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CANADA: Trudeau says Ontario sick leave should be delivered directly through employers

CANADA: Trudeau says Ontario sick leave should be delivered directly through employers

The prime minister says Ontario should work through provincially regulated businesses to implement a sick-leave program, as his government did with federally regulated workplaces
ONTARIO: Migrant farm workers need COVID protection, coroner report says

ONTARIO: Migrant farm workers need COVID protection, coroner report says

The report recommends putting isolation centres in place, setting up an anonymous phone line for reporting concerns, and conducting random tests for COVID-19
CANADA: People view Derek Chauvin guilty verdict in George Floyd death as good news, poll finds

CANADA: People view Derek Chauvin guilty verdict in George Floyd death as good news, poll finds

Jury found Chauvin guilty of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter after he knelt on Floyd's neck for more than nine minutes last year
BEYOND LOCAL: How the pandemic has forced parents' hands on data collection, privacy issues

BEYOND LOCAL: How the pandemic has forced parents' hands on data collection, privacy issues

With the latest return to online school, children’s data continues to be collected
Ontario preparing for military support to help overburdened health-care system

Ontario preparing for military support to help overburdened health-care system

The federal government said the Canadian Armed Forces would deploy up to three teams of nurses and medical technicians to help Ontario's overburdened health-care system, much as it did during the pandemic's first wave
Future nurses, doctors want lessons from pandemic to create better health-care system

Future nurses, doctors want lessons from pandemic to create better health-care system

Nurses, doctors, respiratory therapists and others working with COVID-19 patients were becoming physically and mentally exhausted as some hospitals filled up, deaths climbed and vaccines were not yet a reality
One forest fire under control near Wawa: MNRF

One forest fire under control near Wawa: MNRF

Fire near Wawa is one of two burning in the northeast region
BEYOND LOCAL: Prof says vaccine side effects don't indicate how your immune system will protect you from COVID-19

BEYOND LOCAL: Prof says vaccine side effects don't indicate how your immune system will protect you from COVID-19

Professor of medicine says it’s not a bad sign if you feel fine after your COVID-19 shot
Ontario Parks to crack down on people reselling sites

Ontario Parks to crack down on people reselling sites

As of Saturday, reselling sites for profit will not be permitted
ONTARIO: Barrie PSW fighting for his life since mid-January has 'very successful' double lung transplant, family says

ONTARIO: Barrie PSW fighting for his life since mid-January has 'very successful' double lung transplant, family says

PSW got sick with COVID-19 when the virus claimed the lives of 71 people in 41 days at Roberta Place long-term care home in Barrie