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Rob Ferguson

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3 years

NEW: In the wake of the Hamilton public school board passing a motion to continue masking past March 21, Education Minister @Sflecce issues directive that all school boards are to follow the provincial plan to lift masking on that date in schools. #onpoli

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BREAKING: Ontario lowering maximum gathering size to 5 and bringing in penalties of up to $100,000 fines and a year in jail for individuals caught price gouging #COVID19 #onpoli

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Del Duca to Ford: "You have a moral obligation to get public health care right and you, sir, failed this province." #onpoli

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4 years

BREAKING: In another sign of crisis enveloping Ford gov’t, @AndreaHorwath issues statement saying it has approached NDP seeking to suspend legislature later this week. Says NDP won’t agree unless paid sick days legislated. #onpoli

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3 years

NEW: Ontario Health Minister @celliottability says can't resume non-emergency, non-urgent surgeries until early-mid Feb if hospital ICU numbers fall from current levels. Premier Ford is asked why restaurants, gyms can reopen before those surgeries. #onpoli

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Asked why Ontario won't make #COVID19 vaccines mandatory for school attendance (along with other shots), chief medical officer Moore says because it's a new vaccine. "We want more experience with it before we mandate it." #onpoli

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The premier’s nephew Michael Ford is sworn in as citizenship and multiculturalism minister, a choice that is raising eyebrows for a few reasons. #onpoli

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Ontario Liberal ldr @StevenDelDuca says it’s a mistake to lift masking in schools the Monday they return from MArch break. #onpoli

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4 years

BREAKING: The science table advising Ford gov’t releases brief saying only truly essential workplaces should remain open, pushes paid sick days, argues against outdoor activity restrictions, urges people to stay close to home. #onpoli

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4 years

NEW: Remember a year ago when just about everything was closed and the streets were pretty much devoid of traffic? “We need to go back to that,” says associate Ontario medical officer Dr Barbara Yaffe. #onpoli #COVID19

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2 years

NEW: Liberals would bring in a hard cap of 20 students per class by hiring 10,000 more elementary and secondary teachers, @StevenDelDuca says. #onpoli

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Liberal ldr @StevenDelDuca slams PC rival Doug Ford for “engaging in a pity party for himself” in the debate by saying how hard he worked in pandemic. “That’s the job we’re running for,” Del Duca says, it’s “not all sunshine and smiles.” #onpoli

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3 years

The Ontario Health Coalition is calling for a return to widespread free PCR testing for #COVID19 (not just for select groups). This comes with cases up 18.4% and hospitalizations up 24% in the last week. PCR testing has been limited since Omicron swamped Ont. late Dec. #onpoli

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Long-Term Care Minister @DrFullertonMPP is now blaming NDP Leader @AndreaHorwath -- who has never been in power and used to ride the previous Liberal govt hard on not doing enough for nursing homes -- for the debacle with #COVID19 in nursing homes. #onpoli

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3 years

Ontario Liberal Leader @StevenDelDuca calls on Premier Ford to put call into PM @JustinTrudeau for military help in hospitals. #onpoli

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3 years

Ontario Liberal Leader @StevenDelDuca has written the @LCBO to ask that it pull Russian vodka from store shelves over the invasion of #Ukraine . #onpoli

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2 years

I couldn’t resist. Liberal Leader ⁦ @StevenDelDuca ⁩ is being driven to campaign events in…a Ford. #onpoli

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5 years

A 360 view of the protest outside the PC convention in #NiagaraFalls #onpoli

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3 years

After NDP’s @SaraSinghMPP accuses Premier Doug Ford of favouring biz biz over small, Ford replies “I don’t even know anybody from big, huge corporations.” There were guffaws from opposition benches. #onpoli

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3 years

Asked if 3 days paid sick leave in Ontario is compatible with best case scenarios for getting #COVID19 numbers down, science table boss @SteiniBrown replies with a simple "No." #onpoli

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5 years

BREAKING: Almost half of Ontario's hospitalized #COVID19 patients are in intensive care. 40 patients in hospital. 17 of them are in ICU with 15 on ventilators helping them breathe. This is more than triple the number on ventilators last Friday. #onpoli

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3 years

NEW: starting today, Ontario’s daily #COVID19 stats will break down new cases, and hospitalizations and ICU patients by unvaccinated, partially vaccinated and fully vaccinated individuals, health ministry says. Details soon. #onpoli

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3 years

Suddenly, Ontario chief medical officer has moved his regular Thurs 3 pm #COVID19 news conference to Friday at 2 pm. It seems to me something is afoot. #onpoli

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2 years

Six more NDP MPPs ejected from legislature over heckling govt about using notwithstanding clause to block CUPE strike in schools, one calling it “absolutely shameful.” OSSTF member kicked out of public gallery for shouting gov’t is “destroying public education.” #onpoli

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3 years

Premier Doug Ford says Ontario is experiencing an expected "little spike" in #COVID19 infections. Hospitalizations are up 38 per cent from seven days ago and confirmed cases (through limited PCR testing) are up 26.7 per cent. #onpoli

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4 years

Ontario Long-Term Care Minister @DrFullertonMPP says the province has 175 nursing home inspectors. Which raises the question, how did none of them apparently know about these problems, and why did it take military medical teams to teams blow the whistle? #COVID19 #onpoli .

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4 years

BREAKING: PM @JustinTrudeau says sending Red Cross vaxx teams to Toronto and “we are ready to step up” on supplying extra health care professionals with Toronto area “struggling.” #onpoli

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2 years

Liberal Leader @StevenDelDuca on Doug Ford not taking questions from reporters: “you’ve got to face the music in election campaigns.” Accuses Ford of “peek-a-boo strategy” because “he’s in way over his head.” #onpoli

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3 years

BREAKING: After getting hammered on Twitter for the remarks below, Ontario CMOH Dr. Kieran Moore releases statement saying "I want to be clear that the paediatric Pfizer vaccine for children 5 to 11 is safe, effective and provides strong protection." #onpoli

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3 years

Asked why Ontario won't make #COVID19 vaccines mandatory for school attendance (along with other shots), chief medical officer Moore says because it's a new vaccine. "We want more experience with it before we mandate it." #onpoli

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Sobering words from Ontario’s chief medical officer Kieran Moore just now: “We are aggressively preparing for the fall. I am sorry to say it’s going to be a difficult fall and winter.” More public health measures developed if necessary. #onpoli #DeltaVariant #Covid19

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2 years

In Ottawa hoping to win seats back June 2, Liberal Ldr @StevenDelDuca accuses PC Leader Doug Ford and his local MPPs of inaction last winter as trucker convoy had the city "under seige...he disappeared, they didn't step up." #onpoli

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2 years

NEW: a loss in a court challenge by unions of Premier Doug Ford’s 2019 Bill 124 public sector wage restraint legislation could cost the province $8.4b in retro pay and higher pay, Ontario’s Financial Accountability Office estimates in report out today. #onpoli

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2 years

Doug Ford must fire his Brantford-area MPP @WillBoumaBrant over homophobic and pro-conversion therapy remarks, says Liberal Ldr @StevenDelDuca . “It is deeply, deeply offensive,” says Del Duca, who fired 2 candidates last week over similar comments. #onpoli

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4 years

Noticing more people on Twitter lately aggravated about newspaper paywalls. The @TorontoStar and others provide some basic #COVID19 stories free as a public service. If you don’t like paywalls, please let me know what services/products you or your employer provide free of charge

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3 years

NEW: Ontario sets vaccination policy for nursing homes, says workers must present proof of vax, a "documented medical reason for not being vaccinated" or attend a program on the risks of not being vaxxed. #onpoli

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3 years

Ontario Liberal Leader @StevenDelDuca : "Telling us last week that schools were safe to re-open on Wednesday and then reversing that decision on Monday is only scaring parents who were already anxious.” #onpoli

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2 years

Green Leader @MikeSchreiner : "Mr. Ford, have you talked to a nurse lately, how disrespected they feel?" This after Ford mentions $5,000 retention bonus for nurses, with the other half coming only if he is re-elected. One nurse told the Star it works out to $17 a shift. #onpoli

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4 years

After the Ford gov’t defeats NDP motion for paid sick days for essential workers, @AndreaHorwath says “the premier needs to start putting human life ahead of his political pride.” Ford is not in question period. He axed Liberal sick pay law in 2018. #onpoli

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3 years

After Premier Doug Ford talks of his govt’s efforts to fight climate change, Green Ldr @MikeSchreiner accuses him of bringing a “little red shovel” to the battle. (Snowstorm reference from January) #onpoli

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3 years

Ontario's chief medical officer Dr. Kieran Moore says the unvaxxed are 8x more likely to catch #COVID19 , 29x more likely to end up in hospital and 48x more likely to require ICU care. Ontario reached 75% of age 12 and up fully vaxxed today. #onpoli

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3 years

I asked Ontario chief medical officer Dr. Kieran Moore if his comment last Thurs that he "couldn't guarantee" businesses could start reopening Jan. 26 remains his opinion today. He evaded, said it's a "gov't decision." Odd way to answer a question about his own opinion.

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3 years

Liberal Leader @StevenDelDuca says Premier Doug Ford is being soft on criticisms of #truckerconvoy , accuses him of doing so as part of attempts to build "a very dangerous coalition" for re-election effort June2. #onpoli

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4 years

BREAKING on nursing homes: "I inherited the system. The buck stops with me," says Ontario Premier Doug Ford in pledging to fix problems "no matter what cost." #COVID19 #onpoli

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3 years

BTW, under Ontario law and absent medical or religious exemption, children who attend primary or secondary school must be immunized against: diphtheria tetanus polio measles mumps rubella meningitis whooping cough chickenpox (born 2010+) #onpoli

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Ontario chief medical officer Dr. Kieran Moore says the unvaccinated make up just 10 % of the population but are 50% of the #COVID19 patients in hospital. #onpoli

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5 years

BREAKING: Ontario's chief medical officer Dr. David Williams says to "avoid all non-essential travel outside of Canada" and the "immediate suspension" of all gatherings over 250 people because of the risks of #COVID19 . #onpoli

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4 years

FACT CHECK: Health Minister @celliottability maintains Dr. Williams makes his #COVID19 recommendations public. This is not true. When we ask him repeatedly what they are, he repeatedly will not say. #onpoli

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3 years

Today we bade farewell to our Gidget, who would often snore curled up on the floor behind me as I covered Queen’s Park pandemic news conferences remotely from home. She was my buddy and my soother in tense times. RIP Gidgy Girl. Love always. #onpoli

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3 years

NEW: The liquor licence of Wild Wing in Belleville is suspended after the resto was repeatedly caught not checking patrons for proof-of-vaxx or requiring staff to wear masks, says the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario. #COVID19 #onpoli

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4 years

Anybody missing a weiner? This one tops a fire hydrant on Dundas at Bathurst. Northwest corner. It could be a new trend in public art, to be frank.

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6 years

The premier's office sends the taxpayer-funded PC caucus in-house publicist to "cover" @FordNation in Hamilton but doesn't tell the Queen's Park press gallery. Calling a foul on that. #onpoli

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4 years

NEW: Asked if he will bring nursing homes into the public health care system like hospitals are, Premier Doug Ford says "everything's on the table...if that's what it takes, that's what we will do." Calls on feds to help #COVID19 #onpoli

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5 years

After facing tough questions in a scrum yesterday on licence #plategate , Govt and Consumer Services Minister @LisaThompsonMPP is avoiding reporters today by sneaking from the legislature to cabinet the back way known for years as coward’s alley. #onpoli

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3 years

BREAKING: In new modelling, Ontario's science table says "because of the Delta variant and to avoid a lockdown in the fall, vaccination needs to accelerate substantially above 85%...and we need to reduce contacts to about 70% of pre-pandemic levels." Vaxx level now 76% #onpoli

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3 years

These 3 cats are repeatedly attacking dogs walking on Havelock near College Dufferin this morning. Called 311 and the city won’t do anything because we don’t know whose cats they are and the cats are not injured. They have no collars. Likely wild. #toronto

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4 years

Interesting timing: On a weekend that saw the Ford gov’t flames for closing playgrounds (now reversed), parents get early morning emails on another $400 Covid child benefit grant coming. Health experts still calling for paid sick leave for essential workers. #onpoli

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4 years

BREAKING: Ontario warns updated modelling shows the province "could experience worst-case scenarios seen in northern Italy and NYC" where hospitals were overwhelmed with #COVID19 and had many deaths. #onpoli

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5 years

Asked why Premier Ford is in Kenora, not Toronto, as his election promise to upload the subway is reversed, Transportation Minister @C_Mulroney insists "Kenora's not that far away." Kenora is 1865 km from Toronto, for the record. #onpoli

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I was eligible for AstraZeneca (yes I’m that old) five weeks ago and got it ASAP. No regrets. Don’t miss your chance to get the shot. #onpoli Today’s coronavirus news: Ontario to lower eligibility age for AstraZeneca vaccine to 40.

Today’s coronavirus news: Ontario to lower eligibility age for AstraZeneca vaccine to 40; province...

Also, Japanese leader asks Pfizer for additional vaccine supply.

www.thestar.com

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BREAKING: Air Canada, WestJet, Sunwing and Air Transat cancelling all Caribbean service from Sunday to April 30 to limit spread of #COVID19 , says @JustinTrudeau . All int'l flights limited to Vcr, Cgy, Toronto and Montreal. #cdnpoli #onpoli

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BREAKING: Green Leader @MikeSchreiner fights tears as he describes how badly he felt hearing Premier Ford "accuse one of the most respected members of the legislature ( @solmamakwaMPP ) of queue jumping" for a vaccine. "I just felt numb." #onpoli

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3 years

NEW: Ontario Lib leader @StevenDelDuca writes letter to Premier Doug Ford urging him to drop resistance to mandatory vaxx for edu and health care workers and vaxx passports and meet with opposition parties to forge ahead. #onpoli

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NEW: Federal govt says 665,000 dozes of AstraZeneca due in "the coming weeks" with another 1 million in June. This is minute after Ont SolGen @SylviaJonesMPP says no line of sight on more AZ. Hopefully, this info clears up future and second dose picture for AZ people. #onpoli

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Liberals deal double blow to Ford with byelection wins in Toronto, Ottawa-area #onpoli

Liberals deal double blow to Doug Ford with byelection wins in Toronto and Ottawa-area

Local businesswoman Andrea Hazell prevails in Scarborough-Guildwood where Ford campaigned with former city councillor Gary Crawford

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3 years

What do you make of the $5,000 one-time "retention payment" Health Minister @celliottability announced today for nurses. Nurses have been demanding an end to 1% wage caps. Election coming June 2. Tab for this $763 million. #onpoli

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NEW: Ontario's chief medical officer Dr. Kieran Moore says he has powers to step in at Haldimand-Norfolk health unit if controversial interim med officer Dr. Matt Strauss (of "live free or die" tweet) is deemed to not be protecting residents from #COVID19 . #onpoli

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Chief medical officer Dr. David Williams pours cold water on earlier move to Step 2 before July 2, says Delta variant could easily get a stronger grip and clusters are already popping up among the unvaccinated. Urges caution. #onpoli

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NEW: the National Advisory Committee on Immunization has been asked for recommendation by mid-May on Pfizer or Moderna as 2nd shot to people who got AstraZeneca first, given short supplies of AZ at this point, says Ontario assoc med officer Dr. Barbara Yaffe. #onpoli

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3 years

For people who can’t download Ontario vaxx receipts this morning, the site is down for scheduled maintenance from Tues 11 pm to 8 am Weds every week. Not good timing with vaxx passports taking effect today. #onpoli

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3 years

NEW: AstraZeneca first dosers can book second shots of AZ, Pfizer or Moderna at the 8-week mark starting Monday, Ontario says. #onpoli

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BREAKING: Ontario will offer COVID-19 booster shots to everyone 18 and older starting Monday - #onpoli

Breaking News - Headlines & Top Stories | The Star

thestar.com is Canada’s largest online news site. Live news, investigations, politics, sports and the heartbeat of Toronto, Canada's largest city.

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BREAKING: Science table says "circuit breaker" measures needed to blunt Omicron in addition to booster campaign in Ontario. Calls for people to reduce contacts 50%. @SteiniBrown maintains Omicron "not just a case of the sniffles...it does cause serious disease." #onpoli

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4 years

After Premier Doug Ford promises new and "scary" #COVID19 modelling data Tuesday that will make people "fall off their chairs," NDP Leader @AndreaHorwath says "I don't want to wait until Tuesday...Ontarians deserve that information now and a govt prepared to act." #onpoli

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Ontario's #COVID19 testing fell off a cliff yesterday...just 5,813 tests processed. Labs can test more than 21,000 daily. Epidemiologists regularly criticize the province for not testing enough to get a better picture of the virus as more stores re-open. #onpoli

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BREAKING: Have confirmed Ontario will announce tomorrow that Ontario moving to next stage of reopening next Weds. Think: haircuts! Updated story coming soon on . via @torontostar #onpoli

Ontario will move up next stage of COVID-19 reopening to June 30, sources say

Ontario is moving to the next stage of COVID-19 reopening — which includes haircuts — to June 30, two days earlier than expected and just in time for Canada Day, sources say.

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NEW: Ontario's latest computer modelling shows UK variant is "a real threat," likely 5-10 % of all cases, cautions aggressive vaccinating and stay-at-home orders "will help avoid a 3rd wave." This as Ontario is lifting stay-at-home orders... #onpoli #COVID19

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NEW: personal support worker Anita Quindangen gets Ontario’s first #COVID19 shot at UHN. She worked double shifts at the Rekai Centre nursing home in the first wave. #onpoli

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Premier Doug Ford breaks promise. Will allow pot stores within 150metres of schools. During campaign, he said to @Kathleen_Wynne : "I won't put it besides schools like you did." Liberals planned one 450m from a school. #onpoli

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Ontario has fewer than 200 in hospital for #COVID19 . Look at neighbouring Michigan at almost 4,200, with no state-wide mask mandate and a 55 per cent fully vaxxed rate (Ontario is 86 per cent).

CBS Detroit

@CBSDetroit

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COVID-19 Hospitalizations In Michigan Reach Record High

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NDP benches at Queen’s Park looking thin after 10 MPPs (so far) ejected from question period over heckling and desk pounding to protest Ford gov’t handling of school situation. #onpoli

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Asked if the situation now is the disaster he forecast in February if Ford didn’t maintain strong measures, science table head Steini Brown says: “this is what we were expecting.” #onpoli

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Note that the COVID-19 vaccines are fully approved by Health Canada following three-stage clinical trials and are the subject of ongoing monitoring.

Richard Southern

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3 years

#BREAKING - MPP Rick Nicholls says "Unfortunately I have no choice but to become an independent" He says he is not getting the vaccine citing personal reasons. He tells our @QPCamera that he thinks the vaccine is unproven. "It's an experimental drug"

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Premier Doug Ford not in the legislature for the first question period since the RCMP said it has begun a probe into the Greenbelt scandal. “How can people trust this govt when it’s under active criminal investigation?” says NDP Ldr ⁦ @MaritStiles ⁩ #onpoli

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NEW: Premier Doug Ford has bounced anti-abortion MPP @samoosterhoff from his role as parliamentary assistant to Education Minister @Sflecce to PA for the minister of red tape reduction. Oosterhoff has embarrassed the govt a few times. New PAs announced this afternoon. #onpoli

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4 years

On paid sick days, Premier Ford still refuses to implement provincial program and defers to federal one. Accuses health experts and opposition parties pushing for prov sick leave of playing politics. #onpoli

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NEW: threshold for lifting Ontario stay-home order is "well below" 1,000 cases a day because of highly contagious variants of concern, says CMOH Dr. David Williams. Our 7-day moving average is now 3,017. #onpoli

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NEW: Ontario has 32 more #COVID19 deaths today, the 3rd day in 5 above 20. Bear in mind we had mostly single-digit deaths until Nov. 2. Then in the teens. Now 20s. You see which direction it's going. Each death is a person with a family in the throes of grief. #onpoli

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Two hours after Premier Doug Ford tells people who crowded at Trinity-Bellwoods park on Saturday to get tested for #COVID19 , assoc medical officer Dr. Barbara Yaffe says "we're not recommending they all go for testing at this point" and advised they self-monitor. #COVID19 #onpoli

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BREAKING: St. Joseph's high school in Windsor closed "until further notice" by the local health unit because of an outbreak of #COVID19 . There are 5 confirmed cases. Health unit says closure needed to "limit the potential for spread." #onpoli

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BREAKING: Ford gov’t says the Ontario legislature’s fall session, slated to begin Sept 13, will be delayed to Oct 4, after the fed elxn. This means Ford won’t face question period from rival parties for another month. #onpoli #Elxn44

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Your chance of being exempt from a COVID-19 vaccination should be 1 in 20,000. If you’re one of Doug Ford’s MPPs, it’s 1 in 35 via @torontostar #onpoli

Your chance of being exempt from a COVID-19 vaccination should be 1 in 20,000. If you’re one of...

Ontario’s chief medical officer says the narrow list of legitimate medical exemptions from COVID-19 vaccinations means just “one to five in 100,000” Ontarians should qualify for one.

www.thestar.com

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4 years

NEW: Ontario parks and conservation areas to remain closed until May 31 by provincial order issued today. #COVID19 #onpoli

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5 years

Come on, everyone. We can do better than this. Throw your gloves in the trash. Don’t be a #covidiot . At Dufferin and Dupont #toronto

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4 years

NEW: Premier Doug Ford hints announcement on re-opening of economy coming Monday, with holdbacks for "hot zones." But...chief medical officer Dr. David Williams said this week need ICU levels below 150 patients and we are at 336 today. So, mixed signals here... #onpoli

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Rob Ferguson

@robferguson1

5 years

BREAKING: Ontario's chief medical officer "strongly recommending" anyone with compromised immune system, underlying medical conditions or over age 70 begin self-isolating now and stay home to avoid increased risk of #COVID19 . Go out for essentials only or have delivered #onpoli

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Rob Ferguson

@robferguson1

4 years

OF NOTE: this new daily record of 1,042 for Ontario comes just days after health officials said we appeared to be “plateauing” in the 700s a nd were pleased we hadn’t topped 1,000 cases as models predicted.

Christine Elliott

@celliottability

4 years

Ontario is reporting 1,042 cases of #COVID19 with nearly 38,800 tests completed. Locally, there are 309 new cases in Toronto, 289 in Peel, 117 in York Region, 80 in Ottawa and 52 in Durham. There are 736 more resolved cases.

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Rob Ferguson

@robferguson1

4 years

NEW: Premier Doug Ford says he won't campaign for new #CPC Leader @ErinOTooleMP in the next federal election, says he's too busy running Ontario and fighting #COVID19 . Not mentioned: feds froze him out last campaign, saw him as a liability. #onpoli #cdnpoli

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Rob Ferguson

@robferguson1

5 years

BREAKING: Premier Ford says he's lost patience with "absolutely unacceptable" lack of #COVID19 testing in Ontario, using only one-third of its daily capacity of 13,000. "No more excuses." #onpoli

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Rob Ferguson

@robferguson1

3 years

NDP Ldr @AndreaHorwath goes at Premier Ford for one-week suspensions of Ottawa truck convoy licences, saying too short and “outrageous.” T’port Min @C_Mulroney says going longer would have risked being “bogged down” in injunctions. #onpoli

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Rob Ferguson

@robferguson1

3 years

NEW: Ford government hammered by second report this week on its handling of #COVID19 in nursing homes, where almost 4,000 residents have died -- including more in the second wave than the first. #onpoli

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