British Columbia’s solicitor general formally announced a restriction of travel into or out of three health authority regions in the province on Friday, effective immediately. The order will remain in place until May 25. “This is a legal order under the Emergency Program Act and there will be consequences for not...
There's been another shooting in Waterloo Region. Regional police were called to the Overlea Drive area --- in the Forest Hills neighbourhood near Highland and Westmount --- Thursday night, for reports of shots fired. Police said three males were found at the scene with gunshot wounds and were sent to hospital. One...
Quebec public health has added over 1,200 new COVID-19 cases and seven additional deaths to the provincial tally. According to the Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux, 1,248 new coronavirus cases have been reported over the past day. Of the newly added deaths, two occurred over the past...
Ontario reported another 3,682 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 40 more deaths linked to the illness on Thursday, as overall admissions to intensive care units topped 800. The 40 additional deaths in today's update are the most on a single day during the third wave of the pandemic in the...
In his first news conference in nearly a week, Premier Doug Ford said the province moved “too fast” in announcing sweeping new measures aimed at curbing the third wave of COVID-19 in Ontario. “I know that some of those measures, especially around enforcement, they went too far,” Ford said at...
Legislation passed in Alberta on Wednesday night that allows for workers to receive three hours of paid leave so they can get the COVID-19 vaccine without losing wages. Bill 71 passed just hours after Alberta’s UCP government announced its plan to bring in the provision. “We have heard there are concerns...
There are 231 new cases of COVID-19 in Saskatchewan, along with 275 new variant of concern cases, the province reported Wednesday. Four more people have died after testing positive for COVID-19. They were all residents of the Regina area; one person in their 30s, one in their 40s, one in...
Another 164 cases of COVID-19 and one additional death were reported by public health in Manitoba as test positivity rates continued to rise on Wednesday across the province. While cases dropped below 200, after hitting 211 on Tuesday — the most since early January — the provincial test positivity rate...
Quebec is reporting 1,217 new cases of COVID-19 today and a 22-patient jump in hospitalizations. Health officials say 716 people are in hospital — the first time since mid-February the number of COVID-19-related hospitalizations has risen above 700. They say 178 people are in intensive care, a rise of one...
A fifth variant type of the novel coronavirus COVID-19 has been detected in Quebec. The health department in the Mauricie-et-Centre-du-Quebec region reported Wednesday that the B.1.617 variant, first sequenced in India, has been reported. "This is the first case associated with the Indian variant in Quebec," said CIUSSS de la Mauricie-et-du-Centre-du-Quebec...