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Northerners were hit worse by the pandemic than rest of Ontario, study finds

Northern Ontario was disproportionately affected by the pandemic, according to the Northern Policy Institute.

Given how different life is in the north, the Timmins Chamber of Commerce's senior policy analyst, Cameron Grant, echoed calls from the NPI for more regional and data-based approaches to these situations in future emergencies. (File photo)

Coronavirus: What you need to know

VACCINES EXPLAINED

A healthcare worker gets ready to administer a COVID-19 vaccine in Portland, Ore., Sunday, Jan. 10, 2021. (Kristyna Wentz-Graff/Pool Photo via AP)

COVID-19 IN CANADA

People receive their COVID-19 vaccination at the Ontario Food Terminal in Toronto on Tuesday May 11, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn

AROUND THE WORLD

People wait to receive vaccine for COVID-19 outside a vaccination centre in Mumbai, India, Thursday, May 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)

HOW IT AFFECTS ME

Mother putting a face mask on her daughter. (August de Richelieu/ Pexels)

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Pandemic harder on northerners

Northern Ontario was disproportionately affected by the pandemic, according to NPI. Timmins Chamber of Commerce's, Cameron Grant, agrees.

Timmins Chamber offers rapid COVID testing kits

The Timmins Chamber of Commerce is once again offering free rapid antigen screening kits to businesses and organizations in the region.

Health Canada OKs vaccine for children under 5

Thursday, Canada's drug regulator approved Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine for infants and preschoolers for the first time.

Your Finances During the Crisis

How rising interest rates are making GICs more attractive for investors

Rising interest rates might be bad news for Canadians with mortgages, but it also means higher rates on savings vehicles such as guaranteed investment certificates (GICs), prompting renewed interest in the investments.

Coins are seen stacked in this stock photo. (Pixabay / Pexels)

How to get into the housing market if you're gen Z or millennial

For millennial and gen Z Canadians, owning a home in this real estate market might seem like a pipe dream. In an exclusive column for CTVNews,ca personal finance contributor Christopher Liew offers some strategies to consider if you can’t afford the housing market yet.

Is Canada's 'historic' housing correction affecting your plans to buy or sell? CTVNews.ca wants to hear from you

Following a series of interest rate hikes, Canada's housing market is now facing a 'historic' correction. CTVNews.ca wants to hear from Canadians looking to buy or sell homes in a changing market landscape.

How one Canadian family of five is coping with the highest inflation in years

With inflation rising at its fastest pace in nearly 40 years, the cost of everything from food to gas has skyrocketed. Canadians across the country are feeling squeezed, but big families with multiple children are at times shouldering much of the higher costs — and changing demographics and consumer patterns have left some of them more exposed to inflation than in previous generations.

Old age security increase leaves out many seniors, non-profit says

The Canadian Association for Retired Persons is raising alarms about the increase in old age security only being made eligible for those 75 and above.

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Homicide arrest made by Sudbury police

Police now confirm the incident on Aug. 11 on Spruce Street in Sudbury is considered a homicide.

A psychiatrist helped end a seven-hour standoff in Sudbury over the weekend where a man first threatened people with a machete, then threatened to shoot police. (File)

HWY 17 reopened

Highway 17 has reopened following a collision.

One person dead following ATV collision

One person is dead following an ATV collision Saturday afternoon.

On June 30 at approximately 1:15 a.m., the East Algoma Ontario Provincial Police were conducting general patrol duties on Hutchison Avenue in Elliot Lake when they observed a known person walking along the sidewalk who was breaching prior release conditions. (File Photo)

Search for missing boy ends tragically

Ontario Provincial Police have concluded their search,

Canada tops Czechia 5-1 in world junior hockey championship

Canada improved it record to three wins and no losses Saturday at the world junior hockey championship in Edmonton after scoring a 5-1 win against Czechia.

North Bay football field named after Mike O'Shea

The North Bay native was in town Saturday for the announcement.

14-year-old facing break and enter and weapons charges in Timmins

Timmins police continue to deal with young offenders this week as a 14-year-old is facing multiple charges, according to a news release Friday.

Canadian literary figures double down on free speech following Salman Rushdie attack

Canadian writers, publishers and literary figures doubled down on the right to freedom of thought and expression on Saturday, one day after an attack on award-winning author Salman Rushdie that left him hospitalized and on a ventilator.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz coming to Canada to meet with Justin Trudeau, business leaders

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will accompany the chancellor of Germany, Olaf Scholz, on a brief Canadian visit later this month that will include stops in Montréal, Toronto and Stephenville in western Newfoundland, his office announced on Saturday.

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Agent: Rushdie off ventilator and talking, day after attack

'The Satanic Verses' author Salman Rushdie was taken off a ventilator and able to talk Saturday, a day after he was stabbed as he prepared to give a lecture in upstate New York.

This still image from video shows a man, at left, being escorted from the stage as people tend to author Salman Rushdie, centre right, at the Chautauqua Institution, in Chautauqua, N.Y., Aug. 12, 2022. (AP Photo)

Arizona parents arrested trying to get in locked-down school

Police arrested three Arizona parents, shocking two of them with stun guns, as they tried to force their way into a school that police locked down Friday after an armed man was seen trying to get on campus, authorities said.

Parent of child with rare form of epilepsy distressed over N.S. ER closures

Kristen Hayes lives close to the hospital in Yarmouth, N.S., but she says that twice in the past month, her son, who has a rare form of epilepsy, has been taken by ambulance to the emergency room there, only to be left waiting.

Feds quietly change rules to allow one-time ArriveCAN exemption at land border crossings

The Canada Border Services Agency is temporarily allowing fully vaccinated travellers a one-time exemption to not be penalized if they were unaware of the health documents required through ArriveCAN.

Fire at Coptic church in Cairo kills 41, hurts 14

A fire ripped through a church in a densely populated neighbourhood of the Egyptian capital of Cairo on Sunday, leaving at least 41 dead and injuring 14, the country's Coptic Church said.