Tag Archives: health

CAMPBELLTON, N.B. - People from a city in northern New Brunswick lined up outside testing centres Saturday, anxiously waiting to find out if they've been exposed to COVID-19. Health official...

OTTAWA - The United Nations has confirmed that the election for non-permanent seats on the Security Council - which pits Canada against Norway and Ireland - will take place in June unde...

Provinces have been releasing plans for easing restrictions that were put in place to limit the spread of COVID-19. Here is what some of the provinces have announced so far: Newfoundland and Labrador ...

The latest numbers of confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 6:35 p.m. ET on May 30, 2020: There are 90,190 confirmed and presumptive cases in Canada. _ Quebec: 50,651 confirmed (inc...

TORONTO - The mayor of a small town in eastern Quebec, just across the river from New Brunswick, says residents are breathing a small sigh of relief. Pascal Bujold says people in Pointe-a-la...

OTTAWA - The Senate is staying closed for two more weeks, not planning to sit again until June 16. The upper chamber is following the lead of the House of Commons, which doesn't have a ...

EDMONTON - Alberta is planning to distribute 20 million non-medical masks for free at hundreds of drive-thru fast-food restaurants. Health Minister Tyler Shandro says it's one more way to keep Al...

OTTAWA - Canada's Indigenous services minister says Ottawa won't dictate terms to First Nations on holding ceremonies and powwows during a pandemic. "If you believe in self-determination of Indigenous...

OTTAWA - Canada and four other countries are still trying to pressure Iran to release the flight recorders from its Jan. 8 shootdown of a Ukrainian passenger plane, Transport Minister Marc Garneau sai...

OTTAWA - The federal government has announced the details of $650 million in additional funding to help Indigenous communities cope with the pandemic, after months of First Nations, Inuit and Metis le...