With the arrival of the highly contagious XBB.1.5 Omicron subvariant in Canada, some scientists say governments must invest more in developing mucosal vaccines — a tool that could be a game-changer in the fight against COVID-19. Read more: XBB1.5 — Here’s what we know about the ‘most transmissible’ COVID strain yet Read next: Calgary daycare
It’s not every day you see an advertisement for a free house. A man who lives on a farm west of Regina says he wants to give away an old home on his property. Daniel Poissant made a post on Reddit close to a week ago with hopes of finding someone who will take up
Around Christmastime, Wendle Beaton was trying to find cold medication for her adult son in Brampton, Ont. “In my neighbourhood there’s like 20 (pharmacies) within like a two-kilometre radius because I live in the most populous part of the city,” Beaton said.The 55-year-old artist went to three stores before finding something. Even then, “they were
A male motorcyclist is dead following a collision in Rexdale early this morning. Police say the motorcycle collided with a truck near Martin Grove Road and Vulcan Street shortly before 3:30 a.m. The motorcyclist, identified as a man in his 20s, was pronounced dead at the scene. No other injuries were reported. Police say Martin
It has been one year since the bodies of Francesca Matus and her American lover were found tangled together in a sugar cane field in Belize. The urn holding the Canadian woman’s ashes now sits in a niche at Toronto’s Highland Memory Gardens, across from the spot where her 80-year-old mother will be buried one
A man in his 40s is in serious condition in a hospital trauma centre after he was struck by a motorcyclist while crossing the street in the Keele and Eglinton area on Saturday evening. Toronto paramedics say they were called to Keele Street and Eglinton Avenue at 5:09 p.m. for a report of a pedestrian
SIMI VALLY, Calif. — At least one police officer has been taken to hospital with serious injuries after a crash involving Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s motorcade Friday night outside of Los Angeles. The California Highway Patrol officer was taken to hospital with what the force described as non-life threatening, but serious injuries — a category
An 85-year-old male motorcyclist is dead after a multi-vehicle collision occurred on the Queen Elizabeth Way in Fort Erie on Tuesday night. The crash happened in the Toronto-bound lanes of the highway between Netherby and Sodom roads at around 5 p.m. Ontario Provincial Police Sgt. Kerry Schmidt said four vehicles collided, including a motorcycle, a
TORONTO — Motorcyclists in Ontario are three times more likely to be injured in a collision than people in automobiles, 10 times more likely to suffer serious injuries and those injuries will cost more to treat, a new study suggests. The study from researchers at the University of Toronto, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and the
Global National U.S. Republican House leader Kevin McCarthy has flipped several colleagues previously against him on the 4th day of the House Speaker stalemate but is still short of the votes needed to be elected. Jackson Proskow explains where the political stalemate stands, and why the conclusion to the chaos may be short-lived.