Megan Delaire
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How to claim your home office expenses on your taxes
Another pandemic tax season has arrived, and if you worked from home in 2021, you’re probably wondering which home office expenses you will be able to claim, and how to do it. → Read More
There are even more reasons than usual to get the flu shot
It's fall, the holidays are coming and people are beginning to hear the familiar refrain from health care professionals: get your flu shot. → Read More
This Small Business Week, here's how, and why, to support your local mom-and-pop
It's Small Business Week. Here's how to support those nearest to you. → Read More
Ontario launches enhanced COVID-19 vaccine certificate and verification app
The province's new vaccination verification system, consisting of a personal QR code for every vaccinated Ontarian and a code scanning app for businesses, is officially active and available for use. → Read More
Moore hints at booster shots, timeline for easing restrictions
With Ontario apparently emerging from a fourth wave of COVID-19 infections smaller than the previous two, Ontario's top medical officer focused on the next steps toward a new normality during his... → Read More
Menstrual equity movement grows in Ontario with launch of new provincial initiative
Movement to make menstrual products available to students grows with provincial funding → Read More
Follow these tips for a COVID-safe Thanksgiving and Halloween
Ontarians worked hard this year to curb the spread of COVID-19 by rolling up their sleeves and getting vaccinated. As a result, families and friends across the province will be able to gather indoors... → Read More
With a staff vaccination mandate coming, some Ontario LTC homes could face staffing gaps
One week after he announced a vaccine mandate for staff in long-term care homes, Minister of Long-Term Care Rod Phillips conceded on Oct. 6 that some facilities will struggle with staffing gaps once... → Read More
Some Ontario schools, child care centres to receive COVID-19 rapid test kits
Ontario is making rapid antigen testing available to unvaccinated students in public health units where the risk of COVID-19 transmission is high, the provincial government has announced. → Read More
Vaccination to become mandatory for Ontario long-term-care staff
Ontario is making it mandatory for all long-term care workers and volunteers to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, beginning on Nov. 15. Only those with medical exemptions will be allowed to... → Read More
Ontario expanding Indigenous curriculum to Grades 1, 2 and 3
By 2023, all Ontario students in Grades 1 to 3 will learn about First Nation, Métis and Inuit history, culture and contributions as part of the province's mandatory social studies curriculum. → Read More
Ontario Liberals demand action from Ford on hospital protests
Following days of demonstrations outside Ontario's hospitals, the provincial Liberal Party is calling on Premier Doug Ford to take tougher action on pandemic protesters. → Read More
What we know about Mu, the COVID-19 variant with a 'constellation of mutations'
It was only named two weeks ago, but COVID-19 variant of interest Mu already has a small foothold in Ontario, with 200 cases identified here since June. → Read More
How to protect students from COVID-19, according to Ontario doctors
Ontario Medical Association president Dr. Adam Kassam and Peel Region Medical Officer of Health Dr. Lawrence Loh recently shared some insights into measures already in place in schools and those which... → Read More
Elections Canada lays out plan for pandemic voting
Canada is headed for an unprecedented pandemic election on September 20, and with COVID-19 case numbers across the country on the rise, voters are anxious to know what their experience at the polls... → Read More
Meet the athletes: Canada's Paralympic team, by the numbers
With the 2020 Summer Games in the rear view, Canada is sending another delegation of 128 athletes to Tokyo, this time to compete in the 2020 Paralympic Games. → Read More
Research shows COVID-19 may have set students back up to a year in math and literacy
Ontario has entered the fourth wave of the pandemic and, with only weeks to go until the start of another school year, is seeing rising numbers of COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations. → Read More
'Gigantic fires': What we know about Ontario's intense wildfire season
Wildfires are usually synonymous with British Columbia and California, but in Ontario, they've burned 680,700 hectares of land this season alone. That's equivalent to almost 1.7 million acres. → Read More
Olympic outbreaks: What infectious diseases have spread at past Olympic Games?
On the opening day of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, the president of the Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) acknowledged reports of a growing number of COVID-19 cases in Tokyo connected to the games. → Read More
As Canada searches for solutions to Islamophobia, Muslims offer answers
Canada has an Islamophobia problem, and Muslim community leaders say it’s time for governments, but especially individuals, to confront it. → Read More