TORONTO – More and more people in Ontario are turning to food banks, according to a new report by Feed Ontario, a collective of 1,200 food banks affiliated with other organizations addressing food insecurity. (more…)
by Marzio Pelù
TORONTO – There are the very first signs of a settling of the peak of the wave of Covid-19 “featuring” Omicron, which could be preparatory to the descent of the curve. (more…)
by Marzio Pelù
TORONTO – The number of people in Ontario hospitals with COVID-19 continues to rise, with 438 patients now in intensive care. According to the Ministry of Health, another 26 people have entered intensive care due to the new coronavirus in the past 24 hours. Of these patients, 234 breathe with the assistance of a ventilator. There are now 2,467 Covid-19 patients in hospital, a slight increase from Sunday. (more…)
by Marzio Pelù
TORONTO – Another 21 deaths today in Ontario due to Covid-19, which are added to 31 on Saturday and 42 on Friday: nearly 100 deaths in three days. Now the total number of victims in the province since the beginning of the pandemic is 10,366. (more…)
by Marzio Pelù
TORONTO – Record numbers for Covid-19 in Canada: both Ontario and Quebec today recorded the highest number of cases in a single day since the start of the pandemic: 5,790 for Ontario and 9,397 for Quebec. (more…)
There has been a concentrated international effort to combat climate change. One main focus is on the cutting of greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), carbon dioxide (CO2) being one of main culprits. But where do these emissions come from and who is responsible for the majority of carbon emissions?
According to the World Inequality Report 2022 (December 2021), data analysis by a team of world-leading economists suggests that the richest 10% of the global population produces close to 50% of GHG. (more…)
by Marzio Pelù
TORONTO – After the temporary decline recorded Tuesday, today the growth of infections in Ontario resumed, as already recorded in the previous days: the province has in fact 780 new infections (and another 6 deaths). Going backwards, the infections had been: 687 Tuesday, 788 Monday, 964 Sunday and 854 Saturday. A week ago, last Wednesday, they were 591. The seven-day moving average of new cases reaches 821: a significant increase compared to a week ago (686) and, above all, the highest average since last June 4 when it was 844. The positivity rate also continues to grow: with 35,300 tests processed in the last 24 hours and 780 infections, the index is now 3.1%, compared to 2.5% a week ago. (more…)
by Marzio Pelù
TORONTO – The escalation continues: after the 486 cases on Tuesday and 660 on Wednesday, Ontario today recorded 678 new cases of Covid-19, of which 395 were found in unvaccinated people, 82 in partially vaccinated people and 141 in people fully vaccinated (for the remaining people the vaccination status is unknown). Of the new cases, 144 were recorded in Toronto, 102 in the Peel region, 97 in the York region, 78 in Windsor-Essex and 51 in the Durham region. All other local health units reported fewer than 50 new cases. (more…)
Part of Canadian life and reality goes down in history. Founded in 1929, Greyhound Canada has just ceased its operations across Canada, shutting down all connections.
The company ended its operations in the western part of Canada in 2018. (more…)
According to TRREB – the Toronto Regional Real Estate Board, house prices in Toronto continued to rise in March and sales almost doubled – compared to the same month a year earlier when everything was shutting down at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. (more…)
After a long period of negotiation, the government in Ottawa agreed to aid the airline Air Canada in the amount of $ 5.9 billion in loans and equity co-financing. (more…)
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