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Today, Steve Clark, Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing, delivered the following remarks to delegates during the virtual Association of Municipalities of Ontario conference: Good morning – I hope you’re enjoying the first-ever virtual AMO conference. Things are a little different than the last time we met… but my cabinet colleagues and I are so glad the conference is happening. ...

The Ontario government is providing $3.8 million to support hearing checks for infants who did not receive the universal newborn hearing screen due to the COVID-19 outbreak. Over the past several months, Infant Hearing Program lead agencies suspended the newborn hearing screen commonly provided pre-discharge from hospitals and in community locations based on the advice of health officials. As the ...

Le gouvernement de l’Ontario fournit 3,8 millions de dollars pour soutenir le dépistage néonatal des troubles auditifs pour les nouveau-nés qui n’ont pas eu accès au dépistage universel en raison de l’éclosion de COVID-19. Au cours des derniers mois, les organismes responsables du Programme de dépistage néonatal des troubles auditifs ont suspendu le dépistage auditif des nouveau-nés couramment pratiqué avant ...

Well, good morning! My friends, it’s good to be with you today. I have to thank Jamie McGarvey and the entire AMO leadership team for going the extra mile this year to make sure this conference could happen. It’s never been more important to bring our municipal leaders together and stand united because these are extraordinary times. I also want ...

The Government of Canada, like every other government and private sector organization in the world, deals with ongoing and persistent cyber risks and threats. That is why the government has robust systems and tools in place to monitor, detect and investigate potential threats, and neutralize them as quickly as possible. The Government of Canada is taking action in response to ...

Le gouvernement du Canada, comme tout autre gouvernement et organisation du secteur privé dans le monde, doit faire face à des cyberrisques et des cybermenaces continus et persistants. C’est pourquoi le gouvernement a des systèmes rigoureux pour surveiller, détecter et enquêter des menaces éventuelles et les neutraliser dès que possible. Le gouvernement du Canada prend des mesures à la suite ...

Aujourd’hui, au lieu de faire une mise à jour en personne aux médias, la Dre Theresa Tam, administratrice en chef de la santé publique du Canada, a fait la déclaration suivante : « Il y a 121 889 cas confirmés de COVID-19 au Canada, dont 9 024 décès, et 89 % des personnes touchées sont maintenant rétablies. À ce jour, les laboratoires de partout ...

In lieu of an in-person update to the media, Dr. Theresa Tam, Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer, issued the following statement today: “There have been 121,889 cases of COVID-19 in Canada, including 9,024 deaths. 89% of people have now recovered. Labs across Canada have tested 4,741,146 people for COVID-19 to date. Over the past week, an average of 43,000 people ...

Premier Doug Ford and Health Minister Christine Elliott will be among key speakers featured on the first day of the 2020 Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO) annual conference. The AMO conference opens Monday August 17 and will run to August 19. It will be offered entirely online – a first in the more than 120-year history of the event. The ...

The Ontario government, in consultation with the Chief Medical Officer of Health, is supporting the safe reopening of many sport, fitness and recreation facilities by applying a capacity limit on a per room basis to help more businesses reopen their doors, get more people back to work and promote the return to a healthy and active lifestyle for all Ontarians. ...

Le gouvernement de l’Ontario, en consultation avec le médecin hygiéniste en chef, favorise la réouverture sécuritaire de nombreuses installations sportives, de remise en forme et de loisirs en mettant en place une limite de personnes par salle. Cette mesure vise à aider un plus grand nombre d’entreprises à rouvrir leurs portes, à permettre à davantage d’Ontariens et Ontariennes de reprendre ...

  On August 12, 2020 at 9:30 p.m., members of the Nipissing West Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a report of an overdue fisherman on Thistle Lake, in the Municipality of West Nipissing (Field). The 90-year-old male, from Waterloo, left his rental cottage at 11:30 a.m. to go fishing and was reported missing after he failed ...

The Ontario government is providing more than half a billion dollars in supports to school boards to ensure schools across the province will reopen safely in September and to protect students and staff. These supports will enable school boards to provide more physical distancing in classrooms and direct funding to utilize non-school community spaces, and will allow boards to make ...

Le gouvernement de l’Ontario fournit un soutien financier aux conseils scolaires s’élevant à plus d’un demi-milliard de dollars pour veiller à ce que les écoles de toute la province rouvrent de façon sécuritaire en septembre et pour protéger les élèves et le personnel. Ces aides permettront aux conseils scolaires d’assurer plus de distance physique dans les salles de classe, d’avoir ...

The Ontario government has launched consultations to improve the province’s privacy protection laws. People and businesses from a wide range of sectors, including technology, financial and service, and the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, will have the opportunity to contribute to strengthening transparency and accountability concerning the collection, use and safeguarding of personal information online. “Our government continually hears ...