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Toronto Hundreds of nurses rallied outside several Ontario hospitals on Thursday to demand that CEOs improve patient care by implementing safe staffing levels across the province. Hospital CEOs should implement registered nurse to patient ratios to improve workloads, union says Members of the Ontario Nurses’ Association rallied outside several hospitalsContinue Reading

The proximity warning system aboard the Delta Air Lines flight that crashed at Pearson airport last month sent an alert indicating a high rate of descent less than three seconds before the plane touched down, according to a preliminary report.  The report, released Thursday, is part of an ongoing investigation byContinue Reading

Toronto Toronto’s 2026 FIFA World Cup committee wants to spend nearly $11 million on ticket packages for the upcoming games and resell them at marked up prices, with some councillors saying the move would amount to “scalping” with taxpayers’ money. Some councillors say plan amounts to ‘scalping’, others call it ‘a bigContinue Reading

Toronto The City of Toronto’s response to a series of coyote attacks in downtown neighbourhoods aligns with best practices found in other cities, and problem animals should only be destroyed as a last resort, according to a new report. One woman who’s dog was attacked and killed last fall saysContinue Reading

Toronto Toronto Public Health says more patients of a gynecologist linked to potential exposure to blood-borne infections due to improper tool cleaning can now get tested — even if they didn’t receive a formal letter from the health agency. ‘In general, TPH encourages testing because treatments are available,’ health agencyContinue Reading

Toronto Radiohead has unearthed rare footage of a 1995 solo performance by its lead singer Thom Yorke in Toronto to mark three decades since the release of its beloved sophomore album The Bends — and yes, it’s giving us all the feels.  ‘Hello, I’m some bloke from some band,’ Thom Yorke tellsContinue Reading

Toronto·Updated The Ontario Superior Court of Justice has denied an injunction by a group of cyclists that sought to stop the province from removing bike lanes in Toronto until a court challenge is heard.  Court challenge by group of cyclists to be heard in full during a hearing in AprilCBCContinue Reading

Toronto The province’s chief medical officer of health is urging Ontarians to make sure they are immunized against the measles amid the most severe outbreak in the province in more than a decade. Roughly 96% of infections linked to current outbreak are in unvaccinated people, province saysCBC News · Posted: Mar 14,Continue Reading

Toronto Five years on, Toronto-area doctors and public health officials are looking back at what they’ve learned since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic — and most agree the early experience will prove useful if the city faces another infectious disease crisis. March 11 marked 5 years since the WorldContinue Reading