Tag Archives: health

EDMONTON - Alberta is launching a voluntary mobile app to expand contact tracing for COVID-19 to help reduce the spread of the novel coronavirus. It's believed to be the first of its kind in Nort...

OTTAWA - Federal officials say the next two weeks will be crucial in trying to determine the scope and severity of the spread of COVID-19 in First Nations communities. Cases of the virus have begun to...

The gradual reopening of Canada's economy will not mean business as usual for the country's public transit agencies. Despite the fact that a slowly growing number of workers will make their way b...

WASHINGTON - The United States is keeping Canada and its plans to overhaul its drug-pricing system on a "watch list" of countries deemed a peril to American intellectual property rights...

The latest news on the COVID-19 global pandemic (all times Eastern): 7:12 p.m. Royal assent has been given to legislation authorizing $9 billion worth of emergency benefits for students who ...

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:   ...

The latest numbers of confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 7:03 p.m. on May 1, 2020: There are 55,061 confirmed and presumptive cases in Canada. _ Quebec: 28,648 confirmed (includi...

TORONTO - Canada took further baby steps toward post-pandemic normalcy on Friday as Atlantic provinces began easing rigid restrictions imposed to curb the COVID-19 scourge, while Quebec's death toll c...

OTTAWA - China's envoy in Ottawa says that while the United States is "smearing" his country over COVID-19, the People's Republic appreciates Canada's "cool-headed" co-operation on battling the pandem...

Provinces have begun to release 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:  &nb...