Canada

Quebec Premier François Legault announced on Tuesday additional regions that will become “red zones.” It marks the highest level on its COVID-19 alert colour-scale, which indicates the severity of the virus in regions around the province and dictates what restrictions should be put in place. The recently added red...

Alberta's chief medical officer of health reported 961 cases of COVID-19 and four deaths Tuesday. The province added 236 cases on Friday, 259 on Saturday, 246 on Sunday and 220 on Thanksgiving Monday. Dr. Deena Hinshaw said the Edmonton zone remains Alberta's coronavirus hot spot with 1,444 out of the 2,615...

Plans to deploy the Canadian Red Cross to help long-term care homes in Ottawa and Eastern Ontario turned into communications chaos this week when the release of an apparently incorrect list of homes left some fielding calls from concerned families. “We needed to reassure our families that we do not...

An actor is sharing his gratitude towards a Vancouver service specializing in finding lost rings after losing his own wedding band, kicking off a panicked search attempt. Jon Cryer, known for his role in the television series Two and a Half Men, was walking along Vancouver's seawall to meet up...

The region's health unit has confirmed 53 new COVID cases in Simcoe County and two in Muskoka District since it last reported on Friday. The health unit is reporting 16 new cases in Barrie, including two girls and one boy under 18, all close contacts; four men and two...

Manitoba hit a new high for daily COVID-19 case counts with 124 new cases on Tuesday — the first triple-digit tally and the third record-breaking day in less than a week. The province also announced a death, a man in his 70s from the rural east district in Southern...

On Tuesday, Oct. 13, Ontario reported 1,553 new cases of COVID-19 over a two-day stretch. That includes 807 cases that should have been announced on Thanksgiving Monday, and 746 cases as part of Tuesday’s update. The province has now gone 16 straight days of exceeding the 500-case mark. Before the recent...

Police say two children have been found dead in a home in Wendake, Que., a Huron-Wendat First Nation near Quebec City. Provincial police say they received a call from Wendake police at around 2 a.m. about the discovery of two bodies. They say a 30-year-old man turned himself in to Quebec...

An unusual blast of light has been spotted bursting out of a star as it was eaten – yes, eaten – by a black hole. Astronomers all over the world witnessed what they described as a ‘tidal disruption event’ through telescopes, as the bright light popped up 215 million light-years...

Quebec is reporting 843 new cases of COVID-19 today and 12 additional deaths attributed to the novel coronavirus. Officials say four of those deaths occurred in the past 24 hours and eight took place between Oct. 5 and Oct. 10. The province has now reported 86,976 COVID-19 cases and 5,965 deaths...