Canada reported zero COVID-19 deaths in the past 24 hours for the first time since March 15, according to public health agency data released late on Friday. Canada's death toll from the pandemic stood at 9,163 as of Sept. 11, the same as the number of the deaths reported on...
Ten people have contracted COVID-19 at a long-term care home in downtown Vancouver that was the site of one of B.C.’s worst outbreaks of the disease last spring. Vancouver Coastal Health declared a new outbreak in the special care unit of Haro Park Centre on Tuesday. On Wednesday, the care home...
Premier François Legault announced on Monday that masks are now mandatory for everyone in indoor spaces throughout the provinces. Businesses that don’t enforce patrons to wear masks could face fines of $400-$6,000. Masks are also mandatory on public transit. The regulations come as the province announces 100 new cases today,...
New Brunswick reported eight new cases of COVID-19 and one death on Wednesday. Of these, six are in the Fredericton region, public health officials said in a May 19 release. A breakdown of the cases shows five are close contacts of previous cases and the other is travel-related. The Edmundston region...
Green Leader Annamie Paul is facing a no-confidence motion that could ultimately oust her from her perch atop the party. The leader of the Greens’ Quebec wing, Alex Tyrrell, says the federal party’s governing body is poised to kick off a process tonight that aims to dethrone Paul less than...
Albertans born in 1991 or earlier were able to book a COVID-19 vaccine appointment starting Thursday. Slots through Alberta Health Services and available pharmacies opened at 8 a.m. While there were reports on social media of queues of tens of thousands of people – not unlike every other opening day in...
Nearly half of the first doses of the Pfizer vaccine Alberta received less than one week ago have been administered. Health Minister Tyler Shandro said 2,148 health care workers had received their first of two shots as of Sunday morning. He called it "remarkable progress" considering the first shipments...
A charge of second-degree murder has been laid against a 41-year-old man following the recent discovery of a woman's body in Kootenay National Park in southeastern B.C. A statement from RCMP says Philip Toner was arrested Tuesday in the Okanagan and will be returned to Alberta to face the murder...
A law that kept a New Brunswick woman in solitary confinement for 16 days on suspicion she concealed drugs in her body should be struck down due to its cruelty and lack of basic legal protections, a prisoner rights' lawyer argued on Monday. Lisa Adams was in court as her...
Manitoba now has 203 cases of COVID-19, after health officials diagnosed nine additional patients. Of the province’s total cases, 11 are in hospital, including seven in intensive care. There are also now 17 people who have recovered from the virus. As of April 5, a total of 12,998 tests have been...