Includes correctionOntario’s police watchdog is investigating after a Peel Regional Police officer shot and killed a 62-year-old man with schizophrenia whose family had called a non-emergency line hoping he would be taken to hospital and helped through a mental-health crisis.Ejaz Choudry, a father of four, died Saturday night after police burst through a door on his second-floor balcony and into the apartment where he was alone, armed with a knife and suffering a mental breakdown, according to his extended family.“He wasn’t a danger to anyone else. He was by himself in his home where he...…Includes correctionOntario’s police watchdog is investigating after a Peel Regional Police officer shot and killed a 62-year-old man with schizophrenia whose family had called a non-emergency line hoping he would be taken to hospital and helped through a mental-health crisis.Ejaz Choudry, a father of four, died Saturday night after police burst through a door on his second-floor balcony and into the apartment where he was alone, armed with a knife and suffering a mental breakdown, according to his extended family.“He wasn’t a danger to anyone else. He was by himself in his home where he...WW…

Includes correctionCanada now has nearly 100 cases of the novel coronavirus and provinces are planning to offer more in-home testing as they try to prevent patients with mild symptoms from overloading the country’s emergency departments.COVID-19 cases continue to increase, with 15 new cases reported across Canada on Tuesday. Those include two new cases in British Columbia that have no clear link to the source of the disease and indicate exposure within the community.B.C. and Alberta are already testing patients for the novel coronavirus at home. In Toronto, public-health nurses have been...…Includes correctionCanada now has nearly 100 cases of the novel coronavirus and provinces are planning to offer more in-home testing as they try to prevent patients with mild symptoms from overloading the country’s emergency departments.COVID-19 cases continue to increase, with 15 new cases reported across Canada on Tuesday. Those include two new cases in British Columbia that have no clear link to the source of the disease and indicate exposure within the community.B.C. and Alberta are already testing patients for the novel coronavirus at home. In Toronto, public-health nurses have been...WW…

When critical care doctor Brooks Fallis sat down for a virtual meeting with two of his superiors on Jan. 22, he was still struggling to understand why he had been terminated from his job leading the intensive care division at one of the hardest-hit hospitals in the country.Dr. Fallis recalled that Frank Martino, the chief of staff at William Osler Health System, the network that serves the coronavirus-battered city of Brampton, Ont., said the move had nothing to do with Dr. Fallis’s work as a physician or as interim medical director of critical care.The decision was taken, Dr. Fallis said...…When critical care doctor Brooks Fallis sat down for a virtual meeting with two of his superiors on Jan. 22, he was still struggling to understand why he had been terminated from his job leading the intensive care division at one of the hardest-hit hospitals in the country.Dr. Fallis recalled that Frank Martino, the chief of staff at William Osler Health System, the network that serves the coronavirus-battered city of Brampton, Ont., said the move had nothing to do with Dr. Fallis’s work as a physician or as interim medical director of critical care.The decision was taken, Dr. Fallis said...WW…