MONTREAL – A group of 23 bilingual municipalities has asked
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TORONTO – Tornano a volare i prezzi delle case a Toronto. Su base annuale, l’aumento è quasi del 20% secondo quanto emerge dall’analisi di TRREB, Toronto Regional Real Estate Board. Motivo: i potenziali acquirenti di case nella Greater Toronto Area hanno trovato un numero notevolmente inferiore di case sul mercato il mese scorso rispetto ad un anno fa, facendo così diminuire le vendite e, di conseguenza, aumentare i prezzi dei pochi immobili disponibili…
Cancro alla prostata, crolla del 50% la mortalità
TORONTO – Il mese di novembre, è noto anche come Movember, una campagna volta a sensibilizzare sui problemi di salute degli uomini, compreso il cancro alla prostata. Nuovi dati rivelano che i continui progressi nella diagnosi precoce e nei trattamenti innovativi hanno dimezzato il tasso di mortalità per cancro alla prostata negli ultimi 26 anni. Il cancro alla prostata è la forma più comune di cancro tra gli uomini. Si stima che a un uomo su otto verrà diagnosticata la malattia nel corso della sua vita…
Covid: sì alla terza dose, no all’obbligo vaccinale
TORONTO – La lunga attesa è finita. Il governo dell’Ontario ha deciso che a causa delle preoccupazioni per la carenza di personale negli ospedali, non renderà obbligatoria la vaccinazione per i lavoratori del settore. Lo ha annunciato ieri lo stesso premier Ford scatenando polemiche a non finire: sia l’Ontario Science Table che i medici e gli esperti del settore avevano chiesto di rendere obbligatorio il vaccino per gli operatori sanitari. “La questione è complessa. Dopo aver esaminato la situazione il nostro governo ha deciso di mantenere il suo approccio flessibile lasciando la decisione ai singoli ospedali”, ha detto…
Ontario, la media dei contagi torna a salire
TORONTO – 378 nuovi casi, ieri, contro i 331 di martedì ed i 321 di mercoledì della scorsa settimana. L’altalena dei contagi prosegue e fa salire la media mobile su sette giorni che adesso è pari a 379, in aumento rispetto ai 366 casi giornalieri di mercoledì scorso…
Status update of Covid-19 cases worldwide
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Here we provide a daily update of the data available for select countries and jurisdictions as of November 3, 2021, at 4:30 pm EST.
On Wednesday, health officials in Russia logged 40,443 new infections, pushing the total number of confirmed positive cases passed 8.6 million. Of the cumulative total number of cases, 86.2% are considered recovered. In the last 24-hours, authorities have reported 1,189 Covid-related deaths for a total of 242,060 fatalities attributable to Covid-19.
Covid: booster for vulnerable people but Ford won’t mandate vaccines for health-care workers
TORONTO – The long wait is over. The Ontario government has decided that due to concerns about staff shortages in hospitals, it will not make vaccination mandatory for health-care workers. This was announced today by Prime Minister Ford himself, sparking endless controversy: both the Ontario Science Table and doctors and experts in the field had asked to make the vaccine mandatory for health workers. “The issue is complex. After reviewing the situation our government decided to maintain its flexible approach by leaving the decision to individual hospitals,” he said. Continue reading→
Good News: Prostate cancer death-rate plummets 50% in 26 years
The month of November, also known as Movember, is a time to raise awareness of men’s health issues including prostate cancer. New data reveals that continued progress in early detection and breakthrough treatments have cut the prostate cancer death rate by half over the last 26 years.
Daily update of Ontario’s Covid-19 Vaccination campaign
With the largest vaccination campaign underway, the province has administered more than 22.5 million doses into the arms of Ontarians. According to data last updated on November 3, numbers released by the Ministry of Health show health officials administered 16.933 vaccine doses on Tuesday, up from 13,774 doses the day prior.
No honeymoon for Trudeau, Tory base in revolt against O’Toole
TORONTO – Justin Trudeau’s European tour was a breath of fresh air, but now it’s time to tackle the internal grit. Today the Prime Minister left Glasgow, Scotland, and reached Ottawa in the late afternoon. After the official visit to the Netherlands, the G20 Summit in Rome, the bilateral meetings – including the one with Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi – and the climate summit in Glasgow, Trudeau is preparing to face a series of commitments at Parliament Hill that promise quite challenging. First of all, the liberal leader has to deal with an extremely fragmented political context, with a honeymoon with the electorate that basically never began and with a long series of knots to be solved in the coming months. Continue reading→
House prices in Toronto are rising again: + 20% in one year
TORONTO – House prices in Toronto are rising again. On an annual basis, the increase is almost 20% according to the analysis of TRREB, Toronto Regional Real Estate Board. Reason: Prospective homebuyers in the Greater Toronto Area found significantly fewer homes on the market last month than they did a year ago, thereby driving down sales and, consequently, raising the prices of the few properties available. Continue reading→
