Since January 2016, almost 25,000 people have died from opioid-related causes, according to the Public Health Agency of Canada, which compiles the data from all provinces except Quebec.
Ford says these funding commitments are part of his government's plan to invest more than $30 billion over the next 10 years to improve the province's healthcare infrastructure.
During the pandemic, we have witnessed how physicians have become targets for a minority of citizens who oppose vaccination and for internet trolls and bots.
NACI previously recommended that people who are "moderately to severely immunocompromised'' receive a fourth dose of the vaccine six months after getting their third shot.
