Students in Ottawa and eastern Ontario will be returning to class for in-person learning on Monday. The Ontario government announced all elementary and secondary schools in the Ottawa Public Health and the Eastern Ontario Health Unit regions will reopen on Feb. 1. "On the advice of the Chief Medical Officer of...
Another grim milestone has been reached in Ontario as the number of COVID-19 deaths in the province has surpassed 6,000. With 56 more deaths reported Thursday morning, there are now 6,014 people who died from COVID since the pandemic began. A breakdown by age categories of the deaths: 1,961 were over...
City bylaws that mandate the wearing of masks in indoor public spaces and require that residents keep two metres apart while out and about are likely to be extended into at least June. Medical Officer of Health Dr. Eileen de Villa is recommending that city council extend all five bylaws...
New cases of COVID-19 remain steady in Peel today as the rest of Ontario shows a slight upturn. Numbers released by the Province of Ontario show 311 new cases in Peel Region, while provincially numbers have climbed to 2,093, the first time since this past weekend that infections have been...
The COVID-19 pandemic contributed to a 10 per cent jump in the number of deaths in Quebec in 2020 over the previous year, the province’s statistics agency reported Thursday. The Institut de la statistique du Quebec noted in its report that 74,550 people died last year in Quebec, which is...
Health officials in Nova Scotia are reporting four new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday, increasing the total number of active cases in the province to 12. Three of the previously reported cases are now considered resolved. Two of Wednesday’s cases are in the Central zone and the other two are in...
The review of Rideau Hall that led governor general Julie Payette to resign found dozens of people who called the working conditions there hostile, negative, toxic or poisoned. The government released the findings of the review, conducted by Quintet Consulting Corp., on Wednesday evening. It's heavily redacted, primarily to protect participants'...
Canada Post has confirmed that a worker has died of COVID-19 at its Gateway facility in Mississauga. Spokesperson Phil Legault says the employee had tested positive for COVID-19 and was last at work on January 18, 2021. “We offer our deepest sympathies to the family as they mourn the loss and...
Three more weeks. That’s the length of the most recent extension of public health orders in Saskatchewan meant to limit the spread of COVID-19. Premier Scott Moe made the announcement from the Legislature in Regina on Jan. 26 with chief medical health officer Dr. Saqib Shahab. The announcement came on a...
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...