COVID-19 vaccine equity only way to beat the virus

March 22, 2022

MICHAEL RILEYStaff WHILE CANADA HAS made great strides in fighting COVID-19 over the past two years, and indeed many countries have also made remarkable progress in getting their ...

Tudor and Cashel NHFS programs help seniors hard hit by COVID-19 pandemic

MICHAEL RILEYStaff THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC, with its restrictions and lockdowns, has had a major effect on the physical and mental health of everybody in Canada and around the world. ...

Licence plate stickers on the way out-it’s about time!

MICHAEL RILEYStaff THE NEWS BROKE RECENTLY that the Ontario government was getting rid of licence plate stickers and the accompanying cost of renewing them each year by ...

Standing up for Ukraine is standing up for democracy

MICHAEL RILEYStaff RUSSIA INVADED UKRAINE on Feb. 24, despite a 1994 treaty it signed, the Budapest Memorandum, guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty forever. The events over the past week have been ...

Emergencies Act a necessary evil …for now

MICHAEL RILEYStaff THERE HAS BEEN much debate since Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his Liberal government invoked the Emergencies Act back on Feb. 14 to address the Freedom Convoy ...

Maggie’s Resource Centre funding coming soon

MICHAEL RILEYStaff COVID-19 AND ALL the restrictions over the last couple of years have wrought havoc on many facets of people’s lives. One of these facets has ...

Some thoughts on the Freedom Convoy 2022

MICHAEL RILEYStaff LIKE EVERYONE ELSE across the country, and around the worldfor that matter, I have been closely watching the Freedom Convoy 2022, the convoy of truckers that ...

COVID-19 treatment innovations welcome news

By MICHAEL RILEYStaff NEW DEVELOPMENTS ON treating COVID-19 are always welcome news, especially for those of us with aged parents, like myself, who are more vulnerable to ...

Cat and dog adoptions spike during the COVID-19 pandemic

MICHAEL RILEYStaff I SAW AN ARTICLE the other day in the Toronto Star saying that pet adoptions had increased quite a lot since the CDC declared COVID-19 a pandemic ...