Unpublished Newswire
Nearly 200 new measles cases were identified in Ontario last week, in a sign the country’s most populous province is nowhere close to containing the spread of the highly contagious virus.In its weekly surveillance report on Thursday, Public Health Ontario said that from last October until this Monday, the province has reported 1,440 cases in 17 public-health units. (Of those cases, 1,221 are confirmed while the other 219 are probable.)
May 8, 2025 - 17:31 | Kristy Kirkup, Laura Stone | The Globe and Mail
A staple of Mark Carney’s stump speech during the election was the line that Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is the kind of politician who has never changed his mind since he was 17.
“Who hasn’t changed their mind since they were 17?” the Liberal leader would mock.
The attack was validated by Poilievre’s own words in his
interview with Jordan Peterson
in December, in which he said he has been “saying precisely the same things” since he was a...
May 8, 2025 - 17:14 | John Ivison | National Post
Canada has seen more cases of the measles this year than at any time since the wildly contagious disease was eliminated here in 1998, a resurgence experts chalk up to falling vaccination rates. Peter Hotez, co-director of the Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development and a professor at Baylor College of Medicine, has for years warned of the dangers of the anti-vaccine movement. Dr. Hotez, whose latest book is The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science, is in Winnipeg this week. He spoke with health reporter Kelly Grant about measles, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and whether he would ever...
May 8, 2025 - 17:12 | Kelly Grant | The Globe and Mail
City staff are exploring "creative solutions" to mitigate the impacts of tariffs on Ottawa's supply chain and awarding contracts to more local and Canadian-based vendors. Read More
May 8, 2025 - 17:03 | Aedan Helmer | Ottawa Citizen
A member of an ostrich farming family held back tears as she called on the provincial government to help stop the cull of their 400 birds.The Canadian Food Inspection Agency ordered the cull in late 2024 after an avian flu outbreak, but family spokesperson Katie Pasitney says the animals living on her parents’ farm in Edgewood, B.C., are “healthy” and “happy” now and pose no risk.
May 8, 2025 - 16:44 | Wolfgang Depner | The Globe and Mail
Some OC Transpo riders say they have been left confused because of malfunctioning navigation screens on Ottawa’s Line 2 trains. Read More
May 8, 2025 - 16:43 | Robert Hiltz | Ottawa Citizen
