The province’s police watchdog is investigating after a 30-year-old man was shot during an interaction with police in Etobicoke Thursday afternoon. It happened in the area of Lake Shore Boulevard West and Twenty Fourth Street shortly after 4 p.m. Speaking to reporters, Duty Insp. Katherine Stephenson said officers responded to…

The top public health official in York Region says that he does not believe further restrictions are necessary to curb the spread of COVID-19 in his community, even though some indicators now point to the region being in worse shape than Toronto was when it was placed under a lockdown…

MIDDLESEX CENTRE, ONT. — The Middlesex-London Health Unit (MLHU) is reporting 43 new COVID-19 cases Thursday and two new deaths, pushing the region closer to a move into stronger restrictions. The new cases mark the second-highest daily case count the region has since the pandemic began in March, just shy…

A US mayor who flew off by private jet on holiday while urging residents to stay home is the latest politician to be accused of Covid-19 hypocrisy. Steve Adler, leader of Austin, Texas, went on a family getaway to Mexico as he told people to keep indoors amid spiralling virus…

TORONTO — One Ontario long-term care home continues to weather the pandemic without a single COVID-19 case. As long-term care homes continue to grapple with the second wave of COVID-19, the Mariann Home in Richmond Hill, Ont. has so far weathered the pandemic without a single case of COVID-19, which…

ARECIBO, PuertoRico – A huge, already damaged radio telescope in PuertoRico that has played a key role in astronomical discoveries for more than half a century completely collapsed on Tuesday. The telescope’s 900-ton receiver platform and the Gregorian dome – a structure as tall as a four-story building that houses…

A new study has found that the Ontario governments lockdowns in the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic had a positive effect in curbing the spread of the disease. The model-based analysis of those measures was conducted by researchers at York University, led by director of the laboratory for industrial…

LONDON – Britain became the first country in the world to authorize a rigorously tested COVID-19 vaccine Wednesday and could be dispensing shots within days – a historic step toward eventually ending the outbreak that has killed more than 1.4 million people around the globe. In giving the go-ahead for…

A new poll suggests most Canadians aren’t currently worried that people in other countries might get a COVID-19 vaccine first. Thirty-seven per cent of respondents to a survey conducted by Léger and the Association for Canadian Studies say they are very concerned that Canada may not receive doses of a…

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