Quebec reported Sunday that 242,714 people have now tested positive for COVID-19 in the province, and 9,055 people have died due to the disease since the start of the pandemic. Hospitalizations went down by 14.
Quebec's healthcare system is under enormous pressure. Lawyers Brigitte Brabant and Nathalie Johnson argue the province needs a public consultation on the government's proposed triage system to answer the unanswerable question of who deserves care.
Quebec City's renowned Winter Carnival will go on as planned, though with major changes due to the ongoing pandemic.
Montreal's libraries will loosen some restrictions put in place as COVID-19 public health measures as of Monday.
With thousands of Canadian businesses permanently closing because of the pandemic, many people are out of work and struggling to figure out how to make a career change.
Boxes of doses of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine arrived by plane in nine Cree communities in Quebec's James Bay region over the weekend and were immediately put to work to protect the community, the head of the regional health board said Sunday.
A young man was seriously injured in a head-on car crash in the Estrie town of Racine on Sunday.
The search for a snowmobiler who is missing in Rigaud, Monteregie, about 45 minutes west of Montreal, was partially suspended on Sunday night.
After the first major snowfall of the winter, snow removal began in Montreal Sunday at 7 a.m.
While critics of Canada's vaccine rollout continue to point to the more accelerated COVID-19 vaccine rollout in the United States, Dr. Anthony Fauci says he isn't planning on American life getting back to some semblance of normality any earlier than Canadian officials are aiming for.
A significant number of travellers who recently returned from sunny destinations to Montreal and Quebec City were exposed to the novel coronavirus because there was at least one confirmed case of COVID-19 on board their flight.
Beyond the lungs and heart, tobacco can also affect the digestive system, Quebec Council on Tobacco and Health (CQTS) says.
Phil Spector, the eccentric and revolutionary music producer who transformed rock music with his 6'Wall of Sound' method and who later was convicted of murder, has died. He was 81.
Officers in the Quebec provincial police's organized crime squad have twice broken up gatherings in January and handed out over $32,000 in fines for violating public health measures to members affiliated with the Hells Angels motorcycle club.
A 49-year-old woman is dead after being stabbed in a housing unit in Montreal.
A legal clinic is hoping to cut down on racial profiling by teaching Repentigny's minority groups about their rights.
Some of Canada’s biggest cities are seeing an exodus of people as urbanites move to bedroom communities, according to a recent Statistics Canada report.
At a time when many Quebecers will be shovelling at the end of the week, health professionals are reiterating the importance of being careful not to get injured.
Carolyn Wark-Black received a kidney from a stranger named Melanie Brault-Goettishein after the latter saw a post on Facebook and decided to save a woman's life she had never met.
Residents of Magog in Quebec's Eastern Townships have been asked to be on the lookout for a wild boar that has been spotted in the area.
Montreal's fire department has a much bigger job than it used to, and now it has a new chief to do that job: Richard Liebmann, who began as an EMT in Cote-St-Luc and is the first English-speaker to hold the job since the 1930s.
Cat owners are not permitted to take their pets out during curfew on a leash in the same way a dog owner is permitted to, which one feline father finds unfair.
When the Quebec government announced it was imposing an 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew to limit the spread of COVID-19, Ita Skoblinski posted a tongue-in-cheek message to her local community Facebook group, offering to let people borrow her dog for late-night walks.
Looking to buy a condo? Well, there's one less on the Montreal market, but it's pretty unlikely you could have made a competitive offer.
As shops shutter their doors across the province, florists and garden centres are still on the list of businesses authorized to open -- a gift that many entrepreneurs aren’t taking for granted, even if they don’t totally understand it.
A Sherbrooke husband and wife were handed sizeable fines for violating curfew, despite the wife's protests that she was walking her dog and the fact the husband was wearing a leash.
Quebec Premier Francois Legault announced Wednesday that a curfew will begin Saturday with no one permitted out of their homes from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. with some exceptions. Here's a breakdown of how it will work.
More than 561,000 Canadians have received a COVID-19 vaccine, according to the COVID-19 Canada Open Data Working Group, in a landmark vaccination effort against the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
Experts say there’s a critical public health reason why people should always wear their masks in the cold weather if they can’t distance properly.
Quebec's healthcare system is under enormous pressure. Lawyers Brigitte Brabant and Nathalie Johnson argue the province needs a public consultation on the government's proposed triage system to answer the unanswerable question of who deserves care.
Nearly one year into this pandemic and we are at it again: sending children back into the classroom during a lockdown while society debates whether this is the right decision. There will be no winner in this discussion, and the ideal solution will likely never be known.
Former Equality Party (EP) leader Robert Libman’s call last month for the creation of a new “single-issue party” that anglophones “can count on” also speaks indirectly to the unhealthy predicament community members and other minority groups face by not having the comfortable election choices that anglophones in other provinces enjoy.
After an awkward and apologetic start, Rick Hillier confidently leading Ontario’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout, Don Martin writes in his latest column for CTVNews.ca.
Sending kids back to school while the number of COVID-19 cases continues to skyrocket could lead to a public health disaster, argues environmental health specialist Michael Levy.
As B.C. looks into limiting interprovincial travel, representatives of the province's tourism and hospitality industry are speaking up in opposition.
Officers in the Quebec provincial police's organized crime squad have twice broken up gatherings in January and handed out over $32,000 in fines for violating public health measures to members affiliated with the Hells Angels motorcycle club.
The parents of a 27-year-old Calgary man have been charged following an investigation into alleged neglect.
A young woman from Toronto who was lost on a B.C. mountain overnight has died, according to police.
An Ontario MPP who sent Premier Doug Ford a two-page letter calling the provincial lockdown "deadlier than COVID" has been kicked out of caucus for his "irresponsible" comments.
Betty White says she is celebrating her 99th birthday by eating a hot dog, feeding her favourite ducks.
An Ontario man known as ‘COVID Elvis’ has made it his mission to put a smile on people's faces.
Hospitals are seeing a rise in tobogganing and sledding injuries and doctors are warning of the dangers.
Ruth Stryzewski has another reason to celebrate ahead of her 109th birthday after recovering from COVID-19.
A man went to great lengths to bring a young deer to safety after it fell through ice.
A Florida waitress says she knew something was wrong when an 11-year-old boy sitting at one of her tables was forbidden from ordering anything to eat.
A source close to the transition team of U.S. president-elect Joe Biden has told CTV News that the new president will kill the Keystone XL pipeline after taking office.
U.S. President Donald Trump is preparing to issue around 100 pardons and commutations on his final full day in office Tuesday, according to three people familiar with the matter, a major batch of clemency actions that includes white collar criminals, high-profile rappers and others but -- as of now -- is not expected to include Trump himself.
Canada has had more than 708,600 total cases of COVID 19, with more than 18,000 associated deaths.
U.S. defence officials say they are worried about an insider attack or other threat from service members involved in securing President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration, prompting the FBI to vet all of the 25,000 National Guard troops coming into Washington for the event.
Federal Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole pushed back against attempts to link his party to Trump-style politics on Sunday, saying there is 'no place for the far right' in the Tories while accusing the Liberals of divisive dirty tricks.
While critics of Canada's vaccine rollout continue to point to the more accelerated COVID-19 vaccine rollout in the United States, Dr. Anthony Fauci says he isn't planning on American life getting back to some semblance of normality any earlier than Canadian officials are aiming for.
As the first terminally ill cancer patient in Canada to legally use so-called magic mushrooms to treat anxiety, Thomas Hartle is hopeful that more temporary approvals from the federal government signal a permanent regulatory regime may be in the works.
Several Canadian experiences from the first Gulf War were collected by Historica Canada and released on Sunday as part of a new video on what is a largely forgotten chapter of Canada's military history.
Small groups of right-wing protesters -- some of them carrying rifles -- gathered outside heavily fortified statehouses around the country Sunday, outnumbered by National Guard troops and police brought in to prevent a repeat of the violence that erupted at the U.S. Capitol. As darkness fell, there were no reports of any clashes.
RCMP officers have found a missing fishing boat that sank off the coast of Nova Scotia in December. CTV's Natasha Pace reports.
U.S. COVID-19 deaths near 400,000, hospitals reach capacity
U.S. President-elect Biden plans to scrap the controversial Keystone XL pipeline. CTV's Richard Madan has the details.
CTV's Abby Kuhathasan provides a closer look into the violent attack on Capitol Hill earlier this month.
As Inauguration Day approaches, D.C. is guarded by more American troops than there are in Iraq and Afghanistan.
A new report from StatsCan says more than 87,000 people have left big cities for smaller nearby communities.
