Tag Archives: health

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 6:11 p.m. EDT on Oct. 1, 2020: There are 160,542 confirmed cases in Canada. _ Quebec: 75,221 confirmed (including 5,850 deaths, 63,144 re...

OTTAWA - The Liberal government is promising to finally spend $10 billion that has sat in the accounts of its infrastructure financing agency for years, hoping to create thousands of post-pandemic job...

MONTREAL - The executive director of the Native Women's Shelter of Montreal says racism against Indigenous people is so common at local hospitals that her organization escorts clients to medical visit...

OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole used his first speech in the House of Commons as party leader to lambaste the Liberal government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.  In his formal repl...

OTTAWA - Health Canada has given the green light to a rapid test for COVID-19 that could be deployed to long-term care homes and schools to take pressure off provincial testing systems. But neither th...

Vehicles lined up more than three kilometres along a rural Manitoba road on the last Sunday afternoon of September as their occupants waited to grab a traditional Ukrainian feast in a brown takeout ba...

MONTREAL - Quebec's premier promised to crack down on those who violate public health orders and Ontario released sobering COVID-19 projections as leaders of Canada's two hardest-hit provinces on Wedn...

VANCOUVER - The courts have a definite role in helping to determine if Canada has breached the constitutional rights of 15 youths who are suing the government for its alleged failures on climate chang...

OTTAWA - After being rushed through the House of Commons in a single day, a bill authorizing new benefits for workers impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic has hit a speed bump in the Senate. Sen. Marc Go...

OTTAWA - The federal Conservatives want MPs to create an anti-corruption committee to investigate the WE Charity issue.Tory ethics critic Michael Barrett says the new forum would press for answers to ...