Tag Archives: Health

MONTREAL - A group of Quebec parents has lost the first round of a legal fight to force the province to provide an online learning option for families worried about sending children to school ami...

OTTAWA - Canada's chief public health officer says she won't get ahead of an independent review of the early-warning unit in her agency that's meant to flag potential pandemics. Dr. Theresa ...

OTTAWA - Canadians appear to still have solid faith in doctors and scientists nearly six months into the COVID-19 pandemic, but opinions of educators have not fared so well. A new survey done for Proo...

OTTAWA - The Canadian legal team for an imprisoned Iranian human-rights lawyer is calling for federal sanctions and United Nations intervention as she wages a life-threatening hunger strike entering i...

Plans are being made across the country for how to safely send students back to school in the fall as the COVID-19 pandemic continues. Here is a look at what the various provinces have said ...

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 7:37 p.m. EDT on Sept. 8, 2020: There are 133,747 confirmed cases in Canada. _ Quebec: 63,876 confirmed (including 5,770 deaths, 56,162 r...

WASHINGTON - The prospect of a vaccine to shield Americans from coronavirus infection emerged Monday as a point of contention in the White House race as President Donald Trump accused Democrats of "di...

Saskatchewan health officials reported 11 new cases of COVID-19 on Monday, as well as one recovery. The new cases are spread out throughout the province. There are two in the far northwest region, two...

OTTAWA - Canada's chief public health doctor says a slow but steady increase in the number of people testing positive for COVID-19 is a cause for concern. Dr. Theresa Tam says today the aver...

CALGARY - A central Alberta doctor says some clinics have stopped allowing patients to carry bags and backpacks since a family doctor was killed on the job last month. Dr. Walter Reynolds, a 45-year-o...