Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph: 6,662 cases, 106 deaths, 5,965 resolved Brant County: 2,586 cases, 17 deaths, 2,282 resolved Haldimand-Norfolk: 2,172 cases, 46 deaths, 1,854 recovered Huron Perth: 1,545 cases, 52 deaths, 1,464 recovered Staff at a Waterloo daycare centre walked off the job Monday, taking a day of action to call on the province to move child-care workers up in the COVID-19 vaccination priority list. All 42 staff at Emmanuel at Brighton Child Care had signs saying E is for Essential and Vaccinate child-care workers, and chanting they deserve to be vaccinated now. Staff said they want to be prioritized in vaccine rollout, since they re working with children between 16 months and five years old, many of whom aren t able to wear a mask.
BRANTFORD Staff members at a Brantford Dairy Queen are speaking out after they said they ve been mistreated by customers. Jillian Byers has worked at Dairy Queen for seven years, she said the harassment has gotten worse over the past year. “We’ve been called everything under the sun,” Byers said. “It kind of took a step from harassment to abuse, I’d say with the pandemic.” In one instance, the franchise had to call Brantford police to help deal with a customer who was harassing a staff member over a wrong Blizzard ingredient. “The morale definitely goes down when those customers come in,” Taylor Breau, the operations manager, said.