Tag Archives: health

Quebec is closing all schools, junior colleges, universities and daycare centres in the province for two weeks beginning Monday to reduce the spread of COVID-19. Speaking to reporters in Quebec C...

OTTAWA - The Canadian Armed Forces is developing contingency plans to keep COVID-19 from affecting its ability to defend the country and continue its missions overseas amid concerns potential adversar...

The latest numbers of confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases in Canada as of March 13, 2020: - Ontario: 79 confirmed (five cases resolved.) - British Columbia: 64 confirmed, including ...

Canadian researchers are making multiple breakthroughs in the fight against COVID-19, as a biotech firm take the firsts steps towards a vaccine and a hospital in Ottawa opened a drive-t...

TORONTO - A Toronto organization that planned to honour the lives of those who died in a plane crash in Iran has cancelled in-person events for its celebration of the Persian New Year. Tirga...

The latest news on the COVID-19 global pandemic (all times Eastern):   11:10 p.m. Ontario is barring personal visits to inmates in its adult provincial jails to try to keep COVID-19 out...

Animal lovers may be wondering if their pets can be carriers of the new coronavirus, but experts say there's no evidence they can transmit the disease to humans. Prof. Scott Weese of the Universi...

VANCOUVER - Drive-thru clinics testing people for COVID-19 in South Korea could serve as a model for Canada, where the spread of the virus is comparatively limited but increasing to the poin...

OTTAWA - The House of Commons and Senate are shutting down for five weeks to help prevent parliamentarians from contributing to the spread of COVID-19, after an extraordinary ...

TORONTO - The suspension of Parliament, billions of dollars in extra federal spending, and recommendations against leaving the country were among extraordinary steps public and private secto...