Canada

Manitoba confirmed two more COVID-19 deaths in the province, a female in her 80s and a male in his 70s, both linked to the Heritage Lodge care home outbreak in Winnipeg. There were 80 new cases reported in the province as a whole, with 51 in the Winnipeg region. The...

Three Toronto hospitals are reporting COVID-19 outbreaks as confirmed cases in the city continue to rise. UHN has confirmed that as of Oct. 16, three staff member and five patients have been affected at Toronto Western Hospital. St. Joseph’s Health Centre has reported an outbreak at four different units. There are...

Quebec reported 1,038 new confirmed COVID-19 cases on Monday after hitting its peak at 1,098 cases reported a day earlier. Of the cases reported Monday, 272 are in the Quebec City region, 193 are in Montreal and 174 are in Montérégie. There are currently 532 people in hospitals in the...

At a press conference on Monday, Ontario Premier Doug Ford pleaded for protesters to not go to his personal residence but to protest at Queen’s Park instead of “scaring” the kids in his neighbourhood. “My street is packed with little kids and when protesters show up at 10 in the...

Dr. Barbara Yaffe, Ontario's associate chief medical officer of health, indicated at a press conference on Monday that the province is “very closely monitoring” various regions to see if they need to move to modified Stage 2 restrictions, like Toronto, Peel, Ottawa and York Region. The areas provincial health experts...

The City of Toronto have made two additional maps available online, which show the percent positivity and testing rates by neighbourhood. The Rustic neighbourhood in Toronto, north of Lawrence Ave. W to Hwy. 401 between Jane St. and Culford Rd., has the highest percent positivity at 14.3 per cent the...

A Canada goose got a chance to warm up from the snow inside a Calgary woman’s home after she noticed him flying low. Cai’lin Kroon said something looked wrong with the bird, who was wandering around Copperfield on Friday. “Once he walked down the street, I asked him to come over...

The Edmonton Police Service Historical Crimes Section has charged one man in a 2002 homicide. On May 9, 2002, police responded to the report of a body that was found under a bed in a home in the area of 99 Street and 86 Avenue. The following day, an autopsy...

The diplomatic spat between Canada and China grew more heated on Monday as Beijing denounced press criticism of its ambassador to Ottawa, only to have Canada's deputy prime minister and opposition leader echo the criticism. The exchange comes at a moment when ties between the countries are at their lowest...

After a week of violence and arson, the federal government is sending more RCMP officers to Nova Scotia in a bid to restore calm as tensions rise over lobster fishing and Indigenous rights. But the federal Indigenous Services Minister has criticized the police response thus far, saying the Mounties have...