There are 81 new COVID-19 cases in Manitoba on Friday and four more people have died after contracting the illness, the province says. Manitoba's five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate dropped slightly to 4.8 per cent, the government says in a news release. In Winnipeg, the rate rose slightly to four...
Ottawa Public Health is reporting 42 new cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa, the 22nd straight day with fewer than 100 cases of novel coronavirus. One new death linked to novel coronavirus was announced in Ottawa. Since the first case of COVID-19 in Ottawa on March 11, there have been 13,857 laboratory-confirmed...
Ontario is reporting 1,076 cases of COVID-19 and 18 deaths on Friday. Locally, there are 361 new cases in Toronto, 210 in Peel and 122 in York Region. As part of Toronto Public Health’s data migration, case counts from the city are under-reported today, resulting in an underestimation in the provincial...
Ontario's top doctor says the government will announce today which categories of its COVID-19 restrictions system some regions will fall into when they begin to reopen next week. Chief medical officer of health Dr. David Williams has said the decisions will be made based on local virus case rates. The province...
Quebec is reporting 984 new cases and 25 additional deaths related to the ongoing novel coronavirus pandemic Friday. Health authorities say four of those fatalities took place in the past 24 hours, while the others have been retroactively added to the growing death toll. Over the course of the health crisis,...
Canada will receive 82,000 fewer doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine in the next shipment, leaving the company to fill a 1.3-million dose shortfall in March in order to meet the federal government’s targets. The reduction is the latest blow to the federal government’s vaccine deliveries which have also seen...
Documents tabled with the House of Commons health committee show the federal government missed an opportunity to purchase critical pandemic-related supplies at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic — scarce personal protective equipment (PPE) that medical professionals scrambled to obtain in the weeks that followed. CBC News has reviewed thousands...
A Toronto expert is warning residents that a third wave could see Ontario’s COVID-19 cases get higher than ever before. Dr. Colin Furness, an assistant professor at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health in Toronto, told Narcity that Ontario could see higher case counts than ever before due to...
Calgary Police Service officials say the actions of an officer recorded kicking his police service dog were not acceptable or a standard method of training the canine unit uses. Supt. Ryan Ayliffe of the CPS operational support division addressed the video Thursday morning. "We acknowledge this is not an acceptable way...
A 35-year-old man is dead after a two-vehicle collision on Highway 427 in Etobicoke Thursday afternoon. Emergency crews were called to the northbound collector lanes of the highway near Burnhamthorpe Road just after 5 p.m. Ontario Provincial Police initially reported the crash as a single-vehicle vehicle rollover involving a cube truck. Despite...