Three more confirmed and presumptive cases have been identified in Saskatchewan, increasing the province’s case count to 313. Of their cases, 75 are considered active since 234 have recovered, an increase of six since yesterday. There remains four people who have died in Saskatchewan after contracting the virus. Five people are...
Quebec is reporting 707 new cases and 20 additional deaths, including four in the past 24 hours, linked to the COVID-19 pandemic Thursday. The case count has now reached 290,377 in the province, while recoveries have topped 272,000. The death toll, which remains the highest in Canada, stands at 10,455. The...
Canada’s chief public health officer urged residents to continue making a “collective effort” to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic on Saturday as parts of the country braced for new rounds of restrictions meant to curb the spread of the virus. Dr. Theresa Tam issued a statement acknowledging that confusion over appropriate...
For the second day in a row, Ottawa's number of new confirmed COVID-19 cases has hit double digits. Another 16 cases of COVID-19 were reported by Ottawa Public Health on Sunday, following a similarly large spike of 19 cases on Saturday. There are now 98 confirmed active cases of COVID-19 in...
Alberta reported 1,315 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday, a nearly four-month high, as hospitalizations continue to spike. The last time the province saw new case numbers above 1,300 was on May 13, when 1,468 cases were reported. As of Sept. 2 there were 54 active cases reported in the County...
RCMP in Morinville, Alta., are working to determine what sparked a fire Wednesday at a historic Catholic church and say they are treating it as suspicious. St. Jean Baptiste Parish church went up in flames in the early morning hours — emergency crews were called to the building at the...
Ten family members of a 26-year-old Indigenous woman who was fatally shot by police in Edmundston, N.B., are travelling across the country from British Columbia to offer support to her mother and daughter, relatives said Sunday. Amy Charlie, who grew up with Chantel Moore, said in an interview from Tofino,...
Abbotsford police have issued a public warning about an unusually toxic batch of drugs on the street. In a Friday bulletin, the department said it was concerned about a possible spike in overdose deaths, amid street drugs that are almost four times as toxic as usual. “We do not have the...
Maybe it was a slip of the tongue but when Justin Trudeau called Canada “one of the very best countries in the world”, he may inadvertently have revealed that on the eve of the nation’s birthday, the country’s political leader thinks there are better places in the world to...
A 59-year-old man is missing and presumed drowned and a woman is stable in hospital after she was found in the water near a vessel off the coast of Nanaimo Monday night, according to RCMP. Authorities received a 911 call reporting a woman in the water near a boat between...