Patty Winsa

There were nearly 1,400 domestic flights in Canada with a confirmed case of COVID-19 last year. This year, there have already been more than 800 flights as of April 4.

The appointments, which will be available for two weeks, can be made through the province’s online booking system or directly through your local public health unit.

With the beginning of the school year only weeks away, numerous testing sites remain closed, after a provincial scale back that started in the spring.

Colleges can now offer four-year nursing degrees. But, in many cases, everyone is still competing for the same number of program seats.

Thousands of IENs arrive here only to find out that they don’t have the necessary credentials to get licensed. A new initiative aims to change that.

Dan McTeague, who runs the price tracking site GasWizard.ca, says there’s no cause for alarm as the shortage was just panic buying, or people looking to take advantage.

The scholarships could ensure recipients finish their degrees and become registered nurses, giving them an opportunity to advance in their field.

Investigators allege that more than 1,200 packages containing deadly sodium nitrite have been sent to people in more than 40 countries, including the U.S., U.K., Italy, Australia and New Zealand.

The Denmark company says one of the mostly highly recycled plastics won’t be used as a substitute for the petroleum-based virgin plastic currently used to make its brightly-coloured bricks.

The move is meant to relieve Ontario taxpayers of the costs of recycling, and promote use of materials that are more recyclable. Skeptics say it might do neither.