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TORONTO – Covid-19: impressive surge in infections in Ontario, today: almost 1,300 new cases, with the highest daily count in the province in more than six months. The provincial health officials in fact recorded 1,290 infections, compared to 1,009 on Wednesday and 959 a week ago. Today’s total is therefore the highest recorded in Ontario since May 24, when 1,446 cases were registered. →
Some school boards seem to be losing their bearings. On December 7, the Halton Catholic District School Board (HCDSB) trustees will meet to choose a new Chair and Vice Chair for the Board and its Committees to lead them into the final year of the Board’s mandate before the 2022 election. Patrick Murphy and Marvin Duarte are the incumbents in the two senior positions.
The past three years have been challenging for the Board on several fronts. Board meetings have been characterized by factional divides and “dysfunctionality”. →
TORONTO – New decline in infections in Ontario which today recorded 481 Covid-19 infections (and 1 death) against 552 on Monday, 666 on Sunday, 661 on Saturday and 598 on Friday. After the surge of the weekend, therefore, cases return to decline even if attention remains high, especially on the front of hospitalizations that are increasing in a worrying way. But let’s go in order. →
TORONTO – Ontario remains under 500 cases at the beginning of the week. Today 441 were recorded (and 3 deaths bringing the total from the beginning of the pandemic to 9,903) against 480 on Monday, 636 on Sunday, 508 on Saturday and 563 on Friday. →
TORONTO – The numbers do not lie and unequivocally photograph an unreassuring reality in Ontario schools. The Covid-19 infections reported since the beginning of the academic year have reached the disturbing milestone of 5,068 about three weeks ahead of 2020: last year this number was reached on December 2nd. →
