Noomi Rapace will lead cast in a gender-swapped adaptation of Hamlet from filmmaker Ali Abbasi.
The film will reunite Abbasi with The Wife and Melancholia outfit Meta Film after they produced the director’s Oscar-nominated Cannes 2018 hit Border.
Iceland’s Sjón (The Northman) is writing the project, with Stine Meldgaard Madsen (Borgen)...
Saskatchewan reported its highest single-day increase of COVID-19 on Saturday with 439 new cases, bringing the provincial caseload to 6,237.
The majority of the new cases are in Saskatoon, the province’s north and Regina.
Below is a breakdown of where the new cases are located:
Far North West: 9
Far North East: 13
North...
Rite Aid has added four days this month when educators, school employees and childcare workers will be given priority to book coronavirus vaccine appointments.
Rite Aid offered COVID-19 vaccine appointments only to teachers, school staff and child care workers for two days last week in seven states, including New Jersey,...
As of Dec. 14, 85 per cent of eligible Albertans aged 12 and older have received both of their recommended doses of vaccine through Alberta Health Services, community pharmacies and physician offices.
Additionally, 89.4 per cent of Albertans aged 12 and older have received at least one dose, while more...
There are now 58 active cases of COVID-19 in the Algoma Public health Region and two hospitalizations.
Algoma Public Health has reported five new cases of COVID-19, all in the Sault Ste. Marie area.
These cases bring the pandemic total to 545 cases.
Four of these cases were classified as close contact,...
The World Health Organization has updated its ongoing guidance on COVID-19 medications to advise against using the antiviral drug remdesivir to treat hospitalized patients, no matter how severe their illness may be.
According to the update, published in the medical journal the BMJ on Thursday, current evidence does not suggest...
Ontario is reporting 1,058 new coronavirus cases on Monday, bringing the provincial total to 294,144.
Monday’s case count is slightly lower than Sunday’s which saw 1,087 new infections. On Saturday, 1,228 new cases were recorded and 1,150 on Friday.
It is also the fifth day in a row cases are above...
The first dose of COVID-19 vaccine in New Brunswick was administered to a long-term care home resident at the Miramichi Regional Hospital Saturday morning.
Pauline Gauvin, an 84-year-old Miramichi resident, received one of 1,950 Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine doses expected to be distributed to people in the province.
Gauvin said getting the...
One day after seeing its lowest daily case count in six weeks, Ottawa is seeing an uptick in the daily number of new COVID-19 cases in the city.
However, trends including the number of active cases and the weekly average of cases per capita continue to improve.
Ottawa Public Health said...
The B.C. Ministry of Health has reported 50 new test-positive cases and three new epidemiologically linked case of novel coronavirus in the province today, bringing the total number of cases in B.C. to 3,934.
In total, 1,143 of the cases are in the Vancouver Coastal Region, 2,045 in Fraser Health,...
