Tag Archives: Health

VANCOUVER - A group of COVID-19 modellers says the British Columbia government should increase physical distancing measures to help it more safely reopen schools next month. P...

CHILLIWACK, B.C. - Two fathers have filed an injunction application demanding the British Columbia government implement tougher safety measures aimed at protecting students from the ris...

HALIFAX - A COVID-19 vaccine-development partnership between Canada and a Chinese firm has been abandoned, ending clinical trials that were to be conducted by a Dalhousie University res...

More than half of Canadians with disabilities who participated in a crowdsourced survey are struggling to make ends meet because of the financial fallout of the COVID-19 crisis, a new report...

LOS ANGELES - Sean Penn has expanded his fight against the coronavirus beyond his own expectations. The Oscar winner's disaster relief organization CORE has gone from providing 6,500 tests in a couple...

OTTAWA - Elections Canada is bracing for an explosive increase in the number of Canadians who vote by mail should the country be plunged into an election during the COVID-19 pandemic. Public opin...

WASHINGTON - Canadians believe the COVID-19 crisis has brought their country together, while Americans blame the pandemic for worsening their cultural and political divide, a new international pu...

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 8:47 p.m. EDT on Aug. 27, 2020: There are 126,848 confirmed cases in Canada. _ Quebec: 62,056 confirmed (including 5,750 deaths, 55,008 r...

MONTREAL - Olga Maria Ruiz is reluctantly sending her 11-year-old daughter back to school in Montreal this year, armed with a few extra masks and reminders not to hug her classmates and teachers. As m...

VICTORIA - Back-to-school plans have been posted online for all 60 districts in British Columbia with an aim to offer all instruction in classrooms, but the teachers union says federal ...