Canada

Alberta Health Services has declared an outbreak at Chris Akkerman School in Calgary. This comes the same day a letter was sent home to parents of students at Foothills Composite High School in Okotoks from AHS, saying there was an outbreak there. https://twitter.com/cspotweet/status/1306709213742338049? The letter appeared on the Support Our Students (SOS)...

Young people who need to get COVID-19 tested in British Columbia no longer have to worry about the discomfort of a nasal swab, health officials announced Thursday. Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said researchers have developed a new method of testing that's non-invasive and can be done without the...

Quebec health officials announced 251 new cases of COVID-19, which marks the seventh straight day that it has reported more than 200 cases. The last time it had a similar stretch was in early June. On Thursday, Montreal health officials announced 248 cases that should have been reported to the...

Ontario reported 293 new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, which marks the seventh straight day that the province has exceeded the 200-case mark. Before the recent stretch, the province had not posted over 200 cases since June 29. The most recent patients were identified after Ontario labs completed 35,134 tests...

B.C.’s provincial health officer has issued a public health order to increase the number of health professionals authorized to assist people in the province at risk of overdosing. In a press release issued from the Ministry of Mental Health and Addictions, registered nurses in B.C. will now be able to...

Hamilton police say Michael Cudmore, wanted in the murders of a Hamilton mobster and an innocent woman in Woodbridge, is dead. Cudmore's body was found in a vehicle along the side of a road in Mexico. It's not clear how he died or when. Cudmore fled to Mexico in 2017 following...

Wildlife experts say the death of a mother grizzly bear and her two cubs — including a rare, blond-headed grizzly — in Banff National Park is a major loss to the population. Parks Canada has said that an adult bear was struck and killed Sept. 3 by a Canadian Pacific...

Canada’s new coronavirus cases continued to climb at an alarming rate Wednesday, as health officials reported 939 new confirmed infections. The new total nearly matches the number reported back on May 26 — which happened to be the first day in months that daily cases were under 1,000, signalling the...

Public Health Sudbury & Districts is announcing two new cases in their service area, for Saturday, Sept. 12. The first one is from the Greater Sudbury area and is not the result of travel or contact with a known case. The other case involves a person from the Sudbury District....

“Common sense prevailed.” That’s what Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland says turned the tide in the latest Canada-U.S. trade dispute over Canadian aluminum exports to the south. “The last thing that Canadians and Americans need in the middle of this pandemic is another trade war.” The United States said...