Tag Archives: Health

OTTAWA - Canada's police chiefs are calling for decriminalization of personal possession of illicit drugs as the best way to battle substance abuse and addiction. The Canadian Associati...

TORONTO - Questions over whether thousands of international students could be deported from the U.S. under a new Trump administration policy are causing consternation among sc...

OTTAWA - Canada is ill-prepared for a second wave of COVID-19, says a Senate committee, calling on the federal Liberals to deliver a plan by Labour Day to help people and communities hit har...

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 6:18 p.m. on July 9, 2020: There are 106,805 confirmed cases in Canada. _ Quebec: 56,216 confirmed (including 5,609 deaths, 25,616 resolv...

An emergency dispatcher picks up a call from a mother who says her adult son is angry and breaking things at home, but he may not react well to police officers. In most cities, armed officers would be...

Determined to reopen America's schools despite coronavirus worries, President Donald Trump threatened Wednesday to hold back federal money if school districts don't bring their students back in the fa...

HUNTSVILLE, Texas - A Texas inmate received lethal injection Wednesday evening for fatally shooting an 82-year-old man nearly three decades ago, ending a five-month delay of executions in the nation's...

AUSTIN, Texas - With a cough and shortness of breath, it took Austin, Texas, resident Sam Lee three tries to get a COVID-19 test. The first time, he showed up an hour before the public testing site wa...

JACKSON, Miss. - At least 26 legislators and 10 others who work at Mississippi's Capitol have tested positive for the coronavirus, a public health official said Wednesday, as the governor implored res...

In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Canada's chief medical officers were hailed as the nation's rising stars. Their regular public briefings made them familiar faces and household na...