Just days after it spotted a "bat shadow," the Hubble Space Telescope has found a "feathered spiral" galaxy in deep space. NGC 7513 is located approximately 56 million light-years away in the southern constellation of Sculptor. Discovered on September 24, 1864 by the German astronomer Albert Marth, the galaxy has a...
The doctor overseeing Canada’s COVID-19 antibody research says by mid-July we should get the first glimpse of how many Canadians might have already contracted the novel coronavirus. Dr. Timothy Evans, the executive director of the Immunity Task Force, warns it will take much longer before we know whether having antibodies...
Authorities are looking for suspects following another shooting in Calgary. Calgary police, along with EMS, were called to the scene, near 14 Avenue and 28 Street S.E. Saturday evening. When they arrived, they found an adult male suffering from what appeared to be gunshot wounds. He was taken to Foothills Medical Centre...
The COVID-19 virus may bring an end to Nova Scotia's streak of record-breaking immigration increases. "The landings for the month of April are low, very low, relative to what we would have expected prior to COVID," Immigration Minister Lena Diab said Thursday. "The January, February landings, prior to COVID were...
Public health authorities in the Montérégie want people who visited Mile Public House last Tuesday night to get tested for COVID-19. Five people who were inside and on the patio of the bar, which is at the DIX30 shopping centre, between 8 p.m. and 3 a.m. June 30 have...
Testing and contact tracing is continuing in connection with two cases of COVID-19 announced on Saturday on P.E.I. The province announced three new cases Saturday, the first on the Island in more than two months. One was related to travel and the person was self-isolating. The other two were, however, connected....
A seven-year-old boy is in serious condition in hospital after a buried propane cylinder exploded at an Eastern Ontario campfire Saturday night. Two adults who had been with the child at the fire were released from hospital Sunday, according to the Ontario Provincial Police, which wouldn’t say how — or...
Quebec reported 79 new cases and eight fatalities, increasing its total to 55,863 and 5,574, respectively. Of the deaths, one occurred in the past 24 hours, while the other seven patients died before June 27. Health officials have not yet indicated how many people have recovered from the virus...
For the second time this week, Ontario has reported two daily fatalities related to COVID-19. Before the recent stretch, it had not recorded two or fewer deaths since March 30. According to the Ministry of Health, one of the fatalities involved a long-term care home resident and the other...
Two more COVID-19 cases have been identified in Prince Edward Island, and are linked to a man in his 20s who didn't self-isolate after returning to the province. There are now five active cases in P.E.I., with officials announcing three cases on Saturday. Before this weekend, the province hadn’t identified...