Parents of infant who died in wrong-way crash on Ontario's Hwy. 401 were in same vehicle
Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit has released new details about a wrong-way collision in Whitby on Monday night that claimed the lives of four people.
China will abolish its COVID-19 trace tracking service, the "Mobile Itinerary card," on Tuesday, officials say.
"Mobile Itinerary card inquiry channels such as text messages, web pages, WeChat extensions, Alipay extensions and app will go offline at the same time," according to a statement from the country's Academy of Information and Communications Technology.
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, China has used the itinerary card system to track individuals' travel histories over 14 days. The system is tied to people's phone numbers and aims to identify individuals who have visited cities with any area designated a "high-risk zone" by authorities.
If a person has been to a city with a "high-risk zone" in the prior 14 days, then the city will be marked with a star sign in the system.
This system, together with a health QR code that tracks individuals' health statuses regarding COVID-19, determined people's movements into public spaces across China.
It has been a point of criticism for many Chinese people on social media for allowing local governments to make generalized policies banning entry to those who've visited a city that has a "high-risk zone," even if they did not go to the high-risk zones within that city.
The announcement the system is ending follows China's unveiling last week of 10 new guidelines that loosened some COVID-19 restrictions, a sign that the country was moving away from its zero-COVID 19 approach.
The 10-point plan largely scrapped health code tracking for most public places, rolled back mass testing, allowed many positive cases to quarantine at home and imposed limits on lockdowns of areas deemed "high risk."
Top health officials in Beijing said the changes to the rules were based on scientific evidence, including the spread of the comparatively milder Omicron variant, the vaccination rate, and China's level of experience in responding to the virus.
It follows a wave of protests in China in late November and early December calling for an end to lockdowns and zero-COVID measures.
Even after much of the world relaxed pandemic restrictions, China continued to lock down entire cities and send all COVID-19 patients to central quarantine facilities, while restricting others from visiting areas where positive cases were detected.
Thousands took to the streets during the protests, with some voicing broader grievances against censorship and the ruling Communist Party's authoritarian leadership.
Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit has released new details about a wrong-way collision in Whitby on Monday night that claimed the lives of four people.
Three men in Quebec from the same family have fathered more than 600 children.
A British Columbia mayor has been censured by city council – stripping him of his travel and lobbying budgets and removing him from city committees – for allegedly distributing a book that questions the history of Indigenous residential schools in Canada.
A spike in impaired driving-related collisions has caused Ontario’s provincial police to begin enforcing mandatory alcohol screening (MAS) at all traffic stops in the Greater Toronto Area -- a move one civil rights group says is ‘not acceptable.’
William Nylander scored twice and Joseph Woll made 22 saves as the Toronto Maple Leafs downed the Boston Bruins 2-1 on Thursday to force Game 7 in their first-round series.
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Three men in Quebec from the same family have fathered more than 600 children.
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A police officer on Montreal's South Shore anonymously donated a kidney that wound up drastically changing the life of a schoolteacher living on dialysis.
Since 1932, Montreal's Henri Henri has been filled to the brim with every possible kind of hat, from newsboy caps to feathered fedoras.
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Out of more than 9,000 entries from over 2,000 breweries in 50 countries, a handful of B.C. brews landed on the podium at the World Beer Cup this week.
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