New Brunswick reported eight new cases of COVID-19 and one death on Wednesday. Of these, six are in the Fredericton region, public health officials said in a May 19 release. A breakdown of the cases shows five are close contacts of previous cases and the other is travel-related. The Edmundston region...
Alberta’s chief medical officer of health says the province has reached a COVID-19 vaccination milestone, with more than 50 per cent of the population over the age of 12 getting at least one shot. Dr. Deena Hinshaw says new case numbers are dropping but the province’s positivity rate is still...
Quebec is reporting 584 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the total number of people infected to 364,980 since the start of the pandemic. The province's health officials also confirmed eight more deaths, a total of 11,058. One death occurred in the last 24 hours, while seven were between May 12 and May...
Ontario’s solicitor general says the province may not take a regional approach to loosening COVID-19 restrictions. Sylvia Jones made the remarks while speaking to reporters at Queen’s Park on Wednesday. “The minister of health has suggested that we’re going to be moving away from the regionalization approach,” Jones said. “What happens is...
Ontario’s opioid crisis has worsened dramatically during the pandemic, with the homeless population and those who were unemployed accounting for a significant portion of fatal overdoses, a new report has found. The report released Wednesday from the Ontario Drug Policy Research Network at Toronto’s St. Michael’s Hospital found fatal opioid...
B.C. health officials reported 411 new cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, the lowest daily total since March 8. The province also reported two fatalities from the disease, bringing B.C.’s COVID-19 death toll to 1,650. Of the new cases, 37 were in the Vancouver Coastal Health region, 285 were in the Fraser...
With new daily cases of COVID-19 falling at a clip and vaccines now being administered all across the land, it's starting look like Ontario may finally come out of lockdown when the current stay-at-home order expires after two months on June 2. As for what things will look like when...
Quebec can unilaterally modify part of the Canadian Constitution, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday. Quebec can unilaterally modify part of the Canadian Constitution, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday. The province's proposed language law reform, introduced last week, seeks to change part of the Constitution to affirm that Quebec is...
Ontario is reporting 1,616 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday. The provincial total now stands at 513,102. It is the lowest daily case count since late March and is the first time cases are under 2,000 since then as well. However, the number of tests processed for Tuesday was also the...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will announce a nearly $200 million investment Tuesday in a facility designed to manufacture mRNA vaccines in Mississauga. The money from the federal government’s Strategic Innovation Fund will go to Resilience Biotechnologies Inc, a government source confirmed to the National Post. In total the new facility...