Knowing that she’ll be spending Christmas alone, Sjoukje van Beek, a graduate student at the University of Victoria, recently tried to make her studio apartment feel a bit more homey. She went to the thrift store, picked up one four-dollar and one six-dollar Christmas tree, plus some festive garland.
Canada is poised to be the next country to deploy mass rapid testing for COVID-19 in a gambit that Harvard epidemiologist Michael Mina says could immediately stem the spread of the virus.
The latest coronavirus news from Canada and around the world Sunday. This file will be updated throughout the day. Web links to longer stories if available.
Simon Nisbet was desperate. Over the course of a month, he had watched his mother, Doreen Nisbet, go from a healthy and sharp 89-year-old to a confused and unresponsive shell of her former self.
Fearing the guard would raise the alarm if left untended, the four masked gunmen tried first to tear a white doctor’s gown into strips to tie him up, but the material was too tough. Then they tried a belt. Too short.
When Amna Alyass decided to apply to university, her father and sister took her aside and, with earnest faces, explained why they felt she was setting herself up for failure.
As the head of a small congregation in rural Saskatchewan, Bradley Robertson hears his fair share of community chatter about COVID-19 — from those who fear the virus, to those who say it’s all blown out of proportion.
One out of 10 Canadians reported experiencing suicidal thoughts in September at the onset of the pandemic’s second wave — a staggering, unprecedented figure that experts say shows the extent of the prolonged mental health toll COVID-19 has on the population.
The latest coronavirus news from Canada and around the world Saturday. This file will be updated throughout the day. Web links to longer stories if available.
In the third week of October, I was on the phone chatting with a friend when my younger son Ibrahim came running down the stairs. “Mom, check your email! Someone in my class has COVID.”
Most identifiable donors to a wildly successful online fundraiser to the legal fund for a controversial Toronto restaurateur don’t live in Toronto — and some aren’t even in Canada.
Most identifiable donors to a wildly successful online fundraiser to the legal fund for a controversial Toronto restaurateur don’t live in Toronto — and some aren’t even in Canada.
OTTAWA—Residents and staff of long-term-care homes and Canadians over 80 should get the first shots of limited early supplies of a COVID-19 vaccine, according to revised recommendations issued by a federal advisory panel.
Police have identified Andrew Davis as the 27-year-old man fatally shot on the driveway of a Cayuga Road home in Six Nations of the Grand River Territory in the early evening of Nov. 30.
“In fact, Ontario is not in a crisis right now. You want to speak about who is in crisis? Have you taken a look at Alberta, where they’re doubling up patients in intensive care units? We’re not doing that in Ontario.” — Christine Elliott, Ontario minister of health, this week.