Category Archives: COVID-19 Coronavirus

Canadian researchers are making multiple breakthroughs in the fight against COVID-19, as a biotech firm take the firsts steps towards a vaccine and a hospital in Ottawa opened a drive-t...

TEHRAN, Iran - Iran's senior vice-president and two other Cabinet members have contracted the new coronavirus, a semiofficial news agency reported Wednesday as the death toll in the Islamic Republic f...

ST. PAUL, Minn. - The St. Paul teachers union and Minnesota's second-largest school district reached a tentative contract agreement early Friday, ending a strike that began Tuesday and cancelled class...

OTTAWA - The prime minister's wife is the latest Canadian identified for contracting the respiratory illness caused by the coronavirus spreading rapidly around the world. The Prime Minister's Office a...

TORONTO - A Toronto organization that planned to honour the lives of those who died in a plane crash in Iran has cancelled in-person events for its celebration of the Persian New Year. Tirga...

The latest news on the COVID-19 global pandemic (all times Eastern):   7:00 a.m. A Canadian biotech firm says it has produced a viable vaccine candidate for COVID-19. Quebec-based Medic...

The coronavirus pandemic has lent a surreal quality to the lives of millions of people around the globe. It has disrupted daily routines, overwhelmed hospitals, shuttered schools and offices and halte...

MOSCOW - Russian lawmakers on Wednesday rapidly rubber-stamped sweeping constitutional changes that could keep President Vladimir Putin in power until 2036. If Putin won and completed two more terms a...

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 March 13 ... COV...

OTTAWA - Parliamentarians will consider today whether to take the unprecedented move of suspending Parliament because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Members of the House of Commons administration comm...