Tag Archives: health

OTTAWA - Transplant centres across the country have massively scaled back organ transplants as hospitals try to make sure they are able to accommodate COVID-19 cases. Living-donor surgeries have large...

The daughter of a Nova Scotia man relying on a ventilator to breathe wants Canadians to know that COVID-19 can deny loved ones the ability to hold one another in their ti...

OTTAWA - Two inmates have tested positive for COVID-19 at a maximum-security prison in Quebec, the first confirmed cases involving prisoners in a federal institution. The Correctional Service of ...

OTTAWA - The crews of two Royal Canadian Navy vessels were ordered to sequester in a Halifax hotel for two weeks as the federal government announced Monday that it is ready to mobilize up to 24,000 Ca...

WASHINGTON - As President Donald Trump slowly comes to grips with his country's grim prognosis for COVID-19, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau conceded Monday he's taking a measure of comfort fr...

An Ottawa woman stranded at sea for more than a week on a cruise ship where four passengers have died said Monday she's "had it" after being moved to another ship that's en route to Florida. Cath...

OTTAWA - Businesses of any size that have seen sharp and sudden drops in revenues due to COVID-19 will be eligible for a new federal wage subsidy program, the federal government said Monday, just...

OTTAWA - As new restrictions came into effect barring people with symptoms of COVID-19 from planes and trains, ferry operators called for the federal government to ban such travellers from their vesse...

The latest news on the COVID-19 global pandemic (all times Eastern): 10:30 p.m. Ontario is closing all outdoor recreational amenities because of the COVID-19 outbreak. The province is issuin...

The latest numbers of confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 7:09 p.m. ET on March 30, 2020: There are 7,448 confirmed and presumptive cases in Canada. _ Quebec: 3,430 confirmed...