Ottawa Public Health is reporting 31 more people in the city have tested positive for COVID-19 and one more person has died. This brings Ottawa's totals to 14,038 laboratory-confirmed cases and 434 deaths since the pandemic began, according to OPH's COVID-19 dashboard. The update comes on the third straight day that...
Quebec is reporting 669 new cases of COVID-19 today and 20 more deaths attributed to the novel coronavirus, including six in the past 24 hours. Health officials say hospitalizations dropped by 33 to 771, and 134 people were in intensive care, down two. COVID-19-related hospitalizations have dropped by 198 since...
Most schools and many businesses across the Maritimes were closed today as a sloppy winter storm descended on the region. Weather warnings were in effect for all four Atlantic provinces, including winter storm and snowfall warnings for much of New Brunswick. But most of the weather worries were focused on the...
A blast of winter weather has descended on the GTA and many parts of southern Ontario and it could drop as much as 25 centimetres of snow on parts of Toronto by Tuesday morning. The snowfall began around 8:30 p.m. and is expected to continue into the morning. Toronto and the...
The daily case numbers paint a clear picture: Alberta has made big progress in the fight against COVID-19. The province has also seen the number of people fighting coronavirus in hospitals and ICUs drop as well. Unfortunately, there is a but, and that is the wildcard of what happens with the...
There could be lineups at Canada's 117 border crossings with the U.S. Monday, as non-essential travellers now have to provide proof of a negative COVID-19 test taken in the last 72 hours. It's the next phase of Ottawa’s new travel restrictions, which came into effect on February 15. Travellers by...
Adults from racialized communities disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic should be prioritized for shots in the second stage of the vaccination campaign, says new guidance from Canada's national advisory committee on immunization. The advice also would see all essential workers who can't do their jobs from home moved into...
There are seven new confirmed positive cases and 21 presumptive positive cases in Newfoundland and Labrador, with further unlinked transmissions of the "complete game-changer" variant prompting a plea from the chief medical of officer of health for people to remain vigilant. Six of the confirmed cases are in the Eastern...
Olymel has announced it is temporarily closing a pork plant in central Alberta where health officials say hundreds of COVID-19 cases are now connected with an outbreak at the facility. In a statement Monday, the company said management no longer believes its hog slaughtering, cutting and deboning plant in Red...
A stay-at-home order lifts for 27 Ontario public health units today. The units will now return to the province’s COVID-19 colour-coded tiered ranking system used prior to a provincewide lockdown which began on Boxing Day. Niagara Region will be the only region in the grey-lockdown zone — the most strict level...