Nearly every India-Toronto flight this month had COVID-positive passengers

Flights from India continue to be Canada’s top source of international passengers testing positive for COVID-19.

And data provided by Health Canada reveals nearly all of the twice-daily flights between Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport and Toronto Pearson Airport carried passengers infected with COVID-19.

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‘Third wave’ field hospital being assembled in parking lot of Toronto’s Sunnybrook hospital

Workers were spotted assembling a mobile field hospital in the parking lot of the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto in preparation for a potential third wave of the coronavirus.

The 100-bed facility is one of two mobile field hospitals promised by the Trudeau government being set up in Sunnybrook’s parking lot is one of the promised facilities, CTV news Toronto learned Monday, and is meant to help bolster the region’s health-care system against being overwhelmed.

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Female coach Fatima Garsi opens first women-only Muslim gym in Canada

A female fitness coach in Canada has opened the first women’s only gym in North America targeting Muslim women specifically, in a move that is being hailed for its inclusivity.

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University of Toronto Uses Images of Terrorists to Promote Event

The University of Toronto’s Institute of Islamic Studies, Department of History, and Centre for the Study of the United States is today co-hosting an event called “Liberated Students in a Colonised Campus: Reflections on the Palestinian Experience at the University of Toronto.”

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Arrests, tickets and no answers: Toronto police continue crackdown on anti-lockdown protests

It was like déjà vu all over again at Queen’s Park in Toronto last Saturday. In the shadow of the cenotaph — a monument that commemorates those Canadians who gave their lives in numerous wars to preserve our rights and freedoms — members of the Toronto Police Service were ticketing and arresting anti-lockdown protesters who had the temerity to… display a sign… or wave a flag… or merely stand in a park doing absolutely nothing!

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