BRANDON, MAN.—The union representing employees at a pork processing plant in Manitoba is calling for Maple Leaf to cease production after three more workers tested positive for COVID-19.
A boating trip involving multiple families is behind a spike COVID-19 in southwestern Ontario as the Ministry of Health reports a fourth day in a row with fewer than 100 new cases across the province.
ST. JOHN’S, N.L.—Newfoundland and Labrador’s chief medical officer of health is set to take the stand today in a legal challenge of a travel ban limiting entry to the province she ordered in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
SEOUL, KOREA, REPUBLIC OF—North Korea is quarantining thousands of people and shipping food and other aid to a southern city locked down over coronavirus worries, officials said, as the country’s response to a suspected case reinforces doubt about its long-standing claim to be virus-free.
By now we’ve all seen videos and photos of packed house parties, beaches and even concerts full of young people not physically distancing as if the pandemic is over.
The latest coronavirus news from Canada and around the world Thursday. This file will be updated throughout the day. Web links to longer stories if available.
Jordan Yuill was one month shy of his 35th birthday when his life ended on Aug. 6, 2018.The young man's death was under investigation at the time by the Criminal Investigation Branch (CIB), conducted by OPP Det. Staff Sgt. Brad Collins. At tha
Waterfront cottage sale volumes and prices in Peterborough County have significantly increased since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the owner of Ball Real Estate Inc. brokerage.
Asking someone to save you is tricky, even if it works. For instance, on Wednesday, Canada’s federal government signed deals with Pfizer and Moderna for potential COVID-19 vaccines. But even if Canada bets correctly, a vaccine likely wouldn’t be manufactured and distributed here before the middle of next year.
In the movies it happens overnight. An American doctor hunkers down in a lab with a crate full of monkeys and by morning it’s ready: the vaccine that will save the world.
The Canada-wide COVID-19 contact tracing app, which launched Aug. 3, has been downloaded 1.3 million times so far, or by about 3.42 per cent of the country’s population.
Entrepreneurs Jordan Bitove and Paul Rivett have officially sealed the deal and taken over Torstar, the company which publishes the Star, six other dailies and 70 community newspapers.