COVID-19 Coronavirus

Winnipeg's IG Field updates COVID-19 protocols for fans and guests

WINNIPEG - Fans attending games at Winnipeg's IG Field will no longer have to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination. The new policy will begin on May 1 and includes spectators attending Winnipeg Blue Bom...

Apr 25, 2022

Feds invest $6.7 million on research platform looking at impact of COVID-19 on youth

MONTREAL - The federal government is investing $6.7 million on a Canada-wide research platform to better understand the impact of COVID-19 on children. Federal Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos told re...

Apr 25, 2022

Mask, vaccine mandates for travel defended as government eases border restrictions

OTTAWA, ON - The government signalled it is aspiring to a "more sustainable" approach to COVID-19 restrictions at the border with several small changes Friday, but public health officials say vaccine ...

Olivia Thorington Apr 22, 2022

House of Commons set to welcome back public, lift COVID-19 ban on visitors

OTTAWA - The House of Commons will next week lift a ban on public visits, introduced more than two years ago to stem the spread of COVID-19. The Commons chamber's public gallery will reopen on Monday,...

Apr 21, 2022

Better COVID tracking, calls for national gun-control plan : In The News for April 21

In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of April 21 ... What we are watching in Canada .....

Apr 21, 2022

Canada needs a stronger COVID-19 detection system, experts say

Experts say Canada needs to develop a robust system to detect COVID-19 activity in the absence of wide-scale PCR testing. Since the onset of the Omicron variant, provinces and territories have scaled ...

Apr 21, 2022

COVID deaths and hospitalizations rise in Alberta over the last week

LETHBRIDGE, AB - The province has released its latest weekly report on COVID-19. The numbers reported in this update reflect data from April 12-18, 2022.In that time, 6,125 Albertans tested positive f...

Apr 20, 2022

Unlike in the rest of Canada, free rapid COVID-19 tests not widely available in N.L.

HALIFAX - Newfoundland and Labrador residents say they're frustrated by the lack of free COVID-19 rapid tests when other provinces make them widely available at no cost. Heather Elliott, a retail work...

Apr 20, 2022

Quebec judge bans father from taking son to protests against COVID-19 health orders

QUEBEC - A Quebec judge has ruled a mother can have her young son vaccinated against the novel coronavirus without the father's consent and ordered the father not to take the child to COVID-19 protest...

Apr 20, 2022

Survivors testify as trial of alleged Quebec sword attacker resumes after COVID delay

QUEBEC - A man who was out for a walk in Quebec City on Halloween night 2020 told a court today he first thought it was a joke when a man wearing a disguise and brandishing a sword approached him. But...

Apr 19, 2022