Jan 22 2021 — Nicole Thompson, The Canadian Press — Several southern Ontario school boards that straddle public health units are gearing up to reopen only a portion of their schools to in-person learning next week, adding another layer of complexity to an academic year that's been defined by quick pivots. The government order allowing schools in seven public health units to reopen physical classrooms […]
Jan 20 2021 — Nicole Thompson, The Canadian Press — 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 […]
Jan 20 2021 — Nicole Thompson, The Canadian Press — 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 […]
Jan 15 2021 — Nicole Thompson, The Canadian Press — 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 […]
Jan 14 2021 — Nicole Thompson, The Canadian Press — TORONTO — Communities in northern Ontario should be inclusive and make newcomers feel welcome if they want to help bolster dwindling populations, a newly released report urges. The Come North report, which is the product of two conferences held by the Northern Policy Institute last February, suggests the communities develop a "co-ordinated marketing plan" to […]
Jan 14 2021 — Nicole Thompson, The Canadian Press — TORONTO — Communities in northern Ontario should be inclusive and make newcomers feel welcome if they want to help bolster dwindling populations, a newly released report urges. The Come North report, which is the product of two conferences held by the Northern Policy Institute last February, suggests the communities develop a "co-ordinated marketing plan" to […]
Jan 13 2021 — Nicole Thompson, The Canadian Press — Two teachers unions are calling for a provincewide extension of online learning during Ontario's state of emergency, saying the current regional approach doesn't do enough to protect students or teachers from the ravages of COVID-19. The presidents of the Ontario English Catholic Teachers Association and the Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Association say that while they […]
Jan 9 2021 — Nicole Thompson, The Canadian Press — COVID-19 numbers continued to soar in many parts of Canada on Saturday as a long-standing pandemic hot spot imposed the country's strictest public health measures to date. Quebec Premier Francois Legault announced earlier in the week that Quebecers would have to stay home from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. for at least one month in […]
Jan 9 2021 — Nicole Thompson, The Canadian Press — COVID-19 numbers continued to soar in many parts of Canada on Saturday as a long-standing pandemic hot spot imposed the country's strictest public health measures to date. Quebec Premier Francois Legault announced earlier in the week that Quebecers would have to stay home from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. for at least one month in […]
Jan 9 2021 — Nicole Thompson, The Canadian Press — Every day, Jessy Duncombe has to figure out how to put food on the table, help her two school-aged kids navigate the complexities of online learning, and keep her three-year-old daughter occupied and out of trouble. And that's all before lunch. As a single parent with three kids at home all day, there's no way […]
Jan 9 2021 — Nicole Thompson, The Canadian Press — Every day, Jessy Duncombe has to figure out how to put food on the table, help her two school-aged kids navigate the complexities of online learning, and keep her three-year-old daughter occupied and out of trouble. And that's all before lunch. As a single parent with three kids at home all day, there's no way […]
Jan 7 2021 — Nicole Thompson, The Canadian Press — A police force west of Toronto must pay tens of thousands of dollars in damages years after officers handcuffed a six-year-old Black girl at her school and held her on her stomach for nearly a half hour, a human rights tribunal has ruled. The Peel Regional Police Board has until mid-February to pay $35,000 to […]
Jan 6 2021 — Nicole Thompson, The Canadian Press — A southwestern Ontario hospital grappling with record-high COVID-19 admissions was cancelling surgeries and transferring patients to other facilities this week while another scrapped procedures to free up staff who could care for the gravely ill. The capacity crunch due to rising cases of the novel coronavirus had the head of a group representing Ontario's hospitals […]
Dec 27 2020 — Nicole Thompson, The Canadian Press — It took less than a month for students attending virtual school to devise new ways to cheat. From texting friends on the sly to downloading apps that spit out answers, educators say the pandemic-induced move to an online classroom has offered up a wealth of tech-driven workarounds to actually doing the work. Olivia Meleta, a […]
Dec 16 2020 — Nicole Thompson, The Canadian Press — Canada's vaccine rollout reached four more provinces on Wednesday, with health-care workers being inoculated against COVID-19 as officials warned hospitals in some areas are nearing a breaking point. Nurses were first in line for the Pfizer-BioNTech shot in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador, while Prince Edward Island administered the vaccine first to workers at […]