Tag Archives: Health

CALGARY - The union representing Canadian correctional officers says a program making clean needles available to inmates at a number of prisons across the country won't be expanding to new instit...

YELLOWKNIFE - The Northwest Territories reported what is believed to be the first case of COVID-19 in Canada's North on Saturday as it closed its doors to those from outside the territory. The patient...

The latest news on the COVID-19 global pandemic (all times Eastern): 9:20 p.m. Metro is raising wages for grocery store and distribution centre workers by $2 per hour during the COVID-1...

OTTAWA - As the federal government scrambles to bring Canadians home from foreign countries that have closed their borders and airports, provinces and territories are wrestling with what limitati...

VANCOUVER - Dirty money has taken on a new meaning as the war on the novel coronavirus ramps up. Some retailers are taking more precautions when accepting cash during the pandemic, says Karl Littler, ...

The latest numbers of confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 8:19 p.m. on March 21, 2020: There are 1331 confirmed and presumptive cases in Canada. _ British Columbia: 424 confirmed ...

LOS ANGELES - Netflix said Friday it is establishing a $100 million relief fund for workers in the worldwide creative community affected by the coronavirus-caused halt of most film and television prod...

MONTREAL - Quebec's lottery corporation says it will soon sell lottery tickets only online amid fears of the novel coronavirus. A spokesman for Loto-Quebec said on Twitter today that it...

VICTORIA - The novel coronavirus shut down the respiratory therapy program at Fanshawe College but that didn't stop the school from supplying much needed frontline equipment to fight COVID-19. Pr...

A study by Toronto epidemiologists suggests that Canada's largest province could run out of intensive care beds and ventilators by late April, even assuming a sharp drop in the cur...