Tag Archives: health

OTTAWA - The number of deaths in long-term care facilities is expected to keep rising, even as the growth of overall COVID-19 cases begins to slow, Canada's top public health official warned...

OTTAWA - Rapid COVID-19 testing devices are on the way to remote and Indigenous communities where access and timely results have been hindered by distance and limited resources, officia...

The latest news on the COVID-19 global pandemic (all times Eastern): 5:46 p.m. Alberta is reporting 81 new cases of COVID-19. The province's chief medical health officer Dr. Deena Hinshaw sa...

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected every province and territory. Canada's chief public health officer and her provincial counterparts are encouraging people to wash their hands, give ea...

The latest numbers of confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 7:24 p.m. ET on April 13, 2020: There are 25,682 confirmed and presumptive cases in Canada. _ Quebec: 13,557 confirm...

Federal officials are due to provide an update on measures for seniors, home care and temporary foreign workers during the COVID-19 crisis today. The Prime Minister's Office says the news wi...

VANCOUVER - Forty years after Terry Fox began his Marathon of Hope, his brother says the message he shared is particularly poignant as Canadians deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. The Port Coquitlam, B....

MONTREAL - The Quebec coroner's office announced Sunday it will investigate the deaths of dozens of seniors at a private long-term care facility west of Montreal linked t...

OTTAWA - It was last on a list of eight threat scenarios, but the danger of a global pandemic made the cut when the Liberal government issued a national security policy in 2004. With the then-recent S...

The latest news on the COVID-19 global pandemic (all times Eastern): 6:45 p.m. Alberta is reporting four new deaths from COVID-19. The province says two were residents at the McKenzie Towne ...