rely on the best judgment of Ontarians as they stay at home as much as possible and only leave their homes for essential purposes.\"\nThe stay-at-home order will remain in effect for at least 28 days. Unless an outing is considered essential, Ontario residents are being ordered to stay home at all hours.\nWith files from The Canadian Press.",
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Ontario should improve working conditions in long-term care homes in an effort to retain staff and prevent the spread of COVID-19 within the facilities, a new report from a group of health experts advising the province suggests.
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TORONTO -- Ontario should improve working conditions in long-term care homes in an effort to retain staff and prevent the spread of COVID-19 within the facilities, a new report from a group of health experts advising the province suggests.
The immense toll the pandemic has taken on the long-term care sector is only increasing as infections and deaths among residents speed up, mirroring the virus's spread in the community at large, the report released Wednesday from the Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table said.
It argues the province can build on what it's already done to improve the situation and protect residents and staff from the virus.
"Addressing the longstanding staffing shortages is one of the most urgent issues confronting Ontario's LTC homes both during and in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic," said the report, pointing to American research that found staffing shortages in long-term care homes led to more cases of COVID-19 and higher death rates.
The report said, however, that the pandemic has made working in the sector even less appealing, as many workers have caught COVID-19 and 10 have died of the virus in Ontario.
As of Wednesday, 13,549 residents of long-term care homes had been diagnosed with the virus and 3,239 had died, according to provincial data. As many as 5,375 staff members had been infected.
"There is also a heightened fear among staff about onwards transmission of (COVID-19) to family members, not having access to PPE given the shortages at the onset of the pandemic, and burnout given the stressful conditions many staff are exposed to in outbreak settings," it reads.
The province has done some things to improve working conditions, such as introducing temporary pay raises and accelerated training programs, the report said.
But those benefits should be extended beyond the end of the pandemic to attract new workers -- and keep them in their jobs once they're hired, the report recommended.
"This could include creating more full-time jobs, more permanent pay increases, career ladders and more immediate increases in the hours of care being provided to each resident," it said.
The report also pointed to suggestions to make at least 70 per cent of staff full-time, while ensuring "all full-time and part-time staff have fair pay and benefits including paid sick leave."
The document noted that spread in long-term care homes reflects community spread, with facilities in regions with high rates of COVID-19 more likely to have significant outbreaks.
"The relationship between community incidence of SARS-CoV-2 infections and LTC home outbreaks is likely mediated by infected staff who are unknowingly importing virus in homes with asymptomatic or pre-symptomatic COVID-19," it reads.
An Ontario study conducted "in the early days of the first wave" found that infection among staff was associated with death among residents with a lag of just six days, the report notes, so tackling staff infection is paramount.
The document suggests making sure personal support workers and other long-term care staff are included in community-tailored approaches to prevent the spread of COVID-19, such as enabling local organizations to offer testing and support, individualized case management and paid sick leaves and eviction moratoriums.
The document also recommends extending a prohibition on three- and four-bed rooms beyond the end of this month to prevent overcrowding, which is associated with higher rates of COVID-19 and more deaths.
A spokeswoman for Long-Term Care Minister Merrilee Fullerton did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan. 20, 2021.
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As Ontario Premier Doug Ford considers whether to keep elementary students home for a longer period of time, new provincial data has raised "significant concerns" about the spread of COVID-19 among school-aged children over the Christmas holidays, sources tell CTV News Toronto.
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TORONTO -- As Ontario Premier Doug Ford considers whether to keep elementary students home for a longer period of time, new provincial data has raised "significant concerns" about the spread of COVID-19 among school-aged children over the Christmas holidays, sources tell CTV News Toronto.
New data currently being reviewed by Ontario's Chief Medical Officer of Health shows the positivity rate among children aged 12-13 quadrupled over the course of December, building the case for an extended closure of in-school learning.
A senior government source told CTV News Toronto the dramatic increase in the positivity rate is "alarming" and has "raised significant concerns about kids returning to school next week."
"Most troubling, the positivity rate for kids aged 12-13 years old increased from 5.44 per cent in late-November, early December to nearly 20 per cent in the early new year," the source told CTV News Toronto.
Ford has a cabinet meeting scheduled on Friday, exactly two weeks after the province-wide lockdown began, and is expected to announce a decision on schools this week.
The data under review shows a steady increase in the number of positive cases and the positivity rate among elementary students over the course of December.
During the week of Nov. 29, the positivity rate among children between the ages of four and 11 was 5.22 per cent, after 580 children tested positive for COVID-19. By the week of Dec. 27, the province recorded a 116 per cent increase in the positivity rate among the same age group, jumping up to 15.66 per cent, with 720 positive cases.
Similarly, during the week of Nov. 29, 187 children aged 12-13 tested positive for COVID-19 in the province putting the group's positivity rate at 5.22 per cent. By the week of Dec. 27, there was a 98 per cent increase in the positivity rate among that age group, up to 19.78 per cent after 284 children tested positive.
The Ford government continues to insist that schools are not a source of transmission, despite the increase in positivity rates taking place while students were still in school.
But government sources insist the spread comes from community transmission and "concerning behaviour over the holidays" due to families ignoring provincial requests to travel for essential purposes only.
On Wednesday, the Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario penned an open letter to the premier, minister of education and provincial health officials asking for an extension of virtual learning amid a rapid rise of COVID-19 cases in the community.
"We have taken the extraordinary step to ask Public Health Units to use their authority to reconsider the decision to resume in-person learning for elementary students on Jan. 11, particularly in communities where the rate of community transmission is high and where other extreme public health measures have been deemed necessary," the letter reads.
"We ask that you reconsider your decision to resume in-person learning for elementary students on January 11."
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"TORONTO -- As Ontario Premier Doug Ford considers whether to keep elementary students home for a longer period of time, new provincial data has raised \"significant concerns\" about the spread of COVID-19 among school-aged children over the Christmas holidays, sources tell CTV News Toronto.\nNew data currently being reviewed by Ontario's Chief Medical Officer of Health shows the positivity rate among children aged 12-13 quadrupled over the course of December, building the case for an extended closure of in-school learning.\nA senior government source told CTV News Toronto the dramatic increase in the positivity rate is \"alarming\" and has \"raised significant concerns about kids returning to school next week.\"\n\"Most troubling, the positivity rate for kids aged 12-13 years old increased from 5.44 per cent in late-November, early December to nearly 20 per cent in the early new year,\" the source told CTV News Toronto.\nFord has a cabinet meeting scheduled on Friday, exactly two weeks after the province-wide lockdown began, and is expected to announce a decision on schools this week.\nThe data under review shows a steady increase in the number of positive cases and the positivity rate among elementary students over the course of December.\nDuring the week of Nov. 29, the positivity rate among children between the ages of four and 11 was 5.22 per cent, after 580 children tested positive for COVID-19. By the week of Dec. 27, the province recorded a 116 per cent increase in the positivity rate among the same age group, jumping up to 15.66 per cent, with 720 positive cases.\nSimilarly, during the week of Nov. 29, 187 children aged 12-13 tested positive for COVID-19 in the province putting the group's positivity rate at 5.22 per cent. By the week of Dec. 27, there was a 98 per cent increase in the positivity rate among that age group, up to 19.78 per cent after 284 children tested positive.\nThe Ford government continues to insist that schools are not a source of transmission, despite the increase in positivity rates taking place while students were still in school.\nBut government sources insist the spread comes from community transmission and \"concerning behaviour over the holidays\" due to families ignoring provincial requests to travel for essential purposes only.\nOn Wednesday, the Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario penned an open letter to the premier, minister of education and provincial health officials asking for an extension of virtual learning amid a rapid rise of COVID-19 cases in the community.\n\"We have taken the extraordinary step to ask Public Health Units to use their authority to reconsider the decision to resume in-person learning for elementary students on Jan. 11, particularly in communities where the rate of community transmission is high and where other extreme public health measures have been deemed necessary,\" the letter reads.\n\"We ask that you reconsider your decision to resume in-person learning for elementary students on January 11.\"",
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A Toronto arts educator is tackling some of the most pressing difficulties of the pandemic head on by incorporating the benefits of breathing mindfulness and emotion exploration in his elementary classes.
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TORONTO -- A Toronto arts educator is tackling some of the most pressing difficulties of the pandemic head on by incorporating the benefits of breathing mindfulness and emotion exploration in his elementary classes.
Michael Hodgson teaches drama, dance and music at with the Toronto District School Board at Perth Avenue Junior Public School.
“All emotions are valid, all emotions exist within all people. This is a human factor that all of us experience things and we can learn strategies and calm ourselves down and breath through issues,” Hodgson told CTV News Toronto Thursday.
Since COVID-19 has upended school and life Hodgson has focused on activities around emotions to help students get in touch with or alter a feeling for a positive impact on mental health.
Hodgson, who is a former musical theatre actor, has been teaching for a decade. He said wanted to share the benefits of what he was doing in his own life with his students.
Some exercises are more breathing focused, others centres around feelings.
In one activity, Hodgson plays a drum. Students use their bodies and faces to show their emotions and with movement express how they feel or want to feel.
The movements can be twisting for happy, hiding for nervous, crumbling for sleepy, spinning for excitement or stomping for angry.
“The breathing things help you be more clam and then some of the activities get you moving,” said Grade 3 student Caio Ramos.
“Your mental health is really important because if you don’t talk about it you might have some problems,” another Grade 3 student, Beatrix Ambachtsheer, said.
The class also focuses on positive thinking and asks students to think of what makes them amazing.
Hodgson says the activities have created a connection with his students he hasn’t had before.
“There’s a unity that happens with that and there’s a collective goal of having a great mindset when those things are happening and having a focused, productive mindset and a positive one,” he said.
Hodgson said he’s noticed students look forward to the activities and it’s important to allow kids to be open and honest about their feelings and schedule a time for it.
“Even if it’s a five-minute breathing, or a guided breathing exercise will have immediate change,” he said.
Hodgson’s work was brought to the attention of the board by parents on Twitter.
Education Minister Stephen Lecce dropped in on one of Hodgson’s classes Thursday, which also fell on Bell Let’s Talk Day.
“I’m happy and I’m just so proud for every one of you for joining today and staying positive,” Lecce told the class.
TDSB Board Chair Alexander Brown called Hodgson one of the great examples.
Brown said he acknowledges the activities Hodgson has been doing aren’t for everyone, but encouraged educators, leaders within the board and at the provincial level to listen to the expertise of teachers.
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A new report has confirmed that Ontario now has 400 patients battling COVID-19 in its intensive care units, which comes as the province logged more than 3,000 new cases for the fifth straight day.
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TORONTO -- A new report has confirmed that Ontario now has 400 patients battling COVID-19 in its intensive care units, which comes as the province logged more than 3,000 new cases for the fifth straight day.
The report by Critical Care Services Ontario obtained by CTV News Toronto raised alarm after it confirmed on Saturday that 400 patients are currently in the province’s intensive care units (ICUs) due to the novel coronavirus.
The news comes as health officials reported 3,443 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday. Just the day before, the province released record-breaking numbers with 4,249 new infections.
The province reported on Saturday that in total 1,457 people are currently in hospital due to COVID-19, and that 244 of the patients in intensive care are breathing with the assistance of a ventilator.
Ontario health officials have said that when more than 300 COVID-19 patients are in intensive care, medical care in hospitals not related to the disease becomes nearly impossible to handle.
The province also reported on Saturday that 40 more people have died due to COVID-19, including 26 people who were residents of long-term care homes. The province’s death toll now stands 4,922.
The province also deemed 2,915 more cases of the disease to be resolved as of Saturday, bringing Ontario’s number of recovered patients up to 178,224.
Saturday's case count brings the total number of lab-confirmed cases in Ontario to 211,837, including deaths and recoveries.
Where are the COVID-19 cases in Ontario?
Of the 3,443 cases reported on Saturday, health officials say that 1,070 were in Toronto, 548 were in Peel Region and 303 were in York Region.
Several other regions in Ontario reported COVID-19 cases numbers in the triple digits, including Ottawa (179), Durham Region (166), Windsor-Essex (282), Niagara (134) and Waterloo (116).
In an effort to help curb the spread of the disease, the provincial government ordered an Ontario-wide lockdown on Dec. 26.
The lockdown measures are scheduled to last until Jan. 23 in the southern parts of the province (south of Sudbury) and until Jan. 9 in the northern parts.
There were 72,900 COVID-19 tests completed in the province in the last-recorded 24-hour period. Ontario’s test positivity rate now stands at about 5.3 per cent, according to the province.
There are 61,228 COVID-19 tests still under investigation. In total, Ontario has processed more than 8.4 million tests since the pandemic began in January.
Thus far, 103,263 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in Ontario, including 9,795 doses administered in the previous day. The vaccine requires two doses. In Ontario, 5,880total vaccinations have been completed as of Saturday
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"TORONTO -- A new report has confirmed that Ontario now has 400 patients battling COVID-19 in its intensive care units, which comes as the province logged more than 3,000 new cases for the fifth straight day.\nThe report by Critical Care Services Ontario obtained by CTV News Toronto raised alarm after it confirmed on Saturday that 400 patients are currently in the province’s intensive care units (ICUs) due to the novel coronavirus.\nThe news comes as health officials reported 3,443 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday. Just the day before, the province released record-breaking numbers with 4,249 new infections.\nThe province reported on Saturday that in total 1,457 people are currently in hospital due to COVID-19, and that 244 of the patients in intensive care are breathing with the assistance of a ventilator.\nOntario health officials have said that when more than 300 COVID-19 patients are in intensive care, medical care in hospitals not related to the disease becomes nearly impossible to handle.\nThe province also reported on Saturday that 40 more people have died due to COVID-19, including 26 people who were residents of long-term care homes. The province’s death toll now stands 4,922.\nThe province also deemed 2,915 more cases of the disease to be resolved as of Saturday, bringing Ontario’s number of recovered patients up to 178,224.\nSaturday's case count brings the total number of lab-confirmed cases in Ontario to 211,837, including deaths and recoveries.\nWhere are the COVID-19 cases in Ontario?\nOf the 3,443 cases reported on Saturday, health officials say that 1,070 were in Toronto, 548 were in Peel Region and 303 were in York Region.\nSeveral other regions in Ontario reported COVID-19 cases numbers in the triple digits, including Ottawa (179), Durham Region (166), Windsor-Essex (282), Niagara (134) and Waterloo (116).\nIn an effort to help curb the spread of the disease, the provincial government ordered an Ontario-wide lockdown on Dec. 26.\nThe lockdown measures are scheduled to last until Jan. 23 in the southern parts of the province (south of Sudbury) and until Jan. 9 in the northern parts.\nThere were 72,900 COVID-19 tests completed in the province in the last-recorded 24-hour period. Ontario’s test positivity rate now stands at about 5.3 per cent, according to the province.\nThere are 61,228 COVID-19 tests still under investigation. In total, Ontario has processed more than 8.4 million tests since the pandemic began in January.\nThus far, 103,263 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in Ontario, including 9,795 doses administered in the previous day. The vaccine requires two doses. In Ontario, 5,880total vaccinations have been completed as of Saturday",
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The trial of a teen boy accused of sexually assaulting two fellow students at a prestigious Toronto private school resumes today.
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TORONTO -- The trial of a teen boy accused of sexually assaulting two fellow students at a prestigious Toronto private school resumes today.
The teen has pleaded not guilty to two counts each of gang sexual assault, sexual assault with a weapon and assault with a weapon related to two incidents at St. Michael's College School in the fall of 2018.
In December, court viewed two videos in which one of the complainants recounted the incidents to a police investigator.
In one video, he described being sexually assaulted with a broom handle by a group of students in the school's locker room in October 2018.
In the second recording, he recalled seeing a group sexually assault another student in a similar way the following month, also in the locker room.
The complainant did not mention the accused when discussing the October incident, but alleged the teen held back the arms of the victim in the November assault.
The teen who testified was initially one of the suspects in the November 2018 incident, but the charges against him were dropped.
Three teens have pleaded guilty to sexual assault with a weapon and assault with a weapon for their roles in the incidents and have been sentenced to two years of probation.
One of them also pleaded guilty to making child pornography for recording one of the sex assaults in a video that was then widely distributed.
Another student received a two-year probationary sentence with no jail time after pleading guilty. The charges against another student, aside from the one who testified, were withdrawn.
None of the teens involved in the case -- which includes the accused, the complainants and some of the witnesses -- can be identified because they were underage at the time.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan. 29, 2021.
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A 60-year-old woman has been seriously injured after being struck by a vehicle in Toronto's Eglinton West area on Friday evening.
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TORONTO -- A 60-year-old woman has been seriously injured after being struck by a vehicle in Toronto’s Eglinton West area on Friday evening.
It happened at the intersection of Eglinton Avenue West and Gabian Way, west of Caledonia Road.
Paramedics said the woman was transported to a trauma centre in serious, possibly life-threatening condition.
The driver of the vehicle remained on the scene, police said.
The intersection is closed as police investigate.
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"A 60-year-old woman has been seriously injured after being struck by a vehicle in Toronto's Eglinton West area on Friday evening."
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Provincial officials say they plan to administer first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to all long-term care home residents in Ontario 10 days sooner than planned as at least one facility in outbreak has reported multiple cases of the UK variant.
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TORONTO -- Provincial officials say they plan to administer first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to all long-term care home residents in Ontario 10 days sooner than planned as at least one facility in outbreak has reported multiple cases of the U.K. variant.
The province provided an update this morning on their plan to administer COVID-19 vaccines in Ontario as health officials have been forced to change gears amid delivery delays from Pfizer.
The province received no new doses from Pfizer this week and Ontario will receive approximately 26,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine on the week of Feb. 1, a significant reduction in the number of doses than was previously expected.
The federal government has not yet provided the province with Ontario’s allocation of Pfizer doses for the weeks of Feb. 8 or Feb. 15 but officials said shipments are expected in Canada for those weeks.
On Monday morning, officials said in light of the supply slowdown, the province needs to take a strategic approach to administering the vaccine, focusing exclusively on accelerating the vaccination of long-term care home residents as well as high-risk retirement and First Nation elder care home residents.
Ontario has pressed pause on providing first doses of the vaccine to all other groups, including health-care workers and essential caregivers in those settings.
Initially the province’s vaccine task force said its goal was to provide first doses of the vaccine to those vulnerable groups by Feb. 15 but officials now say they are working to do that 10 days sooner than planned.
The new Feb. 5th deadline is dependent on there being no further delays for deliveries, officials said Monday.
About 47,000 residents of Ontario long-term care homes have already received the first dose of the vaccine with another 17,000 or 18,000 who still have not received the vaccine.
Approximately 3,000 residents have refused the first dose, the province said on Monday.
To date, a COVID-19 vaccine has been made available to 50,000 long-term care workers and another 50,000 workers have yet to receive their first doses. Once more vaccines become available, the province said, the vaccination of workers and essential caregivers in those vulnerable settings will resume.
With the exception of long-term care and retirement home residents, second doses of the Pfizer vaccine could be pushed back 42 days to deal with the supply shortage, the province confirmed on Monday.
Another 80,000 doses of the Moderna vaccine are expected to arrive in the province on Feb. 1 and provincial health officials confirmed a similar shipment is expected on Feb. 22. Second doses of the Moderna vaccine will still be administered within a 28-day window.
The province also said it is also trying to reallocate vaccines to provide doses to 14 of the 34 public health units that have not yet receive any doses to date.
Pfizer, the larger of two suppliers of two approved COVID-19 vaccines to Canada, said last week it would drastically reduce deliveries to the EU and Canada in February as it retools a manufacturing plant in order to boost its annual output by 700 million doses.
Premier Doug Ford, Ret. Gen. Rick Hillier, Health Minister Christine Elliott and Solicitor General Sylvia Jones are expected to speak at Queen’s Park this afternoon to address the shift in the province's vaccination plan.
Ford has taken to assorted insults and threats to vent his frustration over the Pfizer delivery slowdown, calling the company’s official excuse about retooling a Belgian manufacturing plant “crap.”
When speaking about the delays last week, Ford, in reference to an unnamed Pfizer executive, said that he’d be “up that guy’s ying-yang so far with a firecracker he wouldn’t know what hit him.”
He has repeatedly publicly appealed to U.S. President Joe Biden to send Ontario one million of its Pfizer doses as a stop gap measure.
CTVNewsToronto.ca will stream Ford's announcement live at 1 p.m.
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"TORONTO -- Provincial officials say they plan to administer first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to all long-term care home residents in Ontario 10 days sooner than planned as at least one facility in outbreak has reported multiple cases of the U.K. variant.\nThe province provided an update this morning on their plan to administer COVID-19 vaccines in Ontario as health officials have been forced to change gears amid delivery delays from Pfizer.\nThe province received no new doses from Pfizer this week and Ontario will receive approximately 26,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine on the week of Feb. 1, a significant reduction in the number of doses than was previously expected.\nThe federal government has not yet provided the province with Ontario’s allocation of Pfizer doses for the weeks of Feb. 8 or Feb. 15 but officials said shipments are expected in Canada for those weeks.\nOn Monday morning, officials said in light of the supply slowdown, the province needs to take a strategic approach to administering the vaccine, focusing exclusively on accelerating the vaccination of long-term care home residents as well as high-risk retirement and First Nation elder care home residents.\nOntario has pressed pause on providing first doses of the vaccine to all other groups, including health-care workers and essential caregivers in those settings.\nInitially the province’s vaccine task force said its goal was to provide first doses of the vaccine to those vulnerable groups by Feb. 15 but officials now say they are working to do that 10 days sooner than planned.\nThe new Feb. 5th deadline is dependent on there being no further delays for deliveries, officials said Monday.\nAbout 47,000 residents of Ontario long-term care homes have already received the first dose of the vaccine with another 17,000 or 18,000 who still have not received the vaccine.\nApproximately 3,000 residents have refused the first dose, the province said on Monday.\nTo date, a COVID-19 vaccine has been made available to 50,000 long-term care workers and another 50,000 workers have yet to receive their first doses. Once more vaccines become available, the province said, the vaccination of workers and essential caregivers in those vulnerable settings will resume.\nWith the exception of long-term care and retirement home residents, second doses of the Pfizer vaccine could be pushed back 42 days to deal with the supply shortage, the province confirmed on Monday.\nAnother 80,000 doses of the Moderna vaccine are expected to arrive in the province on Feb. 1 and provincial health officials confirmed a similar shipment is expected on Feb. 22. Second doses of the Moderna vaccine will still be administered within a 28-day window.\nThe province also said it is also trying to reallocate vaccines to provide doses to 14 of the 34 public health units that have not yet receive any doses to date.\nPfizer, the larger of two suppliers of two approved COVID-19 vaccines to Canada, said last week it would drastically reduce deliveries to the EU and Canada in February as it retools a manufacturing plant in order to boost its annual output by 700 million doses.\nPremier Doug Ford, Ret. Gen. Rick Hillier, Health Minister Christine Elliott and Solicitor General Sylvia Jones are expected to speak at Queen’s Park this afternoon to address the shift in the province's vaccination plan.\nFord has taken to assorted insults and threats to vent his frustration over the Pfizer delivery slowdown, calling the company’s official excuse about retooling a Belgian manufacturing plant “crap.”\nWhen speaking about the delays last week, Ford, in reference to an unnamed Pfizer executive, said that he’d be “up that guy’s ying-yang so far with a firecracker he wouldn’t know what hit him.”\nHe has repeatedly publicly appealed to U.S. President Joe Biden to send Ontario one million of its Pfizer doses as a stop gap measure.\nCTVNewsToronto.ca will stream Ford's announcement live at 1 p.m.",
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The province's police watchdog has cleared a Peel police officer who shot and killed 28-year-old Jamal Francique in Mississauga last January.
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TORONTO -- The province's police watchdog has cleared a Peel police officer who shot and killed 28-year-old Jamal Francique in Mississauga last January.
In a report released today, almost one year after the fatal shooting, Joseph Martino, the director of the Special Investigations Unit (SIU), said he found no reasonable grounds to criminally charge the officer who shot Francique on the night of Jan. 7, 2020.
According to the SIU report, members of the Peel Regional Police Service's vice narcotics street level organized crime unit had gathered on the afternoon of the day of the shooting to discuss "ongoing surveillance" of Francique.
The SIU report states that police were in "possession of information" that Francique was trafficking drugs and had a firearm, information that police had been unable to confirm.
The report added that Peel police officers had observed Francique "travelling to various locations in breach of his bail conditions" and decided to arrest him for allegedly violating the terms of his bail.
Members of the unit, along with plainclothes officers and unmarked vehicles, went to the townhouse complex where Francique resided with his parents, in the area of Southampton Drive and Aquinas Avenue in Mississauga.
"The plan was to wait for Mr. Francique to enter his vehicle, whereupon a team member would position his vehicle behind the Acura to prevent its egress. Thereafter, officers would converge on the vehicle on foot to arrest Mr. Francique." the SIU report read.
"A deflation device was placed under the front passenger tire of Mr. Francique’s vehicle, which would necessarily be run over if Mr. Francique was able to reverse out of his parking spot."
The SIU report states that Francique exited his home at around 5:45 p.m. and the officer who was supposed to park behind Francique’s vehicle was late arriving to the area.
Francique, the report says, managed to reverse out of his spot and two officers then positioned their cruisers near the Acrua in an attempt to box the vehicle in.
Other officers, including the subject officer, "rushed to the scene" and positioned themselves northwest of Francique's vehicle near a grass boulevard with their guns drawn, according to the report.
The SIU said Francique momentarily paused after reversing and then accelerated forward, striking one cruiser before heading toward the boulevard where the officers were positioned.
One officer, the SIU said, jumped out of the way of Francique's car to avoid being struck.
The subject officer then fired his gun four times in the direction of the driver's seat, according to the report.
Francique's vehicle travelled another 30 metres before hitting a pillar at the back of one of the townhouses in the area.
The SIU said officers on scene were afraid Francique was armed so they did not approach his vehicle, waiting for the arrival of Peel Regional Police tactical officers instead.
Members of the tactical team arrived at 8:05 p.m. and knocked out the rear windows of Francique's vehicle. The SIU said Francique was seated in the driver's seat in "obvious and acute medical distress," suffering from a gunshot wound to the left side of his head.
Emergency first aid was performed by paramedics and he was then rushed to St. Michael's Hospital for treatment.
Police say when Francique was extracted from the vehicle, officers found a semi-automatic pistol inside a satchel he was carrying.
Francique remained on life support for three days before he was subsequently pronounced dead in hospital on Jan. 10.
The SIU said following a neighbourhood canvas, they were unable to locate any video or audio recordings or photographic evidence of the incident.
In his report, Martino said the subject officer was "engaged in the lawful execution of his duties" when he took part in the attempted arrest of Francique, who police say had been seen breaching his bail conditions by visiting his girlfriend in the days before the fatal shooting.
In his interview with the SIU, the subject officer, who has not been publicly identified, said that he believed there was an "imminent risk to his life" when he discharged his firearm.
Martino said over the course of the SIU's investigation, they found nothing that would "cast doubt" on that assertion.
"The Acura was accelerating forward in his general direction, nearing to within a few metres, when he fired his weapon four times in quick succession," the SIU report read.
"The (subject officer) had just seen the Acura evade what was very clearly a police roadblock; the emergency lights and siren of (one police) vehicle were on as he drove up to and stopped in front of Mr. Francique attempting to prevent his forward movement."
Martino noted that while there is the question of a possible retreat or disengagement, it would be "unreasonable to conclude" that the officer should be disqualified from protection under Sec. 25(3) of the Criminal Code over his decision not pursue an alternative course of action.
"One must be mindful of the fluid and dynamic nature of the incident. The (subject officer's) role in the plan that had been devised was to approach the vehicle on foot, after it had been boxed-in, to arrest Mr. Francique,” Martino wrote.
“Considered in context, one can understand why the (officer) took up that role and quickly found himself in front of a moving vehicle when, with the luxury of more time, he might have appreciated the failed box-in and maintained his distance from the Acura."
Investigation 'must continue,' lawyer for Francique's family says
Knia Singh, a lawyer representing the family of Jamal Francique, said the investigation into the fatal shooting must continue despite the SIU’s findings.
“This is a signal to the provincial government that something is absolutely wrong. By reading the report alone, the major inconsistencies with the report should signal that the SIU is not conducting thorough, accurate investigations,” Singh said during a Zoom news conference on Wednesday afternoon.
“The SIU is not a competent organization that can continue to conduct these type of investigations when accountability is supposed to be at the forefront.”
He said there is a “disturbing trend” emerging that shows the SIU favours clearing officers over charging them.
“The analysis by directors over the years have shown a heavy reliance on bias leaning toward clearing police officers when admittedly directors comment on the fact that officers could have done something different yet still always rule in their favour,” Singh said. “The trend must stop.”
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"TORONTO -- The province's police watchdog has cleared a Peel police officer who shot and killed 28-year-old Jamal Francique in Mississauga last January.\nIn a report released today, almost one year after the fatal shooting, Joseph Martino, the director of the Special Investigations Unit (SIU), said he found no reasonable grounds to criminally charge the officer who shot Francique on the night of Jan. 7, 2020.\nAccording to the SIU report, members of the Peel Regional Police Service's vice narcotics street level organized crime unit had gathered on the afternoon of the day of the shooting to discuss \"ongoing surveillance\" of Francique.\nThe SIU report states that police were in \"possession of information\" that Francique was trafficking drugs and had a firearm, information that police had been unable to confirm.\nThe report added that Peel police officers had observed Francique \"travelling to various locations in breach of his bail conditions\" and decided to arrest him for allegedly violating the terms of his bail.\nMembers of the unit, along with plainclothes officers and unmarked vehicles, went to the townhouse complex where Francique resided with his parents, in the area of Southampton Drive and Aquinas Avenue in Mississauga.\n\"The plan was to wait for Mr. Francique to enter his vehicle, whereupon a team member would position his vehicle behind the Acura to prevent its egress. Thereafter, officers would converge on the vehicle on foot to arrest Mr. Francique.\" the SIU report read.\n\"A deflation device was placed under the front passenger tire of Mr. Francique’s vehicle, which would necessarily be run over if Mr. Francique was able to reverse out of his parking spot.\"\nThe SIU report states that Francique exited his home at around 5:45 p.m. and the officer who was supposed to park behind Francique’s vehicle was late arriving to the area.\nFrancique, the report says, managed to reverse out of his spot and two officers then positioned their cruisers near the Acrua in an attempt to box the vehicle in.\nOther officers, including the subject officer, \"rushed to the scene\" and positioned themselves northwest of Francique's vehicle near a grass boulevard with their guns drawn, according to the report.\nThe SIU said Francique momentarily paused after reversing and then accelerated forward, striking one cruiser before heading toward the boulevard where the officers were positioned.\nOne officer, the SIU said, jumped out of the way of Francique's car to avoid being struck.\nThe subject officer then fired his gun four times in the direction of the driver's seat, according to the report.\nFrancique's vehicle travelled another 30 metres before hitting a pillar at the back of one of the townhouses in the area.\nThe SIU said officers on scene were afraid Francique was armed so they did not approach his vehicle, waiting for the arrival of Peel Regional Police tactical officers instead.\nMembers of the tactical team arrived at 8:05 p.m. and knocked out the rear windows of Francique's vehicle. The SIU said Francique was seated in the driver's seat in \"obvious and acute medical distress,\" suffering from a gunshot wound to the left side of his head.\nEmergency first aid was performed by paramedics and he was then rushed to St. Michael's Hospital for treatment.\nPolice say when Francique was extracted from the vehicle, officers found a semi-automatic pistol inside a satchel he was carrying.\nFrancique remained on life support for three days before he was subsequently pronounced dead in hospital on Jan. 10.\nThe SIU said following a neighbourhood canvas, they were unable to locate any video or audio recordings or photographic evidence of the incident.\nIn his report, Martino said the subject officer was \"engaged in the lawful execution of his duties\" when he took part in the attempted arrest of Francique, who police say had been seen breaching his bail conditions by visiting his girlfriend in the days before the fatal shooting.\nIn his interview with the SIU, the subject officer, who has not been publicly identified, said that he believed there was an \"imminent risk to his life\" when he discharged his firearm.\nMartino said over the course of the SIU's investigation, they found nothing that would \"cast doubt\" on that assertion.\n\"The Acura was accelerating forward in his general direction, nearing to within a few metres, when he fired his weapon four times in quick succession,\" the SIU report read.\n\"The (subject officer) had just seen the Acura evade what was very clearly a police roadblock; the emergency lights and siren of (one police) vehicle were on as he drove up to and stopped in front of Mr. Francique attempting to prevent his forward movement.\"\nMartino noted that while there is the question of a possible retreat or disengagement, it would be \"unreasonable to conclude\" that the officer should be disqualified from protection under Sec. 25(3) of the Criminal Code over his decision not pursue an alternative course of action.\n\"One must be mindful of the fluid and dynamic nature of the incident. The (subject officer's) role in the plan that had been devised was to approach the vehicle on foot, after it had been boxed-in, to arrest Mr. Francique,” Martino wrote.\n“Considered in context, one can understand why the (officer) took up that role and quickly found himself in front of a moving vehicle when, with the luxury of more time, he might have appreciated the failed box-in and maintained his distance from the Acura.\"\nInvestigation 'must continue,' lawyer for Francique's family says\nKnia Singh, a lawyer representing the family of Jamal Francique, said the investigation into the fatal shooting must continue despite the SIU’s findings.\n“This is a signal to the provincial government that something is absolutely wrong. By reading the report alone, the major inconsistencies with the report should signal that the SIU is not conducting thorough, accurate investigations,” Singh said during a Zoom news conference on Wednesday afternoon.\n“The SIU is not a competent organization that can continue to conduct these type of investigations when accountability is supposed to be at the forefront.”\nHe said there is a “disturbing trend” emerging that shows the SIU favours clearing officers over charging them.\n“The analysis by directors over the years have shown a heavy reliance on bias leaning toward clearing police officers when admittedly directors comment on the fact that officers could have done something different yet still always rule in their favour,” Singh said. “The trend must stop.”",
"Ontario's police watchdog clears Peel cop who shot and killed Jamal Francique in Mississauga last year",
"The province's police watchdog has cleared a Peel police officer who shot and killed 28-year-old Jamal Francique in Mississauga last January."
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A long-term care home in Woodbridge, Ont., and a local hospital have agreed to a voluntary management contract.
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TORONTO -- A long-term care home in Woodbridge, Ont., and a local hospital have agreed to a voluntary management contract.
Mackenzie Health in Richmond Hill, Ont., will provide enhanced support to Villa Leonardo Gambin, according to the Ministry of Long-Term Care.
The voluntary management contract will be in effect for 90 days as the facility grapples with a COVID-19 outbreak.
Ontario's Ministry of Health says there are 15 confirmed cases of the virus among its residents and 13 staff members.
Twenty-one residents at the home have died during the current outbreak.
The Ministry of Long-Term Care says that if necessary, the voluntary management contract can be extended beyond its initial 90-day term.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan. 18, 2021.
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"TORONTO -- A long-term care home in Woodbridge, Ont., and a local hospital have agreed to a voluntary management contract.\nMackenzie Health in Richmond Hill, Ont., will provide enhanced support to Villa Leonardo Gambin, according to the Ministry of Long-Term Care.\nThe voluntary management contract will be in effect for 90 days as the facility grapples with a COVID-19 outbreak.\nOntario's Ministry of Health says there are 15 confirmed cases of the virus among its residents and 13 staff members.\nTwenty-one residents at the home have died during the current outbreak.\nThe Ministry of Long-Term Care says that if necessary, the voluntary management contract can be extended beyond its initial 90-day term.\nThis report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan. 18, 2021.",
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"A long-term care home in Woodbridge, Ont., and a local hospital have agreed to a voluntary management contract."
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Chair of Bell Let’s Talk Mary Deacon shares how the initiative has grown and what we can do to support Bell Let’s Talk Day on January 28.
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More from Bell Let's Talk here.
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"Bell Let’s Talk Day is January 28th",
"Chair of Bell Let’s Talk Mary Deacon shares how the initiative has grown and what we can do to support Bell Let’s Talk Day on January 28."
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The province's police watchdog says the three Ontario Provincial Police officers who discharged their firearms during a November confrontation in Lindsay, Ont. that left a 33-year-old man and his infant son dead have so far refused to be interviewed.
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TORONTO -- The province’s police watchdog says the three Ontario Provincial Police officers who discharged their firearms during a November confrontation in Lindsay, Ont. that left a 33-year-old man and his infant son dead have so far refused to be interviewed.
The Special Investigations Unit (SIU) provided an update on the incident on Friday, saying that “there is a pressing public interest in this case, including how the child died and whether it was gunfire from the father or OPP officers that caused the death.”
“The SIU is working to make these determinations. In so doing, it is imperative that best investigative practices be strictly adhered to, including the sequencing of various forensic examinations in the proper order.”
On the morning of Nov. 26, 2020, the OPP were called to the municipality of Trent Lakes for a domestic dispute involving a firearm. Officers were later made aware that a 33-year-old man had allegedly abducted his one-year-old son.
A vehicle of interest was located on Sturgeon Road, and officers attempted to stop it. The pick-up truck later became involved in a collision with an OPP cruiser and a civilian vehicle on Pigeon Lake Road.
The SIU said a confrontation occurred between police and the man, and three officers fired at the vehicle.
The baby, who was inside the truck, was found with a gunshot wound and was pronounced dead at the scene. The boy’s father was rushed to hospital but died almost a week later. An OPP officer who was injured in the collision was also taken to hospital.
To date, 18 witness officers and 14 civilian witnesses have been interviewed, the SIU said.
“The three subject officers, who were designated as such on the basis of information that they each discharged their firearm in the course of the incident, have not as yet availed themselves of an opportunity to be interviewed. Subject officers are under no legal obligation to speak with the SIU but may if they choose to do so,” the watchdog said.
More than a month after the post-mortem examinations were conducted on the man and the boy, the SIU said it is still waiting for the final report.
Meanwhile, three police-issued firearms and a pistol located in the pick-up truck collected from the scene are being examined at the Centre of Forensic Sciences (CFS), as are several spent cartridge cases.
The police watchdog also noted that it has not received the report on the completed trajectory analysis of the pick-up truck. SIU investigators have commenced a further search for evidence after the vehicle was recently released to the agency.
The SIU investigates incidents involving police that have resulted in death, serious injury or allegations of sexual assault.
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"TORONTO -- The province’s police watchdog says the three Ontario Provincial Police officers who discharged their firearms during a November confrontation in Lindsay, Ont. that left a 33-year-old man and his infant son dead have so far refused to be interviewed.\nThe Special Investigations Unit (SIU) provided an update on the incident on Friday, saying that “there is a pressing public interest in this case, including how the child died and whether it was gunfire from the father or OPP officers that caused the death.”\n“The SIU is working to make these determinations. In so doing, it is imperative that best investigative practices be strictly adhered to, including the sequencing of various forensic examinations in the proper order.”\nOn the morning of Nov. 26, 2020, the OPP were called to the municipality of Trent Lakes for a domestic dispute involving a firearm. Officers were later made aware that a 33-year-old man had allegedly abducted his one-year-old son.\nA vehicle of interest was located on Sturgeon Road, and officers attempted to stop it. The pick-up truck later became involved in a collision with an OPP cruiser and a civilian vehicle on Pigeon Lake Road.\nThe SIU said a confrontation occurred between police and the man, and three officers fired at the vehicle.\nThe baby, who was inside the truck, was found with a gunshot wound and was pronounced dead at the scene. The boy’s father was rushed to hospital but died almost a week later. An OPP officer who was injured in the collision was also taken to hospital.\nTo date, 18 witness officers and 14 civilian witnesses have been interviewed, the SIU said.\n“The three subject officers, who were designated as such on the basis of information that they each discharged their firearm in the course of the incident, have not as yet availed themselves of an opportunity to be interviewed. Subject officers are under no legal obligation to speak with the SIU but may if they choose to do so,” the watchdog said.\nMore than a month after the post-mortem examinations were conducted on the man and the boy, the SIU said it is still waiting for the final report.\nMeanwhile, three police-issued firearms and a pistol located in the pick-up truck collected from the scene are being examined at the Centre of Forensic Sciences (CFS), as are several spent cartridge cases.\nThe police watchdog also noted that it has not received the report on the completed trajectory analysis of the pick-up truck. SIU investigators have commenced a further search for evidence after the vehicle was recently released to the agency.\nThe SIU investigates incidents involving police that have resulted in death, serious injury or allegations of sexual assault.",
"Cops involved in Lindsay, Ont. shooting that left father and baby dead refuse to speak to SIU",
"The province's police watchdog says the three Ontario Provincial Police officers who discharged their firearms during a November confrontation in Lindsay, Ont. that left a 33-year-old man and his infant son dead have so far refused to be interviewed."
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Amid a massive COVID-19 outbreak at Canada Post’s Mississauga, Ont. facility, on-site mandatory testing for the disease is now being carried out.
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TORONTO -- Amid a massive COVID-19 outbreak at Canada Post’s Mississauga, Ont. facility, on-site mandatory testing for the disease is now being carried out.
Since the first day of this year, 273 positive cases of the novel coronavirus have been confirmed at the Gateway facility, including 23 since Wednesday.
“Peel Public Health has now directed that Canada Post arrange mandatory COVID-19 testing for all employees who work anywhere in the Gateway facility, including those who have already had a test,” a spokesperson for the Crown corporation, Phil Legault, said in an update provided on Saturday.
The on-site mandatory testing began on Friday with Gateway East, Shift 2, Legault said, and will continue on a “larger scale” scale next week.
As well, in addition to health and safety measures already in place, beginning Tuesday, Canada Post said active screening of employees will occur before they enter the Gateway facility.
Amid the outbreak at the 4,500-worker facility, hundreds have been sent home to self-isolate and 100 Canada Border Services Agency guards assigned to inspect packages were told to stay away.
One death has been linked to the outbreak thus far.
On Wednesday, the union representing workers at the facility confirmed that a Canada Post employee infected with COVID-19 had died. The employee worked at Gateway East on Shift 1. He was tested for the disease on Jan. 19, isolated at home after and then died six days later.
Canadian Union of Post Workers Toronto local president Qaiser Maroof told CP24 that the employee who died was not part of the group of workers sent home to self-isolate and sought out testing on his own.
He did not show symptoms prior to his test, Maroof said.
Legault issued a statement confirming the death of a Canada Post worker on Wednesday.
“We offer our deepest sympathies to the family as they mourn the loss and respect their privacy during this difficult time,” he said. “We are focused on supporting our employees who have lost a colleague while ensuring we continue to stringently following the guidance and direction from Peel Public Health.”
Amid the outbreak, Canada Post is advising customers to expect delays with their packages.
The Crown corporation said “Peel Public Health has advised it is safe to continue operating, but volumes remain heavy.”
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"TORONTO -- Amid a massive COVID-19 outbreak at Canada Post’s Mississauga, Ont. facility, on-site mandatory testing for the disease is now being carried out.\nSince the first day of this year, 273 positive cases of the novel coronavirus have been confirmed at the Gateway facility, including 23 since Wednesday.\n“Peel Public Health has now directed that Canada Post arrange mandatory COVID-19 testing for all employees who work anywhere in the Gateway facility, including those who have already had a test,” a spokesperson for the Crown corporation, Phil Legault, said in an update provided on Saturday.\nThe on-site mandatory testing began on Friday with Gateway East, Shift 2, Legault said, and will continue on a “larger scale” scale next week.\nAs well, in addition to health and safety measures already in place, beginning Tuesday, Canada Post said active screening of employees will occur before they enter the Gateway facility.\nAmid the outbreak at the 4,500-worker facility, hundreds have been sent home to self-isolate and 100 Canada Border Services Agency guards assigned to inspect packages were told to stay away.\nOne death has been linked to the outbreak thus far.\nOn Wednesday, the union representing workers at the facility confirmed that a Canada Post employee infected with COVID-19 had died. The employee worked at Gateway East on Shift 1. He was tested for the disease on Jan. 19, isolated at home after and then died six days later.\nCanadian Union of Post Workers Toronto local president Qaiser Maroof told CP24 that the employee who died was not part of the group of workers sent home to self-isolate and sought out testing on his own.\nHe did not show symptoms prior to his test, Maroof said.\nLegault issued a statement confirming the death of a Canada Post worker on Wednesday.\n“We offer our deepest sympathies to the family as they mourn the loss and respect their privacy during this difficult time,” he said. “We are focused on supporting our employees who have lost a colleague while ensuring we continue to stringently following the guidance and direction from Peel Public Health.”\nAmid the outbreak, Canada Post is advising customers to expect delays with their packages.\nThe Crown corporation said “Peel Public Health has advised it is safe to continue operating, but volumes remain heavy.”",
"Ontario Canada Post facility with massive COVID-19 outbreak will now conduct mandatory testing",
"Amid a massive COVID-19 outbreak at Canada Post’s Mississauga, Ont. facility, on-site mandatory testing for the disease is now being carried out."
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Toronto is bracing for what is expected to be the city's first snowstorm of the year.
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TORONTO -- Toronto is bracing for what is expected to be the city's first snowstorm of the year.
Environment Canada is calling for between five and 10 centimetres of snowfall throughout the day with as much as 15 centimetres of total accumulation by tonight.
The national weather agency says higher snowfall amounts will likely be seen in western parts of the city and snow is expected to be heavy at times in areas near the west end of Lake Ontario.
"Rapidly accumulating snow may make travel difficult. Visibility may be suddenly reduced at times in heavy snow and local blowing snow. There may be a significant impact on rush hour traffic," Environment Canada's winter weather travel advisory read.
Eric Holmes, a spokesperson for the City of Toronto's transportation department, said staff have been preparing for the weather event since this weekend.
"Whenever we get prepared for a snowstorm, a significant snowfall, work starts early. We started over the weekend tracking this snow event," he told CP24 on Tuesday. "Yesterday we really seemed to understand better how much snow we were going to get."
He said anti-ice trucks have already gone out to bridges, hills, and expressways to help prevent snow from sticking immediately to the roads.
Snow began to fly shortly after 9 a.m. in Toronto's downtown core.
"It's going to be intense, probably," Holmes said.
"As soon as the snow starts to accumulate on the roads, you are going to see the salt trucks out and they are going to make rounds to make the roads as safe as possible. We are going to continue to track the snow throughout the day. We are going to adapt the plan as we need to."
Snow plows will hit expressways after 2.5 centimetres of accumulation, main roads after five centimetres of accumulation, and local streets after eight centimetres of accumulation.
The snow is expected to taper off overnight as more frigid temperatures settle in for the rest of the week.
Environment Canada is calling for a high of -3 C on Wednesday but the temperature will feel closer to -13 with the wind chill.
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"TORONTO -- Toronto is bracing for what is expected to be the city's first snowstorm of the year.\nEnvironment Canada is calling for between five and 10 centimetres of snowfall throughout the day with as much as 15 centimetres of total accumulation by tonight.\nThe national weather agency says higher snowfall amounts will likely be seen in western parts of the city and snow is expected to be heavy at times in areas near the west end of Lake Ontario.\n\"Rapidly accumulating snow may make travel difficult. Visibility may be suddenly reduced at times in heavy snow and local blowing snow. There may be a significant impact on rush hour traffic,\" Environment Canada's winter weather travel advisory read.\nEric Holmes, a spokesperson for the City of Toronto's transportation department, said staff have been preparing for the weather event since this weekend.\n\"Whenever we get prepared for a snowstorm, a significant snowfall, work starts early. We started over the weekend tracking this snow event,\" he told CP24 on Tuesday. \"Yesterday we really seemed to understand better how much snow we were going to get.\"\nHe said anti-ice trucks have already gone out to bridges, hills, and expressways to help prevent snow from sticking immediately to the roads.\nSnow began to fly shortly after 9 a.m. in Toronto's downtown core.\n\"It's going to be intense, probably,\" Holmes said.\n\"As soon as the snow starts to accumulate on the roads, you are going to see the salt trucks out and they are going to make rounds to make the roads as safe as possible. We are going to continue to track the snow throughout the day. We are going to adapt the plan as we need to.\"\nSnow plows will hit expressways after 2.5 centimetres of accumulation, main roads after five centimetres of accumulation, and local streets after eight centimetres of accumulation.\nThe snow is expected to taper off overnight as more frigid temperatures settle in for the rest of the week.\nEnvironment Canada is calling for a high of -3 C on Wednesday but the temperature will feel closer to -13 with the wind chill.",
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"Toronto is bracing for what is expected to be the city's first snowstorm of the year."
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Heavy snowfall has arrived in the city as Toronto braces for its first snowstorm of the year.
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TORONTO -- Heavy snowfall has arrived in the city as Toronto braces for its first snowstorm of the year.
Environment Canada is calling for between five and 10 centimetres of snowfall throughout the day with as much as 15 centimetres of total accumulation by tonight.
The national weather agency says higher snowfall amounts will likely be seen in western parts of the city and snow is expected to be heavy at times in areas near the west end of Lake Ontario.
"Rapidly accumulating snow may make travel difficult. Visibility may be suddenly reduced at times in heavy snow and local blowing snow. There may be a significant impact on rush hour traffic," Environment Canada's winter weather travel advisory read.
Eric Holmes, a spokesperson for the City of Toronto's transportation department, said staff have been preparing for the weather event since this weekend.
"Whenever we get prepared for a snowstorm, a significant snowfall, work starts early. We started over the weekend tracking this snow event," he told CP24 on Tuesday. "Yesterday we really seemed to understand better how much snow we were going to get."
He said anti-ice trucks have already gone out to bridges, hills, and expressways to help prevent snow from sticking immediately to the roads.
Snow began to fly shortly after 9 a.m. in Toronto's downtown core.
"It's going to be intense, probably," Holmes said.
"As soon as the snow starts to accumulate on the roads, you are going to see the salt trucks out and they are going to make rounds to make the roads as safe as possible. We are going to continue to track the snow throughout the day. We are going to adapt the plan as we need to."
Snow plows will hit expressways after 2.5 centimetres of accumulation, main roads after five centimetres of accumulation, and local streets after eight centimetres of accumulation.
The snow is expected to taper off overnight as more frigid temperatures settle in for the rest of the week.
Environment Canada is calling for a high of -3 C on Wednesday but the temperature will feel closer to -13 with the wind chill.
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"TORONTO -- Heavy snowfall has arrived in the city as Toronto braces for its first snowstorm of the year.\nEnvironment Canada is calling for between five and 10 centimetres of snowfall throughout the day with as much as 15 centimetres of total accumulation by tonight.\nThe national weather agency says higher snowfall amounts will likely be seen in western parts of the city and snow is expected to be heavy at times in areas near the west end of Lake Ontario.\n\"Rapidly accumulating snow may make travel difficult. Visibility may be suddenly reduced at times in heavy snow and local blowing snow. There may be a significant impact on rush hour traffic,\" Environment Canada's winter weather travel advisory read.\nEric Holmes, a spokesperson for the City of Toronto's transportation department, said staff have been preparing for the weather event since this weekend.\n\"Whenever we get prepared for a snowstorm, a significant snowfall, work starts early. We started over the weekend tracking this snow event,\" he told CP24 on Tuesday. \"Yesterday we really seemed to understand better how much snow we were going to get.\"\nHe said anti-ice trucks have already gone out to bridges, hills, and expressways to help prevent snow from sticking immediately to the roads.\nSnow began to fly shortly after 9 a.m. in Toronto's downtown core.\n\"It's going to be intense, probably,\" Holmes said.\n\"As soon as the snow starts to accumulate on the roads, you are going to see the salt trucks out and they are going to make rounds to make the roads as safe as possible. We are going to continue to track the snow throughout the day. We are going to adapt the plan as we need to.\"\nSnow plows will hit expressways after 2.5 centimetres of accumulation, main roads after five centimetres of accumulation, and local streets after eight centimetres of accumulation.\nThe snow is expected to taper off overnight as more frigid temperatures settle in for the rest of the week.\nEnvironment Canada is calling for a high of -3 C on Wednesday but the temperature will feel closer to -13 with the wind chill.",
"Heavy snowfall hits Toronto during first winter storm of the year",
"Heavy snowfall has arrived in the city as Toronto braces for its first snowstorm of the year."
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It was a virtual celebration, but no doubt a special one, for a Mississauga resident who recently turned 100 years old.
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TORONTO -- It was a virtual celebration, but no doubt a special one, for a Mississauga resident who recently turned 100 years old.
Family, friends and caregivers gathered virtually to celebrate the milestone birthday of Dan Morgan.
They sent songs of “Happy Birthday” and video messages to Morgan, who enjoyed from his home at Chartwell Wenleigh Long Term Care Residence.
Morgan’s son-in-law, Alan Watling, put the video collection together.
“Just anything to make him smile, to see that he’s loved and that we’re remembering him,” Watling told CTV News Toronto. “Because we knew with COVID we weren’t going to be able to get into the building to see him.”
Staff at Chartwell Wenleigh helped facilitate virtual calls and an outdoor birthday rally for Morgan’s loved ones on his special day.
“Not being able to physically see him, it’s upsetting,” Danielle Watling, Morgan’s granddaughter, said. “I would love to hold my grandfather’s hand.”
Morgan is a World War Two Veteran Flight Sergeant with the Royal Air Force. He also spent two years as a prisoner of war at Camp Stalag 48.
Family of Morgan said they have marked many special birthday milestones together and were happy to be able to celebrate this one, safely, during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“We just miss him a lot,” Danielle said. “And we want to make sure he feels loved and cared for even though we can’t physically see him at this time.”
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Heavy snowfall has arrived in the city as Toronto braces for its first snowstorm of the year.
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TORONTO -- Heavy snowfall has arrived in the city as Toronto braces for its first snowstorm of the year.
Environment Canada is calling for between five and 10 centimetres of snowfall throughout the day with as much as 15 centimetres of total accumulation by tonight.
The national weather agency says higher snowfall amounts will likely be seen in western parts of the city and snow is expected to be heavy at times in areas near the west end of Lake Ontario.
"Rapidly accumulating snow may make travel difficult. Visibility may be suddenly reduced at times in heavy snow and local blowing snow. There may be a significant impact on rush hour traffic," Environment Canada's winter weather travel advisory read.
Eric Holmes, a spokesperson for the City of Toronto's transportation department, said staff have been preparing for the weather event since this weekend.
"Whenever we get prepared for a snowstorm, a significant snowfall, work starts early. We started over the weekend tracking this snow event," he told CP24 on Tuesday. "Yesterday we really seemed to understand better how much snow we were going to get."
He said anti-ice trucks have already gone out to bridges, hills, and expressways to help prevent snow from sticking immediately to the roads.
Snow began to fly shortly after 9 a.m. in Toronto's downtown core.
"It's going to be intense, probably," Holmes said.
"As soon as the snow starts to accumulate on the roads, you are going to see the salt trucks out and they are going to make rounds to make the roads as safe as possible. We are going to continue to track the snow throughout the day. We are going to adapt the plan as we need to."
Snow plows will hit expressways after 2.5 centimetres of accumulation, main roads after five centimetres of accumulation, and local streets after eight centimetres of accumulation.
The snow is expected to taper off overnight as more frigid temperatures settle in for the rest of the week.
Environment Canada is calling for a high of -3 C on Wednesday but the temperature will feel closer to -13 with the wind chill.
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Police in Toronto are trying to locate a suspect in connection with an ongoing prowl by night investigation.
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TORONTO -- Police in Toronto are trying to locate a suspect in connection with an ongoing prowl by night investigation.
In May of 2020, police say investigators began looking into a number of incidents reported in the area of Weston Road and Church Steet.
Investigators said that between March and May, an unknown man had been “acting suspicious” in residential areas on several occasions between the hours of 10 p.m. and 7 a.m.
In a news release, police said investigators had worked to identify the man and have now taken the step of releasing an image of the suspect in an effort to identify him.
He is described by police as standing five-foot-seven, with a slim build and a dark beard. He was last seen wearing a black winter jacket, black pants, black puma shoes with white soles, according to police.
Anyone with information relating to the investigation is asked to contact police or crime stoppers.
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A program that teaches kids financial literacy and entrepreneurship is also showing young people how to give back during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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TORONTO -- A program that teaches kids financial literacy and entrepreneurship is also showing young people how to give back during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“We really are kind of raising the bar when it comes to not only entrepreneurship, but also giving back and being part of a society,” Explorer Hop CEO Hasina Lookman said. “That really is the kind of entrepreneur we need in the future, and we call them change-makers.”
Explorer Hop teaches kids how to create an idea, take it to market, sell the product and give back to a charity of their choice.
Recently, a group of young people from across Canada worked together, from their homes, to create a cookbook called “Kids Cooking Madness.”
“Kids Cooking Madness is a project that is very close to my heart as well,” Lookman told CTV News Toronto. “This happened right in the middle of the pandemic. What they decided was that all of them would go back and ask their families for recipes, and they would put together this book. Now, all of them are published authors on Amazon.”
One of the leaders of that project was 12 year-old Max Herczeg, who turned to his signature dish for his contribution.
“I make these crepes for my family and they all love it,” he said. “So, I decided that I should put that in the cookbook.”
Herczeg said his group chose to create a cookbook because they all had a shared passion for food. He told CTV News Toronto that they began by choosing the charity they would be giving back to.
“We came up with the [Canadian] Mental Health Association because during COVID times can be hard for some people and we wanted to make it a bit easier for people who are struggling,” he said.
“I really want to acknowledge and celebrate the Explorer Hop team,” said Rebecca Shields, CEO of Canadian Mental Health Association for York Region and South Simcoe Branch.
“Being able to contribute to something that was meaningful and exciting, and fun for them, that’s really what we want our kids to experience always, but especially during this pandemic.”
Shields tells CTV News Toronto that money from ‘Kids Cooking Madness’ is going to their MOBYSS (Mobile York South Simcoe) youth walk-in clinic.
“This is a wonderful initiative that is making a difference,” she adds. “I also bought a copy of the book and I’ve tried some of the recipes. I had a lot of fun! And I encourage other people to do that as well.”
For Lookman, ‘Kids Cooking Madness’ is just another reason for her to feel proud of her students.
“We as a society like to give lip service about how we want to help the future and how we want to build the future, but if we really want to build the future, we need to give them the skills,” she said.
“That really is our mission, to empower these kids with entrepreneur and financial literacy so you really have a child who is able to step and go to the next level.”
Herczeg said he’s happy that his project is helping others, and that he feels inspired to do more charity work for causes he feels a connection to.
“I feel very fortunate that I have a nice family that has money to support ourselves during COVID, but I know that other families do not,” he says. “So just to support them, even just a little amount, is always helpful.”
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Oakville Mayor Rob Burton has resigned from the Halton Police Board after telling Police Chief Steve Tanner that it would be OK for him to travel to Florida over the holidays.
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TORONTO -- Oakville Mayor Rob Burton has resigned from the Halton Police Board after telling Police Chief Steve Tanner that it would be OK for him to travel to Florida over the holidays.
Burton, who was the chair of the board, made the announcement in a statement issued late Monday afternoon.
In it, he said that he is now “deeply regretful for my response to the chief's proposed trip.”
“I regret sincerely that I focussed at the time on the ways the chief's trip qualified as essential travel,” he said. “I should have recommended against it because it could generate public concern about me not setting a higher example than the rules and guidelines actually called for.”
Tanner released a statement last week confirming that he did travel south “to address some personal business matters” but did so with “with the knowledge and support” of Burton.
Tanner, however, conceded that making the trip despite advice from public health officials against non-essential travel was a “poor decision” that he now “deeply regrets.”
News of the trip surfaced in the wake of several other officials, including former Ontario finance minister Rod Phillips and the president and CEO of St. Joseph’s Health System, being forced to resign after their own decisions to travel outside the country during a global pandemic became public.
The trip also coincided with the death of a Halton police officer who suffered a medical episode while on duty, leaving Tanner unable to support his grieving officers in person.
“Chief Steve Tanner informed me in advance of his travel to tend to a property matter. I had no objection. Chief Tanner continues to have my full confidence,” Burton told CP24 after the trip became public. “The chief leads our police service in an exemplary manner and will continue to do so.”
In a statement provided to CP24 earlier on Monday, the Halton Police Board said that it will be holding a special meeting on Friday “to obtain legal advice” in response to “concerns regarding Chief Tanner’s recent travel.”
The board says that it will then deal with the matter at its next public meeting on Jan. 28th.
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New modelling data released by Ontario health officials suggests that while COVID-19 cases are declining, the new high-contagious U.K. variant poses a significant threat and will likely be the dominant strain of the disease in the province by March.
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TORONTO -- New modelling data released by Ontario health officials suggests that while COVID-19 cases are declining, the new high-contagious U.K. variant poses a significant threat and will likely be the dominant strain of the disease in the province by March.
Officials released updated modelling on Thursday that suggested while testing for COVID-19 is down slightly, cases and positivity rates across the province are on the decline.
According to the government, hospitalizations have also decreased across Ontario but the number of patients in the province's strained intensive care units (ICU) has not fallen yet.
Health officials expect that ICU capacity will decrease to between 150 and 300 patients by the end of February.
The government has previously said that when there are more than 300 patients being treated for COVID-19 in the ICU it becomes nearly impossible to treat the needs of non-COVID-19 patients.
There are currently 358 patients in Ontario's ICU being treated for COVID-19.
According to the data, "modelling and international examples" suggest that despite the U.K variant of COVID-19 spreading in Ontario, if the province maintains public health interventions it should see a continued reduction in cases, even with a return to school.
"The new mutated SARS-CoV-2 are clearly spreading in the community and will likely be the dominant version of the virus by March," Dr. Adalsteinn Brown, co-chair of the province's COVID-19 science table, said on Thursday. "The new variants give us less room to relax and less room for error."
“The variant will be the dominant source of infection by March.”
The modelling data also found that Ontario's stay-at-home order, which came into effect on Jan. 12, has resulted in only a small reduction in overall mobility in the province.
According to the modelling, if cases fall at a daily rate of one per cent, Ontario would report about 1,700 new cases per day by the end of February.
If it were to drop three per cent, cases would drop under 1,000 per day by then.
Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. David Williams has previously said Ontario would need to see less than 1,000 COVID-19 cases per day before lifting the lockdown.
Brown said that COVID-19 vaccines are likely still effective against the U.K. strain of the disease.
"I think it’s important to note that these are not the only variants that will emerge as the disease continues to spread."
Brown said it is "quite possible" that a future COVID-19 variant may not work with the current vaccines being distributed.
COVID-19 cases are also declining across long-term care homes but deaths continue to rise, the province said. There have been 215 long-term care deaths associated with COVID-19 in the previous seven days.
According to the data, Ontario is likely surpass the total number of deaths from the first wave during the second wave.
Ontario surpassed 6,000 COVID-19 deaths on Thursday, with more than 1,400 of those deaths were logged since the beginning of January.
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As Ontario continues to see surging levels of COVID-19 transmission, one epidemiologist is raising concerns that outdoor activities may not be the safe refuge from the virus that they were in the summer.
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TORONTO -- As Ontario continues to see surging levels of COVID-19 transmission, one epidemiologist is raising concerns that outdoor activities may not be the safe refuge from the virus that they were in the summer.
Colin Furness, who is a professor at the University of Toronto, tells CP24 that while being outside continues to be “much better” than being indoors it is a “little less safe” than it was in the summer due to the way virus behave in colder, dryer air.
He says that when the air is hot and humid droplets” get heavier not lighter and they sink to the ground,” meaning that you would have to be extremely close to someone with COVID-19 to be exposed to the virus.
But he says that when the temperature drops and the air gets dryer the droplets tend to remain airborne for longer periods of time.
He says that the mucus membranes in our nose, mouth and throats also dry out in colder weather “and don’t work nearly as well at filtering out the pathogens.”
“There is a good reason why we have flu season and cold season in the winter. In cold, dry air when the virus leaves your mouth when you exhale it doesn’t start to die right away like it does in hot weather; it stays very much alive,” he said.
“In cold, dry weather when you exhale and you can see your breath you are seeing those droplets and the droplets disappear in an instance, meaning the water evaporates so those very live virus particles are floating in the air.”
Public health officials and epidemiologists have long said that individuals are at a greater risk of contracting COVID-19 when indoors and the province has largely taken this into account, choosing to first allow patio service to reopen in the summer before also allowing indoor dining.
Speaking with CP24, Furness said that being outside still offers benefits because the breeze can help to blow droplets away compared to indoor settings where the air is ‘recycled.”
But he said that people should nonetheless be aware of the fact that the virus “behaves very differently in the winter” and take precautions to avoid crowd scenes when they are out and about.
“Shared air without masks is what makes people sick,” he said.
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Bev Crandell of Lions Foundation of Canada Dog Guides on their programs and how they safely train dog guides during the pandemic.
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More from Lions Foundation of Canada Dog Guides here.
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The death toll at a Scarborough long-term care home experiencing an outbreak of COVID-19 has climbed to 60 as eight more residents have died.
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TORONTO -- The death toll at a Scarborough long-term care home experiencing an outbreak of COVID-19 has climbed to 60 as eight more residents have died.
North York General Hospital, which took over the management of Tendercare Living Centre in December, updated the number of fatalities at the home on Saturday, up from the 52 deaths reported on Thursday.
The hospital said there are no new residents or staff members who have tested positive for COVID-19 for the third day in a row.
“This is a positive indicator that the outbreak control measures are being successful,” the hospital said in a statement.
As of Jan. 1, 78 residents and 39 staff members remain infected with the novel coronavirus.
While there has been an improvement in infection and prevention control practices and the number of cases has been reduced at the facility since North York General Hospital took over, the hospital noted that additional cases are expected for the next two weeks given the incubation period of the novel coronavirus.
“We know that there was widespread transmission at Tendercare during the third and fourth week in December just prior to NYGH becoming significantly involved,” the hospital said in its statement.
“We have now entered this critical period of time. Some of those residents who acquired COVID 10 to 14 days ago are resolving their infection, while others are developing complications and unfortunately some are passing away.”
Meanwhile, another rally was held outside the home located in the area of McNicoll and Victoria Park avenues Saturday afternoon, calling for the end of for-profit long-term care homes.
Carrying signs that read ‘save our seniors’ and ‘care over profit,’ demonstrators said the pandemic has shown that private nursing homes only focus on profit instead of providing care to residents.
They also want the Ford government to revisit legislation that they say makes it harder to hold private operators liable for any harm caused by the pandemic.
In a statement on Saturday, the Ministry of Long-Term Care said staffing at the facility is now above levels during normal operations.
“Infection Prevention and Control audits have shown significant improvement this week. Environmental Services staff are on-site and continue to clean the home,” the ministry said.
“We want to thank the staff at North York General Hospital, along with those from Tendercare Living Centre, for working around the clock to help stop the outbreak. We remain committed to doing everything we can, along with our partners, to help stabilize the home and have them return to normal operations.”
Meanwhile, The Canadian Union of Public Employees joined the Ontario Health Coalition on Saturday, urging the province to call on the military to help long-term care homes dealing with outbreaks.
“We are tragically losing the battle to protect long-term care residents. The homes and staff are on the verge of total crisis and collapse,” said CUPE Ontario secretary-treasurer Candace Rennick in a statement.
“But military assistance is just a temporary solution to the worsening crisis caused by the government’s failure to implement immediate and meaningful reforms needed months ago. This kind of crisis cannot continue to be met with half measures by the province.”
On Saturday, Ontario reported outbreaks at 188 long-term care homes.
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Ontario has identified three new cases of the COVID-19 variant first discovered in the U.K. that is notorious for being more contagious.
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TORONTO -- Ontario has identified three new cases of the COVID-19 variant first discovered in the U.K. that is notorious for being more contagious.
Associate Medical Officer of Health Dr. Barbara Yaffe confirmed the new cases on Monday during a press conference at Queen’s Park.
"We have an additional three cases to report, bringing Ontario's total to six," Yaffe said "All three of the new cases have travelled or have had close contact with someone who travelled outside of the country."
Of the new cases, Yaffe said the first was found in a resident of York Region, who recently travelled to the U.K.. The second case is in a resident of Peel Region with no personal travel history but has a close contact who recently travelled to Dubai.
Health officials are now testing the person who travelled to Dubai to confirm if that resident also has the COVID-19 variant.
The third case is a resident of Toronto, who also recently travelled to the U.K.
"I do want to take this opportunity to remind Ontarians to travel only if absolutely necessary," Yaffe said. "I can't emphasize how important this is. COVID-19 does not know borders."
The first cases of the COVID-19 variant found in Ontario were announced on Boxing Day.
The province says the variant can spread "easier and faster," but that there is no evidence to suggest that it is more likely to cause severe illness.
The variant has also been detected in other countries around the world, including Denmark, Japan, Israel and Sweden.
Last month, federal government announced that passenger flights from the U.K. to Canada would be temporarily suspended to curb the spread of the new variant. That suspension is slated to last until at least Jan. 6.
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A stay-at-home order is now in effect across Ontario. The directive requires residents to stay home except for essential outings, such as accessing health care, shopping for groceries, or outdoor exercise.
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TORONTO -- A stay-at-home order is now in effect across Ontario.
The directive requires residents to stay home except for essential outings, such as accessing health care, shopping for groceries, or outdoor exercise.
The province has said there's no set definition for what is "essential" because everyone has their own unique circumstances and regional considerations.
There's no limit on how many times people can leave their homes per day, or on how long they can be out.
Premier Doug Ford has urged people to use their "best judgment" in deciding whether to go out.
But critics say the measure, which was announced on Tuesday as the province enacted a second state of emergency, is vague, particularly given law enforcement officers' ability to fine those not in compliance.
The order is part of Ontario's effort to combat soaring rates of COVID-19 that officials have warned could soon overwhelm the health system.
As of Wednesday, Ontario was reporting a total of 224,984 COVID-19 diagnoses since the pandemic began. Of those, 29,636 cases were still active, while 5,127 people had died.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan. 14, 2021.
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One person is dead after a shooting in North York Sunday evening.
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One person is dead after a shooting in North York Sunday evening.
Police said officers were on patrol in the area of Duncanwoods Drive and Finch Avenue West, east of Islington Avenue, when they heard gunshots.
A male victim was located suffering from a life-threatening gunshot wound, police said. Officers and paramedics administered CPR, but he was pronounced dead on the scene.
The homicide unit has taken over the investigation.
Police said there was a pursuit after witnesses told officers that they saw a man fleeing the area.
The suspect, who was wearing a mask and a red jacket, was last seen running to a ravine.
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An Ontario long-term care home that has been in a COVID-19 outbreak since mid-November has received an order of compliance from York Region’s medical officer of health.
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TORONTO -- An Ontario long-term care home that has been in a COVID-19 outbreak since mid-November has received an order of compliance from York Region’s medical officer of health due in part to what he describes as “inadequate senior leadership” at the institution and insufficient knowledge of infection prevention and control (IPAC) processes.
The order was issued by Dr. Karim Kurji, on New Year’s Eve and requires Villa Leonardo Gambin, a long-term care home in Vaughan, Ont. operated by Sienna Senior Living, to “comply with all direction related to the COVID-19 outbreak.”
An outbreak was declared at Villa Leonardo Gambin on Nov. 20. According to data available Saturday, there are 35 confirmed cases among residents and 14 among staff. Four residents have died since the outbreak was declared.
In total, 13 people have died at the home after contracting COVID-19 since January 2020.
In the order, officials say the long-term care home has “inadequate senior leadership … at all times to ensure appropriate adherence to IPAC measures.” It also says there is inadequate or insufficient IPAC knowledge at the home and that they require assistance from multiple health agencies, including York Region Public Health, Mackenzie Health Hospital, Public Health Ontario and the Local Health Integration Network, in order to provide that expertise.
No further details were provided regarding the specific assistance being provided by these additional health-care institutions.
As of Dec. 31, the facility was ordered to not only comply with all direction related to the outbreak, but also to provide staff and residents with “equipment, supplies, services or associated tools required to monitor, respond and control the outbreak and any further potential outbreak of COVID-19.”
Villa Leonardo Gambin has also been ordered to ensure sufficient staffing in order to respond to the outbreak, “including the presence of senior leadership (supervisory staffing) on all units to re-enforce IPAC measures,” and to ensure staff and essential visitors are trained on point of care risk assessment and appropriate use of personal protective equipment.
“These practices must be monitored,” the order says. “When non-compliance is observed, education must be immediately provided, and on an ongoing basis, to ensure compliance with IPAC measures.”
The final order instructs the home to ensure “the release of health information to any person or entity shall comply with the Health Protection and Promotion Act and the Personal Health Information Protection Act, 2004 and all applicable privacy laws.”
Failure to comply to these orders could result in a $5,000 fine per day.
CTV News Toronto has reached out to Sienna Senior Living, who has said they will provide a statement at some point today.
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Standing on a basketball court, Manny Dosanjh is the very image of perseverance.
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TORONTO -- Standing on a basketball court, Manny Dosanjh is the very image of perseverance.
The 26-year-old is working as a graduate assistant coach for the iconic Michigan State Spartans Division I basketball team—a team that he grew up watching.
"No dream is too big, there's nothing out there that we really can't achieve,” he said.
His story starts in Brampton, Ont., where Dosanj became known for his leadership and work ethic. Dosanjh started by playing hockey, but "all of the sudden, his passion turned to basketball," says his father, Prabhjinber Dosanjh.
His father described a teenager who was determined to learn the game.
"In the morning time, he would get up, have his cereal, and go practice in the gym."
Manny Dosanjh was captain of his high school basketball team at Sandalwood Heights Secondary School in Brampton. Later, he would play at Delta College in Michigan, but his career didn't go as expected with injuries forcing Dosanjh to change focus.
"I was like, I really want to coach because like I felt it was a calling and a purpose," he said.
He began coaching as part of the high-profile basketball program Orangeville Prep, north of his home in Brampton. But Dosanjh had eyes on something even bigger.
"Every time I'd have a few days off at Orangeville, you know I would jump in my car and cross the border just because I wanted to learn,” he said.
He spent his free time hours away from home, building relationships and learning the trade. Then, after enrolling in the masters in kinesiology program, a job opened up and he would now learn from legendary basketball coach Tom Izzo.
Now he says he is so busy there is little time to reflect.
"From my desk I can see coach Izzo's final four banners. I still have those moments where I kind of walk in, I sit down and I look up and just feel so grateful."
But his path is still forming and Dosanjh would like to one day become the first Canadian of South Asian descent to be a NCAA division one head coach. He knows it's a lofty goal, but, he says, "all it takes is a little bit of faith and a little bit of hard work and you know it could lead to endless opportunities."
For now, he is working to make the most of this one.
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Emma Weller's sewing machine has been working overtime as the 18-year-old makes "winter bundles" for people experiencing homelessness.
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TORONTO -- Emma Weller’s sewing machine has been working overtime.
“I have been making ‘winter bundles’,” she tells CTV News Toronto. “So hats, mittens and neck-warmers to hand out to the homeless in Ottawa, Toronto and in Kingston. I thought, with COVID, they’re suffering more than anyone.”
With a reduced school and hockey schedule, the 18-year-old Carleton University student from Keswick found herself with some downtime and decided to use it to help others. She dusted off her grandmother’s sewing machine and got to work on her new hobby.
“I don’t sew, actually,” she laughs. “I learned from YouTube tutorials.”
Weller says her passion for social justice issues is what motivated her and fueled this project.
“I thought it was really important, even if I didn’t know how to sew, to just try,” she says.
“(Emma has) always been charitable and kind and doing all sorts of things and offering her time, so it’s no surprise for her to be doing this,” Corrine Weller, Emma’s mother, tells CTV News Toronto. “What’s different this time is the notoriety she’s getting for it.”
Weller started a GoFundMe page to help with the project. She had a goal of raising $100, but quickly the donations amounted to more than $2,500.
“That has been funding this entire thing. So all the materials, all the resources, everything like that, all my thread to do it so that has been a huge help,” she says. “I couldn’t do it without the people who donated.”
The “winter bundles” include Emma’s sewing creations, along with other useful items.
“I provide two water bottles, also hand-warmers, wipes for like sanitation with COVID, tissues, socks, two pieces like granola bars, a piece of fruit and then my bundles,” Weller explains. “We loaded up our two wagons and we walk the streets of downtown.”
While Weller has experience helping those experiencing homelessness, she called this year’s project an eye-opening experience because the need was so great.
“It was very overwhelming. It opens your eyes more to see how much people are truly suffering,” she says. “I was grateful to see it, but it was also saddening. But that’s why I’m doing this.”
It’s a gift of warmth and comfort that Weller hopes to be able to keep giving for years to come.
“Whether it grows into something bigger or just stays me in my dorm room sewing, it’s something I think I want to make like a seasonal thing, because people never not go cold,” she says.
“It’s not something every 18-year-old wants to do, or thinks to do on their own without being encouraged by a group or a school,” says Corrine about her daughter. “You know, it’s doesn’t take much. Very little can help very much.”
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The Ontario government has issued an emergency order temporarily halting the enforcement of residential evictions.
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TORONTO -- The Ontario government has issued an emergency order temporarily halting the enforcement of residential evictions.
The order comes the same day that a provincewide stay-at-home order goes into effect to curb the spread of COVID-19.
According to the province, the order will also protect homeowners whose properties are being repossessed by court order.
Evictions were temporarily halted during the first wave of the pandemic last spring as well, but were allowed to resume in August.
Tenants’ rights groups and advocates for those experiencing homelessness have been calling for months for a long-term halt to evictions.
While the Landlord and Tenant Board will continue to hear eviction applications and issue eviction orders, those orders will not be carried out while the province is under a state of emergency.
The halt on evictions will be in effect as long as the province remains under a state of emergency.
"By temporarily pausing residential evictions, we are ensuring that all Ontarians are able to stay home, stay safe, and save lives," Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing Steve Clark said in a release. "Our government will ensure that residential evictions continue to be paused for the remainder of the state of emergency, as long as it lasts."
Clark encouraged landlords and tenants to work together and said that tenants who are able to pay their rent must continue to do so to the best of their ability.
The provincial stay-at-home order means that aside from venturing out for essentials such as groceries and medicine, people are expected to stay home as much as possible.
Responding to the halt on eviction enforcement, NDP Tenant Rights critic Suze Morrison said it doesn’t go far enough.
"Thousands of people in Ontario are at risk of being thrown out of their homes, through no fault of their own, after losing income this year because of COVID-19. Calling off the sheriffs at the eleventh hour from enforcing evictions that have already been ordered will not keep folks housed and safe," Morrison said.
Morrison called for a ban on all eviction notices, hearings and orders in addition to a halt on enforcement for the duration of the pandemic.
The NDP also said that that virtual eviction hearings have been “rife with procedural unfairness.”
"Doug Ford has baked in loopholes you could drive a truck through, allowing any evictions to continue at the discretion of the Landlord and Tenant Board,” Morrison said.
The NDP is also calling for rent relief for those who have lost income during the pandemic.
Tenants being threatened with lockout can contact the province’s Rental Housing Enforcement Unit for help.
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Chris Boucher had 25 points and 10 rebounds off the bench and the Toronto Raptors held on to beat the Charlotte Hornets 111-108.
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TAMPA, FLA. -- Thrust into a key role with the Toronto Raptors this season, Chris Boucher is playing the most consistent basketball of his NBA career.
The Montreal forward had 25 points and 10 rebounds off the bench and the Raptors held on to beat the Charlotte Hornets 111-108 on Thursday.
And moments after the win, coach Nick Nurse was asked if he's surprised by Boucher's excellent play over the past few games.
“I don't want to ever say, when a guy's playing really well, that you didn't expect it, be surprised,” Nurse said. “I think we've got to happy about it, I don't want to act like I'm in shock here.
“But he is playing really well, and as good as the numbers look, there's a lot of room for improvement.
Fred VanVleet had 17 points, while Kyle Lowry added 16 and 12 assists for the Raptors (3-8), who nearly gave away another game over the dying minutes. Pascal Siakam chipped in with 15 points, while OG Anunoby had 13, and Norman Powell finished with 11.
Terry Rozier had 22 points to top the Hornets (6-7), who were on a second night of a back-to-back, having lost 104-93 to Dallas on Wednesday.
After centres Marc Gasol and Serge Ibaka left during free agency, the Raptors signed Boucher to a two-year deal reportedly worth US$13.5 million. He's earning his money, averaging 20.8 points and 8.5 rebounds in the last four games off the bench.
“I'm just trying to figure out a way to get us going,” said Boucher. “Playing defence and bringing energy is what you're there for. It's pretty much what I do.”
The 28-year-old said starting or coming off the bench, his role doesn't change.
“I think they pretty much see what I do: bring energy to the game, play defence, shot-blocking, run the floor and hit threes when I'm open. Starting or not starting, this is my role. I'm good with the way I am,” he said. “I just want to get better. That's what I've been saying since the first game, I want to get better every time.”
The Raptors, whose strength used to be strong finishes, have been fizzling down the stretch this season, and on Thursday saw an 18-point lead late in the third quarter all but evaporate.
Leading 99-86 to start the fourth, the Raptors went scoreless for nearly five minutes to start the quarter, allowing the Hornets to pull within five points. The Raptors' hustle on the offensive glass made up for their poor shooting, and Boucher's rebound and tip-in with 4:03 gave Toronto an eight-point cushion.
Rozier's basket had Charlotte within three, but Lowry found Boucher under the hoop for an easy dunk and a five-point lead heading into the final minute. After LaMelo Ball's big dunk sliced the difference to just three, the Hornets regained possession with 9.8 seconds to play, but Rozier's wide open three-pointer missed the mark, sealing the victory for Toronto.
"“I thought our defence was fantastic in the second half,” Charlotte coach James Borrego said. “That's what got us back in the game.”
The Raptors were back at their temporary home base in Tampa after going 1-3 on a western road trip, losing their two previous games to Golden State and Portland by just one point in each.
The Raptors offence was solid off the start. They shot 60 per cent from the field and 57 per cent from distance in the first quarter, and Boucher's sidestep three-pointer with 0.3 left in the frame gave Toronto a 35-34 edge to end the quarter.
Toronto buckled down on the defensive end in the second, and when rookie Malachi Flynn pitched a long pass to Boucher for an easy basket midway through the quarter the Raptors went up by 15. VanVleet's three-pointer with 2.3 seconds left sent the Raptors into the halftime break with a 71-62 advantage.
Stanley Johnson's three late in the third had the Raptors up 97-79, their biggest lead of the game.
Centre Aron Baynes played for the first time since sitting three straight games, as Nurse continues to tinker with that position, but the big man had just two points in seven minutes, and Boucher started the second half in his place.
The Raptors' other centre Alex Len missed the game due to personal reasons.
The game was played in front of no fans at Amalie Arena. The Raptors had been one of the few teams in the league permitting a limited number of fans, but amid rising COVID-19 case numbers in western Florida, Vinik Sports Group which owns the Tampa Bay Lightning, announced that no fans would be allowed at NHL or NBA games at Amalie for at least the next few weeks.
The Raptors play the Hornets again on Saturday.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan. 14, 2021.
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"TAMPA, FLA. -- Thrust into a key role with the Toronto Raptors this season, Chris Boucher is playing the most consistent basketball of his NBA career.\nThe Montreal forward had 25 points and 10 rebounds off the bench and the Raptors held on to beat the Charlotte Hornets 111-108 on Thursday.\nAnd moments after the win, coach Nick Nurse was asked if he's surprised by Boucher's excellent play over the past few games.\n“I don't want to ever say, when a guy's playing really well, that you didn't expect it, be surprised,” Nurse said. “I think we've got to happy about it, I don't want to act like I'm in shock here.\n“But he is playing really well, and as good as the numbers look, there's a lot of room for improvement.\nFred VanVleet had 17 points, while Kyle Lowry added 16 and 12 assists for the Raptors (3-8), who nearly gave away another game over the dying minutes. Pascal Siakam chipped in with 15 points, while OG Anunoby had 13, and Norman Powell finished with 11.\nTerry Rozier had 22 points to top the Hornets (6-7), who were on a second night of a back-to-back, having lost 104-93 to Dallas on Wednesday.\nAfter centres Marc Gasol and Serge Ibaka left during free agency, the Raptors signed Boucher to a two-year deal reportedly worth US$13.5 million. He's earning his money, averaging 20.8 points and 8.5 rebounds in the last four games off the bench.\n“I'm just trying to figure out a way to get us going,” said Boucher. “Playing defence and bringing energy is what you're there for. It's pretty much what I do.”\nThe 28-year-old said starting or coming off the bench, his role doesn't change.\n“I think they pretty much see what I do: bring energy to the game, play defence, shot-blocking, run the floor and hit threes when I'm open. Starting or not starting, this is my role. I'm good with the way I am,” he said. “I just want to get better. That's what I've been saying since the first game, I want to get better every time.”\nThe Raptors, whose strength used to be strong finishes, have been fizzling down the stretch this season, and on Thursday saw an 18-point lead late in the third quarter all but evaporate.\nLeading 99-86 to start the fourth, the Raptors went scoreless for nearly five minutes to start the quarter, allowing the Hornets to pull within five points. The Raptors' hustle on the offensive glass made up for their poor shooting, and Boucher's rebound and tip-in with 4:03 gave Toronto an eight-point cushion.\nRozier's basket had Charlotte within three, but Lowry found Boucher under the hoop for an easy dunk and a five-point lead heading into the final minute. After LaMelo Ball's big dunk sliced the difference to just three, the Hornets regained possession with 9.8 seconds to play, but Rozier's wide open three-pointer missed the mark, sealing the victory for Toronto.\n\"“I thought our defence was fantastic in the second half,” Charlotte coach James Borrego said. “That's what got us back in the game.”\nThe Raptors were back at their temporary home base in Tampa after going 1-3 on a western road trip, losing their two previous games to Golden State and Portland by just one point in each.\nThe Raptors offence was solid off the start. They shot 60 per cent from the field and 57 per cent from distance in the first quarter, and Boucher's sidestep three-pointer with 0.3 left in the frame gave Toronto a 35-34 edge to end the quarter.\nToronto buckled down on the defensive end in the second, and when rookie Malachi Flynn pitched a long pass to Boucher for an easy basket midway through the quarter the Raptors went up by 15. VanVleet's three-pointer with 2.3 seconds left sent the Raptors into the halftime break with a 71-62 advantage.\nStanley Johnson's three late in the third had the Raptors up 97-79, their biggest lead of the game.\nCentre Aron Baynes played for the first time since sitting three straight games, as Nurse continues to tinker with that position, but the big man had just two points in seven minutes, and Boucher started the second half in his place.\nThe Raptors' other centre Alex Len missed the game due to personal reasons.\nThe game was played in front of no fans at Amalie Arena. The Raptors had been one of the few teams in the league permitting a limited number of fans, but amid rising COVID-19 case numbers in western Florida, Vinik Sports Group which owns the Tampa Bay Lightning, announced that no fans would be allowed at NHL or NBA games at Amalie for at least the next few weeks.\nThe Raptors play the Hornets again on Saturday.\nThis report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan. 14, 2021.",
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An Ontario Tim Hortons worker set to receive a large payout thanks to a community crowdfunding effort says he plans on sharing some of the funds with his teammates and donating some to others in need.
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TORONTO -- An Ontario Tim Hortons worker set to receive a large payout thanks to a community crowdfunding effort says he plans on sharing some of the funds with his teammates and donating some to others in need.
Hundreds of people have contributed to a GoFundMe campaign set up in honour of a drive-thru window operator named Vishnugopan (Vishnu) Sothilingam, who works at a Tim Horton’s near Bathurst Street and Rutherford Road in Vaughan, Ont.
“If you’re having a crummy day, just go and get a cup of coffee from him and he’ll make you smile,” Matthew Shulman, the creator of the campaign, told CTV News Toronto.
“He just makes everybody feel happy and it just shows that there are good people out there who go above and beyond.”
Sothilingam’s positive attitude, silly jokes and fist bumps captured the attention of numerous regular Tim Hortons customers, including Shulman, who decided to create the crowdfunding campaign after hearing that Sothilingam supported his family and had to leave school for financial reasons.
The goal for the GoFundMe page was originally set at $10,000, but as of Wednesday more than $21,000 has been raised. Shulman told CTV News Toronto that he posted the website to a community group and quickly about $8,000 in donations poured in.
After that, Shulman said, media reports gave it a bit more exposure.
“All of a sudden, we were getting donations from all over the world,” he said.
Sothilingam, who has worked at Tim Hortons for more than 10 years—or most of his life as he put it—told CTV News Toronto that he was shocked to hear of the community fundraising efforts.
“Honestly, I just do my job,” he said. “I'm pleased and happy to see them every morning and they give me a great vibe and I try to keep that energy back to them.”
“A smile doesn’t cost. It’s pretty free.”
The 28-year-old added that it helps he is doing a job he loves, talking to people he finds inspiring and kind.
“It's nothing extraordinary, just doing my thing and I was enjoying it.”
Sothilingam said that while he doesn’t know what he is going to use all the money for, he hopes to be able to share some with his co-workers.
“My team plays a big role in making me into who I am,” Sothilingam said. “I'm definitely going to share some sort of money and then keep the rest for somebody whose going to be really in need.”
Sothilingam said he would like to help those in his parents’ home country of Sri Lanka get education or contribute in some way to make a difference in people’s lives.
Only after that and helping take care of his parents does Sothilingam say he would consider paying for his own schooling or doing something for himself.
“I have all the things I need here,” he said, adding that he is going to continue to do the job he loves. “A lot of people don't have this.”
As for Shulman, he said he is thrilled that more than 500 people have contributing to the GoFundMe campaign and hopes more will come.
“The more money we raise, the happier it makes me for him,” he said.
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Sally Ginter of RMHC Toronto explains how they’ve continued to help families with sick children stay together - and how you can support the cause.
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More from RMHC here.
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Ontario Premier Doug Ford wants anyone who lands at Toronto Pearson International Airport to take a COVID-19 test as more than 100 travellers tested positive for the disease after arriving into the country within a two-week time frame.
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TORONTO -- Ontario Premier Doug Ford wants anyone who lands at Toronto Pearson International Airport to take a COVID-19 test as more than 100 travellers tested positive for the disease after arriving into the country within a two-week time frame.
The premier made the comments at a news conference held Monday afternoon.
“I can't stress this enough,” he said. “We have to test every person that comes in to Pearson, and any other land crossing. It’s absolutely critical. We need to put barriers up every which way we can.”
“Every time I look up in the sky I'm thinking how many cases are coming in. This has to stop.”
According to the federal government, at least 156 flights have landed in Canada between Jan. 10 and Jan. 23 that had passengers who tested positive for COVID-19 after arriving in the country.
The majority of the flights landed in Toronto (76), Montreal (40), and Calgary (24).
There were also 70 domestic flights that had a passenger later test positive for the novel coronavirus.
The Canada-U.S. border has been closed to non-essential travel since March, with the latest extension set to expire on Feb. 21. Travellers must show a negative COVID-19 test taken within 72 hours of their travel date, and must self-quarantine for 14 days upon arrival.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently urged Canadians to cancel all non-essential trips abroad.
“No one should be taking a vacation right now. If you've got one planned, cancel it," Trudeau said last week. "If you are thinking of traveling across the country for spring break - now is not the time."
The Ontario government also announced a pilot program earlier this month offering voluntary COVID-19 testing for anyone landing at Pearson Airport. It’s not yet clear how many people have used the program.
Despite the regulations and the availability of testing, it appears that COVID-19-positive cases are still being traced back to travel, causing concern by local politicians trying to curb the spread of the disease.
On Monday, the mayors and chairs of the 11 largest municipal governments across the Greater Toronto and Hamilton area released a statement calling for stricter travel measures.
“The federal government is urged to adopt increased quarantine enforcement mechanisms including technology which do not rely on local officials who are already hard pressed,” the news release said.
“In addition to the recently instituted three-day advance testing requirement for travellers arriving in Canada, the mayors and chairs urged the federal government to consider additional testing measures at the airports to detect the presence of viral variants."
Ford renewed that same call for more COVID-19 testing and stricter regulations, adding that he will be going to Pearson Airport on Tuesday.
“Let's make sure that we test every single person that comes into our country, rather than having 750 people flying into Pearson that are positive.”
“It just doesn't make sense whatsoever.”
No further details were provided about the reason for the premier’s visit to Pearson Airport.
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"TORONTO -- Ontario Premier Doug Ford wants anyone who lands at Toronto Pearson International Airport to take a COVID-19 test as more than 100 travellers tested positive for the disease after arriving into the country within a two-week time frame.\nThe premier made the comments at a news conference held Monday afternoon.\n“I can't stress this enough,” he said. “We have to test every person that comes in to Pearson, and any other land crossing. It’s absolutely critical. We need to put barriers up every which way we can.”\n“Every time I look up in the sky I'm thinking how many cases are coming in. This has to stop.”\nAccording to the federal government, at least 156 flights have landed in Canada between Jan. 10 and Jan. 23 that had passengers who tested positive for COVID-19 after arriving in the country.\nThe majority of the flights landed in Toronto (76), Montreal (40), and Calgary (24).\nThere were also 70 domestic flights that had a passenger later test positive for the novel coronavirus.\nThe Canada-U.S. border has been closed to non-essential travel since March, with the latest extension set to expire on Feb. 21. Travellers must show a negative COVID-19 test taken within 72 hours of their travel date, and must self-quarantine for 14 days upon arrival.\nPrime Minister Justin Trudeau recently urged Canadians to cancel all non-essential trips abroad.\n“No one should be taking a vacation right now. If you've got one planned, cancel it,\" Trudeau said last week. \"If you are thinking of traveling across the country for spring break - now is not the time.\"\nThe Ontario government also announced a pilot program earlier this month offering voluntary COVID-19 testing for anyone landing at Pearson Airport. It’s not yet clear how many people have used the program.\nDespite the regulations and the availability of testing, it appears that COVID-19-positive cases are still being traced back to travel, causing concern by local politicians trying to curb the spread of the disease.\nOn Monday, the mayors and chairs of the 11 largest municipal governments across the Greater Toronto and Hamilton area released a statement calling for stricter travel measures.\n“The federal government is urged to adopt increased quarantine enforcement mechanisms including technology which do not rely on local officials who are already hard pressed,” the news release said.\n“In addition to the recently instituted three-day advance testing requirement for travellers arriving in Canada, the mayors and chairs urged the federal government to consider additional testing measures at the airports to detect the presence of viral variants.\"\nFord renewed that same call for more COVID-19 testing and stricter regulations, adding that he will be going to Pearson Airport on Tuesday.\n“Let's make sure that we test every single person that comes into our country, rather than having 750 people flying into Pearson that are positive.”\n“It just doesn't make sense whatsoever.”\nNo further details were provided about the reason for the premier’s visit to Pearson Airport.",
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Homicide detectives have identified a 25-year-old man who was stabbed to death in a Scarborough apartment tower on Wednesday evening.
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TORONTO -- Homicide detectives have identified a 25-year-old man who was stabbed to death in a Scarborough apartment tower on Wednesday evening.
At 5:09 p.m. Wednesday, police say they were called to a building at 2495 Eglinton Avenue East, between Midland Avenue and the Kennedy GO Station, for a report of a stabbing inside.
Inside, they located 25-year-old Mohamed Jeylani of Minnesota suffering from life-threatening trauma.
He was rushed to hospital where he was later pronounced dead.
The suspect is described as a Black male, standing 5'11", aged 20-25 years, with a thin build. He was last seen wearing a dark hooded top and light coloured pants.
He was last spotted near Eglinton and Midland avenues two minutes after police were first called to the scene.
Detectives said Wednesday the incident appears to be targeted.
Jeylani’s death is Toronto’s first homicide of the year, and the latest in the year the city has ever recorded its first homicide.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Homicide Squad at 416-808-7400.
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"TORONTO -- Homicide detectives have identified a 25-year-old man who was stabbed to death in a Scarborough apartment tower on Wednesday evening.\nAt 5:09 p.m. Wednesday, police say they were called to a building at 2495 Eglinton Avenue East, between Midland Avenue and the Kennedy GO Station, for a report of a stabbing inside.\nInside, they located 25-year-old Mohamed Jeylani of Minnesota suffering from life-threatening trauma.\nHe was rushed to hospital where he was later pronounced dead.\nThe suspect is described as a Black male, standing 5'11\", aged 20-25 years, with a thin build. He was last seen wearing a dark hooded top and light coloured pants.\nHe was last spotted near Eglinton and Midland avenues two minutes after police were first called to the scene.\nDetectives said Wednesday the incident appears to be targeted.\nJeylani’s death is Toronto’s first homicide of the year, and the latest in the year the city has ever recorded its first homicide.\nAnyone with information is asked to call the Homicide Squad at 416-808-7400.",
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Like many great ideas, a Toronto-based confectionary business known for its chocolate smash hearts was born out of boredom.
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TORONTO -- Like many great ideas, a Toronto-based confectionary business known for its chocolate smash hearts was born out of boredom.
“We were supposed to be camp counsellors this summer,” Samantha White told CTV News, “and then since (COVID-19) our jobs got cancelled, and we needed something to do in place of it.”
White, and her long-time classmate Ryan Taub had been baking to pass the time during the pandemic. Six weeks ago, they founded their own confection company called ‘Sweet Sweets.’ Along with being business partners and classmates, the 16-year-olds are also dating.
“On our one year anniversary we were here, and she turned to me and said ‘we should start a business’ and I’m like ‘ok’,” Taub said.
At the centre of their creations are personalized smash hearts.
“it’s like a chocolate geometric heart and we fill it with candy- and then the customer, or whoever buys it, smashes it open,” White said. “And people are also able to put special messages inside, little secret gifts as well.”
The company also makes other treats, including cake-sickles, described as large-sized cake pops filled with cake, edible cookie dough, or banana bread.
To take orders, the pair created their own website and made an Instagram page. The response was almost immediate.
“At the star we thought maybe we were going to get like 10 followers and a few orders,” Taub said. “We’ve gotten so many and they keep coming in.”
“The response, that’s been very overwhelming,” White said. “It’s been very, very amazing, how many people have reached out to us, supported us.”
The couple are now creating on-demand delicacies every day, while also attending high school full time.
“I mean (COVID-19) actually helped us out in a way because we’re able to stay at home now instead of being at school for six hours of the day,” White said.
Another pandemic hurdle—the pair aren’t spending any time together during the lockdown. But according to Taub, they’ve found a way to work around it.
“I’m going out and getting all the ingredients and what not. Everything that she needs to make stuff. And once it’s made, I’m also going out and delivering the stuff to people.”
The pair both say they’d like to open a store one day, one where much of the merchandise is made to be broken.
“I’ve been very tempted to destroy it myself because I’m just like, I made this- I want to do it,” White admitted with a laugh. “But it’s fun because they send us videos of them smashing it as well, so it’s nice to see people enjoying it.”
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"TORONTO -- Like many great ideas, a Toronto-based confectionary business known for its chocolate smash hearts was born out of boredom.\n“We were supposed to be camp counsellors this summer,” Samantha White told CTV News, “and then since (COVID-19) our jobs got cancelled, and we needed something to do in place of it.”\nWhite, and her long-time classmate Ryan Taub had been baking to pass the time during the pandemic. Six weeks ago, they founded their own confection company called ‘Sweet Sweets.’ Along with being business partners and classmates, the 16-year-olds are also dating.\n“On our one year anniversary we were here, and she turned to me and said ‘we should start a business’ and I’m like ‘ok’,” Taub said.\nAt the centre of their creations are personalized smash hearts.\n“it’s like a chocolate geometric heart and we fill it with candy- and then the customer, or whoever buys it, smashes it open,” White said. “And people are also able to put special messages inside, little secret gifts as well.”\nThe company also makes other treats, including cake-sickles, described as large-sized cake pops filled with cake, edible cookie dough, or banana bread.\nTo take orders, the pair created their own website and made an Instagram page. The response was almost immediate.\n“At the star we thought maybe we were going to get like 10 followers and a few orders,” Taub said. “We’ve gotten so many and they keep coming in.”\n“The response, that’s been very overwhelming,” White said. “It’s been very, very amazing, how many people have reached out to us, supported us.”\nThe couple are now creating on-demand delicacies every day, while also attending high school full time.\n“I mean (COVID-19) actually helped us out in a way because we’re able to stay at home now instead of being at school for six hours of the day,” White said.\nAnother pandemic hurdle—the pair aren’t spending any time together during the lockdown. But according to Taub, they’ve found a way to work around it.\n“I’m going out and getting all the ingredients and what not. Everything that she needs to make stuff. And once it’s made, I’m also going out and delivering the stuff to people.”\nThe pair both say they’d like to open a store one day, one where much of the merchandise is made to be broken.\n“I’ve been very tempted to destroy it myself because I’m just like, I made this- I want to do it,” White admitted with a laugh. “But it’s fun because they send us videos of them smashing it as well, so it’s nice to see people enjoying it.”",
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John Tavares scored the winner on a power play in the third period as the Toronto Maple Leafs defeated the Edmonton Oilers 4-2 on Friday.
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TORONTO -- John Tavares scored the winner on a power play in the third period as the Toronto Maple Leafs defeated the Edmonton Oilers 4-2 on Friday.
Adam Brooks, with his first in the NHL, Jimmy Vesey, and Mitch Marner, into an empty net, had the other goals for Toronto (4-2-0), which got 30 saves from Frederik Andersen. William Nylander added two assists, while Marner had one of his own for a two-point night.
Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl replied for Edmonton (2-4-0). Mikko Koskinen stopped 25 shots.
Tavares tipped his fourth goal of the season, and second of the two-game set with the Oilers, off Marner's shot after some sustained pressure on the man advantage.
The Leafs were minus two-thirds of their top line with both Auston Matthews and Joe Thornton out injured. Head coach Sheldon Keefe said before the game Matthews is day-to-day with "upper-body soreness" following Wednesday's 3-1 loss to the Oilers, while Thornton will miss at least four weeks after fracturing a rib in the same game.
Edmonton, meanwhile, activated winger James Neal, who was previously on the NHL's list of unavailable players due to COVID-19, off injured reserve for his first action of the season.
Down 2-1 through two periods, the Oilers got even 50 seconds into the third when McDavid, who grew up just north of Toronto in Newmarket, Ont., scored his second-ever goal at Scotiabank Arena when he deftly tipped Ethan Bear's point shot past Andersen for his fourth of the campaign.
The Leafs got a power play midway through the third when Toronto's new top line of Tavares, Marner and Zach Hyman, with the latter forcing Koskinen to stretch and make a save.
But the Edmonton goalie could do nothing on the Tavares winner at 11:46 after making another terrific stop on Toronto's captain moments earlier on the man advantage.
Andersen shut the door from there with Koskinen on the bench before Marner iced it with his fourth into an empty net as Toronto held on for its fourth victory in six outings to open the abbreviated 56-game schedule.
With the Leafs minus Matthews and Thornton, Keefe went back to 12 forwards and six defenceman after dressing an extra blue-liner the last two games. Brooks, Pierre Engvall and Alexander Barabanov dressed up front, while Mikko Lehtonen was scratched on the back end.
The Leafs got a power play early in the second period, but Oilers grabbed a 1-0 lead at 5:12 when Kailer Yamamoto threw the puck in front where Draisaitl fished it out of Nylander's skates and jammed home his second of the season, and second in as many games.
But Toronto got that one back on the same man advantage 43 seconds later when Jason Spezza fired a puck into the slot that glanced off Brooks and in for the Winnipeg native's first NHL goal in his eighth game.
Andersen then made a good stop outwaiting Jesse Puljujarvi on a break before Toronto pushed in front at 11:16 when Alexander Kerfoot intercepted an Adam Larsson pass behind Edmonton's net and quickly fed Nylander, who in turn patiently found Vesey to bury his second.
The Oilers secured that 3-1 midweek victory on a night where both teams' high-powered attacks featuring Matthews, McDavid and Draisaitl were neutralized by both sides' strong commitment to defensive structure and an unwillingness to take offensive risks in a North Division chess match.
Friday's opening 20 minutes was nearly as tight-checking, but there were a couple of chances at either end. Yamamoto, who was credited with Wednesday's opener after the Leafs flubbed the puck into their own net, forced a good stop out of Andersen less than 30 seconds in.
Leafs winger Wayne Simmonds then had an opportunity denied by Koskinen from the slot. Edmonton's Zack Kassian took a pass off the rush from McDavid that Andersen just got a piece of with the shaft of his stick.
McDavid had another rebound effort denied by Andersen before Simmonds saw his redirection smothered at the other by Koskinen as the teams headed to the locker rooms without finding the range.
Notes: Toronto placed Thornton on long-term injured reserve, where he joined rookie winger Nick Roberston (knee). ... The Oilers now head to Winnipeg for two against the Jets beginning Sunday before hosting the Leafs for another two-game set beginning Thursday. ... Toronto opens a four-game Alberta road trip Sunday in Calgary against the Flames.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan. 22, 2021.
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The Ontario government is slamming U.S. President Joe Biden's Buy American executive order, saying it will hurt businesses that rely on the cross-border trading relationship.
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TORONTO -- The Ontario government is slamming U.S. President Joe Biden's Buy American executive order, saying it will hurt businesses that rely on the cross-border trading relationship.
Minister of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade Vic Fedeli issued a statement on Tuesday saying that the Ontario government is disappointed by the move.
"We are concerned with what these measures could mean for Ontario workers, families and businesses who rely on the U.S.-Ontario trading relationship," Fedeli said. "This is a critically important trading relationship that supports millions of jobs on both sides of the border, and is worth approximately $400 billion annually."
Fedeli said that if Ontario were a country, the province would be America's third largest trading partner.
"We can't take these important relationships for granted," Fedeli added.
President Joe Biden imposed stringent new made-in-America rules for U.S. government spending on Monday. The Buy American executive order was the result of a cornerstone Biden campaign promise.
The policy is to ensure that American manufacturers, workers and suppliers are the primary beneficiaries of U.S. government largesse, including an estimated $600 billion a year in procurement contracts.
Fedeli said the Ontario will call on the federal government to ensure Canada is exempt from any Buy American provisions, and will instead advocate for a "Buy North American" approach.
The Buy American order came just five days after Biden "disappointed" the Canadian government and enraged Alberta Premier Jason Kenney by rescinding a presidential permit for the Keystone XL pipeline expansion.
With files from The Canadian Press.
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"TORONTO -- The Ontario government is slamming U.S. President Joe Biden's Buy American executive order, saying it will hurt businesses that rely on the cross-border trading relationship.\nMinister of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade Vic Fedeli issued a statement on Tuesday saying that the Ontario government is disappointed by the move.\n\"We are concerned with what these measures could mean for Ontario workers, families and businesses who rely on the U.S.-Ontario trading relationship,\" Fedeli said. \"This is a critically important trading relationship that supports millions of jobs on both sides of the border, and is worth approximately $400 billion annually.\"\nFedeli said that if Ontario were a country, the province would be America's third largest trading partner.\n\"We can't take these important relationships for granted,\" Fedeli added.\nPresident Joe Biden imposed stringent new made-in-America rules for U.S. government spending on Monday. The Buy American executive order was the result of a cornerstone Biden campaign promise.\nThe policy is to ensure that American manufacturers, workers and suppliers are the primary beneficiaries of U.S. government largesse, including an estimated $600 billion a year in procurement contracts.\nFedeli said the Ontario will call on the federal government to ensure Canada is exempt from any Buy American provisions, and will instead advocate for a \"Buy North American\" approach.\nThe Buy American order came just five days after Biden \"disappointed\" the Canadian government and enraged Alberta Premier Jason Kenney by rescinding a presidential permit for the Keystone XL pipeline expansion.\nWith files from The Canadian Press.",
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A week before the launch of a city budget that councillors are calling an “unprecedented fiscal challenge,” a new Toronto home sales report is offering a glimmer of hope of the land transfer tax that can be reaped from the boom.
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TORONTO -- A week before the launch of a city budget that councillors are calling an “unprecedented fiscal challenge,” a new Toronto home sales report is offering a glimmer of hope of the land transfer tax that can be reaped from the boom.
The Toronto Regional Real Estate Board reported Wednesday that in spite of the pandemic, more than 95,000 homes were sold in 2020, setting a new record average selling price of $929,699.
Municipal officials are still crunching the numbers on how much land transfer tax the city will intake from those sales, but they will need every penny they can get. The 2021 budget shortfall is forecasted at $1.5-1.7 billion, due largely to massive revenue losses related to the pandemic.
“We’re grateful for the real estate market doing well because it gives us the ability to help with our financial challenges,” Budget Chief Gary Crawford told CTV News Toronto Wednesday.
Crawford said that the forecast for municipal Land Transfer Tax was looking grim during the spring real estate slowdown, but it improved after the market began to rebound in July 2020.
The budget chief said the 2020 land transfer tax total will likely be less than was projected pre-pandemic, but that the shortfall won’t be quite as dire as first thought.
Crawford admitted that the land transfer tax won’t be axed any time soon, despite repeated calls from the Toronto Regional Real Estate Board, which has maintained for years that the tax is unfair and not sustainable.
“What if we had seen a protracted downturn in the housing market because things unfolded differently due to COVID-19?” asked Jason Mercer, Chief Market Analyst. “Then the city would be looking at a much greater budget hole than it is right now.”
The city launches its 2021 tax budget January 14.
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As many as seven people were hurt in a triple car crash in Toronto’s Downsview area on Friday.
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TORONTO -- As many as seven people were hurt in a triple car crash in Toronto’s Downsview area on Friday.
Toronto police said that sometime before 12 p.m. Friday, they received multiple calls about three cars that collided at the intersection of Keele Street and Sheppard Avenue West, with one of the cars rolling onto its roof.
One of the three vehicle also caught fire.
Paramedics said a man in his 30s is in critical condition and was en route to a hospital trauma centre for treatment.
A woman in her 60s was also headed to a hospital trauma centre with serious injuries.
And up to five others were en route to hospital with minor injuries.
The intersection is closed for an investigation and emergency repairs to hydro equipment at the scene.
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If 2020 was the kind of year that left you pining for simpler times, an east-end Toronto tavern is serving up movie classics along with its selection of craft beers.
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TORONTO -- If 2020 was the kind of year that left you pining for simpler times, an east-end Toronto tavern is serving up movie classics along with its selection of craft beers.
In an effort to survive lockdown legislation, Farside Bar has turned into a video rental store. That’s not a typo.
The bar has created a membership-based, VHS rental service—the type of thing that went out of fashion more than a decade ago.
“There’s a little bit of healthy desperation,” explained Mike Reynolds, self-confessed videophile and co-owner of Farside Bar. “It’s been rough for restaurateurs this year, but I had 5,000 tapes sitting in the back room, so why not? It’s a resource I already had.”
Prior to the pandemic, Farside regularly played host to movie night watch-alongs, so the transition was natural thematically. The antiquated technology presented Reynolds with a few problems, but he was able to source surplus VCR‘a from thrift stores, along with HDMI adaptors to enable the machines, many of which were manufactured in the 80’s and 90’s, to operate on today’s HDTV’s.
“Look at music, once it became streamable everyone started buying records again. We don’t have the relationship we used to with the media we’re consuming. It’s nice to turn on the TV, not be connected to the internet and reconnect with some old movies. There’s a comfort in that. We need that right now.”
Reynolds points out he has a lot of titles that aren’t available on streaming services due to licensing issues or simply because they’re older and obscure. A surprise hit has been mix tapes, recordings people took directly from their televisions, complete with commercials from the 80’s.
“It’s just the aesthetic of it, the feel. You have to physically put in the tape, play with the tracking. There’s a real kitsch factor,” he said.
“It harkens back to the Blockbuster Video days and seeing tapes on the shelf. I find there’s too many streaming services now. Say I want to watch a movie, I have to Google if it’s available in Canada, and on what streaming service. It takes half an hour and in that amount of time you could come down here, grab a few beers and a VCR with the movie.”
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The death toll related to a COVID-19 outbreak at a long-term care facility in Scarborough, Ont. has climbed to 64.
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TORONTO -- The death toll related to a COVID-19 outbreak at a long-term care facility in Scarborough, Ont. has climbed to 64.
North York General Hospital (NYGH) took over control of Tendercare Living Centre on Christmas Day and confirmed the news in a press release issued Monday evening.
“Since yesterday, we are sad to report that two residents have passed away from COVID-19,” a spokesperson for NYGH said. “Our deepest sympathies are with the families and friends of those who have lost their lives to this devastating virus.”
The outbreak was first declared on Dec. 8 and at one point, roughly half of the residents of the 256-bed facility tested positive for COVID-19 with at least 121 confirmed cases.
Since then, the hospital says there are 59 active cases in the home, with nearly 120 cases between residents and staff members now considered to be resolved.
Plagued by staffing shortages early on in the outbreak, a spokesperson for Minister of Long-Term Care Merrilee Fullerton said Sunday that staffing at Tendercare is now above levels seen during normal operations for personal support workers and registered staff.
Meanwhile, NYGH says that it is working with Toronto Public Health to secure COVID-19 vaccinations for residents and staff members. It’s unclear when exactly those vaccinations will take place, but the hospital said it will be providing more details in the coming days.
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"TORONTO -- The death toll related to a COVID-19 outbreak at a long-term care facility in Scarborough, Ont. has climbed to 64.\nNorth York General Hospital (NYGH) took over control of Tendercare Living Centre on Christmas Day and confirmed the news in a press release issued Monday evening.\n“Since yesterday, we are sad to report that two residents have passed away from COVID-19,” a spokesperson for NYGH said. “Our deepest sympathies are with the families and friends of those who have lost their lives to this devastating virus.”\nThe outbreak was first declared on Dec. 8 and at one point, roughly half of the residents of the 256-bed facility tested positive for COVID-19 with at least 121 confirmed cases.\nSince then, the hospital says there are 59 active cases in the home, with nearly 120 cases between residents and staff members now considered to be resolved.\nPlagued by staffing shortages early on in the outbreak, a spokesperson for Minister of Long-Term Care Merrilee Fullerton said Sunday that staffing at Tendercare is now above levels seen during normal operations for personal support workers and registered staff.\nMeanwhile, NYGH says that it is working with Toronto Public Health to secure COVID-19 vaccinations for residents and staff members. It’s unclear when exactly those vaccinations will take place, but the hospital said it will be providing more details in the coming days.",
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A man in his 30s is dead after an industrial accident at a construction site in Mississauga Thursday afternoon.
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TORONTO -- A man in his 30s is dead after an industrial accident at a construction site in Mississauga Thursday afternoon.
Emergency crews were called to the area of Cawthra Road and Hyacinthe Boulevard just after 5:30 p.m.
A district fire chief told CP24 that construction crews were working in a tunnel approximately 21 metres down when something went wrong. No further details about the incident have been provided.
One person was extracted and pronounced dead on the scene, police said. Three other workers who were with the victim during the incident got out safely and were not physically injured.
According to the Peel Region website, sanity sewers are being installed in the area, which is part of the region’s multi-phased project to reduce basement flooding. It began in November 2019.
A temporary construction shaft was installed at the intersection.
The Ministry of Labour has been notified.
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Premier Doug Ford says that there is “no reason” for the province to “jump in” and introduce its own paid sick leave program, even amid mounting criticism from advocates who say that an existing federal program doesn’t do enough to protect workers.
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TORONTO -- Premier Doug Ford says that there is “no reason” for the province to “jump in” and introduce its own paid sick leave program, even amid mounting criticism from advocates who say that an existing federal program doesn’t do enough to protect workers.
Ford made the comment to reporters during a news conference in Vaughan on Monday afternoon, just hours after Toronto’s board of health voted unanimously in favour of a motion asking his government to step in and ensure workers have access to 10 paid sick days during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“If the system is not working and that's what I'm hearing from the media, we're having conversations as we speak and over the last little while (with the federal government). If people don’t feel they are getting it quick enough than we need to change the program and if they need to top it up a little more because $500 a week isn’t feasible then we change it” Ford said. “Let's be very, very clear there's no reason for the province to jump in there when less than 27 per cent of the overall program hasn't been taken up.”
The federal government did introduce a recovery sickness benefit earlier in the pandemic, which provides people with $500 per week for up to two weeks if they are unable to attend work due to illness.
Some advocates have, however, said that the program is insufficient because payments can sometimes take weeks to process and the benefit does not provide any job security to those who elect to apply for it.
Speaking with reporters during a briefing later on Monday afternoon, Mayor John Tory said that “it doesn’t really matter which government resolves” the issues with the sick leave program but he said that the problems need to be addressed and that workers need to be assured “that they are going to receive their pay check or something close to their paycheck” during the time that they are exhibiting symptoms.
“It is time for it to happen. I can’t even count how many times I have sat here and said this is an urgent issue that is causing people to go to work sick,” he said. “It is not right and we should fix it.”
Tory likened the political back and forth between the Ford government and the Trudeau government as a “ping pong game,” where nobody seems to “accept the responsibility.”
He said that ultimately he believes the matter is going to require some “provincial intervention” at least in the form of the Ford government stepping in and saying “it is a compulsory matter for employers to provide these days to people are in need of isolation.
Ford, however, seemed to suggest that his government won’t have a role in providing sick leave for ill employees.
“Sure, it needs to be changed and we're working with the federal government but there's no reason for us to duplicate the $1.1 billion (that the federal government has allotted to the program) and I know the federal government is going to be reviewing it and hopefully we'll have an answer in a very short time here,” he said.
The report considered by Toronto’s Board of Health today stated that only 42 per cent of working Canadians currently have access to paid sick leave, and among low-wage and front-line workers that number is about 10 per cent.
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The trial of Jacob Hoggard, the frontman for the Canadian rock band Hedley, has been pushed back to next year in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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TORONTO -- The trial of Jacob Hoggard, the frontman for the Canadian rock band Hedley, has been pushed back to next year in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Hoggard, who pleaded not guilty at his preliminary hearing to sexual assault causing bodily harm and sexual interference, was initially set to be tried in Toronto this month.
A new trial date was then set for April, but given ongoing court delays and restrictions related to the pandemic, it has now been postponed further to Jan. 3, 2022.
Hoggard has opted to be tried by a jury, and new jury trials in Ontario have been put on hold until at least May to limit the spread of the virus.
The pre-trial motions that were scheduled to be heard Monday will now take place in April.
The singer was arrested and charged in 2018 in connection with alleged incidents involving a woman and a teenager.
The complainants cannot be identified due to a publication ban.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan. 25, 2021.
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"TORONTO -- The trial of Jacob Hoggard, the frontman for the Canadian rock band Hedley, has been pushed back to next year in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.\nHoggard, who pleaded not guilty at his preliminary hearing to sexual assault causing bodily harm and sexual interference, was initially set to be tried in Toronto this month.\nA new trial date was then set for April, but given ongoing court delays and restrictions related to the pandemic, it has now been postponed further to Jan. 3, 2022.\nHoggard has opted to be tried by a jury, and new jury trials in Ontario have been put on hold until at least May to limit the spread of the virus.\nThe pre-trial motions that were scheduled to be heard Monday will now take place in April.\nThe singer was arrested and charged in 2018 in connection with alleged incidents involving a woman and a teenager.\nThe complainants cannot be identified due to a publication ban.\nThis report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan. 25, 2021.",
"Trial of Hedley frontman Jacob Hoggard, who faces sex-related charges, pushed to 2022 amid pandemic",
"The trial of Jacob Hoggard, the frontman for the Canadian rock band Hedley, has been pushed back to next year in light of the COVID-19 pandemic."
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Tanya Bogatin's once pristine home is no longer quite so organized, and she's waiting a little longer between loads of laundry, but it's no skin off her back.
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TORONTO -- Tanya Bogatin's once pristine home is no longer quite so organized, and she's waiting a little longer between loads of laundry, but it's no skin off her back.
Her priorities have shifted now that she'll be helping her two young kids attend classes from their home in Vaughan, Ont., for another month.
"Things are gonna fall to the backburner," she said. "I tell my kids, don't stress about it ... relax, relax. We're happy, we're safe, we're healthy."
With online learning extended until late January across southern Ontario, and for even longer in Toronto, York, Peel, Durham and Windsor-Essex, parents like Bogatin are finding a litany of strategies to manage all their responsibilities.
She said she briefly panicked when she found out her kids would be learning remotely until at least Feb. 10, but then she came up with a game plan.
Each morning, she and her kids get up at around 8:20 a.m., with half an hour to spare before classes begin.
Once classes start, her son -- who is in Grade 4 -- stations himself in the dining room, and her daughter -- in Grade 2 -- sets up her laptop at the desk in the toy room.
Bogatin sits on the stairs between them, listening in case they call for help.
At recess, she said, she bundles them up in winter gear and sends them out to play in the backyard.
Right after classes end, they get to work on homework.
Bogatin works part-time, and as of this week she's able to do that from home.
"I'm very, very lucky that I have a very flexible job," she said, noting that she's mostly able to set her own schedule, and will sometimes retreat into her bedroom for online meetings.
Her days are busy, she said, but they're "good busy."
Parents are making it work, said Rachel Huot with the Ontario Parent Action Network, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's easy.
"It's extremely challenging to try and support children learning remotely," she said. "Your kids are not meant to learn sitting in front of a computer screen for six hours a day."
Parents who have to juggle supervising kids and working -- either in or out of the home -- are stretched even thinner, she said.
"Then there's the fact that we're watching the government fail us day after day. And there's no clear end in sight," she said.
Huot echoed calls from teachers' unions that are requesting broader testing of asymptomatic students, smaller class sizes and better ventilation systems in schools so that kids can safely return to the classroom.
A spokeswoman for Education Minister Stephen Lecce said student safety is the government's top priority.
"We know that parents want their children back in class and we firmly agree, and our commitment to deliver on that is to further enhance our safety protocols and provincewide targeted surveillance testing to ensure our students can safely go back to class," she said.
The government has cited rising COVID-19 positivity rates amongst children as well as soaring daily infections for its decision to have students learn virtually for longer.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan. 15, 2021.
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"TORONTO -- Tanya Bogatin's once pristine home is no longer quite so organized, and she's waiting a little longer between loads of laundry, but it's no skin off her back.\nHer priorities have shifted now that she'll be helping her two young kids attend classes from their home in Vaughan, Ont., for another month.\n\"Things are gonna fall to the backburner,\" she said. \"I tell my kids, don't stress about it ... relax, relax. We're happy, we're safe, we're healthy.\"\nWith online learning extended until late January across southern Ontario, and for even longer in Toronto, York, Peel, Durham and Windsor-Essex, parents like Bogatin are finding a litany of strategies to manage all their responsibilities.\nShe said she briefly panicked when she found out her kids would be learning remotely until at least Feb. 10, but then she came up with a game plan.\nEach morning, she and her kids get up at around 8:20 a.m., with half an hour to spare before classes begin.\nOnce classes start, her son -- who is in Grade 4 -- stations himself in the dining room, and her daughter -- in Grade 2 -- sets up her laptop at the desk in the toy room.\nBogatin sits on the stairs between them, listening in case they call for help.\nAt recess, she said, she bundles them up in winter gear and sends them out to play in the backyard.\nRight after classes end, they get to work on homework.\nBogatin works part-time, and as of this week she's able to do that from home.\n\"I'm very, very lucky that I have a very flexible job,\" she said, noting that she's mostly able to set her own schedule, and will sometimes retreat into her bedroom for online meetings.\nHer days are busy, she said, but they're \"good busy.\"\nParents are making it work, said Rachel Huot with the Ontario Parent Action Network, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's easy.\n\"It's extremely challenging to try and support children learning remotely,\" she said. \"Your kids are not meant to learn sitting in front of a computer screen for six hours a day.\"\nParents who have to juggle supervising kids and working -- either in or out of the home -- are stretched even thinner, she said.\n\"Then there's the fact that we're watching the government fail us day after day. And there's no clear end in sight,\" she said.\nHuot echoed calls from teachers' unions that are requesting broader testing of asymptomatic students, smaller class sizes and better ventilation systems in schools so that kids can safely return to the classroom.\nA spokeswoman for Education Minister Stephen Lecce said student safety is the government's top priority.\n\"We know that parents want their children back in class and we firmly agree, and our commitment to deliver on that is to further enhance our safety protocols and provincewide targeted surveillance testing to ensure our students can safely go back to class,\" she said.\nThe government has cited rising COVID-19 positivity rates amongst children as well as soaring daily infections for its decision to have students learn virtually for longer.\nThis report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan. 15, 2021.",
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After appealing to the public for help, police say they have identified a pedestrian who was critically injured in a collision in Rexdale on Tuesday night.
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TORONTO -- After appealing to the public for help, police say they have identified a pedestrian who was critically injured in a collision in Rexdale on Tuesday night.
Shortly after 7 p.m., officers responded to a call for a collision in the area of Finch and Kipling avenues.
A man was reportedly standing on the south curb when a 61-year-old man was driving east on Finch Avenue.
The pedestrian then walked onto the roadway and was struck, police said.
He was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries.
On Wednesday morning, police said in a news release“despite the best efforts of investigators, the pedestrian has not yet been identified and officers are appealing to the public to help identify him.”
Just after 5 p.m. on Wednesday, police issued an updated news release stating that the pedestrian has been identified as a 43-year-old man. His name has not been released.
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"TORONTO -- After appealing to the public for help, police say they have identified a pedestrian who was critically injured in a collision in Rexdale on Tuesday night.\nShortly after 7 p.m., officers responded to a call for a collision in the area of Finch and Kipling avenues.\nA man was reportedly standing on the south curb when a 61-year-old man was driving east on Finch Avenue.\nThe pedestrian then walked onto the roadway and was struck, police said.\nHe was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries.\nOn Wednesday morning, police said in a news release“despite the best efforts of investigators, the pedestrian has not yet been identified and officers are appealing to the public to help identify him.”\nJust after 5 p.m. on Wednesday, police issued an updated news release stating that the pedestrian has been identified as a 43-year-old man. His name has not been released.",
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"After appealing to the public for help, police say they have identified a pedestrian who was critically injured in a collision in Rexdale on Tuesday night."
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The Blue Jays have avoided arbitration with outfielder Teoscar Hernandez and right-hander Ross Stripling after signing them to one-year deals on Friday.
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TORONTO -- The Blue Jays have avoided arbitration with outfielder Teoscar Hernandez and right-hander Ross Stripling after signing them to one-year deals on Friday.
Hernandez's contract is for US$4.325 million, while Stripling will be paid $3 million.
Hernandez, 28, won his first Silver Slugger Award in 2020 as he tied for fifth in the American League with 16 home runs.
The Dominican also ranked seventh in the AL in slugging percentage (.579), seventh in OPS (.919), and tied for ninth in total bases (110) while tying for the Major League lead with seven outfield assists.
Stripling, 31, went 3-3 with a 5.84 ERA over nine starts and three relief appearances with the Los Angeles Dodgers and Blue Jays last season.
The Blue Jays acquired Stripling at the trade deadline last year.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan. 15, 2021.
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"TORONTO -- The Blue Jays have avoided arbitration with outfielder Teoscar Hernandez and right-hander Ross Stripling after signing them to one-year deals on Friday.\nHernandez's contract is for US$4.325 million, while Stripling will be paid $3 million.\nHernandez, 28, won his first Silver Slugger Award in 2020 as he tied for fifth in the American League with 16 home runs.\nThe Dominican also ranked seventh in the AL in slugging percentage (.579), seventh in OPS (.919), and tied for ninth in total bases (110) while tying for the Major League lead with seven outfield assists.\nStripling, 31, went 3-3 with a 5.84 ERA over nine starts and three relief appearances with the Los Angeles Dodgers and Blue Jays last season.\nThe Blue Jays acquired Stripling at the trade deadline last year.\nThis report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan. 15, 2021.",
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The city will be dispatching staff Wednesday to 12 residential buildings around Toronto where there have been a high number of complaints about lack of mask usage.
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TORONTO -- The city will be dispatching staff Wednesday to 12 residential buildings around Toronto where there have been a high number of complaints about lack of mask usage.
“We're going to be having people out there, like tomorrow,” Tory told CP24 during an episode of The Mayor on Tuesday night. “And you know who you are out there. But there are going to be people out from the city. They're going to be talking to the owners, they're going to be putting signs up or making sure they're put up in those buildings to get people wearing a mask.”
Tory said an analysis of some 2,000 complaints received by the city over mask usage shows there are 12 locations that have been the subject of more than 10 complaints.
He said 75 per cent of the complaints targeted rental buildings, while 25 per cent were aimed at condo buildings.
A bylaw implemented by the city in August makes it mandatory to wear a mask while inside lobbies, elevators, laundry rooms and other shared spaces in condo and apartment buildings.
Last week the city said it had received 1,950 complaints to 311 about violations of the rule since it came into effect in August.
Tory said that while it is impossible to dispatch enforcement officers to every lobby in the city to make sure people are following the rules, he had requested an analysis of the complaints to see if the city could identify buildings where masking rules are flouted the most.
While provincial laws do not allow the city to charge individuals for not wearing a mask, the city can charge residential building owners who don’t follow guidelines around proper signage and education about mask usage in buildings.
“It is obviously a difficult enforcement task,” Tory said. “There are 3,500 rental buildings alone in the city and leave alone the condos. And so you can imagine we just don't have enough people to be in every lobby watching every minute. The people that are supposed to be helping us with this are the owners. They're required to put up signage and so on, which we’ve supplied for free.”
He said in general, compliance with masking rules across the city has been quite good.
He encouraged anyone with concerns about a lack of proper masking in a residential building to reach out to 311.
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A 63-year-old man is dead after a snowmobile crash occurred north of Whitby over the weekend.
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TORONTO -- A 63-year-old man is dead after a snowmobile crash occurred north of Whitby over the weekend.
At around 8:30 p.m. on Saturday, officers from Durham Regional Police’s East Division responded to a call regarding a serious collision on a private property in Clarington, near Newtonville.
The crash involved a single snowmobile, police said in a news release issued on Monday.
A man, who was operating the snowmobile on a laneway, was ejected from the vehicle and transported to a local hospital. He was later transported to a Toronto-area trauma centre to treat his life-threatening injuries.
He was pronounced dead on Sunday, officers said. His identity has not been released.
Members of the police service’s collision investigation unit attended the scene to conduct an investigation into the fatal crash.
Anyone with further information is asked to contact officers at 1-888-579-1520, ext. 5216.
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"TORONTO -- A 63-year-old man is dead after a snowmobile crash occurred north of Whitby over the weekend.\nAt around 8:30 p.m. on Saturday, officers from Durham Regional Police’s East Division responded to a call regarding a serious collision on a private property in Clarington, near Newtonville.\nThe crash involved a single snowmobile, police said in a news release issued on Monday.\nA man, who was operating the snowmobile on a laneway, was ejected from the vehicle and transported to a local hospital. He was later transported to a Toronto-area trauma centre to treat his life-threatening injuries.\nHe was pronounced dead on Sunday, officers said. His identity has not been released.\nMembers of the police service’s collision investigation unit attended the scene to conduct an investigation into the fatal crash.\nAnyone with further information is asked to contact officers at 1-888-579-1520, ext. 5216.",
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"A 63-year-old man is dead after a snowmobile crash occurred north of Whitby over the weekend."
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A court hearing is scheduled today in the case of Jacob Hoggard, the frontman for the Canadian rock band Hedley, who is charged with sex-related offences.
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Hearing today in case of Hedley frontman Jacob Hoggard, who faces sex-related charges
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TORONTO -- A court hearing is scheduled today in the case of Jacob Hoggard, the frontman for the Canadian rock band Hedley, who is charged with sex-related offences.
Pre-trial motions are expected to get underway, with a trial set for April -- though there may be further delays due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Hoggard has opted to be tried by a jury, and new jury trials have been put on hold until at least May to limit the spread of the virus.
The singer pleaded not guilty at his preliminary hearing to sexual assault causing bodily harm and sexual interference.
He was arrested and charged in 2018 in connection with alleged incidents involving a woman and a teenager.
The complainants cannot be identified due to a publication ban.
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"Hearing today in case of Hedley frontman Jacob Hoggard, who faces sex-related charges",
"A court hearing is scheduled today in the case of Jacob Hoggard, the frontman for the Canadian rock band Hedley, who is charged with sex-related offences."
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Police in Durham Region have released surveillance video of a man who they say lit a tow truck on fire early Friday morning.
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TORONTO -- Police in Durham Region have released surveillance video of a man who they say lit a tow truck on fire early Friday morning.
In a news release, police said they received a report of a vehicle fire on Gamble Drive in Ajax, Ont. at approximately 6:50 a.m.
When officers arrived on scene, they said they found a Chevrolet tow truck “fully engulfed in flames.”
Firefighters were able to put the fire out and there were no injures reported, police said.
Surveillance video of the incident posted by police appears to show the suspect dousing the vehicle with an unknown substance, igniting the flame and then fleeing the scene.
Officers spotted the suspect vehicle driving near the scene and attempted to pull it over, according to police. The suspect failed to stop and drove off at a high rate of speed.
The vehicle is described by police as a red/orange SUV and was last seen in the area of Harwood Avenue and Kingston Road in Ajax.
Police are treating the incident as an arson and are asking anyone with information relating to the investigation to contact Det. Hawkes of the West Division Criminal Investigations Bureau at 1-888-579-1520 ext. 2528.
Anonymous tips can also be made through Durham Regional Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 and tipsters may be eligible for a $2,000 cash reward, police said.
Tow truck fires in the Greater Toronto Area have become more common over the last several months. In fact, six tow trucks were set on fire over several days in Toronto and York Region in early December.
In May of last year, Toronto-area police laid nearly 200 charges, including first-degree murder, against members of “several organized crime groups working within the towing industry.”
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"TORONTO -- Police in Durham Region have released surveillance video of a man who they say lit a tow truck on fire early Friday morning.\nIn a news release, police said they received a report of a vehicle fire on Gamble Drive in Ajax, Ont. at approximately 6:50 a.m.\nWhen officers arrived on scene, they said they found a Chevrolet tow truck “fully engulfed in flames.”\nFirefighters were able to put the fire out and there were no injures reported, police said.\nSurveillance video of the incident posted by police appears to show the suspect dousing the vehicle with an unknown substance, igniting the flame and then fleeing the scene.\nOfficers spotted the suspect vehicle driving near the scene and attempted to pull it over, according to police. The suspect failed to stop and drove off at a high rate of speed.\nThe vehicle is described by police as a red/orange SUV and was last seen in the area of Harwood Avenue and Kingston Road in Ajax.\nPolice are treating the incident as an arson and are asking anyone with information relating to the investigation to contact Det. Hawkes of the West Division Criminal Investigations Bureau at 1-888-579-1520 ext. 2528.\nAnonymous tips can also be made through Durham Regional Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 and tipsters may be eligible for a $2,000 cash reward, police said.\nTow truck fires in the Greater Toronto Area have become more common over the last several months. In fact, six tow trucks were set on fire over several days in Toronto and York Region in early December.\nIn May of last year, Toronto-area police laid nearly 200 charges, including first-degree murder, against members of “several organized crime groups working within the towing industry.”",
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An investigation is underway after the bodies of two females were discovered at a residence in Fort Erie, Ont. early Tuesday morning.
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Two bodies discovered at Fort Erie, Ont. residence, police say
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TORONTO -- An investigation is underway after the bodies of two females were discovered at a residence in Fort Erie, Ont. early Tuesday morning.
According to the Niagara Regional Police Service, emergency crews received a call around 4:15 a.m. “regarding a disturbance, possibly involving a firearm” at a residence on Niagara Parkway.
Officers discovered the bodies of two females at the home.
No information has been provided thus far regarding the ages or relation of the victims.
Detectives from the Homicide Unit and the Forensic Services Unit have been called in to investigate the incident, police say.
Roads in the area are closed and investigators say there will be a large police presence in the area throughout the day.
Members of the public are being asked to stay away from Niagara River Parkway, between Black Creek and Switch roads, as police conduct their investigation.
Anyone with information about the incident are being asked to contact police or reach out to Crime Stoppers anonymously.
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Staff are recommending that the city bring back its popular CafeTO program, which saw hundreds of patios set up on sidewalks and in curb lanes in response to the COVID-19 pandemic last summer.
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TORONTO -- Staff are recommending that the city bring back its popular CafeTO program, which saw hundreds of patios set up on sidewalks and in curb lanes in response to the COVID-19 pandemic last summer.
In a report that will go before Mayor John Tory’s executive committee next week, staff lay out their plan for the return and expansion of the program pending changes to public health restrictions to again permit outdoor dining.
Unlike last year, when the first patios only opened at the end of June, staff are recommending that the city begin accepting applications in February allowing for the first curb lane patios to be installed as early as May.
They also want to tweak the program to allow restaurants and bars to build temporary decks and platforms in curb lanes after initially prohibiting them from doing so in 2020.
Patio fees should also be waived again in 2021 given the “ongoing financial hardships faced by the restaurant industry,” staff say. That will result in an estimated revenue loss of $775,000.
The city will also face a further revenue loss of $2.5 million due to forgone parking revenue.
“This is proof that there is indeed a silver lining in most clouds,” Mayor John Tory said of the return of the program while speaking with reporters on Wednesday morning. “Jobs were retained (because of the program), businesses were saved - I don’t think it is an exaggeration to say that - and the quality of life in the city was improved for people. You know they enjoyed those patios. I can’t tell you how many people came up to me to say this was a really good thing to happen to our city and that is why it is not just a pandemic measure in my view; I think it something we will be having in one form or another in the city for many years to come.”
A survey conducted by the city last year revealed that 66 per cent of the 801 restaurants that participated in the program believed that their businesses would not have been financially viable without the extra space for outdoor dining.
About 95 per cent of respondents also indicated a desire for the program to be brought back in 2021.
“I made a commitment to help the entire restaurants and bar industry on a go forward basis and this report demonstrates that we are following through on that commitment,” Tory said.
The staff report says that 620 of the 801 participating restaurants in CafeTO in 2020 had curb lane patios, resulting in nearly 10,000 metres of closed curb lanes.
Staff do concede that there were some delays in setting up the curb lane closures in the early days of the program because it required 7,000 pieces of traffic equipment, like planters, concrete blocks and pylons, which were in short supply as many municipalities set up similar programs.
For 2021, staff say that they are purchasing 1,000 additional planter boxes and will also investigate alternative equipment options to ensure that the patios can be quickly installed once approved.
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"TORONTO -- Staff are recommending that the city bring back its popular CafeTO program, which saw hundreds of patios set up on sidewalks and in curb lanes in response to the COVID-19 pandemic last summer.\nIn a report that will go before Mayor John Tory’s executive committee next week, staff lay out their plan for the return and expansion of the program pending changes to public health restrictions to again permit outdoor dining.\nUnlike last year, when the first patios only opened at the end of June, staff are recommending that the city begin accepting applications in February allowing for the first curb lane patios to be installed as early as May.\nThey also want to tweak the program to allow restaurants and bars to build temporary decks and platforms in curb lanes after initially prohibiting them from doing so in 2020.\nPatio fees should also be waived again in 2021 given the “ongoing financial hardships faced by the restaurant industry,” staff say. That will result in an estimated revenue loss of $775,000.\nThe city will also face a further revenue loss of $2.5 million due to forgone parking revenue.\n“This is proof that there is indeed a silver lining in most clouds,” Mayor John Tory said of the return of the program while speaking with reporters on Wednesday morning. “Jobs were retained (because of the program), businesses were saved - I don’t think it is an exaggeration to say that - and the quality of life in the city was improved for people. You know they enjoyed those patios. I can’t tell you how many people came up to me to say this was a really good thing to happen to our city and that is why it is not just a pandemic measure in my view; I think it something we will be having in one form or another in the city for many years to come.”\nA survey conducted by the city last year revealed that 66 per cent of the 801 restaurants that participated in the program believed that their businesses would not have been financially viable without the extra space for outdoor dining.\nAbout 95 per cent of respondents also indicated a desire for the program to be brought back in 2021.\n“I made a commitment to help the entire restaurants and bar industry on a go forward basis and this report demonstrates that we are following through on that commitment,” Tory said.\nThe staff report says that 620 of the 801 participating restaurants in CafeTO in 2020 had curb lane patios, resulting in nearly 10,000 metres of closed curb lanes.\nStaff do concede that there were some delays in setting up the curb lane closures in the early days of the program because it required 7,000 pieces of traffic equipment, like planters, concrete blocks and pylons, which were in short supply as many municipalities set up similar programs.\nFor 2021, staff say that they are purchasing 1,000 additional planter boxes and will also investigate alternative equipment options to ensure that the patios can be quickly installed once approved.",
"Toronto staff recommend that city bring back CafeTO, first patios could be installed in May if restrictions lifted",
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A 38-year-old man is dead and two others have serious injuries after an incident involving high levels of carbon monoxide at a home in Toronto’s Bridle Path.
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TORONTO -- A 38-year-old man is dead and two others have serious injuries after an incident involving high levels of carbon monoxide at a home in Toronto’s Bridle Path.
Toronto police said they responded to a home near the Bridle Path and Lawrence Avenue East around 8:50 p.m. on Monday.
The occupants of the home, a 38-year-old man, a 69-year-old woman and a 12-year-old child were all found suffering from a medical issue and taken to hospital, police said.
The man later died of his injuries. The woman and child remain in hospital and are both suffering from serious but non-life threatening injuries, police said.
Two officers who helped bring people out of the home also went to hospital to be checked over as a precaution.
Officials have not said where the poisonous gas came from but added the incident is not believed to be suspicious.
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"A 38-year-old man is dead and two others have serious injuries after an incident involving high levels of carbon monoxide at a home in Toronto’s Bridle Path."
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During the pandemic, a lot more people are using the food delivery service DoorDash, but even if you haven’t and you bank with Toronto-Dominion Bank [TD] you may want to check your account.
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TORONTO -- During the pandemic, a lot more people are using the food delivery service DoorDash, but even if you haven’t and you bank with Toronto-Dominion Bank [TD] you may want to check your account.
Toronto resident Cecilia Verkley said she noticed two DoorDash charges on her bank statement. One was for $61.44 and the other was $151.93 even though she has never ordered food using the service.
“I looked at my transaction record and there were two transactions for DoorDash, a company that I have never even done business with,” Verkley said.
Verkley added “not only do I not use DoorDash, I don’t do any online baking at all."
Amy Weirick, who lives in Columbus, Ohio, said she bought her dream home on Pelee Island, just off the southern-most tip of Ontario and needed a Canadian bank account to pay bills in Canada.
Weirick said she noticed a DoorDash charge of $154.82 taken from her bank account.
“Obviously I’m not doing DoorDash in Toronto. I’m in Ohio and with the pandemic, I’m not even allowed to go to Toronto," Weirick said.
She said she has been trying to have the charges reversed for the past two months.
“I feel like they are charged with keeping my money safe and obviously they are not, and they’re still not ready to make good on the loss of my money,” Weirick said.
The fraudulent DoorDash charges appear to be happening only with TD Bank.
A TD Bank spokesperson told CTV News Toronto that “a small percentage of TD debit cardholders experienced fraudulent activity incurring unauthorized charges from a single merchant” over a time period.
“We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused and are actively working with our customers to facilitate reimbursement,” the spokesperson said.
DoorDash said it's working with the bank to reimburse funds taken fraudulently, but at this point it’s not really clear how it happened.
Verkley is still waiting for her funds to be returned. Weirick said once CTV News Toronto contacted the bank, she got her money.
“Immediately after you guys got involved it was right back in my bank account and I had been working on this for two months and got absolutely nowhere,” Weirick said.
It’s a good idea to check your bank and credit card statements carefully to make sure all the charges are yours. If you see something that doesn't belong contact your bank or credit card company right away, although it can take time to get the charges reversed.
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A man is dead, and a woman is in critical condition after a shooting near the city’s Summerhill neighbourhood Friday evening.
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TORONTO -- A man is dead, and a woman is in critical condition after a shooting near the city’s Summerhill neighbourhood Friday evening.
Toronto police said they received several calls for the sound of gunshots on Mathersfield Drive, in the area of Yonge Street and Summerhill Avenue around 8 p.m.
Insp. Kathy Stephenson told reporters at the scene that officers located a man and a woman suffering from gunshot wounds.
The man was pronounced dead on the scene, while the woman was rushed to a trauma centre with life-threatening injuries. Police have not identified the victims.
Stephenson said officers recovered shell casings in a laneway where police believe the shooting occurred.
The homicide unit has taken over the investigation.
Stephenson said there are reports that a light-coloured vehicle was seen fleeing the area, but there is no suspect information at this time.
“There are officers in the area that are canvassing for witnesses and videos,” she said.
“And I would ask for anyone that has information related to this homicide and shooting to please contact the homicide (unit), or you can also contact Crime Stoppers.”
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The Pattison Canadian International has been included on Woodbine's 2021 thoroughbred stakes schedule.
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TORONTO -- The Pattison Canadian International has been included on Woodbine's 2021 thoroughbred stakes schedule.
The turf race was postponed last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic but is scheduled to be run Sept. 18 on a card that will also include the $1-million Woodbine Mile. c's '21 thoroughbred season is slated to open April 17, subject to Ontario government COVID-19 protocols.
This year's stakes program will offer over $16.5 million in purses and include two $1-million races: The Mile and Queen's Plate (Aug. 22). The Grade 1 Natalma and Grade 1 Summer -- whose winners secure automatic Breeders' Cup berths -- will both see their purses increased to $400,000 from $250,000.
The purse for the Grade 1 Highlander Stakes will also go up $50,000 to $35,000. After not being run last year due to the global pandemic, the Highlander Stakes will be featured on the Queen's Plate card.
Woodbine Entertainment also announced the purse for all Grade 3 Stakes races will increase 20 per cent to $150,000.
Woodbine will stage the $400,000 Breeders' Stakes -- the final leg of the OLG Canadian Triple Crown -- on Oct. 3. The second leg, the $400,000 Prince of Wales Stakes, goes Sept. 14 at Fort Erie Racetrack.
The $500,000 Woodbine Oaks -- the opening event of the Triple Tiara -- and $150,000 Plate Trial -- a key prep event for the Queen's Plate -- will both be run July 25 at Woodbine.
"Last year was obviously a challenging year for the industry due to COVID-19," Woodbine CEO Jim Lawson said in a statement. "While Woodbine Entertainment and the horse racing industry continue to be impacted, we are hopeful that the pandemic in Ontario improves in the coming months, allowing businesses and industries to safely re-open, including our ability to start our 2021 meet as planned."
The '21 stakes schedule is pending approval by the Graded Stakes Committee.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan. 29, 2021.
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Mike Lauterpacht shares how Dental Brands was able to shift focus and provide donations to those in need during the pandemic.
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TORONTO -- Mike Lauterpacht shares how Dental Brands was able to shift focus and provide donations to those in need during the pandemic.
More from Dental Brands here.
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Ontario's first field hospital built during the pandemic is taking patients this week as COVID-19 infections strain the health-care system.
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TORONTO -- Ontario's first field hospital built during the pandemic is taking patients this week as COVID-19 infections strain the health-care system.
The Burlington, Ont., facility, built on the grounds of Joseph Brant Hospital, was ready to treat patients as of Monday.
The hospital says it's responding to increased pressure on hospital capacity across the southern Ontario region that includes Hamilton, Niagara, Haldimand County and Burlington.
Rob MacIsaac, CEO of Hamilton Health Sciences, says opening the field hospital is a necessary step as the health-care system is stretched to its limits.
Hospitals in the region are identifying patients whose care has progressed enough to be treated at the field unit, after consulting with their families.
The field hospital was built in April as part of the hospital network's capacity plan.
UPDATE: JBH’s Pandemic Response Unit – the 1st of its kind built in ON – is welcoming its 1st #COVID19 patients this week, in response to a heightened need for COVID-19 care & increasing pressure on regional hospital capacity. READ: https://t.co/7rFxneK3TL #burlon #hamont pic.twitter.com/PKTqcpZqUC — Joseph Brant Hospital (@Jo_Brant) January 4, 2021
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan. 5, 2021.
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An Ontario court has dismissed a defamation lawsuit filed by a former high-ranking provincial police officer against Premier Doug Ford.
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TORONTO -- An Ontario court has dismissed a defamation lawsuit filed by a former high-ranking provincial police officer against Premier Doug Ford.
Former OPP deputy commission Brad Blair launched a $5-million suit in 2019, alleging the premier smeared his reputation for political gain by saying the officer had violated the Police Services Act.
Blair had asked the courts to force the provincial ombudsman to investigate the appointment of Ron Taverner, a long-time friend of the premier, as OPP commissioner, raising concerns about political interference.
Ford's lawyers argued the premier's statements on the matter were fair comment, and called for the legal action to be thrown out under anti-SLAPP legislation.
In a ruling released last month, Ontario Superior Court Justice Edward Belobaba found the suit isn't exactly a SLAPP -- strategic litigation against public participation -- case, which typically refers to powerful entities seeking to silence more vulnerable opponents.
But the judge noted the analysis applies because Ford's comments related to a matter of public interest, and ruled to dismiss the claim.
Blair also filed a $15 million lawsuit alleging wrongful dismissal, and that case is expected to proceed.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan. 28, 2021.
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"TORONTO -- An Ontario court has dismissed a defamation lawsuit filed by a former high-ranking provincial police officer against Premier Doug Ford.\nFormer OPP deputy commission Brad Blair launched a $5-million suit in 2019, alleging the premier smeared his reputation for political gain by saying the officer had violated the Police Services Act.\nBlair had asked the courts to force the provincial ombudsman to investigate the appointment of Ron Taverner, a long-time friend of the premier, as OPP commissioner, raising concerns about political interference.\nFord's lawyers argued the premier's statements on the matter were fair comment, and called for the legal action to be thrown out under anti-SLAPP legislation.\nIn a ruling released last month, Ontario Superior Court Justice Edward Belobaba found the suit isn't exactly a SLAPP -- strategic litigation against public participation -- case, which typically refers to powerful entities seeking to silence more vulnerable opponents.\nBut the judge noted the analysis applies because Ford's comments related to a matter of public interest, and ruled to dismiss the claim.\nBlair also filed a $15 million lawsuit alleging wrongful dismissal, and that case is expected to proceed.\nThis report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan. 28, 2021.",
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Toronto's top public health official says that the city's intensive care units could run out space by the end of January amid a COVID-19 surge that continues to worsen.
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TORONTO -- Toronto’s top public health official says that the city’s intensive care units could run out space by the end of January amid a COVID-19 surge that continues to worsen.
Medical Officer of Health Dr. Eileen de Villa delivered the startling warning during a presentation to the city’s Board of Health on Monday morning.
She said that even if Toronto’s reproductive number went down to one, meaning that each positive case only infects an average of one other person and that the pandemic is no longer growing, the city’s hospitals will likely still reach a point in late January when they run out of beds in their ICUs.
“The issue is that in any scenario we are on track to surpass the standard ICU capacity before the end of January,” de Villa said. “This simply emphasizes yet again how important it is that to the greatest extent possible we together as a community do our very best to maintain distance with others in order to protect our health system to the greatest extent possible.”
According to a Critical Care Services Ontario report obtained by CP24, there were a total of 127 COVID-19 patients in the ICU at Toronto hospitals as of midnight, including 101 on ventialtors.
There were a combined 90 ICU beds still available in Toronto hospitals as of midnight, though about a quarter of that excess capacity was at the Hospital for Sick Children.
The modelling presented by de Villa on Monday suggests that once the number of COVID patients in the ICU hits 200, many hospitals will begin to run out of beds.
This is, of course, already happening at some hard-hit hospitals.
At Humber River Hospital all 46 beds in the ICU are now filled and more than half of them (25) are taken up by COVID-19 patients.
The ICUs at Sunnybrook and Mount Sinai are also approaching their capacity. According to the Critical Care Services Ontario data, 29 of the 31 ICU beds at Mount Sinai were filled as of midnight and 92 of the 95 beds in Sunnybrook’s ICU were also taken up by patients.
Meanwhile, cases in Toronto continue to accelerate albeit at a slower rate than was seen in the first weeks immediately following the holidays.
De Villa said during Monday’s meeting that the city’s reproductive number now stands at 1.05. That is actually lower than the reproductive number for Ontario as a whole, which stood at 1.08 last week. It also represents a decline from earlier in January when the reproductive number reached 1.2, but de Villa said that it still suggests that things are deterioirating.
“If you will recall when this number is above one it means that the outbreak will continue to grow. Keep in mind as well that given that we have such high case counts that continued growth means you will continue to see these large numbers (of cases),” she said. “Unless we are able to increase distance and get that number down we will continue to see numbers that frankly we do not want to seen. It will take time to bring these numbers down.”
Mobility data sparks some optimism
While de Villa said that COVID-19 activity in Toronto remains “very, very high” and will likely imperil the city’s health-care system, she did say that there are early signs that people are staying at home more and suggested that the trend could eventually lead to lower case counts.
She said that anonymous cell phone data tracked by the city suggested that there was a spike in the prevalence of people’s devices being at home from Jan. 1-9 and that it exceeded the increase that is typically seen in the days following the holidays.
She said that while the data suggests that people are still not at home as much as they were during the first wave of the pandemic in the spring, it should be viewed as a “positivie sign” that the province-wide lockdown that went into effect on Boxing Day is having an impact.
Toronto’s seven-day average of new cases is also down to 852 after going as high as 996 in the days immediately following the holidays.
“We can see that some of the measures are starting to have an impact at reducing the mobility in Toronto, which is a good thing. This is exactly the kind of impact we were looking for,” de Villa said. “We know that COVID-19 spreads from person to person when they are in close contact with others so certainly seeing this increase in device time at home gives rise to some optimism that the measures are starting to have some impact at least in terms of mobility and hopefully will manifest themselves in reduced viral spread and activity.”
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It's starting to look very different at the southwest corner of Bloor and Bathurst streets.
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TORONTO -- It’s starting to look very different at the southwest corner of Bloor and Bathurst streets.
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, most of the city has slowed down or come to a halt, but some major construction developments, including the Mirvish Village project, are booming.
On Monday, construction and building services company EllisDon posted four updated photographs of the progress being made at the downtown Toronto site.
Our Mirvish Village site team is making exceptional progress thanks to our Virtual Design and Construction team as they provide assistance in all forms of #digitalconstruction to build projects of better quality with more efficiency and less uncertainty. #Toronto #technology pic.twitter.com/xP65aFLCv9 — EllisDon (@EllisDon) January 6, 2021
The digging is well underway, multiple construction cranes are up and residential units are beginning to stack on top of one another.
It appears as though a community is building.
The massive site, which housed iconic bargain store Honest Ed’s for more than six decades, is on track to becoming a mixed-use development.
The project, according to EllisDon, consists of six buildings ranging between eight and 28 floors. The buildings will have 916 residential units, including 336 affordable units.
Last year, the federal government committed $200 million to the site for affordable rental units to be built. The 336 affordable units will cost no more than one-third the median Toronto income and 100 of those 336 units will be secured at 80 per cent of the average market rate in Toronto.
The Mirvish Village BIA said the 100 per cent rental project will host 279 studio units, 230 one-bedroom units, 284 two-bedroom units, 87 three-bedroom units and 36 live/work units.
In addition to the residential units, the project plans to have commercial retail units, a public market, a daycare centre, an outdoor performance venue, a cycling program, a public park, and 586 residential parking spaces.
As part of the project, 24 heritage buildings are being fully restored to shell space for food and beverage outfitting. As well, two heritage facades are being restored and incorporated into the new construction.
Mirvish Village is expected to be complete in 2022 and the budget for the 1,336,957 sq. ft. project is $350 million.
Real estate developer Westbank Corp. bought the Honest Ed’s land from the Mirvish family in 2013. The discount store closed in 2017.
Honest Ed’s was founded by Ed Mirvish in 1948.
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Looking back on January 23, 2020, emergency department nurse Natacha Hainzelin said she and her team at Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto were all very aware that the virus now known as COVID-19 could arrive at any time.
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TORONTO -- Looking back on January 23, 2020, emergency department nurse Natacha Hainzelin said she and her team at Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto were all very aware that the virus now known as COVID-19 could arrive at any time.
Little did Hainzelin know that she and colleague Shauna Tavernier would soon become part of history as the emergency department nurses to care for the first COVID-19 patient in Canada.
“We got a heads up from paramedics that a patient with symptoms and recent travel to Wuhan was en route, so we prepared the negative pressure room,” said Hainzelin.
The 56-year-old patient arrived at Sunnybrook with what appeared to be a mild case of pneumonia.
Dr. Jerome Leis, the hospital's medical director of infection prevention and control, was there and recalls the unusual nature of the man’s X-rays.
"We'd never seen a case like this before," said Leis. "I'd never seen an X-ray quite like that one."
The patient was admitted and despite what was known about COVID-19 at the time, Hainzelin said that the potential risk of exposure wasn’t top of mind.
“I felt protected in my personal protective equipment (PPE) and our first priority was making sure the patient was stable.”
From there, the pair of experienced nurses worked in tandem. Tavernier conducted the nasopharyngeal swab while Hainzelin processed the patient’s blood work.
Two days later, Public Health Ontario would confirm that the patient was in fact the first case of “Wuhan Novel Coronavirus” recorded in the province.
“When we got confirmation of his diagnosis, it was quite something to grasp that we cared for the first COVID-19 patient in Canada,” Hainzelin said.
On the anniversary of that day, both Hainzelin and Tavernier agree that they are even more prepared to care for COVID-19 infected patients now than when they treated who is now known as “Patient Zero.”
READ MORE: One year of COVID-19 in Ontario: Where are we now?
“We’re certainly ready to take on the second wave, but without any reservations, because we are very cautious and we are always reflecting on what we could to better to protect the public and also out families,” Hainzelin told CP24 on Monday.
“We always have to anticipate the worst, but we also have to make sure that we continue to protect other.”
And while the province continues its fight against the spread of COVID-19, Tavernier says she will never forget being at the epicentre of such a historic event.
“I think it’s permanently embedded in my brain,” she said.
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If you feel you must fly outside of Canada during the pandemic, you can buy COVID-19 insurance coverage to help protect you in case you get the virus.
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TORONTO -- If you feel you must fly outside of Canada during the pandemic, you can buy COVID-19 insurance coverage to help protect you in case you get the virus.
However, even the insurance industry says your best bet is just to stay home.
“The direction from the Canadian government is now clear. This is not the time to be traveling," said Will McAleer with the Travel Health Insurance Association of Canada.
Anyone flying into Canada must now have proof of a recent negative test result for COVID-19. Passengers require documentation on entry showing their results and proving that the test was conducted within the past 72 hours.
Even with a negative test result travelers must still quarantine for 14 days upon their return.
If you test positive for the virus before you get on a plane in another country you could be stranded there until you get a negative test result.
You also may have to pay for the tests, which for a family travelling together can add up fast.
“We have seen tests depending on where you are traveling that can be in the hundreds of dollars per person. So if you are traveling with a family of five outside the country the costs can be real," said McAleer.
Insurancehotline.com is a website where you can search for travel insurance coverage. Anne Marie Thomas with the company says even though insurance coverage for the virus exists that doesn’t mean you should take a trip.
“If it's not essential don't go," said Thomas.
About 6,000 cases of COVID-19 across the country are linked to international travel.
COVID insurance polices differ and may have coverage for between $100,000 to $1,000,000 for COVID-related expenses.
If you test positive for COVID-19 before boarding a plane back to Canada you'll have to quarantine for a period of 14 days in the country where you are. That could mean hotel, food and transportations expenses.
If you become hospitalized and end up on a ventilator the costs could add up fast.
“If you have COVID-19 and you have to be on ventilator, $100,000 is just not enough” said Thomas.
Since there is a travel advisory in affect, if you don't have the proper insurance you could be denied coverage for health benefits and other expenses related to the virus because COVID-19 is a known exposure.
Canadians are now being vaccinated against the virus, but according to Transport Canada’s website, proof of having a vaccine will not replace a negative test result and you'll still need that negative result to enter the country.
The best advice if you don't have to travel - stay home.
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The Ontario government says that international travellers will have to undergo mandatory COVID-19 testing at the province's largest airport as of Monday, weeks before the federal government is expected to implement its own policy Canada-wide.
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TORONTO -- The Ontario government says that international travellers will have to undergo mandatory COVID-19 testing at the province's largest airport as of Monday, weeks before the federal government is expected to implement its own policy Canada-wide.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford made the announcement Friday afternoon at Queen’s Park alongside Health Minister Christine Elliott and Solicitor General Sylvia Jones.
“We can’t take anything for granted, not when new highly contagious strains of the virus have entered our country,” Ford said.
The new testing rules will go into effect at Toronto Pearson International Airport on Monday. Those who refuse will receive a $750 fine under the Health Protection and Promotion Act, the province said.
“I don't anticipate the vast majority of travellers will refuse that test.” Jones said. “I am hopeful that when they are guests in our country in Ontario, that they understand we are only doing this to keep our citizens safe, and that they would voluntarily comply and take that test at the airport.”
The Ontario government has been calling on the federal government to implement the measure, namely at Pearson International Airport, in recent weeks as more cases of variants are reported by the province.
Friday's mandatory testing measures came hours after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that all Canadian travellers returning from overseas will have to take a COVID-19 PCR test at the airport, and quarantine in a designated hotel for three days at their own expense while they await results.
Those with negative test results will be able to then isolate at home for the remainder of the 14 days, while those with positive tests will be immediately required to quarantine in designated government facilities.
However, the federal government indicated that it could take a few weeks before the policy goes into effect.
“I welcome the new measures announced by the federal government today,” Ford said. “We've been calling for stronger measures at the border for months.”
"However, it looks like these new measures won't be fully in place until a few weeks from now. That's a few weeks too long. That's why today, our government is taking swift and decisive action. We're releasing a six-point plan to stop the spread of COVID-19 variants.”
In addition to mandatory COVID-19 tests, the province also wants to explore “additional testing measures” at land border crossings in the coming weeks.
Officials said that provincial diagnostic labs are ramping up capacity to screen positive tests for a variant within two to three days, with the goal of undergoing full genomic sequencing on 10 per cent of samples by mid-February.
On Friday, Ford said that five cases of the U.K. variant were discovered using the province’s voluntary COVID-19 testing program.
“These are five cases that could have otherwise gone unnoticed, five cases that could have infected others,” he said.
In new COVID-19 modelling released Thursday, Ontario health officials suggested that the highly contagious U.K. variant will likely be the dominant strain in the province by March.
"The new variants give us less room to relax and less room for error,” Dr. Adalsteinn Brown, co-chair of the province's COVID-19 science table, said at the time.
The advisory table went on to say that current evidence shows that the U.K. variant, also known as VOC B.1.1.7, may be associated with an “increased risk of death” compared to infection with non-VOC viruses.
And while Brown said that the COVID-19 vaccines will likely still be effective against the U.K. strain of the disease he added, “it’s important to note that these are not the only variants that will emerge as the disease continues to spread."
At least 51 cases of the variant have been recorded in Ontario so far.
This is a developing news story. More to come.
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"TORONTO -- The Ontario government says that international travellers will have to undergo mandatory COVID-19 testing at the province's largest airport as of Monday, weeks before the federal government is expected to implement its own policy Canada-wide.\nOntario Premier Doug Ford made the announcement Friday afternoon at Queen’s Park alongside Health Minister Christine Elliott and Solicitor General Sylvia Jones.\n“We can’t take anything for granted, not when new highly contagious strains of the virus have entered our country,” Ford said.\nThe new testing rules will go into effect at Toronto Pearson International Airport on Monday. Those who refuse will receive a $750 fine under the Health Protection and Promotion Act, the province said.\n“I don't anticipate the vast majority of travellers will refuse that test.” Jones said. “I am hopeful that when they are guests in our country in Ontario, that they understand we are only doing this to keep our citizens safe, and that they would voluntarily comply and take that test at the airport.”\nThe Ontario government has been calling on the federal government to implement the measure, namely at Pearson International Airport, in recent weeks as more cases of variants are reported by the province.\nFriday's mandatory testing measures came hours after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that all Canadian travellers returning from overseas will have to take a COVID-19 PCR test at the airport, and quarantine in a designated hotel for three days at their own expense while they await results.\nThose with negative test results will be able to then isolate at home for the remainder of the 14 days, while those with positive tests will be immediately required to quarantine in designated government facilities.\nHowever, the federal government indicated that it could take a few weeks before the policy goes into effect.\n“I welcome the new measures announced by the federal government today,” Ford said. “We've been calling for stronger measures at the border for months.”\n\"However, it looks like these new measures won't be fully in place until a few weeks from now. That's a few weeks too long. That's why today, our government is taking swift and decisive action. We're releasing a six-point plan to stop the spread of COVID-19 variants.”\nIn addition to mandatory COVID-19 tests, the province also wants to explore “additional testing measures” at land border crossings in the coming weeks.\nOfficials said that provincial diagnostic labs are ramping up capacity to screen positive tests for a variant within two to three days, with the goal of undergoing full genomic sequencing on 10 per cent of samples by mid-February.\nOn Friday, Ford said that five cases of the U.K. variant were discovered using the province’s voluntary COVID-19 testing program.\n“These are five cases that could have otherwise gone unnoticed, five cases that could have infected others,” he said.\nIn new COVID-19 modelling released Thursday, Ontario health officials suggested that the highly contagious U.K. variant will likely be the dominant strain in the province by March.\n\"The new variants give us less room to relax and less room for error,” Dr. Adalsteinn Brown, co-chair of the province's COVID-19 science table, said at the time.\nThe advisory table went on to say that current evidence shows that the U.K. variant, also known as VOC B.1.1.7, may be associated with an “increased risk of death” compared to infection with non-VOC viruses.\nAnd while Brown said that the COVID-19 vaccines will likely still be effective against the U.K. strain of the disease he added, “it’s important to note that these are not the only variants that will emerge as the disease continues to spread.\"\nAt least 51 cases of the variant have been recorded in Ontario so far.\nThis is a developing news story. More to come.",
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The last 10 months haven’t been easy for 10 year-old Anushka Sabeshan.
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TORONTO -- The last 10 months haven’t been easy for 10 year-old Anushka Sabeshan.
“It’s been pretty hard. I get anxious about these things,” she told CTV News Toronto. “My classmate tested positive, my dad tested positive, so it’s just been like a whole rollercoaster for me. And I feel like a lot of kids around the world are feeling that way right now.”
The Markham, Ont. girl has been channeling her feelings and emotions through different artistic platforms, like painting.
“This art like shows like how I want it to be, or how it is now, or how it’s changed and they just really express my feelings,” Sabeshan explained. “I’ve also been creating music.”
It’s Sabeshan’s music that caught the attention of her teacher and classmates. As part of a school project, the students were tasked with creating a song about COVID-19. Sabeshan’s song, ‘Mayhem,’ was so well received that her family allowed it to go public. A production team also helped her put together a music video.
“My song is about a child through the pandemic, and it shows how this can affect kids, too,” Sabeshan said. “Not being able to see my friends and not being able to go out to restaurants and all that stuff, it sucks.”
Sabeshan’s younger brother Devin helped with the video The six-year-old says he shares many of his sister’s emotions.
“I felt really bad about COVID,” he told CTV News Toronto. “I wish it would go away.”
The siblings hope ‘Mayhem’ brings a feeling of calm to other young people during this difficult time.
“I think my music people will help other people just to reassure them that they’re not alone. Like, other people are feeling these feelings, too,” Sabeshan said. “It also is to create awareness for everybody to stay safe so we can get through this faster.”
“[Anushka] sings them a song to make them happy,” Devin says. “That’s what she does for other kids.”
‘Mayhem’ was put together with the help of Enliven Entertainment and Steve Cliff Valentine, who produced the music, along with Jeysan Sivakumar, who directed the video.
Sabeshan’s advice for other kids experiencing complex feelings during this time is to find something to do that makes them happy, or that they feel passionate about.
“I will definitely keep making paintings and making music,” she told CTV News Toronto. “And I encourage all people around the world to find things like what they like and just do them, just to take your mind off the pandemic.”
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Police are searching for a suspect after a possible impaired driver mounted a curb and fatally struck a dog in Niagara Falls on Wednesday.
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TORONTO -- Police are searching for a suspect after a possible impaired driver mounted a curb and fatally struck a dog in Niagara Falls on Wednesday.
Emergency crews were called to the area of Eastwood Crescent and Victoria Avenue around 1:05 p.m. after receiving a report of a possible impaired driver.
When officers arrived at the scene, they were met by a man who told them a white car was driving in a dangerous manner and mounted the curb.
The man was walking his dog at the time and the animal was fatally struck by the vehicle.
Police say the car continued without stopping, crossed a front lawn and narrowly missed a female that had just exited a park car.
Investigators have released surveillance camera images of the vehicle moments before the dog was struck and afterward. They say the vehicle was a white, four-door hatchback and there could be damage on the front driver’s side bumper.
Police say the driver may be male, but no further description is available at this time.
Anyone with information is being asked to contact police or reach out to Crime Stoppers anonymously.
Investigators have said the incident is not related to a SIU investigation in Niagara-on-the-Lake involving a reported impaired driver.
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"TORONTO -- Police are searching for a suspect after a possible impaired driver mounted a curb and fatally struck a dog in Niagara Falls on Wednesday.\nEmergency crews were called to the area of Eastwood Crescent and Victoria Avenue around 1:05 p.m. after receiving a report of a possible impaired driver.\nWhen officers arrived at the scene, they were met by a man who told them a white car was driving in a dangerous manner and mounted the curb.\nThe man was walking his dog at the time and the animal was fatally struck by the vehicle.\nPolice say the car continued without stopping, crossed a front lawn and narrowly missed a female that had just exited a park car.\nInvestigators have released surveillance camera images of the vehicle moments before the dog was struck and afterward. They say the vehicle was a white, four-door hatchback and there could be damage on the front driver’s side bumper.\nPolice say the driver may be male, but no further description is available at this time.\nAnyone with information is being asked to contact police or reach out to Crime Stoppers anonymously.\nInvestigators have said the incident is not related to a SIU investigation in Niagara-on-the-Lake involving a reported impaired driver.",
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An Ontario nurse who worked at a long-term care home in Mississauga has died after contracting COVID-19.
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TORONTO -- An Ontario nurse who worked at a long-term care home in Mississauga has died after contracting COVID-19.
SEIU Healthcare, a union representing more than 60,000 front-line health-care workers in the province, confirmed the death of 57-year-old Maureen Ambersley on Wednesday.
Ambersley spent the last 16 years as a Registered Practical Nurse (RPN), the union said, and was recently employed at Extendicare Mississauga.
“Maureen represented everything good about what it means to serve your community,” SEIU President Sharleen Stewart said in a statement. “For her last birthday she encouraged friends to make donations to SickKids Hospital Foundation. Maureen dedicated her working life to caring for our most vulnerable as a nurse in long-term care.”
The union said that Ambersley is leaving behind parents and two children.
Stewart also confirmed that Ambersley is the fourth member of their union to die during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Christine Mandegarian, a personal support worker of 31 years, died in April 24 hours after testing positive for the disease. Arlene Reid, 51, also died in April. She was a personal support worker in Peel Region.
North York RPN Sharon Roberts, 59, tested positive for the disease on April 27 and died five days later.
Stewart said the health-care workers “were all women of colour serving on the frontline who died because they showed up to work in service of their community.”
“It must be said that the death of health-care workers is preventable and the result of ongoing policy failures,” she said.
“As Ontario families bury more workers and residents in long-term care, we reiterate our demand of the provincial government for a new action plan to get us through this out-of-control crisis.”
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"TORONTO -- An Ontario nurse who worked at a long-term care home in Mississauga has died after contracting COVID-19.\nSEIU Healthcare, a union representing more than 60,000 front-line health-care workers in the province, confirmed the death of 57-year-old Maureen Ambersley on Wednesday.\nAmbersley spent the last 16 years as a Registered Practical Nurse (RPN), the union said, and was recently employed at Extendicare Mississauga.\n“Maureen represented everything good about what it means to serve your community,” SEIU President Sharleen Stewart said in a statement. “For her last birthday she encouraged friends to make donations to SickKids Hospital Foundation. Maureen dedicated her working life to caring for our most vulnerable as a nurse in long-term care.”\nThe union said that Ambersley is leaving behind parents and two children.\nStewart also confirmed that Ambersley is the fourth member of their union to die during the COVID-19 pandemic.\nChristine Mandegarian, a personal support worker of 31 years, died in April 24 hours after testing positive for the disease. Arlene Reid, 51, also died in April. She was a personal support worker in Peel Region.\nNorth York RPN Sharon Roberts, 59, tested positive for the disease on April 27 and died five days later.\nStewart said the health-care workers “were all women of colour serving on the frontline who died because they showed up to work in service of their community.”\n“It must be said that the death of health-care workers is preventable and the result of ongoing policy failures,” she said.\n“As Ontario families bury more workers and residents in long-term care, we reiterate our demand of the provincial government for a new action plan to get us through this out-of-control crisis.”",
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Premier Doug Ford says that help is on the way for small businesses across Ontario a day after the president of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) claimed the province’s newly-announced stay-at-home order unfairly benefits big box retailers.
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TORONTO -- Premier Doug Ford says that help is on the way for small businesses across Ontario a day after the president of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) claimed the province’s newly-announced stay-at-home order unfairly benefits big box retailers.
“I'm doing everything I can to make sure that we get back to normal, get them back on their feet,” Ford said at a news conference Wednesday while confirming that a portal for the government’s long-awaited Small Business Support Grant – which was first announced in December of last year – will be launched on Friday.
“So if you're a small business, please apply, it starts at $10,000 (and) goes as high as $20,000.”
News of the portal’s opening comes after Dan Kelly, president and CEO of the CFIB, penned a news release Tuesday accusing the Ford government of “doubling down on unfair and ineffective restrictions” for small businesses.
“No other province has locked down small retailers while handing huge competitive advantages to big box stores,” Kelly writes.
At issue are the rules for small retailers versus big box stores.
According to the government’s stay-at-home order, effective Thursday, small and medium-sized retailers can only operate between the hours of 7 a.m. and 8 p.m. and cannot provide curbside pickup before or after that time on their own property.
Big box stores like Walmart, Costco and Amazon, on the other hand, can continue to operate with their hours unaffected.
“It was super disappointing. I didn't think that the province could actually make the rules worse, more confusing, more ineffective, more insane. But that's exactly what they did,” Kelly said of the restrictions, while speaking to CP24 Wednesday morning.
READ MORE: Ontario addresses confusion about new stay-at-home rules. These are the answers to your top questions
“They now are taking away the small business's ability to sell something outdoors, on their steps at 8:15pm. They're taking away their ability to deliver a good to a consumer at 8:30pm. But it's totally fine for people to line up at Costco and Walmart, to go and buy TVs and T shirts and kids toys. I don't get it.”
"The premier seems intent on killing small and medium-sized businesses, wherever possible," Kelly added.
The new public health restrictions were announced by the government Tuesday amid record-breaking COVID-19 case numbers in the province. Ford said that while his “heart breaks” for affected small businesses, “health trumps that right now.”
“I've said it 1,000 times I'll say it 1,001: support your small businesses, forget about the big box stores. Very simple. Go support your small business,” Ford said.
CFIB data released last month shows that over a third of Ontario businesses will not survive a second lockdown.
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"TORONTO -- Premier Doug Ford says that help is on the way for small businesses across Ontario a day after the president of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) claimed the province’s newly-announced stay-at-home order unfairly benefits big box retailers.\n“I'm doing everything I can to make sure that we get back to normal, get them back on their feet,” Ford said at a news conference Wednesday while confirming that a portal for the government’s long-awaited Small Business Support Grant – which was first announced in December of last year – will be launched on Friday.\n“So if you're a small business, please apply, it starts at $10,000 (and) goes as high as $20,000.”\nNews of the portal’s opening comes after Dan Kelly, president and CEO of the CFIB, penned a news release Tuesday accusing the Ford government of “doubling down on unfair and ineffective restrictions” for small businesses.\n“No other province has locked down small retailers while handing huge competitive advantages to big box stores,” Kelly writes.\nAt issue are the rules for small retailers versus big box stores.\nAccording to the government’s stay-at-home order, effective Thursday, small and medium-sized retailers can only operate between the hours of 7 a.m. and 8 p.m. and cannot provide curbside pickup before or after that time on their own property.\nBig box stores like Walmart, Costco and Amazon, on the other hand, can continue to operate with their hours unaffected.\n“It was super disappointing. I didn't think that the province could actually make the rules worse, more confusing, more ineffective, more insane. But that's exactly what they did,” Kelly said of the restrictions, while speaking to CP24 Wednesday morning.\nREAD MORE: Ontario addresses confusion about new stay-at-home rules. These are the answers to your top questions\n“They now are taking away the small business's ability to sell something outdoors, on their steps at 8:15pm. They're taking away their ability to deliver a good to a consumer at 8:30pm. But it's totally fine for people to line up at Costco and Walmart, to go and buy TVs and T shirts and kids toys. I don't get it.”\n\"The premier seems intent on killing small and medium-sized businesses, wherever possible,\" Kelly added.\nThe new public health restrictions were announced by the government Tuesday amid record-breaking COVID-19 case numbers in the province. Ford said that while his “heart breaks” for affected small businesses, “health trumps that right now.”\n“I've said it 1,000 times I'll say it 1,001: support your small businesses, forget about the big box stores. Very simple. Go support your small business,” Ford said.\nCFIB data released last month shows that over a third of Ontario businesses will not survive a second lockdown.",
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Every few weeks, Daniel Muljarahardja and his wife Saraswati bring their baby Marcellinus to Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children for a painful spinal injection of a drug called Spinraza. But Spinraza can only slowdown, not halt, the physical deterioration caused by Spinal Muscular Atrophy.
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TORONTO -- Every few weeks, Daniel Muljarahardja and his wife Saraswati bring their baby Marcellinus to Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children for a painful spinal injection of a drug called Spinraza.
“This is the fourth one that he’s been receiving from SickKids Hospital,” the Brantford father of two said.
But Spinraza can only slow down, not halt, the physical deterioration caused by Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA), a genetic disease which will eventually cause Marcellinus’s mobility, feeding and even breathing to decline. Many babies with SMA die before the age of three.
The family has started a GoFundMe campaign called Cure for Marcel to raise almost $3 million for a drug called Zolgensma. The one-time injection can replace the missing gene that causes SMA and allow the body to produce a necessary protein for proper muscular development.
But it’s not only expensive, it must be given early — before a child hits the 21-kilogram mark in Canada. In the USA, eligibility is only until the child’s second birthday.
Zolgensma was given Health Canada approval in December but there are still several stages of negotiations before it can be funded provincially. And the Muljarahardjas know they have a tough road ahead in their own fundraising, which stands at about $45,000, as of Thursday evening.
Daniel was laid off from his job and has only found temporary work, although he’s grateful his employer is trying to give him more hours.
COVID-19 has halted the usual social events that used to boost charity fundraising efforts and their Indonesian community in Ontario, while supportive, is very small.
That’s why they’re looking to the Ministry of Health and drug manufacturer Novartis for help on compassionate grounds.
Tonight, Health Minister Christine Elliott sent CTV News Toronto a statement saying “We know SMA can be devastating for Ontario families. We welcome the news that Zolgensma has been approved by Health Canada.”
She said that the Canadian Pharmaceutical Alliance has been working with Novartis, adding the Canadian Pharmaceutical Alliance “has also requested that Novartis provide additional compassionate coverage for those patients unable to access the drug until these processes are complete.”
Meanwhile, the Muljarahardjas are grateful Marcel, as they call him, is nearing three months of age with no symptoms showing. And they hope Spinraza can keep him healthy until Zolgensma becomes available to them, through whatever avenue they can find.
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"Every few weeks, Daniel Muljarahardja and his wife Saraswati bring their baby Marcellinus to Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children for a painful spinal injection of a drug called Spinraza. But Spinraza can only slowdown, not halt, the physical deterioration caused by Spinal Muscular Atrophy."
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As case numbers and deaths related to COVID-19 in Ontario climb to new heights, the province’s top doctor said that implementing a curfew to prevent transmission of the disease is on the table.
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TORONTO -- As case numbers and deaths related to COVID-19 in Ontario climb to new heights, the province’s top doctor said that implementing a curfew to prevent transmission of the disease is on the table.
“That’s one of the things we will consider,” Dr. David Williams, Ontario’s Chief Medical Officer of Health, said Thursday.
His comments come a day after Quebec announced it would introduce similar action starting this Saturday that would force residents to stay home from 8 p.m. until 5 a.m. or risk a fine of up to $6,000.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford said Wednesday that he would be speaking with Premier Francois Legault about the enhanced measures and that a decision on the matter would be made “over the next few days.”
As has been the case throughout the pandemic, Ford said he would lean on Williams for guidance on any further restrictions. The province has generally been announcing any changes to public health measures on Fridays.
“I'll talk to the chief medical officer regarding any further restrictions,” Ford said. “But twofold, we have to continue practicing social distancing and washing our hands and making sure when possible stay at home.”
Before Wednesday, Ford had largely dismissed the idea of imposing such a stringent measure. Moreover, Williams said that curfews are not only difficult to implement, but even harder to enforce.
“How are you going to enforce a curfew? How are you going to make sure people are adhering to the curfew?” he asked.
For Quebec’s part, the province said residents will be required to provide proof of what they're doing if they are found outside of the house after curfew. A note from an employer, a receipt from a drug store, or a hospital card are just some examples of what the government will accept as evidence of an essential trip.
Quebec’s Deputy Premier and Public Security Minister Geneviève Guilbault told reporters Thursday that the province is putting its trust in the judgement of police officers to enforce its new measures.
Speaking to CTV News Toronto last month, Infectious Diseases Specialist Dr. Isaac Bogoch, who also sits on the board of Ontario’s COVID-19 vaccine task force, said that curfews can be effective, but only when other public health restrictions are followed.
“I honestly don’t think it’s fair to look at curfews, in and of themselves, because it’s never the sole component to a plan,” he said at the time.
“Curfews would be at the end of the spectrum where the wheels have fallen off and you’re basically grasping at straws for anything to keep the virus under control because your healthcare system is getting stretched beyond capacity,” he said.
On Thursday, Ontario reported a record 3,519 new cases of COVID-19 and 86 deaths related to the disease.
Quebec, on the other hand, reported 2,519 new cases and 74 deaths.
With files from CTV News Montreal's Luca Caruso-Moro, Adam Kovac and Selena Ross.
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More than 100 employees of a Canada Post facility in Mississauga have tested positive for COVID-19 since the beginning of the year.
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TORONTO -- More than 100 employees of a Canada Post facility in Mississauga have tested positive for COVID-19 since the beginning of the year.
The Crown corporation confirmed Wednesday that there had been 121 cases at its Dixie Road location.
“Public Health has confirmed that Canada Post is able to maintain its operations. Any employees who do test positive will leave the workplace and self-isolate,” Canada Post said in a statement.
The Crown corporation noted that Peel Public Health had also directed them to test a group of employees who worked the same shift at its Gateway East facility for the novel coronavirus. Testing began on Tuesday.
“Peel Public Health investigates every COVID-19 positive case. If there is a potential workplace exposure, we work with the case to identify contacts and with the employer to ensure that they are doing what they can to prevent any future workplace exposure,” Dr. Lawrence Loh, the region’s medical officer of health, said in a statement.
Loh added that details of an investigation will only be disclosed if there is a risk to a broader public.
There are more than 30 active workplace outbreaks in Peel as Ontario reported 473 new cases in the region on Wednesday.
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Brian Bringolf of Starlight Children’s Foundation Canada explains how they continue to support seriously ill children and their families during the pandemic.
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TORONTO -- Brian Bringolf of Starlight Children’s Foundation Canada explains how they continue to support seriously ill children and their families during the pandemic.
More from Starlight Canada here.
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Toronto’s proposed budget for 2021 relies on nearly $900 million in assumed funding from other levels of government as the city’s finances continue to be ravaged by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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TORONTO -- Toronto’s proposed budget for 2021 relies on nearly $900 million in assumed funding from other levels of government as the city’s finances continue to be ravaged by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Staff say that they embarked upon this year’s budget process facing a staggering $2.2 billion shortfall but were able to reduce that number after finding $573 million in efficiencies, including tens of millions of dollars from freezing the salaries of non-unionized employees.
They say that the remaining $1.6 billion in financial pressures related to the pandemic can be offset through $740 million in Safe Restart funding that has already been secured and another $856 million in assumed funding that the city hopes to receive from other levels of government in 2021.
The city is also assuming that the federal government will come to the table with $61 million in funding to help cover the cost of providing shelter for refugees and that the province will provide it with an additional $16 million in funding for supportive housing.
In total, the shortfall equates to nearly seven per cent of the $13.95 billion operating budget released publicly for the first time on Thursday morning.
Staff say that if the federal and provincial governments don’t come to the table to help fill the hole, the “backstop” would be a combination of cancelling or deferring capital projects and borrowing from reserve funds.
The city is required by law to balance its budget and cannot borrow money to finance its operating budget.
“Very clearly our strategy is to balance the budget by asking for further financial assistance,” City Manager Chris Murray said during a budget committee meeting. “The alternative to this is to look very directly at our reserves and our capital program and take that kind of money from those areas. That also doesn’t rule out the possibility of higher taxation and other measures that might be needed if we are not able to get the provincial and federal governments to support us.”
The city faced $1.8 billion in operating pressures in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic but was able to fully cover that loss through $534 million in savings that it found on its own and funding from a $19 billion federal fund to help provinces and municipalities restart their economies.
Staff say that in 2021 the TTC alone will face an additional $796 million in financial pressures due to the pandemic. The city will also have to fork out an addition $281 million in order to help maintain phsyical distancing in its shelter system.
“I don't have to stress with what has happened over the last year that this will be probably our toughest budget season we have seen or many of us have seen in recent memory,” Budget Chief Gary Crawford warned at the outset of Thursday’s meeting. “A lot of work has been done to make sure we are holding the line on tax increases while at the same time preserving services that our residents rely on.”
Inflation-based tax hike
The proposed budget for 2021 includes $56 million in new investments, including money to pay for the continuation of the city’s ActiveTO and CafeTO programs and expand the eligibility for the TTC fare pass program.
The budget also includes an inflation-based 0.7 per cent residential tax increase, which would be the smallest tax hike passed during Mayor John Tory’s tenure.
It should, however, be noted that the increase goes up to 2.2 per cent when you tack on a 1.5 per cent hike to the city building levy that was approved back in 2019.
Staff say that as a result the owner of an average priced home valued at $698,000 will pay an additional $69 in 2021. The average property tax bill would total $3,201.
Staff say that the property tax hike will raise an additional $23 million and another $41 million will be added to the city’s coffers through property tax assessment growth.
Meanwhile, the budget warns of financial challenges that are likely to continue into 2022 due to COVID-19, even with the expected widespread vaccination of Torontonians.
Staff say that they are expecting an opening shortfall of between $1.1 and $1.8 billion in the city’s 2022 budget, including a minimum $387 million operating pressure faced by the TTC that could go as high as $796 million.
“We are experiencing a challenge right now which will not just end abruptly,” Murray said during Thursday’s presentation. “It will continue to present challenges for us. But I you are going to bet on a city in this country and in the world I would be betting on Toronto.”
The city has relied on assumed funding from others level of government to balance its budget before, most recently in 2020 when it passed its budget despite an outstanding request to the federal government for $77 million to help cover the cost of resettling refugees.
In that case, the money was eventually received.
Public consultations on the budget will take place on January 25 and 26. It will then go to city council as a whole for final approval on Feb. 18.
CTV News Toronto will provide live coverage below:
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That also doesn’t rule out the possibility of higher taxation and other measures that might be needed if we are not able to get the provincial and federal governments to support us.”\nThe city faced $1.8 billion in operating pressures in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic but was able to fully cover that loss through $534 million in savings that it found on its own and funding from a $19 billion federal fund to help provinces and municipalities restart their economies.\nStaff say that in 2021 the TTC alone will face an additional $796 million in financial pressures due to the pandemic. The city will also have to fork out an addition $281 million in order to help maintain phsyical distancing in its shelter system.\n“I don't have to stress with what has happened over the last year that this will be probably our toughest budget season we have seen or many of us have seen in recent memory,” Budget Chief Gary Crawford warned at the outset of Thursday’s meeting. “A lot of work has been done to make sure we are holding the line on tax increases while at the same time preserving services that our residents rely on.”\nInflation-based tax hike\nThe proposed budget for 2021 includes $56 million in new investments, including money to pay for the continuation of the city’s ActiveTO and CafeTO programs and expand the eligibility for the TTC fare pass program.\nThe budget also includes an inflation-based 0.7 per cent residential tax increase, which would be the smallest tax hike passed during Mayor John Tory’s tenure.\nIt should, however, be noted that the increase goes up to 2.2 per cent when you tack on a 1.5 per cent hike to the city building levy that was approved back in 2019.\nStaff say that as a result the owner of an average priced home valued at $698,000 will pay an additional $69 in 2021. The average property tax bill would total $3,201.\nStaff say that the property tax hike will raise an additional $23 million and another $41 million will be added to the city’s coffers through property tax assessment growth.\nMeanwhile, the budget warns of financial challenges that are likely to continue into 2022 due to COVID-19, even with the expected widespread vaccination of Torontonians.\nStaff say that they are expecting an opening shortfall of between $1.1 and $1.8 billion in the city’s 2022 budget, including a minimum $387 million operating pressure faced by the TTC that could go as high as $796 million.\n“We are experiencing a challenge right now which will not just end abruptly,” Murray said during Thursday’s presentation. “It will continue to present challenges for us. But I you are going to bet on a city in this country and in the world I would be betting on Toronto.”\nThe city has relied on assumed funding from others level of government to balance its budget before, most recently in 2020 when it passed its budget despite an outstanding request to the federal government for $77 million to help cover the cost of resettling refugees.\nIn that case, the money was eventually received.\nPublic consultations on the budget will take place on January 25 and 26. It will then go to city council as a whole for final approval on Feb. 18.\nCTV News Toronto will provide live coverage below:",
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Ontario Education Minister Stephen Lecce says the province will expand eligibility for its emergency childcare program to include more front-line workers as schools remain closed for in-person learning.
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TORONTO -- Ontario Education Minister Stephen Lecce says the province will expand eligibility for its emergency childcare program to include more front-line workers as schools remain closed for in-person learning.
The minister made the announcement on Saturday morning, saying that the expansion aims to help parents of school-aged children who cannot support their children’s at home learning or care because they are performing front-line work.
“More people, more emergency and front-line workers will need support in this province,” Lecce told reporters. “That's why today we're announcing an extension of the emergency and free childcare we're providing to our front-line workers.”
The announcement comes after the province reported on Thursday that students in southern Ontario would not return to the classroom on Monday for in-person learning as planned due to a surge in COVID-19 cases across the province.
The province reported that elementary schools in the southern part of the province (south of Sudbury) would remain closed until Jan. 25, which is two weeks later than the original reopening date.
Secondary students are still slated to return to class for in-person learning on Jan. 25 as first announced and in-person learning will still resume in northern Ontario for elementary students on Jan. 11.
Lecce said the province received new data this past week that indicated COVID-19 positivity rates amongst children have been increasing at alarming rates.
He said the data shows there has been a massive spike, roughly 117 per cent, in case numbers among young people in Ontario between Dec. 27 and Jan. 3.
“The trend is problematic, and we have to take this seriously,” Lecce said. “I think we are rather shocked at how significant that increase was over a short period of time.
“So for the next two weeks students will be home. Our aim is over the period of time to build up our plan that can help get kids back.”
Lecce said the province is working to expand asymptomatic testing, improve air ventilation, and hire more staff before school starts.
The minister said that the childcare program had been offered to some groups of front-line workers for the first week of January amid school closures, but will now also be available to other workers as well, including postal workers, RCMP, homeless shelter staff and others.
“Given the extension, we think it is reasonable to extend that free service for another two weeks and to expand it to include more front-line workers within our economy and within our society,” Lecce said.
The minister said that 2,200 families have enrolled in the province’s free childcare program so far, which has a capacity of “roughly 20,000.”
Here’s a full list of workers now eligible:
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One person was taken to hospital after being extracted from a vehicle following a collision in North York Monday night.
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TORONTO -- One person was taken to hospital after being extracted from a vehicle following a collision in North York Monday night.
It happened at Leslie Street and Lesmill Road, just south of Highway 401, at around 9:20 p.m. Toronto police said the vehicle reportedly struck a tree and flipped over.
Toronto Fire responded to the scene and had to extract the driver from the vehicle. The driver was then transported to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, police said.
Toronto police said they also responded to a fail-to-remain incident a short distance away at Leslie Street and Sheppard Avenue. Police said they are working to determine whether the two incidents are related.
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John Tavares and Mitch Marner scored in a dominant second period as the Toronto Maple Leafs defeated the Winnipeg Jets 3-1 on Monday.
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TORONTO -- John Tavares and Mitch Marner scored in a dominant second period as the Toronto Maple Leafs defeated the Winnipeg Jets 3-1 on Monday.
Frederik Andersen made 27 saves for Toronto (3-1-0) in first of 10 meetings between the North Division rivals in the abbreviated 2020-2021 season. Marner added his second of the night into an empty net with 22.6 seconds left.
Kyle Connor replied for Winnipeg (1-1-0), which got 35 stops from Connor Hellebuyck inside an empty Scotiabank Arena because of COVID-19 protocols.
The Jets were minus sniper Patrik Laine, who sat out with an upper-body injury and is listed as day-to-day.
Following an even first period that saw both teams force good saves from Hellebuyck and Andersen, the ice tilted heavily in Toronto's favour in the second.
The Leafs got the game's first goal at 5:28 at the tail end of a power play when Hellebuyck kicked Jake Muzzin's point shot out to William Nylander, who quickly fed Tavares in the slot for him to bury his third of the season with the Jets goalie out of position.
Toronto, which dressed 11 forwards and seven defencemen, led 13-0 on the shot clock after that goal, and 19-1 midway through the period with the Jets appearing to be asleep at the switch. Winnipeg looked to get some momentum on a man advantage of its own later in the period, but Hellebuyck was forced to stop two short-handed chances off the stick of Ilya Mikheyev.
The Leafs were finally rewarded a second time with 1:21 left when Auston Matthews carried the puck into the offensive zone before finding Justin Holl. His one-timer hit the post behind Hellebucyk, and Marner was there to poke home his second of the year.
Toronto appeared primed to take a feel-good 2-0 lead into the intermission, but got running around in the defensive zone following a Muzzin giveaway, with Connor providing Winnipeg some life by snapping his second past Andersen with under a minute remaining on the clock.
The Leafs finished the period with a 22-5 edge in shots and 36-11 in attempts directed towards goal, but only led by the slimmest of margins on the scoreboard.
Winnipeg got an early third-period power play after Muzzin took a holding penalty, but Andersen was there at every turn -- including a great stop on Mark Scheifele that would have had the fans inside Scotiabank Arena chanting "Freddie! Freddie!" in a normal season.
The Jets continued to make their push as the period wore on, and got a power play with 5:15 left in regulation when Toronto defenceman Morgan Rielly cleared the puck over the glass for a delay-of-game infraction, but Andersen and the penalty killers did the job as the home side held on before Marner bagged the empty netter.
The Leafs rebounded from Friday's disappointing 5-3 loss to the Senators in Ottawa with a 3-2 victory in the rematch on the same ice 24 hours later, while Winnipeg opened its season with Thursday's 4-3 overtime victory at home against the Calgary Flames.
Next up for the Jets are three straight games against Ottawa -- Tuesday and Thursday in the nation's capital before the teams travel to Winnipeg for a Saturday tilt -- as part of a gruelling stretch of six contests in nine nights that began Monday.
The Leafs host the Edmonton Oilers on Wednesday and Friday before embarking on a four-game road trip through Alberta beginning Sunday.
Toronto announced before the game rookie winger Nick Robertson will miss at least four weeks with a knee injury, which forced the team to put both third-string goalie Aaron Dell and veteran forward Jason Spezza on waivers for salary cap purposes. Dell was claimed by the New Jersey Devils on Monday, while Spezza made it through and dressed against Winnipeg.
Notes: Mikko Lehtonen, who led all KHL defencemen in scoring last season, made his NHL debut for Toronto... Jets blue-liner Logan Stanley made his NHL debut for Winnipeg with Tucker Poolman still on the league's COVID-19 list.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan. 18, 2021.
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Former Toronto Maple Leafs captain George Armstrong has died.
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The Toronto Maple Leafs mourn the passing of George Armstrong, a member of our Maple Leafs family for 75 years.
We extend our condolences to George’s wife Betty, their children, grandchildren and the entire Armstrong family.
Full Statement: https://t.co/xCNHNn1Zcg pic.twitter.com/F9e9M0ZfSk
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The City of Toronto has publicly named three companies that are dealing with a COVID-19 outbreak that they say poses a significant risk to public health.
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TORONTO -- The City of Toronto has publicly named three companies that are dealing with a COVID-19 outbreak that they say poses a significant risk to public health.
According to Toronto Public Health, beauty brand DECIEM is facing an outbreak, as well at Sofina Foods Inc. and TTM Technologies Inc.
The public health agency did not release any specific details about the outbreaks or say the precise location of where they are occurring.
The three companies were named on Tuesday, a day after the City of Toronto announced it would start publicly exposing companies dealing with "sustained transmission" of COVID-19 in an effort to curb the spread of the disease.
"The criteria for disclosure include sustained transmission of COVID-19 in a workplace; where a significant proportion of staff have been involved in the outbreak; where there is significant duration of an outbreak and where the workplace is large enough that the risk of privacy concerns are mitigated," Toronto's Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Eileen de Villa said Monday.
In a statement to CTV News Toronto on Tuesday, Sofina Foods said they have been dealing with a COVID-19 outbreak since December.
To date, a total of 29 employees have been diagnosed with COVID-19, the company said.
CTV News Toronto contacted DECIEM and TTM Technologies Inc. for comment but did not receive a response.
According to the city, there are currently 16 COVID-19 outbreaks in community and workplace settings in the city.
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The College of Nurses of Ontario (CNO) is investigating after two nurses from the province travelled to Washington D.C. to allegedly participate in an anti-lockdown event preceding the Capitol Hill riot last week.
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TORONTO -- The College of Nurses of Ontario (CNO) is investigating after two nurses from the province travelled to Washington D.C. to allegedly participate in an anti-lockdown event preceding the Capitol Hill riot last week.
In videos posted to social media by the group, "Nurses Against Lockdowns” the women are seen addressing the crowd at the “Global Frontline Nurses” summit in Washington DC, an event that was scheduled to take place in front of the U.S. Supreme Court just hours before a group of rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol building, breaking windows and tearing through the offices of elected officials.
In one video, Sarah Choujounian identifies herself to the crowd as a nurse from Toronto who has spent most of her 16-year career working in a nursing home.
She claims she was fired after speaking out against lockdowns on social media, expresses concern that vaccines could harm seniors, and says restrictions on visitors at nursing homes constitute "crimes against humanity.”
According to the CNO, Choujounian worked at Norfinch Care Community in North York until 2020.
Kristen Nagle, a neonatal intensive care unit nurse from London according to the CNO, is shown speaking in another video.
Addressing the crowd, Nagle suggests the number of COVID-19 deaths compared to Canada’s overall population is evidence that the health restrictions are “crazy.”
Public health officials have repeatedly stressed that the dangers of the virus cannot simply be measured in deaths, but must also be measured by the danger posed to the overall health care system due to the diversion of resources to deal with the rising number of COVID-19 patients.
In Ontario, the rising number of COVID-19 cases is threatening to postpone surgeries for cancer, organ transplants, heart problems and other serious issues.
Nagle also speaks out against the use of masks, gloves and “synthetic drugs” in the video.
In a statement to CTV News Toronto, the college said it is investigating both women.
“The College of Nurses of Ontario (CNO) is investigating Kristen Nagle and Sarah Choujounian,” the statement read. “The legislation does not permit us to provide details on the progress or ongoing status.”
However, the college said that any outcome from the investigation that can be disclosed under current legislation will be shared publicly.
The London Health Sciences Centre also confirmed Nagle has been on unpaid leave since she took part in another event in November.
“We continue to learn of actions involving an NICU nurse at London Health Sciences Centre that are not aligned with LHSC’s values,” the LHSC statement to CTV News Toronto reads.
“Upon originally learning of concerns related to participation in a local anti-masking rally back in November, LHSC took immediate action to ensure the hospital remains a safe environment for everyone by placing her on an unpaid leave pending the results of the investigation. We anticipate an outcome to be reached within the coming weeks.”
CTV News Toronto has reached out to both women for comment, but has not heard back so far.
The CNO also pointed to a statement of support for current health measures on its website which urges nurses to be responsible for what they post online.
"Nurses are leaders in the community and the public’s trust in nurses may extend to their views on health matters communicated on social media and other forums,” the statement reads. “Statements made by nurses in public forums have the potential to impact the health and safety of the public.
“Nurses have a professional accountability to: use accurate sources of information based in scientific theory and evidence, to inform their professional service and practice."
The federal government has also been advising Canadians against nonessential travel for months because of the risk of spreading the virus and its various strains.
- With files from CTV News Toronto’s Sean Leathong
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At least 34 people died in the city in December 2020 as a result of a suspected opioid overdose—a new record according to Toronto Public Health (TPH).
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TORONTO -- At least 34 people died in the city in December 2020 as a result of a suspected opioid overdose—a new record according to Toronto Public Health (TPH).
In a news release issued Friday, officials said that the new statistic “represents the worst loss of lives to the opioid crisis recorded in a single month since TPH began monitoring this data in 2017.”
"This tragic record further proves what we already know: that the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the already deadly overdose crisis in Toronto,” Councillor and Chair of Toronto’s Board of Health Joe Cressy said in a statement.
“In a single month, we have lost 34 friends, community members, and loved ones to the public health emergency that is the opioid epidemic, making it clearer than ever that additional actions must be taken to provide the supports that people who use drugs need, and to save lives in our city."
The data represents overdoses attended by Toronto Paramedic Services and therefore “does not capture all deaths due to opioid poisoning,” the city said.
According to early data from the Office of the Chief Coroner for Ontario, confirmed drug-related deaths in Toronto, including deaths related to opioids, increased by 67 per cent in 2020 compared to 2021.
In Toronto, local officials say Toronto paramedics responded to about 90 per cent more fatal suspected overdose calls in 2020 than in the previous year.
“The combination of an increasingly toxic drug supply, reductions of services and supports due to pandemic restrictions, and isolation and mental health challenges have resulted in tragic outcomes,” Cressy said.
34 people in our city lost their lives due to suspected opioid overdoses in December, and 30 have died so far in January. These figures mark a tragic new record for our city: two months with the highest number of fatalities due to the opioid crisis.https://t.co/zZpgd4M9Af — Joe Cressy (@joe_cressy) January 29, 2021
The chief coroner’s office has confirmed 341 opioid toxicity deaths in Toronto between January and September 2020; however, preliminary data shows that number could soar to about 823 following further investigation.
While Toronto has invested in supply programs and harm reduction services, Cressy says that more action is needed from both the provincial and federal governments. In particular, the Toronto Board of Health is calling for the removal of a provincial cap on supervised consumption sites, as well as more funding for treatment and harm reduction programs.
The Toronto Board of Health also wants further distribution of naloxone and for the government to grant an exemption under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act to “permit the possession of all drugs for personal use for all Canadians, at minimum for the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic.”
“The data release today makes it clearer than ever that we cannot continue with the status quo,” Cressy said. “We need all three levels of government to commit to implementing real public health solutions to the overdose crisis, and we need them to do it now. It's the only way we have to protect people and save lives."
Toronto Mayor John Tory said he recently met with Ontario’s Associate Minister of Mental Health and Addictions Michael Tibollo to discuss how the current health-care system deals with opioid addiction and to tell him he will be stepping up his advocacy on the issue.
“This is not about morals or the law, it is about health and as such it must be addressed in an integrated fashion by the health-care system,” the mayor said in a statement. “The status quo is producing tragedy and loss of life on an unprecedented scale and cannot be continued.”
My statement on the @TOPublicHealth overdose data released today. pic.twitter.com/AVIB5honWL — John Tory (@JohnTory) January 29, 2021
Preliminary data indicates there have been 30 fatal calls to Toronto paramedics for suspected opioid overdoses between Jan. 1 and Jan. 26 of this year, the city said.
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Two men have been seriously wounded in a shooting in Brampton Saturday evening.
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TORONTO -- Two men have been seriously wounded in a shooting in Brampton Saturday evening.
It happened in the area of George Street and Queen street West around 6:30 p.m.
Police say one victim suffering from gunshot wounds was located at the scene. A man has been transported to trauma centre in serious but non-life-threatening condition, paramedics say.
A second victim made their way to hospital, police say. He is in life-threatening condition, according to paramedics.
Police say the suspect fled the scene, but there is no description at this time.
There are road closures in the area while police investigate.
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Ontario's Progressive Conservative government has rejected a deadline extension request from the province's Long-Term Care COVID-19 commission, citing the need for timely advice amid the pandemic's second wave.
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TORONTO -- Ontario's Progressive Conservative government has rejected a deadline extension request from the province's long-term care COVID-19 commission, citing the need for timely advice amid the pandemic's second wave.
The commissioners, led by Associate Chief Justice Frank Marrocco, sent a letter to the Minister of Long-Term Care on Dec. 9 to ask for more time to complete its final report and properly review the 5,880 pages of transcripts from dozens of interviews.
The commission's letter argued that pushing back the deadline from Apr. 30 to the end of 2021 would allow the inquiry to properly investigate how the the virus was able to devastate nursing home during the second wave, despite the premier's promise of an "iron ring."
"As wave 2 continues to spread in the community and LTC homes, we continue to gather new information and gain valuable insights into the spread of COVID-19 in LTC homes," the letter reads. "This will better inform our findings and recommendations in our final report."
The commission also points the finger at the Doug Ford government for "significant delays" in obtaining pertinent information at the center of the commission's investigation related to the second wave including "measures taken to prevent, isolate and contain the spread of COVID-19."
The request for an extension was rejected on Dec. 23 by Merrilee Fullerton, the minister responsible for long-term care, who said the recommendations from the commission are urgently needed.
"As Ontario deals with this next wave of COVID-19 throughout the province, the duration of which is unknown, the need for timely and focused advice is even more acute," Fullerton said in a letter.
"We look forward to receiving the Commission’s final report and recommendations by April 30, 2021."
NDP Leader Andrea Horwath said the rejection letter shows that the Ford government is "trying to hide something" related to the province's response to COVID-19 in long-term care.
"Everybody has to be concerned about the value of a report that has to be rushed to the finish line because Doug Ford doesn't want it to be as thorough and as complete as possible."
Fullerton's letter said if the commission felt additional issues "warrant further examination by government beyond April 30, 2021" it should be highlighted as part of the final report in the spring.
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"Ontario's Progressive Conservative government has rejected a deadline extension request from the province's Long-Term Care COVID-19 commission, citing the need for timely advice amid the pandemic's second wave."
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Sophia Megan’s ‘Love Boxes’ have been brightening the lives of sick children across Ontario for four years now.
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TORONTO -- Sophia Megan’s ‘Love Boxes’ have been brightening the lives of sick children across Ontario for four years now.
“’Love Boxes’ are boxes filled with lots of fun things like books, toys and colouring books,” she told CTV News Toronto. “They’re to cheer up kids in the hospital.”
The 10-year-old from Pickering created ‘The Super Sophia Project’ and her love boxes after receiving treatment for an illness herself at a young age.
“When I was in the hospital fighting leukemia, a custodian gifted me with a pack of stickers,” Megan said. “When I got older, that really changed me because it made me feel like I wanted to help other kids and make them happy.”
The love boxes are made possible with donations, and Megan’s efforts have continued through the pandemic.
Recently, she was given a ‘super’ musical opportunity with a local Latin music artist.
“My first song ‘Horizons’ is with Ekiz Fantazma, and it is just an amazing song,” Megan said. “[Fantazma] was going through some tough times. So he came across us, and then we made a song about never giving up hope.”
‘Horizons’ is now being streamed to help ‘Super Sophia’ spread the love. Artist and Composer Ekiz Fantazma says he learned about Megan’s story on social media and wanted to support her.
“She’s my hero. She really and truly is an inspiring human being,” Fantazma told CTV News Toronto. “I thought, what would be the longest-lasting way to help this child? And I thought, just making a song.”
Fantazma featured Megan’s voice on his track, and he says that every stream of the song will help fund the ‘love boxes.’
“100% of the royalties are going to the Super Sophia Project,” he explained. “It was just the easiest decision to make! And it’s just my way to give her forever.”
Fantazma admits that he and Megan come from different words, but says he was happy to work with her to share a message of hope for kids everywhere.
“I just want them to see that no matter what you go through, you can always turn that negative into a positive,” Fantazma said.
“It makes me feel really good inside,” Megan says of her song, and of helping others.
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Residents living outside of Toronto will soon not be able reserve a spot to skate on one of the city’s rinks.
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TORONTO -- Residents living outside of Toronto will soon not be able reserve a spot to skate on one of the city’s rinks.
Speaking on Wednesday, Toronto Mayor John Tory said the city had received complaints from residents who felt it was “unfair” that people living outside the City of Toronto were able to reserve a spot on the outdoor ice rinks.
“Certainly, I’ll say first preference and exclusive preference to the reservation system should go to residents of the city, and so that’s what we’re doing,” Tory said
City officials confirmed that as of Feb. 3, non-Toronto residents will no longer be able to reserve a spot to go skating.
More than 735,000 online reservations have been made since the city’s 54 outdoor rinks opened in late-November. Officials say that about 2.5 per cent of those reservations were made by people outside of Toronto.
While there will be new restrictions on reservations, the city says that anyone can use a walk-in space at a Toronto rink if a spot is available. Phone numbers will be collected to ensure contact tracing can be done in the event of a COVID-19 outbreak, but addresses will not be checked.
During any other year, registration for one of Toronto’s skating programs was limited to city residents for the first 10 days before opening spaces up to those living outside of the city.
Officials also said that they have received complaints of people skating on the rinks outside the allotted hours in the early morning and late evening. The majority of the people skating are youth, officials said, which means that officers cannot ticket them as they are not allowed to fine people under the age of 18.
Staff urged skaters to follow the rules and, if asked to leave the rink, to do so.
While the City of Vaughan has opted to its outdoor skating rinks earlier this month following the province’s stay-at-home order, the rest of the Greater Toronto Area has not.
Under the stay-at-home order, residents must stay inside their homes unless they need to leave for essential reasons. The government then provided a list of 33 exemptions, or activities that would be considered essential under the order.
One of the exemptions was for exercise, or “walking or moving around outdoors.”
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A man is in serious condition following a stabbing in North York Saturday afternoon.
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TORONTO -- A man is in serious condition following a stabbing in North York Saturday afternoon.
At 1:15 p.m., police responded to reports of a man who was stabbed in the area of Finch Avenue West and Bathurst Street.
Toronto paramedics say the man has been taken to a trauma centre with serious injuries.
One person is in custody, according to police.
Officers are on scene investigating.
This is a developing story.
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One person who was barricaded inside a home in Oakville, Ont. is now out of the residence but at least one other individual remains inside, police said.
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TORONTO -- One person who was barricaded inside a home in Oakville, Ont. is now out of the residence but at least one other individual remains inside, police said.
Residents of a neighbourhood in Oakville, near Lakeshore Road West and Fourth Line, were told to immediately shelter in their basement due to an ongoing active situation just after 2 p.m. on Friday.
Police said they received a call for possible gunshots just before 1:20 p.m. They later added that the situation, which involved at least two barricaded people, was currently contained to a residence on Lakeshore Road West.
The person who is still inside the home is talking with crisis negotiators, Halton Police Constable Ryan Anderson told reporters near the scene Friday afternoon.
Anderson would not confirm the relationship between the person who was removed from the home and the person who remains inside.
"I can confirm that they (crisis negotiators) have been in contact with the person who is in the home," Anderson said. "Everybody is doing all they can to ensure this comes to a peaceful resolution for everybody involved. At this point we don’t have any indication that anybody has been injured and it is our hope that that continues to be the case."
Police are asking residents to continue sheltering in their homes while the investigation continues.
Nearby Appleby College is currently in a hold and secure, police said. Staff and students are being told to remain inside their facilities until further notice.
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"TORONTO -- One person who was barricaded inside a home in Oakville, Ont. is now out of the residence but at least one other individual remains inside, police said.\nResidents of a neighbourhood in Oakville, near Lakeshore Road West and Fourth Line, were told to immediately shelter in their basement due to an ongoing active situation just after 2 p.m. on Friday.\nPolice said they received a call for possible gunshots just before 1:20 p.m. They later added that the situation, which involved at least two barricaded people, was currently contained to a residence on Lakeshore Road West.\nThe person who is still inside the home is talking with crisis negotiators, Halton Police Constable Ryan Anderson told reporters near the scene Friday afternoon.\nAnderson would not confirm the relationship between the person who was removed from the home and the person who remains inside.\n\"I can confirm that they (crisis negotiators) have been in contact with the person who is in the home,\" Anderson said. \"Everybody is doing all they can to ensure this comes to a peaceful resolution for everybody involved. At this point we don’t have any indication that anybody has been injured and it is our hope that that continues to be the case.\"\nPolice are asking residents to continue sheltering in their homes while the investigation continues.\nNearby Appleby College is currently in a hold and secure, police said. Staff and students are being told to remain inside their facilities until further notice.",
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"One person who was barricaded inside a home in Oakville, Ont. is now out of the residence but at least one other individual remains inside, police said."
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Wendy Sokoloff of Sokoloff Lawyers with more information on how a lawyer can help if you’ve been injured in an accident.
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TORONTO -- Wendy Sokoloff of Sokoloff Lawyers with more information on how a lawyer can help if you’ve been injured in an accident.
More from Sokoloff Lawyers here.
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"Why hire a personal injury lawyer?",
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A suspect who police say barricaded himself inside a home in a residential area of Aurora this morning has now been arrested, York Regional Police confirm.
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TORONTO -- A suspect who police say barricaded himself inside a home in a residential area of Aurora this morning has now been arrested, York Regional Police confirm.
Police told CP24 they were first called to the residence, located in the area of Henderson and Child drives, for reports of a domestic incident early this morning.
The male suspect, police say, refused to surrender and barricaded himself inside the home for several hours.
Investigators said earlier this morning that there was no risk to public safety but asked people to avoid the area.
Shortly after 8 a.m., police were seen escorting the man to a police cruiser.
It is not clear what charges he will be facing.
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"TORONTO -- A suspect who police say barricaded himself inside a home in a residential area of Aurora this morning has now been arrested, York Regional Police confirm.\nPolice told CP24 they were first called to the residence, located in the area of Henderson and Child drives, for reports of a domestic incident early this morning.\nThe male suspect, police say, refused to surrender and barricaded himself inside the home for several hours.\nInvestigators said earlier this morning that there was no risk to public safety but asked people to avoid the area.\nShortly after 8 a.m., police were seen escorting the man to a police cruiser.\nIt is not clear what charges he will be facing.",
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"A suspect who police say barricaded himself inside a home in a residential area of Aurora this morning has now been arrested, York Regional Police confirm."
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Police have arrested two suspects who allegedly rammed two police cruisers while driving a stolen vehicle in Mississauga on Sunday.
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TORONTO -- Police have arrested two suspects who allegedly rammed two police cruisers while driving a stolen vehicle in Mississauga on Sunday.
Peel Regional Police say shortly after midnight, officers were attempting to investigate a vehicle in the area of Britannia Road East and Dixie Road when the driver rammed two cop cruisers before fleeing the scene.
The suspect vehicle, which was later involved in a collision, was located with the assistance of the K9 unit and two suspects were subsequently taken into custody.
No injuries were reported.
Police say the stolen car had initially been taken from a residence in Brampton on Dec. 1 after it was left in a driveway to warm up.
Police say the driver of the stolen car, who has been identified as 21-year-old Ikjot Singh, has been charged with possession of property obtained by crime, flight from a peace officer, dangerous operation of a vehicle, failure to stop after an accident, and operation of a vehicle while impaired by drugs.
The second suspect, identified by investigators as 23-year-old Brampton resident Jasdeep Singh, faces two counts of possession of property obtained by crime.
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"TORONTO -- Police have arrested two suspects who allegedly rammed two police cruisers while driving a stolen vehicle in Mississauga on Sunday.\nPeel Regional Police say shortly after midnight, officers were attempting to investigate a vehicle in the area of Britannia Road East and Dixie Road when the driver rammed two cop cruisers before fleeing the scene.\nThe suspect vehicle, which was later involved in a collision, was located with the assistance of the K9 unit and two suspects were subsequently taken into custody.\nNo injuries were reported.\nPolice say the stolen car had initially been taken from a residence in Brampton on Dec. 1 after it was left in a driveway to warm up.\nPolice say the driver of the stolen car, who has been identified as 21-year-old Ikjot Singh, has been charged with possession of property obtained by crime, flight from a peace officer, dangerous operation of a vehicle, failure to stop after an accident, and operation of a vehicle while impaired by drugs.\nThe second suspect, identified by investigators as 23-year-old Brampton resident Jasdeep Singh, faces two counts of possession of property obtained by crime.",
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One male is dead and another is in hospital following a reported shooting in Caledon Monday.
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TORONTO -- One male is dead and another is in hospital following a reported shooting in Caledon Monday.
Ontario Provincial Police said they responded to reports of a shooting in the area of Harvest Moon Drive in Bolton at around 12:26 p.m.
Officers arrived to find two male victims. One of them was pronounced dead at the scene while the other was transported to hospital. The extent of the second victim’s injuries is not known.
Police have provided few other details about the deadly incident.
OPP are asking anyone with information to contact investigators.
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"One person dead, another injured after reported shooting in Caledon, Ont.",
"One male is dead and another is in hospital following a reported shooting in Caledon Monday."
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New jury trials in Ontario will not resume until at least mid-spring, the province’s chief justice said Wednesday.
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TORONTO -- New jury trials in Ontario will not resume until at least mid-spring, the province’s chief justice said Wednesday.
A suspension on jury trials had already been in place across much of the province for months, with new trials only allowed in Green Zone areas of the province’s tiered reopening framework.
That suspension had been set to last until at least Feb. 1. However Ontario entered a provincewide lockdown on Dec. 26 and this week Premier Doug Ford declared a state of emergency and a stay-at-home order for the entire province as well.
The new orders are meant to slow the spread of the COVID-19 virus and to prevent rising case numbers from overwhelming the healthcare system. While vaccinations have begun, the latest modelling indicates that the number of cases will continue to rise rapidly without drastic interventions.
“While the Ontario Superior Court of Justice remains open during the provincial lockdown, the court must continue to make necessary changes in response to the evolving public health situation,” Chief Justice Geoffrey B. Morawetz wrote Wednesday in an update on the Ontario Superior Court of Justice website.
“In view of the new provincial restrictions announced on January 12, 2021, effective January 13, 2021, the suspension of jury trials will be extended until May 3, 2021 at the earliest. No new jury selection will commence during this period.”
Proceedings that were already in progress may continue at the discretion of the trial judge.
Morawetz said all non-jury matters should proceed virtually unless “it is absolutely necessary to hold the proceedings in-person.”
“To the greatest extent possible, all other avenues should be explored and implemented. This applies to proceedings throughout the province and will remain in effect until further notice of this Court.”
All court rooms will also be subject to a 10-person capacity limit.
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The City of Vaughan appears to be the first municipality in the Greater Toronto Area to close some of its outdoor amenities following a stay-at-home order issued by the provincial government.
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TORONTO -- The City of Vaughan appears to be the first municipality in the Greater Toronto Area to close some of its outdoor amenities following a stay-at-home order issued by the provincial government.
In a statement released early Friday morning, city officials confirmed they would be closing its outdoor skating rinks, toboggan hill and dog park effective Jan. 15.
“This is the most recent step taken to protect the health and safety of citizens and staff,” the release said. “All decisions about closing and opening facilities continue to be informed by Vaughan-specific data and reflect guidance issued by York Region Public Health and the provincial government – with public safety being the priority.”
Most city facilities, including Vaughan City Hall, are closed until June at the earliest, the statement said. Trails are available for use, however residents are being asked to follow public health guidelines such as physical distancing.
Vaughan Mayor Maurizio Bevilacqua said the decision was based on advice from local medical officers of health and the information provided by provincial officials.
“I can tell you, you can't be telling people to stay home by telling them to go out and go do those type of activities,” he said. “I do think that while we will monitor the situation related to toboggan hills and outdoor ice rinks …it's the most responsible decision we have given the present circumstances.”
Bevilacqua said the city will not be closing its playgrounds, but did not provide further reasoning on the decision. However, city official confirmed that playgrounds are technically closed for the season as of November 2020, meaning there is no winter maintenance of the structures.
The City of Vaughan is the first municipality to close city-operated outdoor facilities since the province declared a stay-at home order earlier this week.
As of Friday morning, Toronto and Mississauga have both confirmed that amenities such as outdoor playgrounds, dog parks and skating rinks will remain open, with some restrictions.
A stay-at-home order came into effect across Ontario on Thursday. Under this order, people have been told to stay home unless they need to leave for essential reasons. The government then provided a list of 33 exemptions, or activities that would be considered essential under the order.
One of the exemptions was for exercise, or “walking or moving around outdoors.” However, the second line of the exemption says residents may use “an outdoor recreational amenity that is permitted to be open under the Stage 1 order.”
Under Stage 1 of the province’s economic reopening plan released in the spring of 2020, amenities such as playgrounds and pools were still shuttered. The only activities allowed to reopen were golf courses, marinas, rod and gun clubs and cycling tracks. Individual sport activity such as rowing or track and field were also permitted.
According to the province’s document, Stage 2 allowed amenities such as public pools and splashpads to reopen. It wasn’t until Stage 3 that kids could use playgrounds or play structures.
When asked on Friday, the Ministry of Health re-issued its state of emergency guidelines saying outdoor playgrounds, ice rinks and toboggan hills can remain open, without explaining why Stage 1 of the reopening plan was mentioned in the actual text of the stay at home order.
On Thursday afternoon, Toronto officials released a list of things residents can do and things they can’t under the stay-at-home order.
Under the list, officials said that the city’s outdoor recreational amenities, including playgrounds, tobogganing hills, fitness equipment and designated off-leash dog parks remain open. Outdoor skating rinks will also remain open with a capacity limit of 25 skaters.
Speaking to CP24 Friday morning, Toronto Mayor John Tory said the decision to keep playgrounds open was based on medical advice.
“Originally, way back in the early stages, it was thought maybe this virus could be transmitted from playground equipment but it was decided that was a very low risk,” the mayor said.
“Frankly, being outside is lower risk than being inside because of the ventilation provided by fresh air, so what we have decided to do is to leave the parks open, but we have made it very clear to people, as the premier has, as I have, that you need to keep your distance.”
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"TORONTO -- The City of Vaughan appears to be the first municipality in the Greater Toronto Area to close some of its outdoor amenities following a stay-at-home order issued by the provincial government.\nIn a statement released early Friday morning, city officials confirmed they would be closing its outdoor skating rinks, toboggan hill and dog park effective Jan. 15.\n“This is the most recent step taken to protect the health and safety of citizens and staff,” the release said. “All decisions about closing and opening facilities continue to be informed by Vaughan-specific data and reflect guidance issued by York Region Public Health and the provincial government – with public safety being the priority.”\nMost city facilities, including Vaughan City Hall, are closed until June at the earliest, the statement said. Trails are available for use, however residents are being asked to follow public health guidelines such as physical distancing.\nVaughan Mayor Maurizio Bevilacqua said the decision was based on advice from local medical officers of health and the information provided by provincial officials.\n“I can tell you, you can't be telling people to stay home by telling them to go out and go do those type of activities,” he said. “I do think that while we will monitor the situation related to toboggan hills and outdoor ice rinks …it's the most responsible decision we have given the present circumstances.”\nBevilacqua said the city will not be closing its playgrounds, but did not provide further reasoning on the decision. However, city official confirmed that playgrounds are technically closed for the season as of November 2020, meaning there is no winter maintenance of the structures.\nThe City of Vaughan is the first municipality to close city-operated outdoor facilities since the province declared a stay-at home order earlier this week.\nAs of Friday morning, Toronto and Mississauga have both confirmed that amenities such as outdoor playgrounds, dog parks and skating rinks will remain open, with some restrictions.\nA stay-at-home order came into effect across Ontario on Thursday. Under this order, people have been told to stay home unless they need to leave for essential reasons. The government then provided a list of 33 exemptions, or activities that would be considered essential under the order.\nOne of the exemptions was for exercise, or “walking or moving around outdoors.” However, the second line of the exemption says residents may use “an outdoor recreational amenity that is permitted to be open under the Stage 1 order.”\nUnder Stage 1 of the province’s economic reopening plan released in the spring of 2020, amenities such as playgrounds and pools were still shuttered. The only activities allowed to reopen were golf courses, marinas, rod and gun clubs and cycling tracks. Individual sport activity such as rowing or track and field were also permitted.\nAccording to the province’s document, Stage 2 allowed amenities such as public pools and splashpads to reopen. It wasn’t until Stage 3 that kids could use playgrounds or play structures.\nWhen asked on Friday, the Ministry of Health re-issued its state of emergency guidelines saying outdoor playgrounds, ice rinks and toboggan hills can remain open, without explaining why Stage 1 of the reopening plan was mentioned in the actual text of the stay at home order.\nOn Thursday afternoon, Toronto officials released a list of things residents can do and things they can’t under the stay-at-home order.\nUnder the list, officials said that the city’s outdoor recreational amenities, including playgrounds, tobogganing hills, fitness equipment and designated off-leash dog parks remain open. Outdoor skating rinks will also remain open with a capacity limit of 25 skaters.\nSpeaking to CP24 Friday morning, Toronto Mayor John Tory said the decision to keep playgrounds open was based on medical advice.\n“Originally, way back in the early stages, it was thought maybe this virus could be transmitted from playground equipment but it was decided that was a very low risk,” the mayor said.\n“Frankly, being outside is lower risk than being inside because of the ventilation provided by fresh air, so what we have decided to do is to leave the parks open, but we have made it very clear to people, as the premier has, as I have, that you need to keep your distance.”",
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Toronto and much of southern Ontario is in for a wet and cold New Year’s Day.
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TORONTO -- Toronto and much of southern Ontario is in for a wet and cold New Year’s Day.
Environment Canada has issued a special weather statement warning of possible freezing rain Friday evening and overnight.
“Precipitation will begin as snow or ice pellets late this afternoon or early this evening over areas north of Lake Ontario,” the weather agency said in a statement on their website.
“A brief period of freezing rain or ice pellets is possible tonight. Freezing rain may be mixed with rain or snow. Some ice accretion is possible. Precipitation will transition to snow by early Saturday morning.”
The precipitation is believed to be associated with a low pressure system moving north from Texas, Environment Canada added, saying that further freezing rain warnings may be issued later on Friday.
Freezing rain warnings have already been issued for some regions of southern Ontario, including Hamilton, London and Waterloo.
The temperature is forecasted to reach a high of 2 C on Friday, with winds gusting between 30 and 50 kilometres an hour. With the wind chill, it’s expected to feel like -6C in the morning.
Environment Canada adds that snow and ice pellets Friday night could amount to two to four centimetres, with the precipitation changing to rain around midnight.
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Ontario officials are reporting eight new cases of the UK variant of COVID-19 and they say that they have been unable to find a travel link with three of them, suggesting that the more contagious strain may already be circulating in the community.
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TORONTO -- Ontario officials are reporting eight new cases of the UK variant of COVID-19 and they say that they have been unable to find a travel link with three of them, suggesting that the more contagious strain may already be circulating in the community.
Health Minister Christine Elliott confirmed the latest cases in a message posted to Twitter on Tuesday morning.
There have now been 14 individuals confirmed to have been infected by the UK variant in the province, though Associate Medical Officer of Health Dr. Barabara Yaffe told reporters at a subsequent briefing that it is “very likely we have more we are not aware of” given that a relatively small proportion of samples are actually being examined for mutations.
“The variant is already here. We know the data shows it is probably at least 56 per cent more transmissible and at this point as I said with three of our cases we don’t have a travel history. If that is confirmed we have evidence then of community transmission and that is a very serious concern that the vaccine will not be able to address quickly enough,” she said.
Yaffe told reporters that Public Health Ontario is currently conducting genomic sequencing on about 500 to 600 samples per week to look for new variants.
Genomic sequencing involves analyzing an individual positive PCR test sample and mapping out its complex genetic profile.
Public Health Ontario has told CP24 that is currently focussed on testing samples “with a history of international travel or who have had contact with someone with a history of international travel” as well as samples “related to a known or suspected superspreading event.”
That, however, could change if the strain becomes more prevalent.
The new cases confirmed on Tuesday come as the Ford government releases new modelling, which suggests that COVID-19 cases in Ontario could double every 10 days by March if the more contagious strain takes route in the community.
Currently, cases are doubling every 35 to 40 days.
“A new variant could drive much higher case counts, ICU occupancy and mortality if community transmission occurs,” Epidemiologist Dr. Adalsteinn Brown, co-chair of the province’s COVID-19 science table, warned. “The doubling time for cases could drop by more than two thirds and just to be clear this variant is already in Ontario. It is not a hypothetical. The variant is here; it is just depending now on how fast it spreads.”
Brown said that officials believe the UK variant is at least 56 per cent more contagious but he said that it is possible that number could be as high as 75 per cent.
He said that there are already a number of areas in the province experiencing a “very dramatic growth in cases” similar to what was seen in the United Kingdom as the strain started to spread this fall.
That, he said, could “suggest that we might already be seeing this new variant in some of these communities.”
He said that if the strain spreads within the community we will likely see a “scary almost vertical sort of curve” by the end of February with cases growing six to seven per cent per day.
That sort of case growth could, in turn, translate into approximately 40,000 new cases a day, according to the new modelling.
“This new variant is not more lethal but because it spreads so much more quickly once it gets out into the community there is no question that we will have more cases and more death,” Brown said. “People will die from the virus itself and from the overloaded health system that is unable to respond to their needs.”
Yaffe said that five of the new cases were all connected to a recent traveller from the United Kingdom. She said that public health officials are continuing to look for possible travel links with the three other cases.
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Premier Doug Ford says that help is on the way for small businesses across Ontario a day after the president of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) claimed the province’s newly-announced stay-at-home order unfairly benefits big box retailers.
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TORONTO -- Premier Doug Ford says that help is on the way for small businesses across Ontario a day after the president of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) claimed the province’s newly-announced stay-at-home order unfairly benefits big box retailers.
“I'm doing everything I can to make sure that we get back to normal, get them back on their feet,” Ford said at a news conference Wednesday while confirming that a portal for the government’s long-awaited Small Business Support Grant – which was first announced in November of last year – will be launched on Friday.
“So if you're a small business, please apply, it starts at $10,000 (and) goes as high as $20,000.”
News of the portal’s opening comes after Dan Kelly, president and CEO of the CFIB, penned a news release Tuesday accusing the Ford government of “doubling down on unfair and ineffective restrictions” for small businesses.
“No other province has locked down small retailers while handing huge competitive advantages to big box stores,” Kelly writes.
At issue are the rules for small retailers versus big box stores.
According to the government’s stay-at-home order, effective Thursday, small and medium-sized retailers can only operate between the hours of 7 a.m. and 8 p.m. and cannot provide curbside pickup before or after that time on their own property.
Big box stores like Walmart, Costco and Amazon, on the other hand, can continue to operate with their hours unaffected.
“It was super disappointing. I didn't think that the province could actually make the rules worse, more confusing, more ineffective, more insane. But that's exactly what they did,” Kelly said of the restrictions, while speaking to CP24 Wednesday morning.
READ MORE: Ontario addresses confusion about new stay-at-home rules. These are the answers to your top questions
“They now are taking away the small business's ability to sell something outdoors, on their steps at 8:15pm. They're taking away their ability to deliver a good to a consumer at 8:30pm. But it's totally fine for people to line up at Costco and Walmart, to go and buy TVs and T shirts and kids toys. I don't get it.”
"The premier seems intent on killing small and medium-sized businesses, wherever possible," Kelly added.
The new public health restrictions were announced by the government Tuesday amid record-breaking COVID-19 case numbers in the province. Ford said that while his “heart breaks” for affected small businesses, “health trumps that right now.”
“I've said it 1,000 times I'll say it 1,001: support your small businesses, forget about the big box stores. Very simple. Go support your small business,” Ford said.
CFIB data released last month shows that over a third of Ontario businesses will not survive a second lockdown.
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The Queen Elizabeth Way has reopened in Burlington following a fatal crash that left two women dead and three other people with injuries.
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TORONTO -- The Queen Elizabeth Way has reopened in Burlington following a fatal crash that left two women dead and three other people with injuries.
The Ministry of Transportation said sometime before 6 a.m. Tuesday multiple cars collided on the ramp from Brant Street in Burlington to the Toronto-bound QEW.
“A motor vehicle crossed over from the westbound lanes into the eastbound lanes where there was a significant collision,” OPP Const. Kevin Westhead said.
That vehicle, a Mitsubishi Lancer, struck an Acura and a Ford pickup truck, while a fourth vehicle rolled into the ditch.
Halton Paramedics told CP24 that two people were pronounced dead at the scene, one other person was taken to a trauma centre in critical condition and two others were taken to local hospitals.
Westhead said the two deaths involved women who were in the vehicle that crossed through a wide ditch separating westbound and eastbound lanes.
Their vehicle was mangled beyond recognition.
Police also later closed the Fort Erie-bound lanes at Guelph Line.
The OPP said that four vehicles were involved in the crash.
The highway was closed in both directions for most of the day but the Niagara-bound lanes did reopen at Brant Street just before 3 p.m. The Toronto-bound lanes then reopened just after 4 p.m.
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"TORONTO -- The Queen Elizabeth Way has reopened in Burlington following a fatal crash that left two women dead and three other people with injuries.\nThe Ministry of Transportation said sometime before 6 a.m. Tuesday multiple cars collided on the ramp from Brant Street in Burlington to the Toronto-bound QEW.\n“A motor vehicle crossed over from the westbound lanes into the eastbound lanes where there was a significant collision,” OPP Const. Kevin Westhead said.\nThat vehicle, a Mitsubishi Lancer, struck an Acura and a Ford pickup truck, while a fourth vehicle rolled into the ditch.\nHalton Paramedics told CP24 that two people were pronounced dead at the scene, one other person was taken to a trauma centre in critical condition and two others were taken to local hospitals.\nWesthead said the two deaths involved women who were in the vehicle that crossed through a wide ditch separating westbound and eastbound lanes.\nTheir vehicle was mangled beyond recognition.\nPolice also later closed the Fort Erie-bound lanes at Guelph Line.\nThe OPP said that four vehicles were involved in the crash.\nThe highway was closed in both directions for most of the day but the Niagara-bound lanes did reopen at Brant Street just before 3 p.m. The Toronto-bound lanes then reopened just after 4 p.m.",
"QEW reopens following crash in Burlington, Ont. that killed two women",
"The Queen Elizabeth Way has reopened in Burlington following a fatal crash that left two women dead and three other people with injuries."
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