The more contagious U.K. variant of COVID-19 is expected to become the “dominant” strain hitting Ontario in March, making it hard to predict when more businesses and schools can reopen despite a recent decline in case levels, public health offici...

Epidemiologist called the misreporting a “proxy indicator for competence.” He continued: “You start to wonder, is the data-processing system in the backbone of public health in Ontario broken fundamentally?”

Some of the young investors who piled in say it’s more about revenge than money. ‘It’s literally about sending a message to billionaires that retail (investors) are here and we will hold you accountable.’

Cicely Tyson, the pioneering Black actor who won two Emmys, a Tony, and received an Oscar nomination over the course of her career, is being remembered as a "a queen and a trailblazer."

As 280,000 children return to in-person learning on Monday, rising cases of the virus in northern schools have generated concerns around the province’s school reopening plan.

Maj. Gen. Dany Fortin, the head of Ottawa’s vaccine rollout, said the data showing a drop in expected vaccines is based on different calculations for the number of doses in each vaccine vial sent to Canada.

The Star talked to lecturer Christine Dupont, in the department of biology at the University of Waterloo, to explain the work scientists are doing to unlock the genetic codes that are key to fighting the virus and what they’ve discovered so far.

Meanwhile, the impact of COVID-19 on intensive care units remains “alarming” despite a recent steadying of the number of patients treated there, says a group representing Ontario’s hospitals.

Julie Payette’s resignation from the governor general’s post is evidence that no one is too powerful to fail as a workplace boss, says Justin Trudeau.

Employees, past and present, reported “allegations of yelling, screaming, aggressive conduct, demeaning comments and public humiliations,” an independent report reveals.

The bylaws, which enforce physical distancing and wearing masks in public, as well as rules around restaurants and bars, were scheduled to expire next week.