Category Archives: COVID-19 Coronavirus
COVID hospitalizations take slight bump upwards in Alberta Tuesday
LETHBRIDGE, AB - The province has released its latest report on COVID-19 for Tuesday, covering statistics from the past 24 hours.459 cases were confirmed across the province, bringing the total to 532...
Mar 15, 2022
'Can't we have lives too?': High-risk Canadians feel forgotten as COVID rules lift
In early 2020, Bev Pausche felt like she may have a shot at a better life after two years of intensive treatment, including chemotherapy and a bone-marrow transplant, brought her lymphoma into remissi...
Mar 15, 2022
Window-blind makers ask Health Canada for rules delay as COVID snarls supply chains
OTTAWA - An association of window-blind makers is warning of a steep financial hit to companies, and potentially the loss of thousands of jobs, in a few weeks unless Health Canada delays enacting a ne...
Mar 15, 2022
As new Omicron variant looms, White House urges Congress to restore COVID-19 funding
WASHINGTON - With yet another COVID-19 variant on the march, the White House is pleading with Congress to resurrect $15.6 billion in lapsed pandemic funding. The aid was stripped from last week's deal...
Mar 15, 2022
Conservative leadership candidate says he tested positive for COVID-19
Conservative leadership candidate Jean Charest has tested positive for COVID-19. Charest announced the news late Monday on Twitter, saying his symptoms are mild. He says his wife, Michele, has tested ...
Mar 14, 2022
COVID hospitalizations in Alberta fall below 1,000 for first time in two months
LETHBRIDGE, AB - The province has released its latest report on COVID-19 for Monday, covering statistics from the past three days.In that time, 1,351 people tested positive for a daily average of 450....
Mar 14, 2022
Courts will have to consider reasonableness of delays during COVID-19, experts say
TORONTO - Canadian courts grappling with the aftermath of pandemic closures and restrictions will have to parse out how much of the delays during COVID-19 should be deemed reasonable and unavoidable a...
Mar 14, 2022
Canada overcomes pandemic challenges to capture 25 medals at Beijing Paralympics
The cauldron was extinguished on one of the most formidable Winter Paralympics in history Sunday, with "hopes of peace," and two years into the COVID-19 global pandemic that made just getting to the G...
Mar 13, 2022
Thousands of deaths, millions of vaccines: A look at COVID-19 in Canada by the numbers
It's been two years since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization. Here's a look at the pandemic by the numbers in Canada. 3.3 million -- The number of total cases of COVID-1...
Mar 13, 2022
Quebec sugar shack owners say the COVID-19 pandemic saved the iconic industry
MONTREAL - Sugar shack owners across Quebec are reopening their dining rooms for the first time since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, and strangely, they are crediting the novel coronavirus with r...
Mar 13, 2022