Asmaa Ali says slurs about her hijab and the colour of her skin have become so frequent she doesn't report them to police anymore. Whether she's running errands or on her way to work as anurse at an Edmonton hospital, the 23-year-old Somali-Canadian says she's always looking over her shoulder. She...
The Province of Alberta announced in a media notice on Monday morning that a press conference would be taking place later that day with an update from Dr. Deena Hinshaw, chief medical officer of health. The press conference comes three weeks after Alberta moved into Step 1 of A Path...
New Brunswick Public Health is reporting one new case of COVID-19 on Monday. Three previously reported cases are now considered recovered, as the number of active cases in the province drops to 36. Monday's new case was reported in the Miramichi region (Zone 7) involving a person in their 30s....
Ontario is reporting another 1,023 COVID-19 cases and six more deaths, according to its latest report released Monday morning. This is the lowest daily increase since five deaths were reported Oct. 28. The seven-day average is at 1,099 cases daily, or 53 weekly per 100,000. Ontario’s seven-day average for deaths is...
Quebec public health has reported the province’s lowest daily COVID-19 increase in 159 days. The Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux has added 613 COVID-19 cases within the last 24 hours, the lowest daily increase in the province since September 23, when 582 new cases were announced. Public health...
Quebec’s mass vaccination campaign got underway in earnest in the Montreal area this morning as members of the general public began receiving their first shots. The province announced last week that it was booking appointments for seniors age 85 and up across the province, or 80 and above in Montreal. By...
Ontario reached the sobering milestone of 300,000 COVID-19 infections today after reporting 1,062 new infections and 20 more deaths linked to the virus. Today’s figures bring the province’s total case count to 300,816 since the onset of the pandemic. Health Minister Christine Elliott says Toronto saw 259 new cases in the...
Quebec reported 737 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday. A total of 287,740 infections have now been confirmed in the province since the first one was reported in February of 2020. Quebec also announced that nine more fatalities had been attributed to the virus, four of which occurred in the last 24...
Details about the next phase of British Columbia's COVID-19 vaccination plan will be announced Monday. As of Friday, 252,373 doses of the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines have been administered to British Columbians, largely to care home residents and staff, members of remote Indigenous communities and other population groups deemed...
Canada's pandemic hotspots are taking diverging approaches to handling the COVID-19 crisis, as Ontario prepares to trigger new lockdown measures in two public health units and Quebec enters a week of spring break. Ontario passed the 300,000 case mark today, as the province prepares to hit a so-called 'emergency brake'...