Category Archives: Health
Ottawa spent nearly $20 million on COVID-19 tracking app — with inconclusive results
MONTREAL — The federal government spent $20 million on a smartphone application designed to alert users to possible COVID-19 exposures, and new data obtained by The Canadian Press shows the results didn't live up to expectations. Ottawa's COVID Alert ...
City council votes to repeal masking bylaw ahead of this week’s Calgary Stampede
CALGARY — City council in Calgary has voted to repeal its masking bylaw, days before the start of the Stampede. Last week, the provincial government lifted most of its COVID-19 public health restrictions but Calgary left its masking bylaw in place
Manitoba ahead of vaccine targets, but data shows COVID hit some communities harder
WINNIPEG — Manitoba hit a key COVID-19 milestone Monday as the number of people 12 and older and fully vaccinated reached 50 per cent. The figure for people with at least one dose was just shy of 75 per cent. The provincial
Quebec reduces interval between COVID-19 vaccine doses to four weeks
MONTREAL — Health Minister Christian Dubé said that starting Tuesday, Quebecers will be able to book a second dose of COVID-19 vaccine within as little as four weeks from their first dose. The minimum interval between first doses and booster shots
OPEC oil alliance at impasse between Saudi Arabia and UAE
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The OPEC oil cartel led by Saudi Arabia and other allied producing countries resumed talks Monday amid a standoff with the United Arab Emirates over how much to raise production levels with demand still
Census takers worry that apartment renters were undercounted
Census taker Linda Rothfield's government-issued iPhone kept directing her back to apartments in San Francisco that she already knew were vacant. When she did find apartments that were occupied, she was sometimes turned away because of the pandemic. ...
France, Germany, China push to revive Iran nuclear talks
PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed there is “a window of opportunity” now for talks aimed at reviving the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, the French presidency said.
The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada for Monday, July 5, 2021
The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times eastern): 9:46 p.m. Yukon's top doctor is reporting 40 new cases of COVID-19 between Friday and Monday noon. Dr. Brendan Hanley says this brings the total number of active infections to 149....
Bellicose ex-governor LePage launches another run in Maine
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Former two-term Republican Gov. Paul LePage, who liked to compare himself to former President Donald Trump, formally announced Monday that he's launching a campaign for a third term.
Galesburg, an American crossroad, tunes out feuding Congress
GALESBURG, Ill. (AP) — Pickup trucks and cars rumble north across East Main Street's railroad tracks into Galesburg, Illinois, past the red-brick Lindstrom's appliances building that has occupied the same corner for more than 100 years.
