Tag Archives: health

The Regina Police Service (RPS) is adding medical personnel to its payroll. In a media release Tuesday, the RPS announced that it has hired two full-time paramedics to be assigned to the detention cel...

OTTAWA - The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times eastern): 7:50 p.m. B.C. health officials are reporting 446 new COVID-19 cases and nine deaths. They also reported a new health-c...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has conducted a small shuffle of his ministers before holing up later in the day for a cabinet retreat to plot strategy for the resumption of Parliament. The shu...

The latest numbers on COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada as of 4 a.m. ET on Tuesday Jan. 12, 2021. In Canada, the provinces are reporting 39,116 new vaccinations administered for a total of 359,054 doses...

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 8:30 p.m. ET on Monday Jan. 11, 2021. There are 668,181 confirmed cases in Canada. _ Canada: 668,181 confirmed cases (82,522 active, 568,...

WINNIPEG - Vaccine distribution has begun on a handful of Manitoba reserves as a task force reports that 61 per cent of the people with active COVID-19 in the province are First Nations.Manitoba's Fir...

IQALUIT, Nunavut - After two weeks with no new cases of COVID-19, Nunavut says it will lift lockdowns in the last two communities that were still facing strict public health measures. But Dr. Michael ...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will host a virtual cabinet retreat to plot strategy for the resumption of Parliament later this month in the midst of the raging COVID-19 pandemic.The retreat w...

OTTAWA - Rights advocates and researchers are sounding an alarm about COVID-19 cases in Canadian prisons and jails, saying the numbers in recent weeks have surpassed the total during the first nine mo...

OTTAWA - The federal government has awarded international accounting firm Deloitte a $16-million contract to build a national computer system to manage the COVID-19 vaccine rollout. The contract was r...