TORONTO – May 13, 2021: Canada stood yesterday at 1,310,015 positives for Covid-19, an increase of 4,245 more cases than in the previous 24 hours. The number of victims – nationwide – yesterday reached 24,804 total deaths, 38 more than on Wednesday. In Canada yesterday the number of recovered people from the coronavirus stood at 1,209,157. →
The Ontario Government is paving a new way towards a more efficient certification process for trades people in Ontario. The new system, Skilled Trades Ontario (STO), will replace the Ontario College of Trades (OCOT). →
Toronto will receive $360 million in funding from the federal and provincial governments to move forward with the purchase of dozens of new streetcars. The city had already approved the purchase of 13 new streetcars from the Alstom plant in Thunder Bay in October, but now it will be able to move ahead with the option to purchase another 47, with delivery of the vehicles starting in 2023. →
TORONTO – May 12, 2021: Canada stood yesterday at 1,303,024 positives for Covid-19, an increase of 3,820 more cases than in the previous 24 hours. The number of victims – nationwide – yesterday reached 24,759 total deaths, 53 more than on Tuesday. In Canada yesterday the number of recovered people from the coronavirus stood at 1,201,392. Ontario yesterday reached 499,412 overall positives, an increase of 2,320 new cases compared to Tuesday. →
If Italy were to return to the monarchy, it will not have a king but a queen. And she will be the “rock princess” Vittoria Cristina Chiara Adelaide Maria (in the pic), niece of Vittorio Emanuele di Savoia, son of the last king of Italy, Umberto II, forced into exile after the institutional referendum which in 1946 sanctioned the end of the monarchy in Italy. →