Tag Archives: Health

MORLEY, Alta. - The windswept foothills of Alberta's Rocky Mountains are the setting for a pilot project using drones to deliver medical supplies and personal protective equipment to remote communitie...

OTTAWA - The fraught, often frightening year of 2020 may be over, but experts warn the dawn of a new one doesn't leave behind the troubles caused by the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Patients ...

EDMONTON - Alberta's municipal affairs minister apologized Friday for vacationing in Hawaii, despite recommendations to stay home, explaining that she wanted to keep up a 17-year family tradition of s...

MONTREAL - A baby born in a Montreal hospital may have been the first Canadian newborn of 2021. The Maisonneuve-Rosemont hospital said Friday that a boy named Arthur was born precisely at midnight. Th...

OTTAWA - Dolson Marketing is recalling a non-dairy whip topping from the marketplace over milk not declared on the label. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says the recall impacts customers in Ontar...

MONTREAL - Quebec is accelerating its vaccination rollout by inoculating as many people as possible instead of holding back doses to be given later as booster shots. "All the vaccines that we have rec...

OTTAWA - Officials believed in late summer that an economic recovery would not magically happen if lockdowns and public health restrictions disappeared, a newly obtained federal document shows.The int...

MONTREAL - An ultra-Orthodox Jewish group says its schools aren't violating a Quebec government decree by staying open and it's accusing the education minister of using the Hasidic community as a scap...

OTTAWA - Anyone arriving in Canada starting Jan. 7 will need to have a negative COVID-19 test before boarding a flight, the federal government said Thursday as the Liberals urged vacationers abroad to...

The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (All times Eastern): 6:30 p.m. British Columbia's provincial health officer says people need to hold the line on measures to contain the spread of CO...