Tag Archives: Health

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 4:00 a.m. ET on Friday, May 28, 2021. There are 1,371,073 confirmed cases in Canada. _ Canada: 1,371,073 confirmed cases (42,104 active, ...

EDMONTON - The Calgary Stampede, increasingly touted by Alberta Premier Jason Kenney as the brass ring for defeating COVID-19, won't look like the whoop-up of years past if it goes ahead, says the cit...

VICTORIA - British Columbia's top doctor says she's set an end-of-summer target for everyone in the province to receive their second dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. Dr. Bonnie Henry also announced Thursda...

OTTAWA - Canada's requirement for air travellers to quarantine for up to three days at a hotel is an expensive, inconsistent policy that contains loopholes and should be ditched, says a new report fro...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - California is giving away the country's largest pot of vaccine prize money, $116.5 million, in an attempt to get millions more inoculated before the most populous U.S. state fully r...

WASHINGTON - Canadian beef producers are finally able to turn the page on the mad cow era, the federal agriculture minister said Thursday after an international animal-health watchdog gave the industr...

MONTREAL - An Indigenous woman who was mocked at a Quebec hospital succumbed to a rare heart ailment and could have been saved, a Quebec coroner's inquest heard Thursday. Joyce Echaquan, a 37-year-old...

WASHINGTON - The United States has made no decisions about when or how to reopen the border with Canada, the White House said Thursday in response to reports suggesting American patience with the clos...

MONTREAL - A Mohawk man and his wife said Thursday they are filing a human rights complaint against a Quebec hospital after the man was allegedly discharged from the facility wearing barely any clothe...

Members of the military are being deployed to Manitoba where surging COVID-19 cases have overwhelmed hospitals, while the prime minister has put his support behind international efforts to understand ...