There has been a “notable increase” in the number of Canadians willing to be immunized against COVID-19 as soon as a vaccine is available to them.
That’s according to the latest data from the non-profit Angus Reid Institute.
A month ago, around 40 per cent of Canadians said they were keen...
Canada’s foreign-aid budget swelled noticeably Monday with International Development Minister Karina Gould’s announcement of $485 million in new money toward the global effort to provide COVID-19 medicines to poor countries.
The new funds are going towards the Access to COVID-19 Tools, or “ACT” Accelerator, which was created in April by...
Health Canada’s chief medical adviser says the country is on track to approve Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine soon–though Dr. Supriya Sharma provided no hard date.
Sharma told reporters Monday that Moderna provided the final clinical data on Friday to Health Canada, which has been reviewing the company’s vaccine since October....
Ottawa police confirmed Tuesday that two people were dead after a fire engulfed a Kanata home late Monday night.
Firefighters found the victims “unresponsive” when they used ladders to get inside the home on Hansen Avenue through the second-storey windows because the flames had consumed the indoor staircase.
A neighbour called...
A personal support worker from a Toronto long-term care home received one of Canada’s first doses of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine Monday.
This comes after Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine officially arrived in Canada Sunday evening, prompting provinces to prepare to inoculate their most vulnerable populations this week.
The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was approved by...
This weekend, several grocery stores and Shoppers Drug Mart locations around Vancouver and Metro Vancouver confirmed that employees tested positive on presumptive tests for COVID-19.
Here are the newly reported cases:
Shoppers Drug Mart, 4326 Dunbar Street, Vancouver (Employee last worked on December 5)
Real Canadian Superstore, 4700 Kingsway, Burnaby (Two team...
New Brunswick is reporting two new COVID-19 cases, dropping the total of active cases to 65 in the province.
On Sunday, the province issued a release with details about the two new cases.
The new cases are two people in their 60s in Zone 3 (Fredericton region) and are self-isolating. The...
The Manitoba government says it got 100,000 phone calls asking about 900 available appointments to receive the first COVID-19 vaccinations in the province later this week.
The province announced the 900 spots on Saturday, which will go only to eligible health-care workers.
But the province says some of the people who...
Alberta is set to provide an update today on its COVID-19 vaccine plan.
It comes as the first shipments of the highly anticipated Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine arrived in Canada on Sunday night.
Health Minister Tyler Shandro will be joined by Alberta's chief medical officer of health Dr. Deena Hinshaw at a...
Ontario is reporting an additional 137 new cases in public schools across the province, bringing the total in the last two weeks to 4,623 and 6,356 overall since school began.
In its latest data released Monday morning, the province reported 114 more students were infected for a total of 1,430...
