More than 1,700 new cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in Ontario today along with 35 more deaths, a tie for the highest single-day death toll since the start of the second wave of the pandemic.
Provincial health officials logged 1,723 new infections today, up slightly from the 1,707 recorded on Tuesday and the 1,373 confirmed one week ago.
Curfew not on the table to curb Toronto’s record COVID-19 spread: Tory
Top executives at CanSino Biologics — the Chinese company involved in a failed COVID-19 vaccine collaboration with Canada — were also part of a Chinese government program designed to incentivize people to transfer research and knowledge to China in exchange for salaries, funding and other benefits.
Several former Canadian Security Intelligence Service officials interviewed by Global News said that CanSino’s Canadian-educated scientists were likely seen as potential assets by Chinese Communist Party information collection networks.
And one of the Canadian security consultants, said the agency responsible for the CanSino collaboration— the National Research Council (NRC) — should have seen red flags surrounding a CanSino partnership.
Newly-released open data from the Ontario government confirms, just in time for the Christmas shopping season, that the entire provincial retail sector has only been directly linked to 106 cases of COVID-19 since the pandemic began.
That would account for less than 0.1% of the approximately 116,000 Ontario cases to date. That 106 is also not all shoppers acquiring the virus, but includes retail employees who have been infected by co-workers.
British officials authorized a COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use on Wednesday, green-lighting the world’s first shot against the virus that’s backed by rigorous science and taking a major step toward eventually ending the pandemic.
The go-ahead for the vaccine developed by American drugmaker Pfizer and Germany’s BioNTech comes as the virus surges again in the United States and Europe, putting pressure on hospitals and morgues in some places and forcing new rounds of restrictions that have devastated economies.
Multiple Canadian journalists and pundits are upset that Christians are trying to attend church during the coronavirus pandemic.
‘If it were up to me, anybody not wearing a mask when they are out in public would be arrested,’ Dr. Muntu Davis said.
The Trudeau Liberals’ fall economic statement stumbles through 200-plus pages of verbal political unreadable claptrap about building back better COVID-19 resilient green gender prudent fiscal stimulus affordable jumpstarted racial equality childcare climate solutions and employee stock option decisive dynamic Indigenous inclusive net-zero cross-border digital tax cut increases. At the end of this onslaught, which is all too typical of annual federal budgetary documents, Canadians are left with two big numbers.
After a week of being battered over the issue of Canadians getting COVID-19 vaccines later than other countries, the Trudeau Liberals attempted some defence on the issue. I’m not sure it worked.
The problem began last Tuesday when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that COVID vaccines are being produced in other countries and that Canadians would not get the first doses because, “Canada no longer has any domestic production capacity for vaccines.” That claim about Canadian vaccine production is false but let’s set that aside for now.
Everyone faces the health risks of this moment, but not everyone risks losing their business
People have picked up on some of the outside or secondary dimensions of the BBQ standoff.
The tight COVID regime has much to do with it, certainly. But leaking through the high thoughts about public health and personal responsibility are strands of comment and observation far distant from either.
Ontario reported 1,707 new COVID-19 cases and seven new deaths on Tuesday, as positivity province-wide climbed above 5 per cent and Toronto hit a new single-day record high.
“Locally, there are 727 new cases in Toronto, 373 in Peel and 168 in York Region,” Health Minister Christine Elliott said on Twitter.
9 out of 10 Canadians to change, cancel holiday plans amid coronavirus: poll
Canadians are preparing to make some big changes to their holiday plans this year, with a new poll showing that nine in 10 are planning to either modify or cancel this season’s events amid the country’s rising surge of new coronavirus cases.
According to new polling from Ipsos, over five in 10 Canadians said they would either reduce their contacts or socially distance more during the holidays, while a whole 34 per cent said they would be cancelling their holiday plans altogether.
Adamson Barbecue owner Adam Skelly urged small businesses to “open up” and “fight for freedom” after he was released on bail on Nov. 27.
Asked in an interview on Nov. 28 whether his message to “small business was open no matter what” still stands, Skelly told independent reporter Leigh Stuart he would stand by it.
A new poll suggests most Canadians aren’t currently worried that people in other countries might get a COVID-19 vaccine first.
Thirty-seven per cent of respondents to a survey conducted by Leger and the Association for Canadian Studies say they are very concerned that Canada may not receive doses of a new COVID vaccine as early as the United States.
