Tag Archives: Health

OTTAWA - The federal government is pondering whether it needs to invoke the Emergencies Act to give itself additional powers to grapple with the rapid spread of the COVID-19 virus. Deputy Prime Minist...

Saskatchewan residents are still running into trouble dialing into the 811 Healthline. Part of the Saskatchewan Health Authority’s pandemic plan announced over the weekend was increasing resourc...

MONTREAL - A mother with two children at home, offering to work on evenings and weekends. A senior citizen, hoping to correct misinformation about COVID-19. A newly retired nurse, calling up...

POZNAN, Poland - When my wife and I left Canada on March 3 destined for her ailing mother's hospital bedside, we never imagined that we would face the prospect of being in Europe and watchin...

MONTREAL - Quebec Premier Francois Legault on Tuesday implored teens and young adults in the province to abide by extraordinary rules forbidding social gatherings amid the biggest spike yet in the num...

Alcoholics Anonymous is temporarily closing many of its meetings across Canada in an effort to curb the spread of COVID-19. AA, which typically meets in churches, legion halls, and other public meetin...

OTTAWA - The Canadian Army is cancelling one of its most important training exercises as military commanders seek to protect the Canadian Armed Forces from the COVID-19 pandemic. The decision to cance...

The latest numbers of confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 8:30 p.m. ET on March 17, 2020: _ Ontario: 189 confirmed (including one death and 5 resolved) _ British Columbi...

MONTREAL - Quebec's public security minister has warned that due to the COVID-19 outbreak, the province will not be able to open emergency shelters in the event of spring flooding this year. "The curr...

FRANKFURT - Volkswagen said Tuesday it would close most of its European plants for two weeks due to uncertainty about demand for cars and supplies of parts amid the virus outbreak and said it wasn't p...