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VanMeer, Pamela, Kawartha411.ca (20150713), 1 Oct 2021     The provincial government made COVID-19 vaccination mandatory for long-term care staff (in-home staff, support workers, students and volunteers) effective November 15, 2021 unless a staff member had

Vanmeer, Pamela, Kawartha411.ca, 28 Dec 2021     Earlier in December, the government implemented policies in long-term care homes designed to optimize safety for residents and staff, including the requirement that all general visitors need to be fu

Taylor, Jeannine, kawarthaNOW.com ( Jeannine Taylor, 1996), 30 Dec 2020     The health unit provides reports from Monday to Saturday, excluding statutory holidays. Confirmed positive: 507, including 246 in Kawartha Lakes, 232 in Northumberland, 29 in Haliburton (increase of

Winter, Kirk, Lindsay Advocate (Lindsay, Ontario: Roderick Benns, 201804), 4 Jan 2021     Kirk Winter discussed why the apology from MPP and former finance minister Rod Phillips is not enough following his trip to St. Barts in the Caribbean despite public health and provincial government

Vanmeer, Pamela, Kawartha411.ca, 28 Oct 2021     In October 2020, Ontario announced it would temporarily enhance wages for personal support workers and direct support workers to help stabilize, attract and retain the workforce needed to provide a h

Kawartha Lakes This Week, Kawartha Lakes This Week (Kawartha Lakes, ON: Kawartha Media Group, 2004), 28 Nov 2020     Municipalities in Haliburton-Kawartha Lakes-Brock struggling with challenges exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic received more than $15.6 million in funding from the Ontario Municipal Partnership Fu

Vanmeer, Pamela, Kawartha411.ca, 30 Dec 2021     Ontario is mandating third doses of the COVID-19 vaccine for workers in long-term care and offering fourth doses to residents in wake of the spread of the Omicron variant. Officials also announced sc

Head, Bruce, kawarthaNOW.com ( Jeannine Taylor), 17 Mar 2020     Premier Doug Ford declared the Ontario State of Emergency on March 17, 2020 to fight COVID-19. Gatherings of more than 50 people were prohibited, including parades, events, and places of worship. All

Taylor, Jeannine, Kawartha Lakes This Week, 5 Jun 2020     The provincial government announced it would release its plan for Stage Two of reopenings in Ontario in the following week. Businesses and sectors that would be included as allowed to reopen would be

Gilligan, Keith, Ajax News (Ajax), 31 Dec 2020     Ontario's finance minister resigned from his position after a December 2020 holiday trip to St. Barts in the Caribbean as the rest of the province was told to stay home, make no non-essential trips,

Winter, Kirk, Lindsay Advocate (Lindsay, Ontario: Roderick Benns, 201804), 30 Dec 2020     Kirk Winter discussed the ongoing disparity of following COVID-19 pandemic rules leading to the appearance of two sets of rules: one for Ontario politicians and one for the general public. From the P

MacCharles, Tonda, Kawartha Lakes This Week (Kawartha Lakes, ON: Kawartha Media Group, 2004), 5 Jan 2021     Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he shared the "frustration and indignation" that many Canadians expressed at politicians and others who took vacations outside of the country during the COVID-19 pa