Montreal general manager Marc Bergevin said he needed to be “100 per cent sure” he was ready to make the decision to fire longtime goaltending coach Stephane Waite. It turns out the reached that point during the second period of the Canadiens’ 3-1 win over visiting Ottawa on Thursday night. The...
Jim Lowes had never thought about being an organ donor until he read a story about Logan Boulet nearly three years ago. Boulet was one of 16 people who died in April 2018 when a truck driver blew a stop sign and drove into the path of the Humboldt Broncos...
Air Canada has agreed to offer refunds to customers for flights postponed or cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Unifor president Jerry Dias. In an interview with the Star on Wednesday, Dias said he’s spoken with Air Canada and government officials involved in the negotiations, and that the...
A joint committee made up of a majority of council members has endorsed a first-of-its-kind financial plan for the City of Ottawa to increase housing and reduce homelessness. Mayor Jim Watson said on Tuesday the staff-proposed long-range financial plan for housing services will give the city more credibility when asking...
Manitoba reported 51 new cases of COVID-19 (coronavirus) on Wednesday, bringing the provincial total to 32,000. Three additional deaths were also announced: • A man in his 40s from the Winnipeg health region • A man in his 80s from the Winnipeg health region • A woman in her 90s from the Winnipeg...
The Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge (HKPR) District Health Unit says there is 1 new COVID-19 case locally as of today (Mar 3), which is in Kawartha Lakes. And there are 958 new cases reported in Ontario today and 17 more deaths from the virus. Health Minister Christine Elliott says 249 cases...
Quebec is reporting 729 new cases and 19 additional deaths linked to the COVID-19 pandemic Wednesday as mass vaccination continues in the province. Health authorities say two of those fatalities occurred in the past 24 hours while the others were retroactively added to the death toll from last month. One...
A 33-year-old suspect, who was injured in a car crash after the incident, is in custody. Two women are dead after being attacked Monday night in the Laurentian town of Ste-Sophie. The Sûreté du Québec on Tuesday reported that the murder victims were related and aged 60 and 28. The SQ...
The province is announcing a second COVID-19 variant has been discovered in Manitoba. On Tuesday as part of the daily COVID-19 bulletin, the province said two instances of the B.1.3.5.1 variant, which was first reported in South Africa, have been found. An additional one case of the B.1.1.7 variant, which is...
The Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge (HKPR) District Health Unit says there is 1 new COVID-19 case locally as of today (Mar 2), which is in Kawartha Lakes. And Ontario is reporting 966 new cases today, and 11 more deaths related to the virus. It says more than 22-thousand-300 doses of a...