Toronto Star
Fri, 16 Apr 2021 18:18:00 EDTDoug Ford orders random police checks for motorists, closes golf courses and playgrounds in latest COVID-19 restrictions
Premier Doug Ford has ordered random police checks for motorists, closed playgrounds and golf courses, and put checkpoints at the Quebec and Manitoba borders under Ontario’s latest COVID-19 restrictions.
Fri, 16 Apr 2021 20:35:00 EDT‘Infuriating’ new COVID-19 measures ignore science table advice on stricter lockdown, paid sick days
Workplaces hardest hit by COVID-19 outbreaks remain untouched by Ford government’s new measures that also fail to provide paid sick days for low-income workers most likely to contract the virus.
Fri, 16 Apr 2021 21:05:00 EDT‘This is just bad public health policy’: New Ontario measures to curb COVID-19 draw fire
The number of weekly cases in Toronto is now 302 per 100,000 people, a record high.
Fri, 16 Apr 2021 19:11:36 EDTTransgender teen’s father hit with ‘denunciatory’ six-month jail term for flouting court orders, publication bans
One of the most “egregious” breaches, the judge said, was the release of court documents to a U.S.-based website that included the child’s proposed medical treatment plan, an informed consent form containing the child’s personal information a...
Fri, 16 Apr 2021 18:09:00 EDTOntario has announced further COVID-19 restrictions. Here’s what that means for Toronto
Premier Doug Ford has announced additional restrictions in the face of unprecedented COVID-19 infections.
Fri, 16 Apr 2021 05:38:00 EDTToday’s coronavirus news: Ontario police authorized to question, issue tickets for people outside the home; Tighter provincial borders enacted, stay-at-home order extended two weeks
Meanwhile: Unity Health Toronto is closing its clinics for first-dose COVID-19 vaccination appointments at St. Michael’s and St. Joseph’s hospitals, due to a shortage of vaccine.
Fri, 16 Apr 2021 20:00:38 EDTCivil liberties watchdogs say stay-at-home order opens door to ‘return to carding’
Officers’ new power to pull over vehicles and inquire about the reason for the trip is being described as an unconstitutional change that will ‘cause a rash of racial profiling.’
Fri, 16 Apr 2021 17:36:02 EDTCanada’s first major workplace COVID vaccination clinic could be the model for large employers across Canada
Alberta Health Services says the pilot project will help them expand to other meat-packing plants in the province.
Fri, 16 Apr 2021 20:32:00 EDTOntario asks for COVID help — but here’s why the Canadian cavalry may not come
The Canadian Medical Association on Friday also called for sharing provincial health-care resources and dropping the per-capita approach to vaccine distribution, to address the COVID-19 crisis unfolding unevenly across Canada.
Fri, 16 Apr 2021 14:14:59 EDTThe systemic failures of Toronto Police and missing persons cases
A serial killer who preyed on men for almost a decade. A daughter whose body was found by her mother 100 feet from where she went missing. A woman whose remains could have been identified sooner. These are some of the cases retired justice Gloria Eps...
Fri, 16 Apr 2021 22:14:40 EDTThe revolving-door Raptors rely on Paul Watson and Yuta Watanabe to beat the Magic
Watson scores career-high 30 points in his first NBA start, Watanabe chips in with 21.