Plans are being made across the country for how to safely send students back to school in the fall as the COVID-19 pandemic continues.
Here is a look at what the various provinces have said about getting kids back to classes.
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BRITISH COLUMBIA
British Columbia has laid out its plan for studies...
The Alberta government announced it will distribute $262 million in federal funding to school authorities. These funds will be transferred in two phases, once in September and again later in the school year.
The provincial government has indicated that it will be distributed based on a per-student model and it...
Prince Edward Island potato farmer John Visser is expecting a shortfall this growing season.
The reason: no rain.
"The bills will not get paid," he says.
His family grows over 445 hectares of potatoes on their third-generation farm in Victoria.
The lack of rain means only about a 40 to 60 per cent...
Despite more than 500 active COVID-19 cases in the Edmonton region, experts say the mandatory mask bylaw is likely helping keep infections from skyrocketing.
The bylaw, which came into effect Aug. 3, requires face coverings to be worn in all publicly accessible places. There are exemptions for certain situations, such...
Six people are in hospital with serious injuries after a drive-by shooting at a bakery in Toronto's north end early Wednesday.
Toronto police said a vehicle pulled up to Spence’s Bakery, on Eglinton Avenue near Allen Road at around 2 a.m., and the occupants of the vehicle fired several rounds...
A new study suggests it could take more than a year and a half to clear the backlog of surgeries in Ontario hospitals caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Modelling research published today in the Canadian Medical Association Journal says the estimated time to clear surgeries postponed due to the pandemic...
Two cases of COVID-19 linked to the Assiniboine Centre at the Brandon Regional Health Centre over the weekend were found in health-care workers and the third was found in a patient, chief provincial public health officer Dr. Brent Roussin said Monday.
The patient likely contracted the virus at the facility,...
Canadians will need to roll up their sleeves and get vaccinated in large numbers to finally corral COVID-19 before life can return to a semblance of its pre-pandemic state, Canada's top public health officers said Tuesday.
"Widespread vaccine uptake is the best shot Canadians have in regaining some of what...
A new report released Tuesday suggests that Canadian households are wasting between 20 to 24 million kilograms more food each month since the pandemic began.
The report focusing on food waste in the home during COVID-19 is a collaboration between Dalhousie University’s Agri-Food Analytics Lab and Ontario-based research firm Caddle....
