Montreal police are investigating a confrontation between dockworkers and port managers that erupted in violence Wednesday night amid a longshoremen strike. Police received a call at around 7 p.m. that a crowd of dockworkers had threatened and attacked Montreal port executives and their security guards near the Olympic Stadium, said...
Manitoba will shutter schools in two hard-hit regions and move students to online learning, officials announced Sunday, as several other provinces also tightened public health measures to limit the spread of COVID-19. While the overall number of new cases in Canada has been declining since mid-April, COVID-19 infection rates remain...
Manitoba public health officials announced that 72 new cases of COVID-19 in Manitoba have been identified as of Sunday morning. Dr. Brent Roussin, the province’s chief public health officer, and Health Minister Cameron Friesen made the announcement at a news conference Sunday. The data shows there are: 45 new cases in Prairie...
Ontario has declared its third state of emergency since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and will be implementing a provincewide stay-at-home order as of Thursday. Premier Doug Ford made the announcement Wednesday after hours of discussion with his cabinet. The stay-at home order will go into effect at 12:01 a.m....
What will Christmas look like? Will COVID-19 restrictions be extended in B.C.? It’s been a month since B.C. tightened COVID-19 restrictions in its most populated regions, and now, we’re set to get some more clarity about how well those measures have worked. Last week, Dr. Bonnie Henry delayed a decision on...
The Saskatchewan Health Authority is warning of a potential COVID-19 exposure risk at a pair of businesses in Saskatchewan: Regina Oct. 13 – Costco Wholesale, 2110 Anaquod Road, 5:00 – 6:00 p.m. Yorkton Oct. 9 and 10 – Tim Hortons, 160 Broadway St. E Unit 1, 8 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Public health officials...
The relationship between Quebec's premier and his "guardian angels" showed further signs of strain on Tuesday as the premier expressed disappointment with a nurses' union protest in front of his office. Legault, who repeatedly referred to health workers as "guardian angels" in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, has...
Ottawa's Chief Medical Officer of Health is urging residents to check their COVID-19 "blind spots," as the number of new cases popping up in the capital remains high. Dr. Vera Etches says some of the blind spots are happening in settings where provincial and municipal regulations, such as gathering size...
There are 365 new cases of COVID-19 in Manitoba and 11 more people have died from the illness, the province says in a news release. There are now a record 336 people in hospital with COVID-19, up from 327 on Saturday. Of those, 44 are in intensive care, the release...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will announce a nearly $200 million investment Tuesday in a facility designed to manufacture mRNA vaccines in Mississauga. The money from the federal government’s Strategic Innovation Fund will go to Resilience Biotechnologies Inc, a government source confirmed to the National Post. In total the new facility...