Morning News – March 11

Mar 11, 2022 at 07:56

Weather:

• Today – Flurries at times heavy. Local blowing snow this afternoon. Amount 5 cm. Wind south 30 km/h gusting to 60 becoming west 20 gusting to 40 this afternoon. High minus 7. Wind chill minus 19 this morning and minus 14 this afternoon. UV index 1 or low.
• Tonight – Partly cloudy with 60 percent chance of flurries. Local blowing snow early this evening. Wind southwest 20 km/h becoming light early this evening. Wind becoming northwest 30 gusting to 60 after midnight. Low minus 17. Wind chill minus 15 this evening and minus 26 overnight.

COVID-19 Statistics:

	Current	Previous	Change from previous report
<!doctype> Tested	242,566	242,096	470
Confirmed Cases	5,641	5,609	32
Confirmed Cases in 2022	3,437	3,405	32
Active cases	375(1)	398(1)	-23
Resolved	5,266	5,211	55
Deceased	38	38	0
Deceased in 2022	18	18	0
<!doctype> Central & East Algoma	567	565	2
Elliot Lake & Area	221	216	5
North Algoma	232	230	0
Sault Ste. Marie & Area	4,621	4,596	25

News Tidbits:

• Brad Jacobs and his team have made the playoffs at the 2022 Tim Hortons Brier in Lethbridge
• Hooray! A&W Canada, plans to pilot the “Butterfly Cup”, a totally recyclable, lidless paper cup  in Toronto this month
• Eligible students who enrol between June 1 and September 30, 2022, financial support of up to $13,690 (costs of tuition, books and other mandatory fees, as well as a stipend for a clinical work placement) will be available to new students enrolled in a PSW program at one of the participating Ontario Student Assistance Program (OSAP) approved private career colleges.
• Eleven years ago on March 11, 2011, the largest earthquake ever recorded in Japan caused massive devastation and a tsunami that hit the Tōhoku region of northeastern Honshu. The earthquake and tsunami also caused the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant disaster. The Fukushima disaster is considered the second-worst nuclear disaster in history, forcing the relocation of over 100,000 people. The worst nuclear disaster was Cherynobyl (April 26, 1986).

 

Announcements:

• Jill Dunlop, Minister of Colleges and Universities, will make an announcement about a new student scholarship at 8:45 a.m. in Toronto.
• Solicitor General Sylvia Jones will be joined by Ontario Provincial Police Commissioner, Thomas Carrique, to make an announcement regarding police mental health crisis response resources at 10:30 a.m. in Shelburne.
• Premier Doug Ford will be joined by Christine Elliott, Deputy Premier and Minister of Health, to make an announcement at 1 a.m. in Barrie.