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Sat, 10 Apr 2021 20:03:00 EDT
‘How disconnected do you have to be?’ Trudeau rallies Liberal convention with stinging attacks on Conservatives
No griping and technical glitches. No embarassing policy divide. Instead, the three-day Liberal policy convention that ended Saturday was a veritable lovefest that was all raw politics, all the time.

Sat, 10 Apr 2021 21:19:13 EDT
‘It’s just one injustice after the other.’ Seven arrested in Mississauga rally against Ejaz Choudry ruling
The demonstration, which started around 1 p.m. Saturday at the intersection of Morning Star Dr. and Goreway Dr., was sparked by the police killing of a 62-year-old man in 2020.

Sat, 10 Apr 2021 07:00:00 EDT
‘Pretty scary scenarios’ as COVID-hit ICUs to begin measures including forced transfers, training doctors to be critical-care nurses
With COVID patients in ICU expected to reach 600 next week, Ontario hospitals are desperate to keep up with an accelerating case curve.

Sat, 10 Apr 2021 10:13:00 EDT
How Toronto police will enforce rules during stay-at-home order
Police said they’ll focus on circumstances of non-compliance, such as non-essential businesses operating with indoor service or complaint calls of large gatherings.

Sat, 10 Apr 2021 21:14:00 EDT
Corey Conners’ hole-in-one turns into a whole-town-for-one celebration in tiny Listowel
The Canadian golfer’s ace on the sixth hole of Augusta National put him among the leaders at the Masters on Saturday.

Sat, 10 Apr 2021 22:04:00 EDT
Auston Matthews picks on the Senators again, and leads Leafs to win with third career hat trick
Goaltender Campbell sets NHL record with 11th straight win to start a season.

Sat, 10 Apr 2021 17:17:00 EDT
‘Eventually we will run out of places to move patients.’ Doctors plead for more support as ICUs face worst-case scenario
Ontario doesn’t have enough staff to operate the province’s 2,300 ICU beds as critical cases swell in the wake of a third COVID wave.

Sat, 10 Apr 2021 08:17:00 EDT
Today’s coronavirus news: Four players test positive for COVID at curling championship in Calgary; Ontario reports 3,813 new cases, 19 deaths; 572 COVID patients now in Ontario ICUs
Meanwhile, Toronto Mayor John Tory received his first AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine shot at a pharmacy Saturday morning.

Sat, 10 Apr 2021 17:38:00 EDT
Despite long lines, Thorncliffe Park residents are ‘excited’ to get the jab at this pop-up clinic
Community organizations and word of mouth helped get the word out at one of Toronto’s hardest-hit neighbourhoods.

Fri, 9 Apr 2021 07:00:00 EDT
The province offered 5,000 vaccines to reopen shuttered Amazon warehouse. Here’s why Peel’s medical officer declined
“Getting people vaccinated, even over that weekend, would not have reopened the plant,” says Peel’s Medical Officer of Health Dr. Lawrence Loh.

Fri, 9 Apr 2021 07:29:00 EDT
‘Dynamic, irascible, exasperating, intriguing.’ Prince Philip dead at 99
At the royal couple’s 50th-anniversary lunch in 1997, Queen Elizabeth said “he has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I, and his whole family, owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim or wish to know.”

Thu, 8 Apr 2021 13:05:28 EDT
She accused a university prof of sexual assault. Now he’s suing for defamation. Some fear the ‘landmark’ case could have a chilling effect
Steven Galloway, the author of the award-winning novel “The Cellist of Sarajevo” and former head of the University of British Columbia’s creative writing program, was accused in 2015 by a former student of sexual harassment and sexual assault.



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