Anthony Furey

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FUREY: Canada's COVID busybodies will never leave you alone -- so just ignore them

All across the country, Canadians are returning to some semblance of normal. Adults are hanging out again and returning to the workplace; children’s activities have resumed and in several provinces COVID-19 restrictions and mask rules are gone.

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July 24, 2021 Columnists

People walk in the Eaton Centre shopping mall, as the provincial Phase 2 of reopening from COVID-19 restrictions begins in Toronto, June 24, 2020.

Science Table calls for mask, distancing rules to be dropped in low-risk scenarios

The Ontario Science Table has released a report co-authored by researchers from SickKids Hospital that calls for the return of most normal activities in schools this fall along with a stepping away from many COVID-19 protocols such as masks, physical distancing and cohorting.

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July 20, 2021 Ontario

The Ontario Science Table is recommending a return of most normal activities in schools this fall.

FUREY: It's now time for Canada's public health bosses to put the mic down and step away

As history tells it, Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus was tending to his farm as a private citizen when a delegation from Rome came to tell him the Republic was under siege and their army was nearing defeat.

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July 12, 2021 Columnists

Chief Public Health Officer Theresa Tam looks on at the start of a technical briefing on the COVID pandemic in Canada, Friday, January 15, 2021 in Ottawa.

FUREY: Ontario's never-ending restrictions have become a joke compared to other provinces

While much of Canada is evolving its response to COVID-19 and reopening society, Ontario is in a perpetual state of fear.

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July 7, 2021 Columnists

Ontario Premier Doug Ford leaves his office for a press conference at the Ontario legislature in Toronto, May 13, 2021.

FUREY: China's Communist regime -- with help from a Canadian Senator -- is appropriating the residential schools conversation

The Chinese Communist Party is exploiting Canada's tragedies for their own gains

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June 30, 2021 Columnists

FUREY: Canadians should be deeply ashamed of how we've harmed our youth

During last spring’s first lockdown I decamped from Toronto to a rural place that didn’t have the bandwidth for streaming services so spent my evenings watching retro movie channels on satellite TV.

June 27, 2021 Columnists

Single mother Lizbeth Leon Adame relaxes in a park with her children (from left to right), Isabella, Jesus and Lizbetha, all of them who contracted and beat COVID-19, in Toronto on May 12, 2021.

SickKids reports seeing post-vaccine myocarditis in kids

Health officials taking a closer look at heart inflammation in teen vaccine recipients

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June 23, 2021 Canada

In this file photo, a 15-year-old receives a first dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at a mobile vaccination clinic at the Weingart East Los Angeles YMCA on May 14, 2021 in Los Angeles, Calif.

IS CANADA READY TO REOPEN THIS SUMMER? Logistics, psychology, societal issues major factors

WATCH as a Postmedia political columnist Anthony Furey asks the major burning question that is on the minds of all Canadians!

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June 14, 2021 Canada

Victor Pokinko and Lauren Vandervoort on Utopia's patio along College St. in the Little Italy neighbourhood as Ontario moves to Step 1 reopening in Toronto, Ont. on Friday June 11, 2021. Ernest Doroszuk/Toronto Sun/Postmedia

FUREY: Ontario's reopening is finally getting started

Here are three facts about what happened in Ontario on Sunday: 1) The weather broke 30C in many parts of the province; 2) The number of reported COVID-19 cases was 663, the lowest it’s been in more than six months; and 3) It was illegal for patios and outdoor public pools to be open in even the most spacious locations and the most remote parts of the province.

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June 7, 2021 Columnists

Patrons enjoy an outdoor patio at Turtle Jacks' as Port Carling welcomes tourist back to the area after the Muskoka area enters stage two of lifting the COVID-19 lockdown on Thursday, June 18, 2020.

Epidemiologist says school closures about keeping parents home

An Ontario epidemiologist has admitted that the province’s school closures are more about getting adults to stay at home than they are about the transmission of COVID-19 within the classroom.

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June 7, 2021 Ontario

The Toronto District School Board closed some schools due to COVID-19 outbreaks.

Anthony Furey

LATEST STORIES BY ANTHONY FUREY

FUREY: Canada's COVID busybodies will never leave you alone -- so just ignore them

Science Table calls for mask, distancing rules to be dropped in low-risk scenarios

FUREY: It's now time for Canada's public health bosses to put the mic down and step away

FUREY: Ontario's never-ending restrictions have become a joke compared to other provinces

FUREY: China's Communist regime -- with help from a Canadian Senator -- is appropriating the residential schools conversation

FUREY: Canadians should be deeply ashamed of how we've harmed our youth

SickKids reports seeing post-vaccine myocarditis in kids

IS CANADA READY TO REOPEN THIS SUMMER? Logistics, psychology, societal issues major factors

FUREY: Ontario's reopening is finally getting started

Epidemiologist says school closures about keeping parents home

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