Day: January 11, 2021

Multiple levels of government are striving to prevent infected travellers from bringing the coronavirus to Ontario from abroad, but experts warn regional movement remains a far greater driver of transmission. But it may also be a trickier form of travel to curb.

Intensive care nurse Andrea Kosloski describes the vaccine as a “snippet of hope” after what has been a long, rough year. Kosloski gives a raw account of the mental toll of the pandemic, including bouts of rage, crying, and panic attacks.

Ontario’s latest COVID-19 modelling will project the province’s intensive care units to be be filled beyond capacity by early February, and will also show how a new more contagious variant of the coronavirus risks accelerating the spread of infections, sources tell CBC News. 

Canada and its closest military allies have exchanged important global health warnings and assessments for decades, but newly released documents show the Public Health Agency of Canada did not examine classified information about COVID-19 — something one intelligence expert calls a strategic failure.

A father-and-son team of rookie inventors say they pitched their patent-pending COVID-safe lid applicator to Tim Hortons, and got a good response. But after the deal fell apart over a price dispute, they say the chain took their idea without paying a cent.