Beyond Local

With restaurants, bars, smaller workplaces, universities and other schools reopened, there is more opportunity for youth to get sick

Doctors shaping Ontario's pandemic response say the shift is necessary to preserve the province's testing capacity

The National Airlines Council of Canada says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government needs to "immediately come forward with a ... concrete plan" to help the travel sector recover

The provincial government is investing money in the province's testing strategy

While pandemic pods may seem relatively harmless, they are part of a growing trend towards education privatization that undermines public education and democracy, says associate prof

Opposition parties will give their official responses to Wednesday's speech from the throne but they've already signalled that Trudeau can't count on support from any of them to survive the eventual confidence vote and avoid plunging the country into an election in the midst of a second wave of the deadly COVID-19 pandemic

The premier has already announced the province will launch a bolstered flu shot campaign in the coming weeks

“COVID doesn't make you go to the bathroom more, but it does make you clean more"

Trudeau will also deliver a live address to the nation this evening

Ontario's school reopening plan requires parents to screen their children for COVID-19 symptoms