There are 476 new cases of COVID-19 and 12 more deaths in Manitoba, the province says, bringing the death toll to 248. "These are Manitobans who are missed and are loved," said Chief Provincial Public Health Officer Dr. Brent Roussin. The number of patients in hospital due to the illness...
Ontario is reporting 1,258 new coronavirus cases on Friday, bringing the provincial total to 298,569. Friday’s case count is higher than Thursday’s which saw 1,138 new infections. On Wednesday, 1,054 new cases were recorded and 975 on Tuesday. According to Friday’s provincial report, 362 cases were recorded in Toronto, 274 in...
COVID-19 continues to be a growing presence in Alberta’s schools. As of Tuesday night, one out of every five schools in the province is on alert or dealing with a COVID-19 outbreak. That accounts for about 453 schools with 2,653 active cases in total, roughly 19 per cent of schools...
Ontario is reporting more than 1,000 new COVID-19 cases for the first time, setting another record for the number of infections in a single day. Health officials confirmed 1,042 new COVID-19 cases in Ontario on Sunday. It comes after the province saw 978 infections on Saturday. According to modelling data released...
Searching for unmarked burial sites is a painstaking process that not all Indigenous communities could be immediately ready for after the remains of more than 200 children were found at a former residential school in British Columbia, says an anthropologist who has done similar projects on the Prairies. "Just a...
The man accused of faking a medical distress at the side of the road before kidnapping a mother and her young daughter west of Winnipeg has been arrested, police say. Portage la Prairie RCMP say the suspect, Michael Stephen Klimchuk, was arrested by Winnipeg police early Sunday morning. Klimchuk is in...
Public health doctors and immunologists in Canada are calling for a wait-and-see approach as the idea of mixing doses of different COVID-19 vaccines is being considered to quickly inoculate more people around the world. The changes will be guided by the results of a major study expected to be released...
Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick did not report any cases on Saturday. Alberta, British Columbia, Prince Edward Island, Nunavut, Yukon and the Northwest Territories don’t provide updated statistics on weekends. There remain four active cases in Newfoundland and Labrador, which were all identified last week. Nova Scotia has...
Manitoba reported its second highest ever daily COVID-19 count Friday and health officials say another three Manitobans with the virus have died. Friday’s 594 new infections come just a day after Manitoba reported a record-setting 603 new cases. Health officials also say another two ICU patients with COVID-19 have been transferred...
On Monday, Ontario reported 114 new cases of COVID-19. The majority of cases were in Toronto, Peel, and Ottawa with 41, 16 and 21, respectively and another 12 in York Region. Ontario’s other 30 public health units saw five or fewer cases, with 18 reporting no new cases at...