Tag Archives: Health

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 ...

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 6:17 p.m. EDT on Aug. 26, 2020: There are 126,417 confirmed cases in Canada. _ Quebec: 61,945 confirmed (including 5,747 deaths, 54,922 r...

OTTAWA - Justin Trudeau will visit a school in Toronto today to announce $2 billion in additional funding to help provinces and territories ensure that kids can safely return to class this fall. The m...