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Health minister says Ontario not ready to release more detailed vaccine timeline

Health minister says Ontario not ready to release more detailed vaccine timeline

TORONTO — Ontario is not ready to release a detailed plan for its rollout of COVID-19 vaccines because its supply of the shots has been unreliable, the province's health minister said Tuesday.
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Snow day disrupts anticipated return to schools in Ontario virus hot spots

Snow day disrupts anticipated return to schools in Ontario virus hot spots

TORONTO — Winter weather in Ontario disrupted the students' anticipated return to in-class learning in some COVID-19 hot spots Tuesday, as the education minister reassured parents that new safety measures were sufficient to controlling COVID-19 sprea
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Police officer in Halton Region charged with assault, mischief

OAKVILLE, Ont. — A Halton region police officer faces criminal assault and mischief charges. Police say the charges stem from last April, when four officers responded to a man loitering in Oakville, Ont.
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Former Ontario Provincial Police superintendent charged with sexual assault

TORONTO — A former superintendent with the Ontario Provincial Police has been charged with sexual assault. The Special Investigations Unit says that it was contacted in July 2020 about a woman being assaulted.
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Ontario moves to change judicial appointments in effort to boost access to justice

TORONTO — The Ontario government introduced legislation Tuesday that would cement changes to how provincial judges are appointed, part of several reforms it said aim to increase access to justice.
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Quebec coroner postpones hearings into deaths at Herron nursing home to September

Quebec coroner postpones hearings into deaths at Herron nursing home to September

MONTREAL — A Quebec coroner on Tuesday reluctantly suspended part of her inquest into pandemic-related deaths at nursing homes, pushing to September hearings into one of the province's hardest-hit facilities.
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Two children hurt in snowplow incident at school in Whitby, Ont.

WHITBY, Ont. — Two children were hurt, one of them seriously, after an incident involving a snowplow at a school in Whitby, Ont. Durham regional police say the incident occurred around 9:40 a.m. at Julie Payette Public School. Const.
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Deadline today for written public submissions to Ontario's long-term care commission

Deadline today for written public submissions to Ontario's long-term care commission

TORONTO — Today is the deadline for written submissions from the public to the commission examining the devastating impact of COVID-19 on long-term care homes.
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WHO authorizes AstraZeneca's COVID vaccine for emergency use

WHO authorizes AstraZeneca's COVID vaccine for emergency use

TORONTO — The World Health Organization has granted an emergency authorization to AstraZeneca's coronavirus vaccine, a move that should allow the U.N. agency's partners to ship millions of doses to countries as part of a U.N.
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Inquest into Quebec long-term care deaths delayed after lawyer seeks postponement

Inquest into Quebec long-term care deaths delayed after lawyer seeks postponement

MONTREAL — A long-awaited coroner's inquest into COVID-19-related deaths at several Quebec long-term care homes was delayed Monday after a lawyer for one of the facilities asked for a postponement.
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