Premier François Legault says Quebec’s COVID-19 situation has improved considerably. He cited low case counts, declining hospitalizations and high vaccination rates. “Things are going well,” Legault told a press conference in Montreal. The situation is such that as of Monday all regions will be green – the least restrictive level in...
Ontario is reporting 296 COVID-19 cases and 60 deaths today, but the province says the numbers include older infections and deaths that are just now being counted. The province says 54 of the deaths reported today are from previous months but are now being recorded after a data review. It also...
Ontario has met the vaccination thresholds required to enter the third and final step of the economic reopening weeks ahead of schedule, leading to a renewed push to lift the lockdown earlier than planned. The provincial government’s “roadmap to reopen” highlighted vaccination rates as the key benchmark to open additional...
140 newly identified cases of more contagious coronavirus variants also announced. Manitoba public health officials announced 69 new COVID-19 cases and five deaths, including a patient in Ontario. This is the third consecutive day of double-digit numbers after more than two months of triple-digit increases. The deaths include a man in his...
Teen killer and serial rapist Paul Bernardo failed in his second parole bid on Tuesday after the parents of two of his victims recounted the enduring pain of his twisted crimes and warned he should never be released from his life sentence. The hearing officers of the Parole Board of...
On the same day Canada helped to launch an international effort at the United Nations to demand that China allow free access to Xinjiang to investigate reported human rights violations, China and its allies have called on the UN to investigate crimes against Indigenous people in Canada. "We are deeply...
The Premier’s spokesperson says a man wielding a butcher’s knife was arrested outside Doug Ford’s home on Monday night. Ivana Yelich, the Premier’s executive director of media relations, tells lintelligencer that the man arrived at Ford’s Etobicoke home and began shouting and making threats. “Last night, a man with a large...
A woman in her 90s living in a Kitchener long-term care home has died from COVID-19, marking the first related death in a fully immunized person in Waterloo Region. On Sunday, health officials said the Village of Winston Park long-term care home is currently going through a COVID-19 outbreak. There are...
A man is dead after being shot by an RCMP officer near Cold Lake Sunday — the second fatal shooting involving Alberta RCMP officers in the province in a span of three days. On Monday, RCMP revealed an officer had shot and killed an unidentified man during a Sunday evening...
New Brunswick is reporting no new cases of COVID-19 on Monday, for the first time in two months. There were two recoveries since Sunday, bringing the province’s active case count to 54. There are currently five patients in hospital, including two in ICU. On the same day, neighboring Nova Scotia also marked...