Tag Archives: health

OTTAWA - Statistics Canada says Canadians have been spending more time and money online since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.  The agency found in a survey conducted last month that 44 pe...

MONTREAL - Health officials in several provinces were scrambling to limit gatherings and outbreaks on Wednesday, including one at a cycling studio in Hamilton that has now been linked to 69 cases of C...

OTTAWA - Canada's deputy chief public health officer Dr. Howard Njoo says collecting better data can help in addressing inequalities the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed. Speaking at a virtual public hea...

The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times Eastern): --- 6:12 p.m. Health officials in B.C. are reporting 158 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday. No one else has died from the illne...

FREDERICTON - A civil rights group is threatening New Brunswick's government with a lawsuit to force the province to repeal its abortion-related legislation and to make the procedure more widely avail...

MONTREAL - Two weeks after Quebec imposed a partial lockdown on its two biggest cities, the number of new, daily COVID-19 infections reported by health authorities has stabilized.  The fact the d...

TORONTO - A new survey suggests the COVID-19 pandemic has the majority of Canadians re-thinking how - and where - they want to spend their golden years.  The National Institute on Ageing at Toron...

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 6:23 p.m. EDT on Oct. 14, 2020:There are 189,385 confirmed cases in Canada._ Quebec: 88,994 confirmed (including 5,977 deaths, 74,483 res...

WINNIPEG - A COVID-19 outbreak at a fly-in reserve in Manitoba and increasing infections in First Nations populations in the province has leaders worried.  "It's a wake-up call for all of us," sa...

OTTAWA - Green party Leader Annamie Paul is calling on the government to pass legislation proposed by Elections Canada on holding safe balloting before carrying on with byelections in two Toronto ridi...