Canada

With 53 new COVID-19 cases being reported on Sunday by local health officials, Waterloo Region has now logged the most daily cases in Ontario for the third time in the past five days. The province, which records COVID-19 cases at a different rate of time than local health officials, reported...

Ontario reported 412 new cases of COVID-19 on Saturday, continuing an upward trend and pushing the total number of cases in the province to more than 25,000 since the pandemic began. Of the total number, 76.5 per cent, or 19,146, are resolved. The new numbers are a drop after Friday's...

A Nunavut community was under a state of emergency Wednesday after a fire destroyed one of its grocery and retail stores. Photos on social media from Igloolik, a community of about 1,600, showed orange flames and black smoke bursting from the Arctic Co-op store. Another photo showed the store's structure slumped...

Health officials in Newfoundland and Labrador have announced the province now has no active cases of COVID-19. All of its 262 cases have been resolved; 259 people have recovered, while three have died. It’s the second time throughout the pandemic that all of its cases have been marked resolved....

There won’t be any in-person bargain-hunting taking place in Ontario this Boxing Day. When residents across the province wake up Saturday morning, they will find themselves under a provincially-ordered lockdown brought in to try curb the runaway spread of COVID-19. While Toronto, Peel Region, York Region, and other areas are already...

The Alberta government has asked the federal government and the Red Cross to supply four field hospitals to care for patients as the COVID-19 case numbers in the province continue to rise, straining the capacity of the health-care system in the province. The request is for “a structure and beds...

Twenty new cases have been announced by B.C. health officials, a day after 18 cases were reported. The 38 cases mark the most new patients the province has recorded in a two-day stretch since May 9. "Things can quickly escalate once again if we let our guard down," said...

The Government of Ontario reports 166 new COVID-19 cases in schools on Wednesday, surpassing 5,000 cases in three months. According to the provincial government, 140 cases reported today are student-related, and 26 are staff-related. Ontario schools reported 299 total cases. The new total has now reached 5,024 since back to school. There...

Canada's top doctor urged cautious optimism -- and a healthy dose of patience -- on Saturday, even as the second wave of COVID-19 continued its unsettling rise. There is still a "long road ahead" in the battle to contain the virus, Dr. Theresa Tam said in her daily update, but...

One person is in hospital following a two-alarm fire in Upper Beaches Wednesday evening. Fire crews responded to 751 Woodbine Avenue, near Gerrard Street East, just after 9:30 p.m. When they arrived, they located the fire inside a unit in the building and rescued one person without vital signs. Toronto paramedics said...