Regional active cases rise to 270 with 12 new cases in Hastings Prince Edward, 10 in Peterborough, 10 in Kawartha Lakes, 8 in Northumberland, and 4 in Haliburton. Here’s an update on COVID-19 cases in Ontario as well as in the greater Kawarthas region. With the province announcing an acceleration of...
Ontario Provincial Police have laid criminal charges against a Barrie, Ont. police officer who was captured on video making a violent arrest in February. The OPP took over the investigation at the request of the Barrie police chief and on Thursday announced 46-year-old Const. Jason Stamp had been charged with...
The Ontario government will be providing an update on the province’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout on Thursday as child-care workers becomes eligible for the shot. Child-care workers are the latest workplace group to be deemed eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine and can, as of today, begin to book appointments using the...
Thousands of people were vaccinated after waiting for hours in massive queues at pop-up AstraZeneca clinics in the Fraser Valley both today and Tuesday. The Fraser Health Authority has yet to provide a number of how many people showed up to the hastily announced walk-in clinics in the region, however...
The family of a Quebec woman who developed blood clots and died after receiving the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is urging people to stay alert for symptoms and get help right away if they surface. Francine Boyer was identified by her family in a statement issued late Tuesday. “It is with great sorrow...
Additional charges have been laid in connection with a large indoor service at the Church of God Restoration in Aylmer. Aylmer police were called to the John Street North church on Sunday morning after receiving over a dozen complaints about a gathering. When officers arrived, they found more than 100...
The Saskatchewan Health Authority reported four new deaths in patients who tested positive for the virus today. Three of them were residents of the Saskatoon area with the youngest of them being in their 40s. The other was a resident of Regina in their 70s. There were also 213...
Alberta’s chief medical officer of health says there are 20,721 active cases of COVID-19 in the province — the second-highest total since the pandemic began. Dr. Deena Hinshaw is declining to answer questions on whether stricter health measures are needed or whether she has recommended such measures be taken. She says...
Albertans hoping to get an AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine a week after the province opened up eligibility to people born in 1981 or older might find it harder to track down. All of the Alberta Health Services (AHS) appointments have been booked up, Alberta Health said Wednesday, and pharmacies around the...
Provincial health officials announced three new deaths related to COVID-19 on Wednesday, bringing the death toll to 971. Two of the deaths are people in their 20s; a man in his 20s from Winnipeg who has been linked to an unspecified variant of concern, and a woman in the Northern...