Category Archives: Health
Ontario reports over 6,000 COVID-19 cases over two days as ‘shutdown’ takes effect
Ontario's daily COVID-19 case count surged back up over the 3,000 mark on Saturday, hours after a new provincewide "shutdown" took effect in a move meant to bring soaring infection rates back under control. The measures, introduced to combat what Premi...
‘Caring for others:’ Mosque, synagogue advise Alberta church to follow COVID-19 rules
EDMONTON — Leaders with a mosque and a synagogue in Edmonton have a message for an area Christian church that has been routinely holding services that violate COVID-19 restrictions. While they sympathize with GraceLife Church's desire to bring worshipp...
Fighting human trafficking ‘more urgent’ amid pandemic: country star Paul Brandt
CALGARY — Advocates in the fight against human trafficking say the financial hardship and isolation of the COVID-19 pandemic have helped perpetrators find new targets. "Traffickers are taking advantage of this time where vulnerable people are at home a...
Officials seek to convince skeptical public of vaccine safety
OTTAWA — Canada's deputy chief public health officer wouldn't hesitate to roll up his sleeve if the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine were offered to him tomorrow, he said this week. Dr. Howard Njoo, along with chief public health officer Dr. Theresa Tam,
Essential workers worried Ontario’s latest COVID-19 ‘shutdown’ won’t protect them
Some essential workers fear the latest "shutdown" Premier Doug Ford is imposing on Ontario will do little to protect them from COVID-19. The measures announced Thursday shutter personal care services and restaurant dining rooms across the province, bu...
Essential workers worried Ontario’s latest COVID-19 ‘shutdown’ won’t protect them
Some essential workers fear the latest "shutdown" Premier Doug Ford is imposing on Ontario will do little to protect them from COVID-19. The measures announced Thursday shutter personal care services and restaurant dining rooms across the province, bu...
Canadians in COVID-19 hot spots face more restrictions as cases keep rising
OTTAWA — Three of the provinces hardest-hit by COVID-19 spent their second pandemic-era Good Friday either adjusting to or bracing for stricter public health measures meant to bring resurgent case counts back in check. Three regions of Quebec, includin...
COVID-19 cases continue to spike in Quebec with 1,314 new infections, five deaths
MONTREAL — Quebec's public health institute says the majority of new COVID-19 cases in the province likely involve variants of concern as the government reported the highest number of new daily cases since January. The Institut national de sante publi...
High vaccination rates decreasing COVID-19 cases in Indigenous communities
OTTAWA — The number of active COVID-19 cases in First Nations communities has declined by 80 per cent since mid-January thanks to the high uptake of vaccines, says the top doctor at Indigenous Services Canada. Dr. Tom Wong, the department's chief
A look at COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada on Friday, April 2, 2021
The latest numbers on COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada as of 4:00 a.m. ET on Friday, April 2, 2021. In Canada, the provinces are reporting 203,268 new vaccinations administered for a total of 5,892,748 doses given. Nationwide, 695,046 people or 1.8 per