Montreal and Laval's 8 p.m. curfew will return to 9:30 p.m. as of Monday, May 3, Quebec Premier Francois Legault announced Tuesday,
Legault announced the changes during a news conference, joined by Public Health Director Dr. Horacio Arruda and Health Minister Christian Dube.
Legault said the situation is improving, as...
Two more Manitoba school divisions are moving to online learning this week.
The Garden Valley and Red River Valley School Divisions will move to remote learning, effective Tuesday and continuing until May 30.
The addition of those divisions means 373 schools in the province have now moved to remote learning, out...
The province is looking to temporarily shift its vaccination plan, to get more doses into arms quicker.
Johanu Botha, the co-lead of the Vaccine Implementation Task Force, said Wednesday morning, that’ll happen by funnelling more doses into larger pipes like supersites.
He said that could mean fewer pop-ups will happen. However...
Ontario will no longer offer first doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine due to an increase in reports of rare blood clots.
The announcement was made by Ontario’s Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. David Williams on Tuesday afternoon.
“This decision was made out of an abundance of caution,” Williams said.
The...
As COVID-19 vaccination rates increase and case numbers drop across the country, the provinces and territories have begun releasing the reopening plans for businesses, events and recreational facilities.
Most of the plans are based on each jurisdiction reaching vaccination targets at certain dates, while also keeping the number of cases...
A court injunction prohibiting old-growth logging protests on Vancouver Island will come to an end Tuesday, after a judge declined to extend the order.
British Columbia forestry company Teal Cedar Products Ltd. was seeking a one-year extension to its injunction preventing protesters from blockading forestry activities in the Fairy Creek...
Ontario reported its highest COVID-19 case count in nearly 40 days on Sunday, as the number of so-called “breakthrough” cases in fully vaccinated individuals rivaled cases among the unvaccinated for the first time since the summer.
The seven-day rolling average of new cases now stands at 563, up from 468...
For the first time in April, Quebec public health reports under 1,000 new COVID-19 cases over the past 24 hours for consecutive days.
According to the Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux, 899 new coronavirus cases have been added to the provincial tally. This is the first time...
Manitoba reported 250 new cases of COVID-19 (coronavirus) on Wednesday, bringing the provincial total to 53,403.
Two additional deaths were also reported:
• A male in his teens from the Winnipeg health region
• A man in his 50s from the Winnipeg health region, linked to the B.1.1.7 variant of concern
Health officials...
Pub manager Crystal Meikle is used to pivoting with the shifting rules for businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic.
But Ontario's proof-of-vaccination policy, set to take effect on Wednesday, treads into new territory, she said, since workers will be tasked with asking customers to show they are immunized against the virus.
“The...
