Health officials in Manitoba have diagnosed five more patients with COVID-19, increasing their total case count to 262. Twenty more people have recovered from the virus since yesterday’s update, meaning that the province now has 174 resolved cases. Of their 82 active cases, seven people are in hospital, including two...
Ontario reported 76 cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday, which marks the first time since March 24 that the province has recorded fewer than 100 daily cases. One more fatality was also announced, increasing the death toll to 2,769. Of the recent patients, 22 of them were identified in Windsor-Essex,...
Ontario is reporting a two-day total of 4,301 cases of COVID-19. Health Minister Christine Elliott said there are 2,142 new cases of the virus on Saturday while 2,159 new cases were logged on Christmas Day. The province now has had more than 2,000 cases 12 days in a row. On Saturday there...
Three of Canada’s 51 confirmed COVID-19 cases were passengers on the Grand Princess cruise, which started and ended in San Francisco from Feb. 11 to Feb. 21. More than 260 Canadians were on the cruise ship at the time, and the Public Health Agency of Canada is currently trying...
A sentencing hearing is scheduled for Wednesday, Feb. 17 for the man who was found guilty of manslaughter after he threw a trailer hitch from a moving vehicle at an Indigenous woman. Justice Helen Pierce found Brayden Bushby, 22, guilty of manslaughter at the end of 2020. Bushby admitted to...
Alain Boily is off to prison for five years after killing a retired RCMP chief superintendent in a drunk-driving crash in December 2017. Boily, 35, an iron worker, was driving home after drinking at a Christmas office party downtown and, when he passed Place d’Orléans, where the highway is no...
The Canadian provinces hardest hit by the global COVID-19 pandemic released sobering numbers on Sunday, with Quebec's overall case count passing the 100,000 mark and Ontario registering more than 1,000 single-day cases for the first time since the start of the worldwide outbreak. Despite registering comparable daily tallies, the two...
Firefighters spent the morning of Victoria Day battling a serious blaze that tore through a commercial building in downtown New Westminster. The fire erupted at around 3:16 a.m. at a building on Columbia Street that houses the Heritage Grill, Happy Buddha Tattoo and other businesses. Chief Tim Armstrong of New Westminster...
B.C. orders spas, salons, massage and tattoo parlours to close British Columbia’s provincial health officer says there are 74 new cases of COVID-19 in the province, bringing the total to 424. Dr. Bonnie Henry says there are 27 people in hospital, 12 of whom are in intensive care. Six people have...
Quebec gymnast Thierry Pellerin was charged Friday with alleged sex offences against two minors. The 22-year-old was released on $1,500 bail and a promise to respect certain conditions. He was arrested Thursday evening at his home near Quebec City. Pellerin appeared in court via teleconference from a police station and was...