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Benzie, Robert, Toronto Star ( TorStar), 4 Sep 2020     Premier Doug Ford's push against retailer's pandemic price gouging has triggered more than 26 000 consumer complaints to the government, newly available data reveals.

    A roundup of the research that acknowledged that the transmission of COVID-19 was possible via aerosolized respiratory microdroplets that could travel farther than the 2 metres/6 foot separation of social distancing.

Saba, Rosa, Kawartha Lakes This Week (2004), 21 Nov 2020     After the pandemic made it clear that the Employment Insurance (EI) system needed to change, the federal government hinted it would work toward bringing the program up to speed. The program was bolstered by temporary changes meant to include more people affected by the pandemic, reducing the number of hours ...

Taylor, Jeannine, kawarthaNOW.com ( Jeannine Taylor, 1996), 8 Feb 2021     The Ontario government extended its stay-at-home order for another week for all public health regions in Ontario, except for three in eastern Ontario. As other health units gradually moved back into the previous colour-coded COVID-19 response framework, the province implemented a new “emergency brake” system to respond to outbreaks of ...

Yang, Jennifer, Toronto Star ( TorStar), 10 Jan 2021     Experts said the holiday period accelerated what was already an alarming trajectory before Christmas. According to mobility data shared exclusively with the Toronto Star, some health units that saw dramatic increases in post-holiday infection rates also had amongst the province's highest rates of movement.

Appia, Veronica, Kawartha Lakes This Week (Kawartha Lakes, ON: Kawartha Media Group, 2004), 17 Dec 2020     Health experts predict a an abysmal January, February and March for COVID-19 infections if citizens allowed "pandemic fatigue" to take over and refused to continue practicing cautious over the 2020 Christmas holidays.

DeLaire, Megan, Kawartha Lakes This Week (Kawartha Lakes, ON: Kawartha Media Group, 2004), 15 Dec 2020     Supply chain experts offered a glimpse of what might be to come in 2021 during the continued COVID-19 pandemic.

Appia, Veronica, Kawartha Lakes This Week (Kawartha Lakes, ON: Kawartha Media Group, 2004), 1 Dec 2020     The Ontario provincial government announced an update to their COVID-19 vaccination plan - one which Health Minister Christine Elliott said will by the "largest logistical undertaking that we've had in Ontario in a generation." The province had yet to decide who would get the vaccination first.

    Ontario was on the verge of running out of COVID-19 vaccine doses if no new shipments arrived before the end of the following week (January 15, 2021), Premier Doug Ford said during an announcement on Friday January 8, 2021.

Taylor, Jeannine, kawarthaNOW.com ( Jeannine Taylor, 1996), 26 Jan 2021     The Ontario government extended the province's state of emergency on January 26, 2021. This second state of emergency was first declared on January 12, 2021. All emergency orders were extended for 14 days, including the stay-at-home order, the prohibition on residential evictions, and the enforcement of COVID-19 measures such as ...

DeLaire, Megan, Kawartha Lakes This Week (Kawartha Lakes, ON: Kawartha Media Group, 2004), 25 Jan 2021     It's been one year since Ontario reported Canada's first case of COVID-19. The patient, treated at Sunnybrook Hospital, was a 56-year-old Toronto man who had recently returned from a three-month stay in Wuhan, China. Although the pandemic posed unprecedented health, social, cultural and financial challenges to people around the world, ...

Hutchinson, Trevor, The Lindsay Advocate (Lindsay, Ontario: Roderick Benns), 16 Dec 2020     Hutchinson shared his opinion on Premier Doug Ford's handling of the pandemic, comparing early days responses in March 2020 to the described "stalling" in summer 2020 to the perceived inadequate responses of December 2020 to the crisis of COVID-19 in long-term care homes.

Bryant, Michael, Kawartha Lakes This Week (Kawartha Lakes, ON: Kawartha Media Group, 2004), 9 Dec 2020     Lawyers Bryant and Zwibel from the Canadian Civil Liberties Association warned of premature speculation lacking any lawful authority regarding restrictions on travel and other activities if not vaccinated for COVID-19, despite the vaccine being voluntary.

Henry, Michelle, Toronto Star ( TorStar), 21 Dec 2020     Confusion was noted about the mixed message sent by implementing the provincial lockdown on December 26, 2020 instead of December 24, 2020 while still strongly encouraging citizens to celebrate Christmas with only their households. Some public health officials agreed that is was a confusing scenario where people are urged caution ...

Taylor, Jeannine, kawarthaNOW.com ( Jeannine Taylor, 1996), 16 Apr 2021     Restrictions included a two-week extension of the stay-at-home order, limiting outdoor gatherings to household members, and closing non-essential construction.

Warren, May, Toronto Star ( TorStar), 8 Jan 2021     The Ministry of Health reported that the COVID-19 vaccine would be available to previously excluded groups.

VanMeer, Pamela, Kawartha411.ca (20150713), 28 Jan 2021     The Ontario government extended electricity rate relief for families, small businesses and farms to support those spending more time at home in response to the provincial Stay-at-Home Order according to officials. Officials said the government would continue to hold electricity prices to the off-peak rate of 8.5 cents per kilowatt-hour ...

Ferguson, Rob, Kawartha Lakes This Week (Kawartha Lakes, ON: Kawartha Media Group, 2004), 11 Jan 2021     A senior government source said that the provincial government was not planning to put curfews in place to curb the stubbornly rapid spread of COVID-19. The question of curfews arose after Quebec implemented one.

Lindsay Advocate, The Lindsay Advocate (Lindsay, Ontario: Roderick Benns), 30 Sep 2020     All workplaces in Ontario were required to screen all workers, contractors, volunteers and outside service providers for COVID-19 as a condition of entry, effective September 25, 2020.

Boyd, Alex, Kawartha Lakes This Week (Kawartha Lakes, ON: Kawartha Media Group, 2004), 27 Nov 2020     The newspaper received questions about the future COVID-19 vaccine and its safety and approached an expert at Health Canada to answer those questions.