60% higher risk of death from coronavirus variants, Ontario analysis finds: sources
Variants of the virus behind COVID-19 double the risk of someone being admitted to intensive care — and increase the risk of death by roughly 60 per…
Hundreds of ICU patients transferred between Ontario hospitals as COVID-19 admissions rise
For Toronto critical care physician Dr. Jamie Spiegelman, nearly every workday involves sending a handful of COVID-19 patients to other intensive care units.Sometimes that means transferring those…
‘People are talking about the same things they talked about back then’: COVID stirs up memories of polio
When Elizabeth Lounsbury was eight years old, she snuck out of the house to go swimming with her friends.She had been taught to fear polio, a virus…
Manitoba First Nations race to deliver 100,000 shots in 100 days
First Nations leaders in Manitoba are racing against an early spring melt and the onset of new COVID-19 variants to vaccinate all adults in all 63 First…
Nearly 200,000 Ontarians aged 80 and older have not signed up for a COVID-19 vaccination
A little under three-quarters of Ontarians age 80 and older have either been vaccinated against COVID-19 or have signed up for a shot, a proportion that has…
An animated history of elections gone sideways in N.L.
Burned ballots, angry mobs, candidates tossed in jail: elections in Newfoundland & Labrador have seen it all. (Katie Rowe/CBC)With its shifting deadlines, mail-in ballots and pandemic politics,…
In nurses’ firing, union calls for due process, while First Nations leaders hope broader concerns aren’t lost
The two nurses accused of racist treatment against an Atikamekw woman should not have been fired before the incident was investigated fully, a representative for the local…
Ontario to (finally) pull the plug on fax machines in public service
For the generation comfortable communicating using only emojis or through TikTok videos, it's a baffling sight still found in many offices: a bulky photocopier-type machine hooked up…
Mom vows to fight for daughter who died by suicide in hospital psychiatric unit
Hillary Hooper was so desperate to find help for her depression, she took her boyfriend's gun in the middle of the night, drove to the local high…
A year of misfortune: How the global pandemic has battered N.L.’s oil and gas industry
Amanda Young had her dream job as a cook on the Terra Nova FPSO, one of four oil-producing platforms in offshore Newfoundland and Labrador."We all thought that…
Military conducted secret investigation of reservist Patrik Mathews as a possible terrorist threat
The military's counter-intelligence unit secretly investigated Patrik Mathews — a former Manitoba army reservist and alleged recruiter for a neo-Nazi group — as a possible terrorist threat…