Tag Archives: Health

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 6:54 p.m. EDT on Oct. 16, 2020: There are 194,109 confirmed cases in Canada. _ Quebec: 91,018 confirmed (including 6,018 deaths, 76,512 r...

OTTAWA - The federal government is ready to use its financial leverage over the health system to fight anti-Indigenous racism in health care, Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller says. He says tha...

The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times Eastern): 6:25 p.m. B.C. has recorded its first confirmed case of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in a child after antibody testing show...

First Nations leaders and the family of an Indigenous teen who was found dead in a group home in British Columbia last month are calling for a public inquiry into his death.  An aunt of the 17-ye...

Tougher restrictions are coming to Winnipeg as Manitoba's COVID-19 caseload ticks upward, while Ontario's premier is urging gym enthusiasts in hard-hit regions not to venture elsewhere to work out.&nb...

MONTREAL - Quebec Premier Francois Legault says kids will be able to go door to door and collect candy this Halloween -- as long as they trick or treat with members of their households. Adults, howeve...

TORONTO - A new Canadian study has found that over the first five months of 2020, government and corporate approaches to COVID-19 went from taking decisive, collective action against the pandemic to e...

NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. - A British Columbia Supreme Court judge has dismissed an application by two parents who wanted the province to implement tougher COVID-19 safety measures before schools reopened...

OTTAWA - Statistics Canada says Canadians have been spending more time and money online since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.  The agency found in a survey conducted last month that 44 pe...

MONTREAL - Health officials in several provinces were scrambling to limit gatherings and outbreaks on Wednesday, including one at a cycling studio in Hamilton that has now been linked to 69 cases of C...