Dan Karpenchuk

COVID-19 restrictions in Ontario will be eased beginning at the end of the month. Premier Doug Ford on Thursday announced it will be a three-step plan to gradually lift the measures.

Unvaccinated Canadian truckers were to be exempt from the rule that turned back U.S. truckers.

Ontario is easing some of its rules in order to fill shortages in the healthcare system due to COVID-19. The province will turn to internationally educated nurses to help fill positions in hospitals.

In Toronto over the weekend, about 50 ambulances were out of service, forcing the Toronto Paramedic Services to issue a code red. There was not a single free ambulance to respond to calls.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford has announced sweeping new restrictions to try to curb the Omicron variant of COVID-19. He said the result of inaction would be catastrophic.

The head of Ontario’s Science Advisory Table is warning that vaccine protection is waning. The warning comes with ongoing concerns about the surging number of cases of COVID-19, driven by the Omicron variant.

COVID-19 numbers continue to surge in Canada’s largest province. The number of new infections topped 10,000 for the first time on Dec. 24, falling back just under 10,000 on Sunday.

New modeling for Ontario suggests the province needs an immediate "circuit breaker" to blunt the spread of the Omicron variant of COVID-19. Health experts said even the best case scenarios are bleak.

Some sweeping changes have been announced in Ontario in a bid to curb the spread of the new COVID-19 variant, omicron. Some indoor capacity limits are being scaled back and vaccine boosters expanded. The new measures come as Ottawa has advised all Canadians not to travel outside the country for non-essential reasons.