The provincial police watchdog is continuing to investigate a fatal police shooting that occurred Wednesday afternoon, but have identified the victim as a woman in her 20s. The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT) was called to investigate an incident at the Nuvo Hotel in downtown Calgary at about 4...
There is no sign COVID-19 restrictions will be eased in Alberta, even as the province reaches two weeks on an extension of regulations it put in place before the holidays. When Premier Jason Kenney announced the rules prohibiting all indoor social gatherings and mandating masks in indoor public spaces would...
Alberta recorded an estimated 900 new cases of COVID-19 Saturday. Dr. Deena Hinshaw, Alberta’s chief medical officer of health, provided a brief preliminary COVID-19 update on Twitter Saturday where she announced an estimated 900 new cases after 12,700 laboratory tests were conducted. The province’s positivity rate sits at seven per...
Manitoba will shutter schools in two hard-hit regions and move students to online learning, officials announced Sunday, as several other provinces also tightened public health measures to limit the spread of COVID-19. While the overall number of new cases in Canada has been declining since mid-April, COVID-19 infection rates remain...
New numbers out of Quebec show 295 new coronavirus cases today and 20 additional deaths. Those numbers are the smallest totals of new COVID-19 deaths since April 4, and the fewest new cases since March 25. There are 1,185 people being treated for COVID-19 in Quebec hospitals as of Monday, down...
Toronto Police pulled a mystery car out of the lake at Humber Bay Park East on Monday. There is no clue how long the small rusted and algae-covered vehicle had been at the bottom of the lake. The car was discovered by real estate agent Jordan Marushiak who was showing a...
Niagara’s COVD-19 case count continued to rise Wednesday with an additional nine new novel coronavirus infections confirmed. The new cases come as Niagara Health is treating patients at St. Catharines hospital’s COVID-19 ward again and the provincial pandemic modelling suggests Ontario could see as many as 1,000 cases a day...
Clinics across Ontario doled out a record number of COVID-19 vaccine doses yesterday as the province uses newly flush supply to accelerate its vaccine rollout. Ontario reported Wednesday that it administered more than 200,000 vaccine doses for the first time on Tuesday, getting 202,984 jabs into arms. That’s roughly 18,000 more...
A missing woman whose family has for days been pleading for her safe return was found safe on Christmas Day, Toronto police say. Cheyanna Cooper, 24, was last seen at a youth shelter in the area of Caledonia Road and Eglinton Avenue West on Dec. 13. She was dressed properly...
Saskatchewan reported eight new cases of COVID-19, bringing their total to 349. Among those diagnoses, two are presumptive, while 288 are now resolved, an increase of eight since Friday. One fewer person is in hospital, but of the four patients there are two in intensive care. There are now 37 health...