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Ontario churches look to take COVID-19 battle to Supreme Court of Canada

Descrease article font size Increase article font size Two churches in southwestern Ontario are looking to head to Canada’s highest court in the latest chapter of their battles with the province over the COVID-19 pandemic. The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCFC), which represents the Aylmer Church of God and …

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Lack of Ontario long COVID strategy risks care: ministry documents

TORONTO — Ontario’s lack of a long COVID strategy has led the health sector to cobble together “fragmented” clinics that are at risk of closure and may lead to little to no support for patients, internal Ministry of Health documents warn. Long COVID is not yet well understood, but the …

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B.C. pastor, fined $2,300 for holding gathering during pandemic, loses appeal – Okanagan

A pastor in B.C.’s Interior who challenged a $2,300 violation ticket for holding a public gathering during the COVID-19 pandemic had his appeal dismissed this week. In a decision posted on April 26, a B.C. Supreme Court judge ruled that Pastor Arthur Charles Lucier of Kelowna Harvest Church had indeed …

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B.C. doctor suing Interior Health for wrongful suspension – Okanagan

A B.C. doctor is suing Interior Health, claiming he was wrongfully suspended for bringing up vaccination concerns during the COVID-19 pandemic. The civil claim by Dr. Charles Hoffe, who says he was an emergency room doctor and a family physician, was filed in Kelowna Supreme Court on Monday, April 24. …

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New downtown exhibit compares Winnipeg’s COVID-19 response to the Spanish Flu – Winnipeg

A new exhibit in downtown Winnipeg is comparing the city’s response to the COVID-19 virus in 2020 to the Spanish Flu that spread across the world in 1918. It’s in the Millennium centre and run by Heritage Winnipeg every day until March 31. It is drawing parallels between the two …

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After 3 years of COVID-19, here’s how Canada’s ‘endemic’ future may look – National

On March 11, 2020, the world came to a screeching halt when the World Health Organization declared the COVID–19 outbreak a global pandemic. Schools across the world shut down, workplaces turned remote and the fast-spreading virus revealed the fragility of many countries’ health-care systems. Since then, the virus has claimed …

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Ontario public health units press province for more stable funding

TORONTO — Ontario’s public health units are calling on the government to stop using one-time funding to bridge a gap it created four years ago, and to provide them with a predictable source of money as they address a backlog of services built up over the COVID-19 pandemic. Premier Doug …

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Kids COVID-19 vaccination ‘complex’ decision for parents, study shows

To vaccinate or not to vaccinate against COVID-19? It has been a challenging and polarizing decision for parents in Canada during the coronavirus pandemic. A study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) Tuesday sheds light on the concerns parents have and what they consider when deciding whether or …

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Masking alone wouldn’t have eased Ontario’s respiratory virus surge in the fall: PHO document

TORONTO — Introducing a mask mandate when respiratory viruses surged in the fall may not have eased the crush on pediatric hospitals, a Public Health Ontario science brief obtained by The Canadian Press concludes. The brief — which was not proactively made public, unlike the reports done by the now-defunct …

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What happened when COVID-19 skeptical legal cases made it to court in Ontario?

In October 2021, a handful of protesters loyal to the QAnon conspiracy movement gathered outside a public health building in eastern Ontario. “You are interfering with them being served,” a security guard standing in front of the Peterborough Public Health building was told by one protester in a video posted …

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