Timmins health unit reports 13 more COVID cases Friday, making 42 new cases in three days
The Porcupine Health Unit reported 13 new COVID-19 cases Friday among residents in the health unit area.
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Free tests being made available to businesses
The Ontario government has announced free tests are being made available to small and medium sized essential business across the region.
Sault still behind province with vaccines
Algoma Public Health says a shortage and a delayed start to vaccinating the public, means it can't lower its age limit from 60 and over.
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The federal government has not extended the April 30 tax deadline for 2020 returns, and accountants say that’s leaving some Canadians in a lurch.
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With income tax deadlines approaching, the federal government is warnings that filing late could mean delays of up to two months for anyone hoping to receive any of the various COVID-19 financial relief benefits.
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Worker and patient advocates in multiple provinces are calling for permanent paid sick days, arguing that the federal COVID-19 sick leave benefit has too many restrictions for lower-income, precarious and migrant workers.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is reminding front-line workers about the availability of a federal sick leave benefit, and is offering premiers more help to speed up their vaccine rollouts as the country faces a third major surge in new cases.
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The place of gig workers has become a key issue in ongoing deliberation on how the decades-old employment insurance system will be updated.
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'We have hope ahead': Health official believes worst of Ontario's third wave is behind us
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OPP in the Sault cleared in case where less-lethal weapon was fired at violent suspect
Ontario Provincial Police in Sault Ste. Marie have been cleared in a January incident where a less-lethal weapon was fired at a violent suspect who came at them with a knife.
Environment Canada upgrades 80s technology with state-of-the-art weather system
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Don't rely on media for accurate information about Laurentian, president tells students
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Online threat prompts closure of three Thornbury businesses
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Ontario sheds 153,000 jobs in April following tightening of public health restrictions
Nearly 153,000 jobs were lost in Ontario last month as the province implemented enhanced public measures to blunt the transmission of COVID-19 in the pandemic’s third wave.
Timmins health unit reports 13 more COVID cases Friday, making 42 new cases in three days
The Porcupine Health Unit reported 13 new COVID-19 cases Friday among residents in the health unit area.
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Why some people might want to get a COVID-19 shot in their thigh instead of their arm
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Why do soccer players miss penalty kicks? It’s all in the brain, study shows
Why do some athletes choke while others succeed in high pressure moments? A brain study on soccer players who miss during those hushed, tension-filled penalty kicks may provide a clue on why they’re unsuccessful.
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Justin Trudeau stopped well short Friday of endorsing efforts to lift the veil on the trade secrets behind COVID-19 vaccines, insisting instead that Canada is already doing plenty to improve access to doses around the world.
Suspected overdose death of 12-year-old pushes government to 'do better': Minister
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'We did not know what the complaint was about': Telford says of Vance allegation
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