COVID-19 cases growing among London hospital workers as Omicron rages

COVID-19 cases among employees at London’s largest hospital have now nearly tripled from levels recorded nearly a week ago. London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) now has 152 staff,  or roughly one per cent of its 15,000 employees, who have tested positive for the virus, up from 104 reported Tuesday. “This amounts approximately to one per […]

Chatsworth family welcomes Grey-Bruce’s first baby of 2022

Cassandra Abbott, Cory Wallace and their two children were preparing to ring in 2022 together Saturday night, when plans suddenly changed. The Chatsworth couple, who were soon expecting their third child, decided they would let Celeste, 7, and Roman, 6, stay up late so they could welcome in 2022 together as a family. But as […]

More income inequality leads to more COVID cases: Western researcher

A Western University researcher says his team’s research of income inequality in 127 countries found that countries with greater income inequality had higher rates of COVID-19 cases and more deaths, at least in the pre-vaccine stage of the pandemic. James Davies, a professor in the university’s department of economics, said the rate of economic distance […]

Community comes out for Southampton polar bear dip

It isn’t uncommon for the waters off Southampton to be full of swimmers on a hot summer day. But it is perhaps a little more unusual for those same waters to be full of people in January. With the water temperature at about 5.4 C, dozens of people braved chilly Lake Huron for a New […]