Canada

The Edmonton Public school division is estimating COVID-19 will cost it an additional $68.3 million this school year, approximately $30 million more than what it received from the federal government in COVID-19 support. The division is looking to spend up to $28.2 million of the nearly $44 million it had...

Doctors in northwestern New Brunswick held a news conference on Wednesday to try and convince the local population to take the pandemic more seriously. The Edmundston, N.B., region has been under a 14-day lockdown since Sunday and has nearly half the 339 active reported COVID-19 infections in the province. Several doctors...

New Brunswick reported eight new cases of COVID-19 and one death on Wednesday. Of these, six are in the Fredericton region, public health officials said in a May 19 release. A breakdown of the cases shows five are close contacts of previous cases and the other is travel-related. The Edmundston region...

In a Tweet sent out by Nova Scotia Health & Wellness, the province announced 52 new COVID-19 cases Saturday. According to the department, 44 of the new cases are in the province’s Central Zone. Four are in the Eastern Zone, another four are in the Northern Zone, and there are no...

With a delay in shipments of Pfizer vaccines, Quebec is re-evaluating its COVID-19 vaccination rollout plan for private seniors’ residences (RPAs), which are part of the province’s next phase of priority inoculations. A spokesperson for Health Minister Christian Dubé told Global News in a statement Monday that the province’s “director...

Nova Scotia has expanded eligibility for COVID-19 vaccines to those ages 35-39. Appointments for Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines were available through the province's vaccine booking website Friday morning, though the change was not officially announced until nearly noon. There are about 63,500 people in the 35-39 age group in the province. Appointments for vaccines at community...

A Delta man died on Father’s Day after diving in to save his daughter who had slipped into a waterfall near Kelowna. Kashif Sheikh, 46, and a father of four, was able to rescue his daughter after she fell into the water near the Mill Creek waterfall east of Kelowna...

Ontario is reporting an all-time high of 3,363 new COVID-19 cases today, as well as 2,476 cases from New Year’s Day. Today’s case count is slightly up from Thursday’s total of 3,328 new diagnoses, the previous record for the province. Health Minister Christine Elliott says today’s tally includes 713 new cases...

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP pleaded with senior citizens Friday to stick with him, promising free vaccines and therapeutics to help them fight the coronavirus and painting an apocalyptic picture of a Biden administration that would strip them of Medicare and Social Security benefits in a last-ditch pitch to reclaim an...

An hours-long police standoff in Burnaby Thursday evening was sparked by a cleaning woman who told police a client had threatened to pull a gun on her during a dispute inside his home, according to Burnaby RCMP. Police were called to the home in the 4600 block of Union Street...