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...
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...
About 75 anti-lockdown protesters gathered outside Red Deer Courthouse Wednesday morning. They held signs that read “save lives end the lockdowns” and “COVID-19 is a trojan horse used to strip us of all our freedoms.” Central Alberta’s Whistle Stop Cafe owner Christopher Scott was in court Wednesday charged with serving dine-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...
Is that mask feeling a little tighter these days? The latest poll from Leger finds a significant number of Canadians feel being forced to wear one is an infringement on their personal freedom. But while more than one-in-five (21%) of respondents say being told to wear a face covering violates...
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...
A Quebec woman said she was very surprised to find her stolen Audi had been used in what’s being described as an “absolutely insane” Ontario mall robbery. Taylor-Anna Kobinger, a resident of Laval, Que., listed her 2011 Black Audi A4 on Facebook Marketplace in January as a means to raise...
Provincial health officials have announced 294 new COVID-19 cases in B.C today (Aug. 31), along with four more virus-related deaths. The cases are from a three day reporting period, which are laid out as follows: 86 new cases were reported between Friday and Saturday (Aug. 28-29). 107 new cases were reported between...
Ontario reported another 851 cases of COVID-19 on Monday, after two consecutive days of record-breaking new daily cases counts. Today's figure comes as the province's labs completed 28,652 tests for the novel coronavirus, while about 32,000 samples were added to the queue to be processed. Ontario currently has capacity...
As Quebecers grumbled, debated and haggled this month over COVID-19 restrictions, especially Christmas rules, Chrissy Fredovitch could only watch. Quite literally, Fredovitch was lying in the intensive care unit at a Montreal hospital and had a hard time speaking out loud. Fredovitch, a healthy 42-year-old mother, caught COVID-19 while working as...