Tag Archives: Health

OTTAWA - A health-care union in Quebec says workers dealing with at-risk patients are going without protective equipment in some cases, sparking criticism of the national emergency stockpile. The Fede...

Towns and municipal districts near provincial boundaries are asking campers and second-home owners to stay away this Easter weekend because of the COVID-19 pandemic. In the East Kootenays, a...

EDMONTON - The Alberta Medical Association has filed a lawsuit against the province over how the government pushed through changes in the way doctors can bill for their servic...

OTTAWA - Parliament will be recalled Saturday to vote on the Trudeau government's $73-billion emergency wage subsidy program to help businesses keep their employees on the payroll throu...

SIX NATIONS RESERVE, Ont. - A First Nation in southwestern Ontario says one of its members has died of COVID-19. Six Nations of the Grand River's elected chief, Mark Hill, says the community is grievi...

Dialing physical distancing measures up and down could be a way of sustaining the long-term fight against COVID-19 while not crushing the economy, a new study from Ontario researchers s...

OTTAWA - Canada could see the end of the first wave of the COVID-19 epidemic before autumn, according to federal projections, but only if strong physical distancing measures are strictly maintained th...

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - A "virtual choir" has brought students across Newfoundland and Labrador, along with professional musicians and politicians, together in song during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Newfou...

The latest news on the COVID-19 global pandemic (all times Eastern):   7:05 p.m. Yukon businesses that have experienced a 30 per cent drop in revenue due to COVID-19 and require immedia...

MONTREAL - Researchers from across Canada will collaborate on a vast clinical trial to study whether the plasma of recovered patients can be used to treat COVID-19. The study, the largest to date ever...