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...
A 12-year-old was taken to a hospital outside of the region with serious but non-life-threatening injuries after a single vehicle collision in Woolwich Township. It happened over the noon hour Sunday on Hawkesville Road, between Three Bridges Road and Northside Drive. The child was a passenger in a minivan travelling east...
New Brunswick is reporting two new cases of COVID-19 today, as part of the province's northwest moves to the yellow pandemic-alert level. Health officials say one new case is in the Fredericton area and the other is in the Bathurst region; both are under investigation. New Brunswick has 136 active reported...
The Saskatchewan Health Authority has declared a COVID-19 outbreak at the City Yards in Saskatoon. In a news release, the city said the outbreak is affecting workers in the Waste Stream Collection unit located at 26th Street and Ontario Avenue. The site is only accessible to employees, and the city is...
Two police officers were caught up in an avalanche while skiing in B.C.'s West Kootenays on Monday, leaving one of them dead and the other critically injured. On Tuesday, the Nelson Police Department identified the deceased as Wade Tittemore, a 43-year-old constable who left behind a wife and two elementary-school-aged...
Quebec is reporting 1,754 new COVID-19 cases and 13 deaths attributed to the novel coronavirus, including two in the past 24 hours. Health authorities say there are 14 more patients in hospital for a total of 583, with the number in intensive care rising by four to 138. Montreal led the...
Updated Jan. 17 at 3:39 p.m.: The Ontario Provincial Police have confirmed the body recovered from Elbow Lake near Estaire this afternoon is that of missing snowmobiler Ronald Nantais. The 53-year-old was last seen at 6 p.m. on Jan. 14 before departing on his snowmachine, a black and white 2017...
Quebec announced on Friday that 44 more students and 10 staff members tested positive for COVID-19. There are now 272 schools (out of 2,685) that have had a reported case, up by 25 compared to the previous day. Throughout those institutions, there are now 401 students and 106 staff members...
As life at Halifax's Northwood long-term care facility starts to return to normal, people from around the Maritimes are reaching out to the care home to help memorialize the lives lost due to COVID-19. The contributions are brightening the private garden at Northwood where families are meeting again for...
A dramatic tripling of daily new cases of COVID-19 in the past month, mostly among young people, has prompted the prime minister to declare the arrival of the second wave of the pandemic and that Canadians likely won't be able to gather for Thanksgiving. "In our four biggest provinces, the...