Health officials in Nova Scotia have diagnosed 26 more people with COVID-19, increasing their case to 262. Two of the new cases include staff at Arborstone Enhanced Care in Halifax and Harris Hall in Dartmouth, which are both owned and operated by Shannex. One additional Shannex health care worker was...
Alberta’s chief medical officer Dr. Deena Hinshaw explained why the province has been seeing a spike in COVID-19 cases, now that they’re a week into Stage 2 and more than a month into Stage 1 of their reopening plan. At the moment, they have 512 active cases in the...
A young couple and their dog were lucky to be spotted by search crews Thursday after spending a week stuck in the backcountry. On Thursday, Mounties from the Columbia Valley and Kimberley RCMP detachments put out a notice asking the public for help locating Catherine Gibbons, 22, and Damon Brodeur,...
A Liberal member of Parliament says she is installing a home security system in response to abusive online and telephone comments received after she advocated for increased gun control and a feminist analysis of the Nova Scotia mass shooting. Lenore Zann said she noticed an increase in the vitriol after...
Alberta Health Services has switched the location of its drop-in COVID-19 testing centre in Calgary. AHS confirmed Tuesday that it is now doing drop-in testing inside the former Greyhound Bus terminal, just off 14th Street between Ninth Avenue and Bow Trail S.W. "Drop in COVID-19 testing in the Calgary Zone is...
Karen McPherson, the representative for Calgary-MacKay-Nose Hill, says the provincial government needs to improve how it investigates complaints against MLAs. In November, McPherson expressed her concerns in a letter to Robert Wanner, the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, regarding what she believed to be a lack of transparency in the...
Ninety-five new cases of COVID-19 were identified in the last 24 hours in British Columbia, marking the biggest single day increase the province has reported since the start of the outbreak. The “dramatic” rise in cases is due to an increase in tests at several key outbreaks, said B.C. provincial...
Canadian Pacific says it will pilot a new project to build a hydrogen-powered train. The railway company says the line-haul locomotive will be the first of its kind in North America once it is retrofitted with hydrogen fuel cells and new battery technology. Chief executive Keith Creel says the project will...
Emergency crews say no one was injured when a large section of the Scarborough Bluffs stone face collapsed into Lake Ontario on Sunday afternoon, forcing police to cordon off the area. Just before 4 p.m. Sunday, beachgoers beneath the cliff side scrambled out of the way as a section of...
Emergency crews responded Saturday to a tour vehicle rollover that has left three people dead and multiple others injured in Jasper National Park. Jasper RCMP worked with other emergency responders at a rocky, steep scene near the Columbia Icefield and Highway 93, a police news release said Saturday. RCMP said three...