With fewer COVID restrictions in place, the flu virus is spreading once again, according to a Toronto health official.
Unlike last year when Toronto residents were locked down, many restrictions have been eliminated, giving people more freedom to mingle and spread influenza.
The TTC says employees who remain unvaccinated or have not shared their status by the end of the day on November 20th will be placed on unpaid absence until they complete their vaccination course.
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The Ministry of Health said since July, it has encouraged all doctors to resume seeing both kids and adults in person.
While August is usually SickKids emergency department’s quietest month, so far this year it’s the busiest with close to 6,000 patients — 40 per cent more than the same month last year, and 15 per cent more than in 2019, said division head Dr. Jason Fischer.
The hospital has also noticed an increase in patients with less serious or “low acuity” illnesses.
The Toronto District School Board (TDSB) paid $16,000 for four learning sessions with self-described anti-racism activist Desmond Cole during which he attacked Israel using typical anti-Semitic tropes.
Despite an apology by education director Colleen Russell-Rawlins to concerned participants – mostly board principals – Cole was permitted to continue with his talks on Sept. 23 after the board brass was made aware of his hateful rhetoric during the first two talks on Sept. 20.
General manager Bobby Webster says the team decided to stay in Toronto for camp this year to reconnect with its hometown, adding that many players and staff hadn’t been to the city.
Webster says the Raptors are one second dose away from being fully vaccinated and will be at 100 per cent by opening night on Oct. 20.
Visiting players who are unvaccinated can play in Toronto this season under a National Interest Exemption, meaning they will be restricted to Scotiabank Arena and the team hotel, and will have to pass COVID-19 test when they arrive in Canada.
This weekend, crowds descended upon a Richmond Hill walk-in clinic where an apparent pandemic-skeptic doctor was said to be mass-issuing letters exempting patients from ongoing public health mandates.
On Saturday, York Medical, located on Yonge Street near Elgin Mills Road, attracted throngs that lined up around the block to see Dr. Christopher Hassell, who was alleged in a Twitter thread of using his medical authority to sidestep public health measures.
Toronto has been Justin Trudeau’s unassailable political fortress ever since he swept to power almost six years ago. In two elections, he’s never lost a seat in Canada’s largest city, and his Liberal Party holds most of the suburbs, too.
It won’t be easy to repeat that, as Trudeau faces attacks on both sides ahead of the Sept. 20 vote. Conservatives think they can snatch seats in outlying areas, but in the urban core, the left-wing New Democratic Party is the biggest threat. Both parties are trying to capitalize on voters’ concerns about an overheated housing market.
David Fisman, an epidemiology professor at U of T, said in a tweet that the Conservatives were promoting Nazism because a tweet the party sent about Canada’s Recovery Plan had the words secure the future for your children and contained 14 words.
Toronto mayor John Tory wrote a letter to federal political leaders begging for more bags of cash – this is in addition to the millions the Trudeau government has already given to the city.
Toronto city council has a track record of spending without an eye to the bottom line. They have no problem with spending with impunity and begging with impunity.
Today, Mayor John Tory was joined by City Manager Chris Murray and Chief People Officer Omo Akintan to announce a new mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy requiring all City of Toronto employees to receive both doses of the vaccine.
With the health and safety of residents, staff and the community key priorities for the City, this new policy demonstrates a commitment to taking every precaution to protect staff and visitors in City workplaces from COVID-19. The full policy is being finalized now and will be made public in the coming days.
A report from the United Nations International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released this week suggests extreme weather events, from wildfires to floods to extreme heat, are the direct result of a climate that has already changed, and it will result in more unpredictable weather.
In the past six months, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has handed over hundreds of millions of dollars in affordable housing money to Toronto with no checks and balances.
The two announcements – Jan. 15 and July 29 – gave Toronto $335-million in Rapid Housing Initiative money for 773 “affordable homes.”
In reality, they will be mostly tiny modular housing units of 325-square-feet lumped together in a multi-residential building.
As Toronto Police clear the illegal homeless encampments, activists and leftist politicians have done everything in their power to obstruct the police from doing their jobs and enforcing the law.
The reality is Mayor John Tory and the Toronto Police are doing the right thing by clearing these encampments. The activists and leftists city councillors are completely out of touch with Torontonians.
Initially, it was just an inviting online platform to promote Black-owned businesses in the city. “My initial goal was to have a social media directory. I definitely didn’t know it was going to get so popular so quickly,” she told CTV’s Your Morning on Tuesday.
