Morning News – April 26

Apr 26, 2025 at 07:56

Weather:

• Today – Cloudy with 40 percent chance of flurries this morning. A few flurries beginning near noon. Local amount 2 cm. Wind becoming north 20 km/h this morning. High minus 4. Wind chill minus 19 this morning and minus 10 this afternoon. UV index 2 or low.
• Tonight – A few flurries ending after midnight then mainly cloudy. Local amount 2 cm. Wind north 20 km/h. Low minus 10. Wind chill minus 11 this evening and minus 18 overnight.

COVID Statistics

	Current	Previous	Change from previous report
Tested	257,444	256,664	780
Confirmed Cases	7,813	7,726	87
Confirmed Cases in 2022	5,609	5,522	87
Active cases	291	360	-69
Resolved	7,522	7,366	156
*Deceased	51	50	1
Deceased in 2022	30	29	1
Central & East Algoma	772	766	6
Elliot Lake & Area	383	370	13
North Algoma	271	270	1
Sault Ste. Marie & Area	6,387	6,320	67

News Tidbits:

• The Ontario government is investing $1.2 billion to build a new state-of-the-art Thunder Bay Correctional Complex, $96 million for expansion projects at the Thunder Bay Correctional Centre and Kenora Jail, and up to $5 million for a new Northern Attraction Incentive Program pilot to attract and retain corrections staff in the North. EllisDon Infrastructure Justice has been awarded the contract for the 345-bed multi-purpose facility. Construction of the new Thunder Bay Correctional Complex is expected to start this fall and be completed by fall 2026.

Announcements:

• Premier Doug Ford will be joined by Monte McNaughton, Minister of Labour, Training and Skills Development, to make an announcement in London at 10 a.m.

Did You Know?

• On April 26, 1954, the Salk polio vaccine field trials, involving 1.8 million children, began at the Franklin Sherman Elementary School in McLean, Virginia. Children in the United States, Canada and Finland participated in the trials, which used for the first time the now-standard double-blind method, whereby neither the patient nor attending doctor knew if the inoculation was the vaccine or a placebo.  One year later, on April 12, 1955, researchers announced the vaccine was safe and effective and it quickly became a standard part of childhood immunizations in America. – to read more