Tag Archives: Health

OTTAWA - Less than 24 hours after Canada's largest airline announced plans for a massive downsizing of its workforce due to COVID-19, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he's willing to see what can be...

The latest numbers of confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 6:15 p.m. on May 16, 2020: There are 75,864 confirmed and presumptive cases in Canada. _ Quebec: 42,183 confirmed (includ...

VANCOUVER - A rising death toll from overdoses in B.C. during the COVID-19 pandemic has advocates, government officials and health-care workers concerned about a public health emergency that has been&...

For months, their contents have sat locked up in the stale hallway air in schools across the country. The jackets, books and gym shoes - along with more perishable items - were left beh...

WASHINGTON - Canada and the United States are both "very comfortable" with their mutual ban on non-essential cross-border travel, but Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland won't say if the...

OTTAWA - A federal wage subsidy for employees in businesses hit hard by COVID-19 will last at least through the summer and the federal government is asking companies to rehire laid off staff - many of...

OTTAWA - The Canadian Forces say five members working in long-term care homes during the COVID-19 pandemic have tested positive for the illness. Four of them are in Quebec and one is in Ontario. ...

OTTAWA - Provinces looking to reopen their economies will need to scale up and co-ordinate testing and contact-tracing to contain future outbreaks of COVID-19, says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Duri...

OTTAWA - An all-party committee is recommending the House of Commons hold additional virtual sittings to conduct all its regular business - including voting - during the COVID-19 pandemic.  ...

The latest news on the COVID-19 global pandemic (all times Eastern): 6:50 p.m. The B.C. government has announced five more deaths from COVID-19, bringing the province's death toll ...