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OPP find toddler missing in eastern Ontario forest for over 3 days ‘alive and well’

Search for missing 3-year-old in South Frontenac enters its 3rd day OPP have been searching for the boy since Sunday around noon. In a tweet, OPP said one of their emergency response team officers found the boy.Jude was found 980 metres away from the place he was last seen, Const.

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COVID-19: At least 3 pharmacies in HKPR Health Unit to carry vaccine, the province says

AstraZeneca vaccine. COVID-19 — 6 new cases for Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge District Health Unit; variants at 56 HKPRDHU acting medical officer of health Dr.

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COVID-19 case among staff forces closure of Centreville Public School

COVID-19.According to Limestone District School Board, a staff member at Centreville Public School tested positive for the coronavirus Tuesday.As a result, all those who were at the school on March 26, 29 or 30 must self-isolate until they are instructed otherwise.According to the board, the health unit will be in contact with those who need to self-isolate. Coronavirus: Students at 3 Kingston-area schools to return to class Tuesday Due to the number of people who need to isolate, the board said the school will close and all in-person classes will switch to remote learning until further notice.“COVID-19 variants of concern (VOC) are now in our community and can spread more easily.

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Kingston’s COVID-19 case counts trending downwards, says medical officer of health

COVID-19 case numbers are trending in the right direction in the region.On Tuesday, the health unit reported nine new cases of the virus, with eight recoveries and 60 active cases.Over the last month, the health unit has been battling a COVID-19 variant outbreak linked to Queen’s University. By March 23, active case counts rose to 98, inching closer to the region’s all-time high of 112 active cases seen in mid-December, 2020.

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Bay of Quinte MPP announces recent Ontario budget will provide $200M for tourism industry

Ontario offers $200 Million in recovery programs aimed at tourism and hospitality sector Smith says half of that amount, $100 million, is a stimulus program.“The program will protect critical jobs in tourism-reliant communities like here in the county,” Smith said.“It will help them sustain tourism businesses which have had to fully or partially shut down due to mandated COVID-19 restrictions, and it will support tourism operations and businesses as they pivot and recalibrate operations to reopen safely and focus on the domestic market during this ongoing crisis.”Smith went on to say that the province will also invest an additional $100 million for a new one-time relief program for small businesses.“This includes not just wineries, but it

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Coronavirus: Students at 3 Kingston-area schools to return to class Tuesday

COVID-19 exposure identified on March 27. According to the school board, the health unit has determined that the general school populations at all three facilities are not at risk.

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Over 200 Queen’s University medical students volunteer to administer COVID-19 vaccines

Kingston residents flock to Invista Centre COVID-19 vaccination site to receive their shots Dr. Samantha Buttemer, the medical advisor for public health to the faculty of health sciences at the university and a medical student herself, says that Kingston Health Sciences Centre was alerted that they would be getting a large amount of vaccines that needed to be distributed quickly.“There was issues in terms of figuring out staffing to staff the vaccination clinics,” says Dr.

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Durham Region declares COVID-19 outbreak at Supercuts hair salon in Pickering

warning anyone who attended Supercuts in Pickering from March 18 to 21 to self-isolate and get tested for COVID-19 as soon as possible.An outbreak was declared at the salon at 570 Kingston Rd., with officials calling it a “potential high-risk exposure to COVID-19.”“All patrons who attended Supercuts during this time-period must self-isolate for 14 days from the last day they were at this location and seek COVID-19 testing as soon as possible,” the local public health unit said in its notice.Durham Region Health said testing can be arranged at assessment centres. Following testing, health officials said the person must stay home and isolate for 14 days from the last day he or she was at Supercuts, even if the test result is negative.

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Kingston COVID-19 outbreaks getting under control, says medical officer of health

COVID-19 outbreak relating to Queen’s University.This comes as KFL&A Public Health reports only six new cases Tuesday, for a total of 94 active cases in the region. The latest update from Queen’s on its COVID-19 tracker says only three new cases were associated with the school Monday.Compared to the 34 cases seen over the weekend, and the more than 80 cases seen at the school since March 8, Moore says he’s seeing progress.

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Kingston’s medical officer of health gets AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine

COVID-19 vaccine at Amherstview Drugs Tuesday.Moore says as part of the 60-and-over crowd, he was eligible to receive the AstraZeneca shot at a local pharmacy. Kingston-area pharmacies have been administering AstraZeneca vaccines during the last two weeks as part of a special pilot program, which will be expanded to include 700 other sites across the province within the next few weeks.

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‘Go where you can get a vaccine:’ MLHU says no need to wait if other regions have availability

COVID-19 vaccinations to groups that are not yet eligible in Middlesex-London, he sees no issue with people travelling to other regions in Ontario to get vaccinated.A pilot offering Oxford-AstraZeneca shots started this month in Toronto, Kingston and Windsor pharmacies and it’s expected to expand to 700 sites over the next few weeks.Initially, those vaccines were being made available to those age 60-64 but that has expanded to those 60 and older after Canada’s National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) issued updated guidance saying the vaccine can be used on all adults and not just those 64 and younger.

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34 new COVID-19 cases since Friday in the Kingston region, 92 active

COVID-19 cases since Friday, and has 92 active cases of the virus as of Monday.According to a tweet from the health unit, 34 new cases were identified over Saturday, Sunday and Monday before 3 p.m..In that time, there were 15 new recoveries along with 15 variant cases confirmed.The region is inching closer to the all-time high active case count of 112 seen in mid-December. ‘The risk has never been higher’: Kingston’s health unit warns of rising COVID-19 variant cases Between March 8 and March 21, 80 cases have been identified at Queen’s University.

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Pharmacies in Ontario’s COVID-19 hot spots next to offer vaccines

COVID-19 vaccinations to people aged 60 and older.Sylvia Jones says Peel Region will be “absolutely” prioritized next for the pharmacy vaccine program based on high rates of COVID-19 there.A pilot offering Oxford-AstraZeneca shots started this month in Toronto, Kingston and Windsor pharmacies and it’s expected to expand to 700 sites over the next few weeks.

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COVID-19 vaccines will be available for more Kingston age groups starting Monday

COVID-19 vaccinations starting Monday.Friday, Doug Ford announced that people 75 and older can start booking their vaccines through the province’s booking systems next week. He also said a vaccine pilot program currently run at pharmacies in Kingston, Toronto and Windsor-Essex will expand their age groups from 60 to 64 to anyone over the age of 60.

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Premier Doug Ford to provide a COVID-19 vaccination update for pharmacies

COVID-19 vaccination plan regarding pharmacies on Friday morning.Ford will be joined by Minister of Health Christine Elliott, Solicitor General Sylvia Jones and retired general Rick Hillier, who is heading the province’s mass vaccination efforts.The press conference is scheduled to begin at 9:30 a.m. Global News will livestream it here.The AstraZeneca vaccine was rolled out across pharmacies in three regions, Toronto, Kingston and Windsor-Essex, in a pilot project that saw those aged 60 to 64 eligible to be inoculated.So far, the province has administered 1,359,453 doses of COVID-19 vaccines with 292,269 people fully vaccinated with two shots.

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Ganaoque woman faced overworked COVID-19 vaccine booking system for her grandma

COVID-19 vaccine appointment for her 98-year-old grandmother.“It was excruciating,” says Gaye Princ, as she describes the steps she took in securing a vaccine slot for her grandma. She was one of the estimated 100,000 people in Ontario who attempted to book an appointment on Monday.

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1/3 of COVID-19 vaccines given by Kingston pharmacies to those from out-of-region

COVID-19 vaccines to people in the Kingston region has been taken advantage of by people from outside the region, says Dr. Kieran Moore, medical officer of health for the region.KFL&A, along with Windsor-Essex and Toronto, were chosen to be part of a pilot program that would provide local pharmacies with AstraZeneca vaccines to administer to adults within the ages of 60 to 64.The program started last Friday, and so far, of the 9,000 doses provided by Kingston-area pharmacies, 3,000 were given to people from outside the region.

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Life in Kingston, Ont., after one year of COVID-19 pandemic

COVID-19 in Kingston, Ont.That day, Dr. Kieran Moore, medical officer of health for KFL&A Public Health, announced three cases of the novel coronavirus were found in the region.

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COVID-19 hotspots should get larger allotment of vaccines, Mississauga mayor says

Mississauga’s mayor says COVID-19 hotspots like Peel Region and Toronto should get a larger allotment of vaccines.Bonnie Crombie made the remarks during her weekly update Wednesday afternoon.“I really, truly believe that you have to deal with it at the source, and if we have the highest density here and … the risk of transmission is so much greater in Peel Region and in Toronto, then it only makes sense that we get a greater allotment of the vaccine,” Crombie said.

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Life in Kingston, Ont., after one year of pandemic

March 17th marks the one-year anniversary of the first known cases of COVID-19 in Kingston, Ont.

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15 new cases of COVID-19 in the Kingston region, 15 VOCs over the last week

COVID-19 cases Wednesday, with 15 new cases and 53 active.The region has not seen this many active cases since early January.The health unit is also reporting three more variant cases, jumping up to 21 in total, 15 of which have been identified in the last week. Kingston residents flock to Invista Centre COVID-19 vaccination site to receive their shots So far, we know some of these variant cases are associated with an outbreak at Watts Hall, a student residence on Queen’s University campus.The health unit’s dashboard notes that only eight cases are linked to the residence outbreak, but previously, Dr.

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Kingston residents flock to Invista Centre COVID-19 vaccination site to receive their shots

COVID-19 vaccine.Now that the requirements for receiving the shot have opened up to more of the population, those who qualify are looking to get themselves and their families vaccinated. Local media tour Kingston area’s new Invista Centre mass vaccination clinic before opening The province is now allowing those who are aged 80 and above to receive the shot, along with essential workers, caregivers and health-care workers.Considering the Invista Centre’s size, it appears that the facility is running smoothly and efficiently to get as many people vaccinated as possible.“I feel like a million bucks,” says Riley Geizler, a Queen’s student.

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Virtual school staff member tests positive for COVID-19: Limestone school board

COVID-19 associated with its administration after a virtual school staff member received a positive result.The board said the staff member tested positive Wednesday.

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Coronavirus: 2 COVID-19 cases at Millhaven Institution

COVID-19 have been discovered at Millhaven Institution west of Kingston, Ont., over the last month.The first case was confirmed on Feb. 26 and is now resolved, while the second case was discovered March 12 and is still active.

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Kingston-area public health to delay second COVID-19 doses for some

COVID-19 vaccine, it may take longer than previously expected to get the second.The Kingston-area health unit says it wants increase the number of people benefiting from the first shot, so it will be delaying some people’s second dose by up to 16 weeks.Over the next few weeks, many people who received their first dose on or before March 10 will receive an email with a booking cancellation and a follow-up phone call from KFL&A Public Health to reschedule their second dose.

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Health officials urge St. Patrick’s Day revellers to keep up COVID-19 guidelines

St. Patrick’s Day revellers to follow physical distancing and other anti-pandemic guidelines today.The main concern is that gatherings and celebrations could turn into COVID-19 super-spreader events.

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Coronavirus: 7 more cases associated with Queen’s University, 40 active in Kingston region

COVID-19, as the university announces seven more cases of the virus linked to the school. So far this week there have been eight cases confirmed by the university, all involving students living off-campus.The university is currently at the epicentre of the city’s latest COVID-19 outbreak, with 27 people linked to the school catching the virus so far — some of which are known variants of concern.The health unit reported eight new cases Tuesday, with a total of 40 active cases in the region.

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Coronavirus: COVID-19 outbreak declared at Land O’Lakes Public School

COVID-19 at Land O’Lakes Public School after the identification of a second positive case at the school.A student tested positive for the virus March 16, the day after a teacher at the school received a positive result.An outbreak has been called because the health unit has found transmission in the school setting. Coronavirus: 2 Kingston elementary students test positive for variants of concern Both people who tested positive are isolating.

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Kingston-area public health completes second COVID-19 doses for LTC residents

COVID-19.According to the health unit, as of March 10, some 95 per cent of the region’s long-term care residents had received a first dose of the vaccine, while 89 per cent had received their second.The health unit said various issues may have led to less of a second dose uptake, like illness or hospitalization in between doses. Long-term care workers receive southeastern Ontario’s first COVID-19 vaccines “This day has been long-awaited, and we are all proud to have helped to protect KFL&A’s most vulnerable adults from COVID-19,” said Dr.

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Kingston bylaw called to 140-person party night before St. Pat’s Section 22 order in place

COVID-19 in Kingston by prohibiting gatherings of over five people inside and outside and imposing seating restrictions on restaurants over the St. Patrick’s Day week.

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Coronavirus: 14 VOCs, 6 other COVID-19 cases associated with Queen’s University

COVID-19 at Queen’s University on and off campus, 14 of which are variants of concern connected to an outbreak at a residence.The health unit said of the six outlying cases at the school, five are the first-known strain of COVID-19 and one is currently under investigation. Coronavirus: 2 Kingston elementary students test positive for variants of concern Moore said the outbreak in Queen’s University’s Watts Hall is more or less under control, but he expects to see more propagation off-campus due to the contagious nature of the variant.“I absolutely expect more cases in that student population,” he said.In fact, the outbreak has already moved into other areas of the community, prompting the closure of St.

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Kingston health unit investigates 2 COVID-19 cases at local schools linked to Queen’s outbreak

COVID-19. At least one case is being investigated by public health as a variant of concern.On Sunday, Dr.

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Coronavirus: Kingston Transit user tests positive for COVID-19

COVID-19.The public health authority has issued a release to help the organization with its contact-tracing efforts because they are unable to identify all riders on the route.The individual that tested positive for COVID-19 was on the #2 bus route on March 3 and 7. 1 COVID-19 variant of concern, 15 total cases associated with Queen’s University On March 3 the individual that tested positive for COVID-19 was on the bus at 4 pm at the downtown station.The route took the bus northbound on Division Street and the person got off the bus at 4:20 pm in the area of Division Street and the 401.The second incident on March 7 occurred between 5:30 p.m.

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1 COVID-19 variant of concern, 15 total cases associated with Queen’s University

COVID-19 variants of concern related to an outbreak at a Queen’s University residence.On Friday, KFL&A’s medical officer of health said that in total, there are 15 cases of the coronavirus associated with the university, some of which are linked to an outbreak at Watts Hall.In total, six people in the residence tested positive, and six of their secondary contacts (some of which are on- and off-campus) and three others off-campus have caught the disease. Moore says the health unit is still investigating the links between the on- and off-campus cases.

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Coronavirus: Latest developments in the Greater Toronto Area on March 12

coronavirus pandemic in the Greater Toronto Area for Friday.A pilot project offering COVID-19 vaccines in pharmacies is expanding more broadly today.Some pharmacies in Toronto, Windsor and Kingston health units have already started offering Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines to residents between the ages of 60 to 64.

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7 Limestone cohorts sent home as precaution to protect against COVID-19 variant of concern

Coronavirus: 5th COVID-19 variant of concern found in Kingston “Affected cohorts will remain at home in isolation until further investigation is completed by public health,” a statement from the board said.Students who were not identified as part of an affected cohort can continue going to school if they pass the daily COVID-19 screening.

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Ontario COVID-19 vaccine pilot rollout continues at more sites

COVID-19 vaccines in pharmacies is expanding more broadly today.Some pharmacies in Toronto, Windsor and Kingston health units have already started offering Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines to residents between the ages of 60 to 64.[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]Justin Bates of the Ontario Pharmacists’ Association says additional shots were to arrive yesterday.

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Ontario pharmacy COVID-19 vaccine pilot ramping up in 3 regions

COVID-19 vaccine appointments as a pilot project offering shots in pharmacies picks up steam.Oxford-AstraZeneca shots are being given to Ontarians between the ages of 60 to 64 at 325 pharmacies in the Toronto, Windsor and Kingston health units.The Ontario Pharmacists Association says the program _ which is set to launch broadly tomorrow _ has a “rolling start” today, with some sites already administering vaccines.

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People age 60-64 will soon be able to receive the COVID-19 vaccine in Simcoe Muskoka

COVID-19 AstraZeneca vaccine at primary care and community sites in Simcoe County and Muskoka, the Ontario government announced Wednesday.The initiative will begin locally, as well as in Peterborough, Peel Region, Guelph, Hamilton and Toronto on Saturday, March 13. Here are the pharmacies administering COVID-19 vaccines in Toronto, Kingston and Windsor-Essex The province said it’s working with primary care providers to offer vaccines at places like doctors’ offices in collaboration with local public health units.Primary care providers won’t be taking appointments by request but will be contacting eligible Ontarians aged 60 to 64 to book an appointment starting Wednesday.

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Here are the pharmacies administering COVID-19 vaccines in Toronto, Kingston and Windsor-Essex

COVID-19 vaccine in Toronto, Kingston and Windsor-Essex.The provincial government said as of Friday, participating pharmacies will be offering the shot to eligible Ontarians aged 60 to 64, or born between 1957 and 1961, by appointment only.With the arrival of 194,500 doses of the newly approved Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, pharmacies began booking appointments on Wednesday in the three local public health units participating in the pilot program: Toronto, Windsor-Essex, and Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox and Addington.

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Some Ontarians will soon be able to book COVID-19 vaccine appointments at more than 300 pharmacies

COVID-19 vaccine appointments at more than 300 pharmacies in three regions.Christine Elliott said that the province is expecting to receive 190,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine on Tuesday and added that eligible residents will be able to book appointments as of Friday to receive their shots.The vaccines, some of which are set to expire in early April, are being distributed to pharmacies in Toronto, Windsor-Essex, and Kingston. That’s being done as part of a pilot project and Elliott said it will help ensure they are administered in a timely manner.

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Coronavirus vaccines could be available at Kingston-area pharmacies by the weekend

COVID-19 vaccines to local pharmacies over the next two weeks, the health unit announced Tuesday.In an interview with media, Dr. Kieran Moore says the vaccines could be in pharmacies ready to be administered as soon as Saturday.Previously, only 10 pharmacies were chosen to deliver the vaccines, but now, Moore says somewhere between 40 and 48 local pharmacies will receive shots over the next week.

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Kingston city council to consider food market reform to support local producers

Public market returning to downtown Kingston, with coronavirus measures in place “The hope is that we would be increasing availability of local food, so that means supporting the local producers and farmers who are providing those goods to the community,” says Kate Lillicrap, project manager at the Office of the CAO for the City of Kingston.“That would also be helping with food security and sustainability in the area.”Some of the changes that could be coming to Kingston’s food markets include lower fees to favour producers rather than resellers, focusing more on locally-grown food, and donating unsold food to charities within the city.These adjustments have been in the works since 2019, so they aren’t directly related to the coronavirus

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Coronavirus: Kingston-area health unit announces 6th COVID-19 variant of concern

COVID-19 in the region has tested positive for a variant of concern, KFL&A Public Health announced Monday .This would be the area’s sixth lab-confirmed case of a COVID-19 mutation so far.Testing is currently being done on all swabs of positive cases of COVID-19 to check for variations, but molecular testing, which takes several weeks, is still needed to determine which mutation is present. Coronavirus: 5th COVID-19 variant of concern found in Kingston So far, the health unit has only identified the first variant of concern in the region as the B.1.1.7.

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Coronavirus: Kingston’s Maple Madness to go ahead with limited programming

coronavirus pandemic, the CRCA says this year it will go ahead, but with changes to protect against COVID-19.“Cataraqui Conservation staff still felt it was important to offer some programming to help alleviate the winter blahs and celebrate the coming of spring,” a news release from the organization said. Maple Madness takes over Cataraqui Creek Conservation Area The event will run over three weekends starting March 13 with guided hikes and demonstration areas at the Little Cataraqui Creek Conservation.After working with KFL&A Public Health, the CRCA decided to cut out wagon rides to the sugar bush, puppet shows in the Outdoor Centre and the much-loved pancakes with maple syrup.

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Coronavirus: 1 case identified at St. Martha Catholic School in Kingston

COVID-19 has been identified at a Kingston elementary school.According to a statement from the board, it was notified of a case at St. Martha Catholic School March 4.

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‘It’s infuriating’: Constituents of MPP Randy Hillier call for his removal

Some constituents living in Hillier’s riding of Lanark-Frontenac-Kingston are speaking out against their MPP, asking for him to resign or be removed.

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Ontario pharmacies added to COVID-19 vaccine rollout

Starting sometime next week, pharmacies in Toronto, Windsor-Essex and Kingston will begin administering vaccine doses. Shallima Maharaj outlines the plan.

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