News Clippings
Jan. 7
Vaughan News
Free admission to Vaughan's McMichael art gallery starting Jan. 11 for four months (Thestar.com)
Free admission to Vaughan's McMichael art gallery starting Jan. 11 for four months (Yorkregion.com)
York Region News
King council meetings to remain virtual for foreseeable future (Yorkregion.com)
York Catholic board opens registration for September 2022 kindergarten (Yorkregion.com)
King gears up for winter snow removal (Yorkregion.com)
GTA News
Will Toronto tee up changes to city-run golf courses, amid demands for green space? (Thestar.com)
Toronto sets up school-based clinics to vaccinate education workers, students ahead of return to class (Thestar.com, Globalnews.ca, Cp24.com)
City 'laser-focused' on maintaining essential services: Tory (Torontosun.com)
Provincial News
Ontario to fast-track COVID-19 booster shots for education and child-care workers (Theglobeandmail.com)
Shorter isolation allowed in Ontario if two rapid tests come back negative (Theglobeandmail.com, Nationalpost.com)
Jan. 6
Vaughan News
Building Hwy. 413 is the 'antithesis' of what ought to be done, says activist (Thestar.com)
Building Hwy. 413 is the 'antithesis' of what ought to be done, says activist (Yorkregion.com)
'Flying by the seat of our pants': Omicron disrupts York Region workplaces (Yorkregion.com)
Vaughan considers ‘district within a district’ approach to heritage protection (NRU)
2021 Year in review (NRU)
York Region News
COVID-19 boosters open to York Region adults on Tuesday (Ctvnews.ca)
King closes all non-essential services Jan. 5 amid COVID-19 pandemic (Yorkregion.com)
What you can and can't do in Markham as province reverts to modified stage 2 reopening plan (Yorkregion.com)
Newmarket closes indoor facilities, winter programming until at least Jan. 26 amid latest pandemic restrictions (Yorkregion.com)
Aurora closes facilities amid new provincial pandemic restrictions (Yorkregion.com)
East Gwillimbury closes most town facilities due to COVID-19 (Yorkregion.com)
GTA News
Toronto fires 461 city employees for refusing to get vaccinated against COVID-19; hundreds more under review (Thestar.com, Theglobeandmail.com, Torontosun.com, Globalnews.ca, Cbc.ca)
Staffing shortages burning out Toronto paramedics (Torontosun.com)
City to spray pesticides to stave off 2022 moth infestation (Thestar.com)
Township adopts final Port Perry CIP (NRU)
Provincial News
Ontario tells hospitals to stop non-urgent surgeries, procedures to preserve critical-care capacity (Cbc.ca)
Ontario has ‘not yet received’ delivery schedule for rapid tests from feds: premier’s office (Globalnews.ca)
Jan. 5
Vaughan News
Vaughan postpones its winter recreation programs in light of Omicron spread in Ontario (Yorkregion.com)
Toronto preparing for up to 60 per cent of its frontline workers to be absent due to Omicron (Ctvnews.ca)
York Region's non-compliance team issues 19 charges in Aurora, Georgina, Markham, Newmarket, Vaughan (Thestar.com)
York Region's non-compliance team issues 19 charges in Aurora, Georgina, Markham, Newmarket, Vaughan (Yorkregion.com)
With Christmas holidays, New Year's celebrations behind us, here are some waste reduction tips to 'pack it up' (Yorkregion.com)
York Region News
Top doc estimates 40,000 COVID-19 cases circulating in York Region (Newmarkettoday.ca)
Additional mass COVID-19 vaccination clinic opening in Newmarket Community Centre (Yorkregion.com)
Here we go again: Georgina cancels in-person recreation programs, library returns to curbside pickup (Yorkregion.com)
Non-Profit Week of Appreciation bill proposed by Richmond Hill MPP passes unanimously (Yorkregion.com)
Stouffville to close recreation and administrative facilities starting Jan. 5 (Yorkregion.com)
Meet the candidates for 2022 Richmond Hill mayoral byelection (Yorkregion.com)
GTA News
Toronto Public Library to shut branches, zoo to close as city prepares for mass staff absences due to COVID-19 (Thestar.com, Torontosun.com, Cbc.ca)
Provincial News
Soaring Omicron sick day absences force businesses to shorten hours and cut production (Thestar.com, Theglobeandmail.com)
Federal News
Ottawa announces $40-billion Indigenous child welfare settlement, largest in history (Theglobeandmail.com, Thestar.com)
Jan. 4
Vaughan News
Vaughan closing facilities due to staffing shortages (CP24)
Vaughan closing facilities due to staffing shortages (CBC)
Vaughan is temporarily closing City facilities (680 News)
Vaughan closes fitness centres, swimming pools and some libraries amid COVID-19 staffing shortages (Ctvnews.ca)
Staff shortages due to Omicron variant close Vaughan libraries, community centres (Yorkregion.com)
Staff shortages due to Omicron variant close Vaughan libraries, community centres (Thestar.com)
Vaughan temporarily closes recreation facilities amid staffing shortages due to Omicron (Thepeakfm.com)
Vaughan temporarily closes recreation facilities amid staffing shortages due to Omicron (Edge.ca)
City of Vaughan closing libraries, rec centres due to staff shortages, Omicron spread (Toronto.Citynews.ca)
Vaughan closes fitness centres, swimming pools and some libraries amid COVID-19 staffing shortages (Cp24.com)
Vaughan temporarily closes recreation facilities amid staffing shortages due to Omicron (Globalnews.ca)
Ontario weighs whether to follow U.S. in cutting COVID quarantine period (Thestar.com)
Vaughan Temporarily Closes Recreation Facilities Amid Staffing Shortages Due To Omicron (Thestreetjournal.org)
Vaughan closes fitness centers, swimming pools and some libraries due to COVID-19 staff shortages (Bestinau.net)
Vaughan closes fitness centers, swimming pools and some libraries due to staff shortages due to COVID-19 (X99news.com)
Vaughan closes fitness centers, swimming pools and some libraries amid COVID-19 staff shortages (Exbulletin.com)
Development in York Region made headlines this year (Thestar.com)
Development in York Region made headlines this year (Yorkregion.com)
Vaughan’s newsmakers in 2021 include children killed by car accidents, Hwy. 413 protests and new hospital (Thestar.com)
Vaughan’s newsmakers in 2021 include children killed by car accidents, Hwy. 413 protests and new hospital (Yorkregion.com)
Community farms at Vaughan non-profit inspiring, shows people are thinking of food security (Thestar.com)
Indigenous people, country grappled with residential school grave discoveries (Yorkregion.com)
Here are the highlights of the City of Vaughan's $512.8M operating budget (Yorkregion.com)
GTA’s only no-kill, no-cage cat shelter appeals for community's help with Newmarket move (Newmarkettoday.ca)
York Region News
2021 Aurora newsmakers: Southlake hospital, blocking development in Henderson Forest made headlines (Yorkregion.com)
Newmarket's New Year's event, Mayor's Levee cancelled to reduce spread of Omicron variant (Yorkregion.com)
East Gwillimbury goes to two bag garbage limit in 2022 (Yorkregion.com)
'You see the joy people have': Stouffville vaccine clinic showed reporter light at the end of the COVID tunnel (Yorkregion.com)
'Stories that affect us all': Council approves special funding to support York Region Arts Council (Yorkregion.com)
Markham vaccine clinic hiring support staff (Yorkregion.com)
GTA News
How the City of Toronto is supporting employee mental health in 2022 and beyond (Benefitscanada.com)
Investigation underway after City of Toronto snow plow appears to smash into resident's front yard (Ctvnews.ca)
Provincial News
Ontario Temporarily Moving to Modified Step Two of the Roadmap to Reopen (News.Ontario.ca, Thestar.com, Yorkregion.com, Theglobeandmail.com, Torontosun.com, Nationalpost.com)
Ontario to stop collecting COVID-19 numbers from school boards, suspend reporting of cases in schools (Cp24.com)
Ontario minimum wage hike comes into effect; liquor servers and students get pay bump (Theglobeandmail.com)
