Five members of the Canadian Armed Forces, who have been assisting long-term care homes in Quebec and Ontario, have been diagnosed with COVID-19. The military confirmed to The Canadian Press that one of its members is in Ontario, while the other four are in Quebec. The Canadian Armed Forces have assigned...
Dr. Deena Hinshaw, Alberta’s chief medical officer of health, made her Monday update from home after coming down with a sore throat on Friday. She tested negative for COVID-19 over the weekend but will remain at home until her symptoms subside. “I don’t want to pass on whatever it is...
Mounties in Prince George are looking for information after a video of a driver doing a stunt in a school field went viral over the weekend. In a Tuesday (Jan. 26) news release, Prince George RCMP said the car shows a dark coloured, 4-door sedan driving through the strip mall...
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...
Parti Quebecois MNA Harold LeBel was arrested Tuesday morning for sexual assault, according to media reports. The Sûreté du Québec confirmed they had arrested a 58-year-old suspect in Rimouski in connection with a sexual offence but did not confirm his identity. LeBel, MNA for Rimouski, is 58. Investigators will meet...
Twitter is taking quick action on the president's tweets calling into question the legitimacy of the election. The social media platform labeled two of Trump’s tweets Wednesday morning with warnings that their claims regarding continuing vote counts were potentially misleading about the election, following a similar action taken in the...
Nunavut residents staying in isolation hotels in Winnipeg are being given the option to take a rapid test for COVID-19. Since March, anyone who leaves Nunavut must isolate for 14 days in a hotel in Yellowknife, Edmonton, Winnipeg or Ottawa before flying back. Nunavut's first cases of COVID-19 have been traced...
A couple living in Durham Region have been charged with public-health related offences after they discovered they had the new COVID-19 variant by a fluke, CBC News reports. Currently, Ontario’s testing for the variant from the U.K., known as B117, is only done in special circumstances, such as knowing the...
On Thursday Premier Doug Ford announced that the Ontario government would pull the emergency brake on the entire province for a period of four weeks. Ontario's shutdown will take effect as of Saturday, April 3, at 12:01 a.m, according to the release. Previously, some parts of the province were already in...
A karaoke bar in Quebec City, which has produced 40 cases among attendees, has now resulted in secondary infections among school students. There are three cases that have been identified among students across three of the six schools in the city that are currently dealing with COVID-19. Those three...