Ed Tubb

Over the past 365 days of the pandemic, the Star has been there to track and analyze the situation, compiling a day-by-day record of the virus’s local impact.

We closed playgrounds. Then we didn’t.

Even as the daily case count has dipped below 500 for the first time since September 2020 and vaccinations increase, experts point to the spread of the more transmissible B.1.617.2 or “Delta” variant as the most concerning threat on the horizon.

What’s changed, and what hasn’t, in the debate that will affect how we will protect ourselves from the spread of the Delta variant.

Hospitals have been the province’s second-deadliest setting for COVID-19 outbreaks, behind long-term-care homes and ahead of retirement homes — but with little of the public reckoning seen in those sectors.

Health officials changing a key recommendation on the use of hospital PPE as Omicron cases surge in the province.

In two months, COVID-19 killed 85 unvaccinated Ontarians over 80. How vaccines have helped fight Omicron.

The end result is locking decades worth of taxpayer dollars into an antiquated model of elderly care that’s failed during the pandemic.

The FBI’s key witness had worked with Ryan Wedding for more than a decade. Within three months, he would be dead.

For more than two years, elements of the Ryan Wedding saga have played out in the public eye. This is how they came to light.