COVID-19 Coronavirus

Quebec's Nunavik region struggling with COVID, has highest infection rate in province

MONTREAL - The health board governing Quebec's Nunavik region says the COVID-19 situation in the northern territory is worse than it's ever been. Health officials reported 30 new cases Monday across t...

Nov 09, 2021

A 'rapidly escalating COVID-19 situation is developing in the Yukon,' top doctor says

WHITEHORSE - Yukon's top doctor says a "rapidly escalating COVID-19 situation" is threatening the territory's health-care system and residents must take steps to control the spread. Acting chief medic...

Nov 08, 2021

Active cases drop, 1,300 new COVID cases in Alberta over weekend

LETHBRIDGE, AB - The province has released its latest report on COVID-19 for Monday, covering statistics from the past three days.1,300 cases were confirmed across the province over the weekend, bring...

Nov 08, 2021

Lack of demographic data leaving potential gaps in COVID-19 vaccine policy

OTTAWA - Several advocacy groups are concerned that a dearth of data about who is getting COVID-19 vaccines and who is not could be causing people of certain races or socio-economic backgrounds to fal...

Nov 08, 2021

More than 19K Canadian lives ended than if pandemic never happened: Stats Can

OTTAWA - Statistics Canada says more than 19,000 Canadians lost their lives during COVID-19 than would have been expected had the pandemic never happened. The report highlights the deadly toll COVID-1...

Nov 08, 2021

Erin O'Toole says COVID-19 vaccine comments by Tory MPs Gladu, Lewis are not helpful

OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole says comments about vaccines by some members of his caucus are not helpful and are spreading uncertainty about immunization against COVID-19. O'Toole told a n...

Nov 08, 2021

Quebec seniors minister ill, won't appear at inquest into COVID long-term care deaths

MONTREAL - Quebec's seniors minister will not appear before a coroner's inquest investigating deaths in the long-term care system during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Marguerite Blais is on...

Nov 08, 2021

U.S. eases COVID-19 restrictions at land border for fully vaccinated Canadians

WASHINGTON, D.C. - For the first time in nearly 20 months, non-essential traffic is once again moving in both directions across the Canada-U.S. land border. Shortly after midnight, Customs and Border ...

Olivia Thorington Nov 08, 2021

AHS confirms 466 cases across Alberta, 30 in South Zone

LETHBRIDGE, AB - The province has released its latest report on COVID-19 for Friday, covering statistics from the past 24 hours.466 cases were confirmed across the province, bringing the total to 325,...

Nov 05, 2021

British Columbia phasing out mink farms because of COVID-19 spread

VICTORIA - The British Columbia government says it is phasing out mink farming because the threat of COVID-19 transmission is too great. Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry says mink are a rese...

Nov 05, 2021