Tla’amin Nation chief Clint Williams will meet officials on Wednesday and decide whether to delay an election this Saturday, as COVID-19 numbers double and heavy smoke tests its members.
The Tla’amin Nation outbreak is the second largest of any Indigenous community in B.C., after the 26-case Haida Gwaii outbreak that...
With COVID cases skyrocketing and hospital admissions rising, Ontario’s doctors warn that the province may once again face serious drug shortages.
The onset of the pandemic in early 2020 raised concerns about securing sufficient supplies of imported active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) from China and India, which supply most of the...
Alberta recorded an estimated 900 new cases of COVID-19 Saturday.
Dr. Deena Hinshaw, Alberta’s chief medical officer of health, provided a brief preliminary COVID-19 update on Twitter Saturday where she announced an estimated 900 new cases after 12,700 laboratory tests were conducted. The province’s positivity rate sits at seven per...
The decision to deploy sound-emitting devices to keep people from under Winnipeg bridges was made by bureaucrats, and not vetted by city council, says the director of the city's public works department.
The machines, which cost $1,700 a piece, were placed under three bridges — Esplanade Riel and the Midtown...
Quebec researchers from the Montreal Heart Institute have found that colchicine — a medication used to treat inflammation and gout — is an effective oral treatment for COVID-19.
Colchicine is currently the only known effective oral medication for treating non-hospitalized COVID-19 patients — a world first, according to a press...
When oh when will the lockdown end?
It's a question the people of Ontario — particularly those who live in regions like Toronto and Peel, where harsh COVID-19 restrictions have been in place for nearly half a year — really want to know.
Unfortunately, the people in charge of such...
Following the announcement that Health Canada has authorized remdesivir to treat patients with severe COVID-19 symptoms, Dr. Theresa Tam, Canada’s chief public health officer, confirmed the supply is “very limited” globally.
Dr. Tam anticipates the company will begin to expand its capacity but the current supply is “not plentiful.” She...
The Saskatchewan government has lowered the COVID-19 vaccination age to include people age 12 and older as of 8 a.m. Thursday morning.
This applies to all Saskatchewan residents including those who live in the Northern Saskatchewan Administration District, where age eligibility was previously 18 and older.
Those eligible can visit a...
Ontario reported another 2,632 cases of COVID-19 and 46 more deaths of people with the illness on Thursday.
According to the Ministry of Health, the total case count in today's provincial update included 102 infections in Toronto that were previously unreported due to a technical issue.
The new cases include 897...
