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Tue, 5 Oct 2021 20:37:23 EDT
Trudeau to announce vaccination mandate for all federal public servants
The mandate, to be announced Wednesday morning, is expected to apply not only to full-time staff but to casual employees and students.

Tue, 5 Oct 2021 15:40:00 EDT
‘It doesn’t make any sense’: Canadians can fly to the United States, but driving across the border is still against the rules
The U.S. land border has been closed to most Canadians for more than 18 months, and there’s no sign that it’s about to reopen soon, Edward Keenan writes.

Tue, 5 Oct 2021 19:38:00 EDT
Your chance of being exempt from a COVID-19 vaccination should be 1 in 20,000. If you’re one of Doug Ford’s MPPs, it’s 1 in 35
Ontario’s chief medical officer says the narrow list of legitimate medical exemptions from COVID-19 vaccinations means just “one to five in 100,000” Ontarians should qualify for one.

Tue, 5 Oct 2021 05:00:00 EDT
This man helped set up hundreds of offshore firms for rich clients. His case shows how Canada has ‘turned a blind eye’ to cracking down on offshore tax schemes
In Canada, no charges have been laid in the wake of the 2016 Panama Papers leak.

Tue, 5 Oct 2021 15:02:16 EDT
Toronto police arrest suspect in connection to stabbing incident at North York high school
Toronto police located a stabbing victim outside George S. Henry Academy near Don Mills and York Mills roads in North York Thursday afternoon.

Tue, 5 Oct 2021 05:46:00 EDT
Today’s coronavirus news: Trudeau to announce vaccination mandate for all federal public servants; Ontario reports 429 new cases; Alberta resumes COVID contact tracing in schools
Meanwhile, Gasoline sales plunge to lowest level in 20 years during first year of pandemic

Tue, 5 Oct 2021 20:55:00 EDT
Toronto police are (once again) using a downtown public plaza as a station parking lot
Toronto police say they are using the plaza outside 52 Division — where police parking has been a hot-button issue for at least two decades — because it is the “least intrusive” solution to the problem of traffic caused by officers using a de...

Tue, 5 Oct 2021 10:57:10 EDT
Ontario to roll out rapid testing for unvaccinated students in COVID-19 hot spots
The home screening tests are intended for unvaccinated students — currently, students under 12 are not eligible for shots — with no symptoms and who are not considered high-risk contacts of a case.

Tue, 5 Oct 2021 05:00:00 EDT
He can’t wait to be vaccinated for COVID-19 — but his preferred jab hasn’t been approved yet
The people in Canada who are not yet vaccinated are a diverse group with different motivations. Many aren’t anti-vaxxers and say they can’t wait to be vaccinated, they’re just not comfortable with currently available technology.

Tue, 5 Oct 2021 10:53:00 EDT
‘We are sorry’: Facebook apologizes and explains Monday’s global outage
Social media services Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram are back up and running after an outage that lasted almost six hours Monday. The company says configuration changes caused “issues” that interrupted the flow of traffic between routers in its da...

Tue, 5 Oct 2021 06:00:00 EDT
New Zealand has ditched its ‘COVID-Zero’ strategy. Will proponents in Canada do the same?
COVID-Zero fans who form a loud opposition to Canada’s public health officials in favour of heavier restrictions have often cited New Zealand as a role model.

Tue, 5 Oct 2021 10:00:00 EDT
Statement: Canadian media united in support of journalists against online hate, threats and harassment
A statement from journalists and newsrooms against those who seek to silence their stories and threaten their safety.



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