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...
Second doses of the COVID-19 vaccine are now available for anyone in the province who got their first dose on of before May 15. Eligibility for second doses of the COVID-19 vaccine in Saskatchewan will be determined by the date of the first dose starting 8 a.m. Monday. Everyone who has...
Alberta is following the steps of Ontario and calling the Moderna and Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines "interchangeable" in the face of a two-to-three-day delay in the latter product. The province is set to receive some 280,000 Pfizer doses the week of June 21, but Canada's shipment of 2.4 million shots from...
Alberta expanded eligibility for second doses of COVID-19 vaccine on Friday. Since then, more than 250,000 Albertans have booked their second shot. On June 18, Premier Jason Kenney said anyone who received their first dose of vaccine during or before May could book their second dose through an Alberta Health...
Manitoba has reached its first stage reopening criteria a week early, and the province's top doctor hinted that more information on health order changes would be coming on Wednesday. Manitoba's reopening plan is linked to first and second-dose vaccination targets, with some restrictions loosening by Canada Day if 70 per...
Manitoba reported 74 new cases of COVID-19 June 21, the second straight day with case numbers below 100, a level last seen in April. The five-day test positivity rate was eight per cent on Monday, the lowest it has been in weeks. Northern Manitoba had only three new cases reported June...