Ontario reports more than 3,400 new COVID-19 cases, 16 deaths

Ontario is reporting 3,436 new COVID-19 cases on Monday. The provincial total now stands at 473,901.

Monday’s case count is lower than Sunday which saw 3,732 new infections. On Saturday, 3,369 new cases were recorded.

Church of God, defiant despite contempt ruling, faces new charges

Aylmer police say more charges loom for members of the town’s Church of God, where a large service was held Sunday despite a recent contempt finding against the church and its pastor.

Monday morning, Aylmer’s police chief, Zvonko Horvat, announced that charges “against the organization and directors who actively participated and organized the service are pending.”

Canada is holding back its 1-shot J&J COVID-19 vaccine. Here’s what you need to know

On Friday, Health Canada announced it is holding back the J&J vaccine, a one-shot dose that experts and health officials touted as crucial in stemming the spread of the virus amid a devastating third wave of the pandemic, after it was revealed that parts of the batch were made in the same Baltimore plant where millions of other doses meant for the U.S. market had spoiled.

The Canadian government is talking to international partners about the development of COVID-19 vaccination certificate systems that might one day help facilitate travel across international borders but bureaucrats in Ottawa, as well as some politicians, wonder if such a system is the best way to proceed.

“We are working on it on a scientific basis and we will have more to announce when we have it to announce,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told reporters on Tuesday. “Right now we’re focussed on getting through this pandemic and being prepared to come roaring back once we’re through it.”

Ontario reports 3,700+ new COVID-19 cases; P.1 variant cases have doubled in a week

Ontario reported 3,732 new COVID-19 cases and 23 additional deaths on Sunday, as the province’s active caseload continued its slow, trickling decline and the burden on hospital ICUs stayed flat.

The vast majority of new cases detected are screening positive as the B.1.1.7 variant first discovered in the United Kingdom last year, but the number of cases found to be the P.1 variant from Brazil has more than doubled in the past week.

On April 26, 351 examples of the P.1 variant had been detected in the province. By Sunday, that number had grown to 875.

WARMINGTON: Good luck sinking baskets off this Mississauga hoop’s backBOARD

It’s a perfect day to shoot some hoops.

But at this park in Mississauga, not only is there a sign saying the court is closed, there are also two pieces of wood blocking the basketball nets.

The pandemic has revealed a darkly authoritarian side to expertise

When I was small, my father would conduct experiments around the house. When you blow across the top of a wine bottle, how many modes of vibration are there? How do you get the higher notes?

Another time, the matter under investigation might be the “angle of repose” of a pile of sand, as in an hour-glass. Does it depend on the particle size? On their shape? Do these factors determine the rate at which an hour-glass empties?