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Mon, 19 Apr 2021 19:00:25 EDT
Demand for AstraZeneca at pharmacies soars as the eligible age drops to 40
The new, lower age-range for AstraZeneca covers the second most likely cohort in Ontario to get COVID-19.

Mon, 19 Apr 2021 17:11:00 EDT
Money for seniors and vaccine production. Highlights of the federal budget
The 739-page federal budget proposes $101 billion in new spending.

Mon, 19 Apr 2021 16:10:00 EDT
Liberals promise $10-a-day child care with a federal budget that looks beyond the pandemic
While the federal Liberals say the first race is to defeat the coronavirus and beat back the pandemic, the federal budget makes clear Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his finance minister, Chrystia Freeland, have their eyes on a longer track and wou...

Mon, 19 Apr 2021 18:29:00 EDT
Doug Ford’s Tories pan the Trudeau Liberals’ budget
The pandemic marriage of convenience between Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives and Justin Trudeau’s Liberals may not be over, but the honeymoon is ending.

Mon, 19 Apr 2021 19:30:00 EDT
‘The damage has been done’ by Ontario’s short-lived plan for arbitrary police stops, experts say
The province walked back the plan almost immediately — but not before many saw it as another move toward further over-policing poor and racialized communities.

Mon, 19 Apr 2021 20:20:26 EDT
As the Derek Chauvin jury deliberates, a fenced-off, boarded-up, blockaded city braces itself for a verdict
Those people in the street, in Minneapolis and cities across the U.S., are not supposed to influence the jurors, who need to sort out fact from fiction and guilt from innocence based on the facts they’ve heard. But whatever they decide will certain...

Mon, 19 Apr 2021 21:05:00 EDT
Here are five Torontonians whose lives will change with Monday’s federal budget — and here’s how yours might, too
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland promised “feminist economic policy,” while trying to strike a balance between addressing the still-raging COVID-19 pandemic and helping the economy recover.

Mon, 19 Apr 2021 21:39:27 EDT
Forget provincial travel bans, B.C. wants to lock people inside their health regions
It’s a move that raises red flags and is likely to spark outrage as people await details.

Mon, 19 Apr 2021 20:56:00 EDT
Federal budget 2021: Here are the winners and the losers
Federal budget winners include parents, small business and environmentalists — restaurants, fiscal hawks and Canadians hoping for pharmacare, better luck next time

Mon, 19 Apr 2021 18:24:33 EDT
Ottawa budgets $1.5-billion extension of rapid housing program, but stops short of changes cities wanted
Local officials asked for flexibility on 12-month deadlines, more options for new builds.

Mon, 19 Apr 2021 18:09:00 EDT
How will the federal budget affect your access to government aid? Some programs have been extended and eligibility requirements have been changed for others
The federal government’s 2021 budget extends several support programs for Canadians facing unemployment and loss of income during the pandemic, including extending temporary changes to Employment Insurance

Mon, 19 Apr 2021 16:07:00 EDT
Government announces hiring credits for businesses, aid programs for the hard-hit tourism and arts industries
Canada Emergency Rent Subsidy and Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy expanded beyond June 5 deadline but will be gradually phased out by end of September.

Mon, 19 Apr 2021 15:09:00 EDT
‘We need to do a better job’: Doug Ford’s government admits it made mistakes with COVID-19 measures
Premier Doug Ford’s embattled Progressive Conservatives concede they “poorly communicated and poorly executed” measures designed to stop the spread of COVID-19.

Mon, 19 Apr 2021 05:48:00 EDT
Today’s coronavirus news: Ontario reports 4,447 new COVID cases; Ford government rejects NDP paid sick day motion, warns of AstraZenecca vaccine shipment delays
Meanwhile: Ontario and Quebec impose new interprovincial travel restrictions in effort to slow surging COVID-19 variants; Atlantic provinces consider whether to help Ontario out.



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