B.C. health officials announced one new case of COVID-19, but that they’ve also removed a case from yesterday due to a data correction, leaving its total count at 2,632. The one new case is the fewest since the province reported no new daily cases in early March. Among B.C.’s total cases...
Manitoba announced two new cases of COVID-19, as it reached 300 cases throughout the pandemic. The latest patients involve a trucker who travelled outside the province, and one of his close household contacts. Both are men, one in his 20s and the other in his 30s, who live in...
A state investigator testified Thursday that a white man was heard saying a racist slur as he stood over Ahmaud Arbery's body, moments after fatally shooting the black man with a pump-action shotgun. The inflammatory revelation came amid a week of angry nationwide protests over law enforcement biases against black...
In its latest 24-hour stretch, the Ministry of Health completed its most ever tests with 22,730. It’s the third straight day that Ontario has reached its goal of 16,000 and it’s the closest the province has come to hitting its maximum capacity of 25,000. Over the past few weeks, Premier...
A school in Quebec’s Trois-Rivières has experienced a COVID-19 outbreak, where almost all of its students in one classroom contracted the virus. After two children at École Louis-de-France were diagnosed with the virus, health officials tested all children part of the class, identifying seven other cases. Since the reopening of...
Saskatchewan RCMP say they have identified the remains of a woman missing since 2016 with the help of the National Missing Persons DNA Program. They say it's a first for the province and for the entire RCMP. Partial human remains were found nearly two years ago in a remote rural area...
A 26-year-old Indigenous woman from BC died after being shot by police in New Brunswick who went to her apartment building early Thursday morning, reportedly to perform a wellness check. According to police in Edmundston, NB, the incident happened around 2:30 am, when police received a request to check on...
On Thursday, Quebec reported 91 new fatalities, increasing its death toll to 4,885. In a press release, officials said that 26 of those deaths were recorded in the past 24 hours. The other 65 occurred before May 28. Along with the recent victims, the province announced 259 new cases...
A school in Quebec’s Trois-Rivières has experienced a COVID-19 outbreak, where almost all of its students in one classroom contracted the virus, according to the Montreal Gazette and Le Devoir. After one child at École Louis-de-France was diagnosed with the virus, health officials tested all children part of the class,...
New Brunswick reported its first fatality, involving an individual in their 80s with underlying health conditions, who lived at the Manor de la Vallée long-term care facility. Various news organizations have identified him as Daniel Ouellette, after a social media post by his family. He is part of a COVID-19...