Tag Archives: Health

WHITEHORSE - Coronavirus concerns have led to the cancellation of the Arctic Winter Games. The games, which celebrate northern sports and culture from around the circumpolar world, were to begin March...

WHITEHORSE - Coronavirus concerns have led to the cancellation of the Arctic Winter Games. The games, which celebrate northern sports and culture from around the circumpolar world, were to begin March...

TORONTO - Tim Hortons says it is scrapping plans for its upcoming Roll Up The Rim contest due to the novel coronavirus outbreak. The coffee-and-doughnut chain is removing all of the contest's paper cu...

VANCOUVER - British Columbia has declared a COVID-19 outbreak at a long-term care home in North Vancouver after two residents were diagnosed with the virus. Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry ...

MONTREAL - Experts say the novel coronavirus could force millions of people across the globe to work from home, posing potential challenges and benefits. Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay, a business prof...

OTTAWA - Canadian researchers are developing a "lab-in-a-box" that could make it cheaper and faster to diagnose cases of the novel coronavirus, particularly in remote areas of the world. The project r...

OTTAWA - With a slowly, but steadily rising number of COVID-19 cases in Canada, health officials continue to stress that the risk posed by the novel coronavirus in this country remains low. ...

OTTAWA - The Inuit Circumpolar Council says if the novel coronavirus spreads to the North, communities in Canada, Alaska and Greenland are at a much higher risk of exposure because of a chronic l...

The latest news on the novel coronavirus and the illness dubbed COVID-19 (all times Eastern): 11:40 a.m. Toronto's top public-health doctor says the latest patient diagnosed with COVID-19 there used p...

SAN FRANCISCO - Passengers on a cruise ship off the California coast were instructed to stay in their cabins as they awaited test results Friday that could show whether the coronavirus is circulating ...