Ontario faced a shortage of personal protective equipment at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in part because it did not replenish its stockpiles over the previous years, an independent commission examining the impact of the health crisis on long-term care has heard. Ontario’s former deputy minister of health and long-term care, Bob Bell, told … Read more
ST. CATHARINES, Ont. — A physician who travelled internationally over the holidays against public health advice was out of his CEO job at one Ontario hospital Thursday while another hospital board was reconsidering his executive position. Niagara Health said Wednesday that it’s no longer purchasing CEO services from St. Joseph’s Health System, replacing Dr. Tom … Read more
Police are investigating an armed robbery of the pharmacy adjacent to Food Basics in Grimsby. Niagara police say that two armed men entered the store at 63 Main Street West Wednesday at 9:15 a.m. They demanded a woman’s purse and narcotics from employees says the NRPS. Police reported it was the “Food Basics Pharmacy” but … Read more
TORONTO — The Ontario government is launching a new innovative, voluntary and free border testing pilot program at Toronto Pearson International Airport for eligible international travellers returning to Ontario to help quickly identify and stop the spread of COVID-19 in the province. Details were provided today at Pearson airport by Premier Doug Ford, Christine Elliott, … Read more
Niagara communities will be receiving shipments of the COVID-19 vaccines early next week, with more each week thereafter, said Niagara West MPP Sam Oosterhoff. In a press advisory, Oosterhoff said: “Many in Niagara have raised the urgent need for COVID-19 vaccine in our region. I have spoken with Premier Ford, the Ministry of Health, and the … Read more
Niagara Region has seen two spikes in its COVID-19 death toll in recent days and the people who are dying are residents of retirement and long care facilities, said the region’s acting medical officer. Through the fall, the death toll was holding at around 99. However, over the Christmas weekend, Niagara Region Public Health reported … Read more
A fourth COVID-19 case this week, and the seventh overall, has been confirmed at St. Michael Catholic High School.
There have been four people charged with an alleged criminal impaired driving offence in the Niagara Region for the period Dec. 21-Dec. 27.
Ontario and the Niagara Region report new daily records with 2,553 new COVID-19 cases reported in the province and 138 cases reported in the region.
The new West Niagara Secondary School has been approved by the province to go to tender. That means the District School Board of Niagara will start to take bids from construction companies to build the new project next month. Construction is expected to start in the Spring of 2021 and be completed within 18 months, … Read more