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Tue, 1 Feb 2022 18:17:00 EST
What would happen to Canada’s health-care system if the trucker protesters got their way?
Experts say it might not be a public health disaster to lift all pandemic health restrictions. But it could be.

Tue, 1 Feb 2022 19:50:00 EST
Erin O’Toole is in the fight of his political life as leadership challenge looms
The Conservative leader and his team worked furiously to salvage his leadership Tuesday.

Tue, 1 Feb 2022 16:58:00 EST
‘No rule was ever broken:’ CRTC chair Ian Scott says meeting with Bell executive was a drink with a friend
CRTC chair Ian Scott replies to critics calling for his resignation.

Tue, 1 Feb 2022 14:39:00 EST
Alberta RCMP assaulted in attempt to remove Coutts border blockade, Kenney says
A blockade of some 100 trucks has been in place on the north side of the crossing between Alberta and Montana.

Tue, 1 Feb 2022 12:26:15 EST
Move on, Doug Ford tells anti-vaxxers protesting in Ottawa
Hit the road. That’s the message from the premier to anti-vaxxers whose protest has shut down streets and businesses around Parliament Hill.

Tue, 1 Feb 2022 19:20:26 EST
A Vancouver Olympics, again? Maybe — but with four First Nations leading the pitch, it’s no 2010 reprise
‘This time they say they’re going to walk behind us,’ says Musqueam Chief of Indigenous-led Olympic effort.

Tue, 1 Feb 2022 05:33:00 EST
Today’s coronavirus news: Ontario reporting 3,091 people hospitalized with COVID-19; Quebec scrapping proposed tax on the unvaccinated
Meanwhile, Quebec's COVID-19 hospitalizations are continuing their slow decline as the province reports 63 new deaths linked to the pandemic.

Tue, 1 Feb 2022 10:56:00 EST
As many as 4M Ontarians caught COVID-19 in the Omicron wave, science table estimates
Speeding the pace of vaccinations and boosters will help keep hospitalizations down, the science table says.

Tue, 1 Feb 2022 14:30:17 EST
‘Cautious optimism’ Omicron has peaked, but uptick likely from reopening, says Toronto’s health chief
Dr. Eileen de Villa said Tuesday getting vaccinated remains the best protection against the virus.

Tue, 1 Feb 2022 10:28:12 EST
More rapid tests coming to Ontario schools, Education Minister Stephen Lecce says
School boards are now to send out the additional 3.6 million rapid antigen tests, and biweekly from now on.

Tue, 1 Feb 2022 17:59:23 EST
Review: Toufah Jarrow stood up to a dictator, launched an African #MeToo Movement, all while working in a Toronto call centre to pay the bills
In her memoir, written with Kim Pittaway, The Gambia-born Toufah details her story in a Le Carré-like pace few will want to put down

Tue, 1 Feb 2022 12:20:00 EST
Tiny shelters: Alliance wants to build ‘dignified’ community for homeless on downtown Hamilton site
Local group models project after A Better Tent City, a 50-resident community in Kitchener



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