Tag Archives: Health

Health-care providers are warning of an unseen toll COVID-19 could take if people die because they are too afraid to go to an emergency room for serious health issues unrelated to the pandemic. "...

The latest numbers of confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 7 p.m. on April 18, 2020: There are 33,383 confirmed and presumptive cases in Canada. _ Quebec: 17,521 confirmed (includi...

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected every province and territory. Canada's chief public health officer and her provincial counterparts are encouraging people to wash their hands, give ea...

Canadian officials acknowledged some regions of the country could be closer to re-opening parts of the economy than others, but continued to stress a careful approach as the b...

OTTAWA - Two adult patients with COVID-19 were treated in a Montreal pediatric intensive care unit this week - a sign of how hospitals are stretching to accommodate the pandemic. Hospitals in som...

VANCOUVER - Advocates for the rights of women and children in British Columbia are shining a light on the rise in family violence during the COVID-19 pandemic. B.C. Human Rights Commissioner...

OTTAWA - The demand for toilet paper in Canada has skyrocketed - increasing by 241 per cent during the COVID-19 pandemic. Derek Nighbor, president of the Forest Products Association of Canada, reveale...

COVID-19 has sickened thousands of Canadians from coast to coast and killed hundreds. "While we can start to become numb to these numbers as time goes on, each one of these individuals had a life that...

OTTAWA - The federal government should consider rent relief for the precariously housed, or risk a wave of Canadians becoming homeless in the wake of COVID-19, advocates told MPs Friday. Prime Ministe...

CALGARY - Rita Owen died in a Calgary care home three weeks shy of her 92nd birthday never knowing she'd contracted COVID-19. "At her age, I just wanted her to enjoy what time she had and not worry," ...