Tag Archives: health

CALGARY - Some legal experts are warning that the COVID-19 pandemic will have lasting effects on the Canadian justice system. Among some court changes across the country, Alberta's Court of Queen's Be...

VANCOUVER - Homeless people staying in close quarters at shelters, tent cities and warming centres are especially at risk for COVID-19, says a community advocate who is working to ensure&nbs...

NEW TRIPOLI, Pa. - A Pennsylvania distillery owner who grew increasingly angry as he saw the skyrocketing price of hand sanitizer has decided to do something about it: He's temporarily converting his ...

OTTAWA - WestJet says it is suspending all commercial international and transborder flights for a 30-day period to help control the spread of COVID-19, effective March 23. The Calgary-based airline sa...

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada has postponed until at least June hearing a constitutional challenge of the federal government's carbon tax. The top court was to have heard the challenge, la...

NEW YORK - Six people at CBS News have tested positive for coronavirus, including a correspondent stationed in Italy, as media organizations fought Monday against the same epidemic they're charged wit...

RIO DE JANEIRO - Since the outbreak of the new coronavirus, nations have begun imposing travel restrictions and closing their borders to contain the pandemic's spread. The latest attempt to impose con...

WASHINGTON - Racing to stall an expected surge of coronavirus cases, the White House on Monday released a series of sweeping guidelines that for the next 15 days will temporarily rewrite the norms of ...

SAN CRISTOBAL, Venezuela - Nicols Maduro's government on Monday banned gasoline sales in two states as part of a broader lock-down to stem panic buying by Venezuelans accustomed to hoarding basic good...

MEXICO CITY - President Andrs Manuel Lpez Obrador said Monday he will suspend his tours of the countryside and intimate, person-to-person interactions with large numbers of supporters when his coronav...