A week into the Quebec-wide curfew, the province reported Saturday that 240,970 people have now tested positive for COVID-19 in the province, and 9,005 people have died due to the disease since the start of the pandemic.
More than seven in 10 Canadians support or somewhat support barring those who don’t have proof of vaccination from businesses where people are in close contact, according to a new Nanos survey.
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.
Quebec is in the middle of its first real snowstorm of the winter this weekend and, this time, the snow will stay on the ground with a return to colder temperatures coming at the start of the week.
A man is in the hosptital in critical condition in the municipality of Hebertville, in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region, after being trapped under a tree he had cut down.
Bianca Andreescu’s coach, Sylvain Bruneau, has tested positive for COVID-19, one of three confirmed cases that have forced 47 Australian Open players into quarantine ahead of the tournament.
A collision between a vehicle driven by a man in his 80s and a police patrol car left three seriously injured during the night from Friday to Saturday in Val-d'Or, Abitibi-Temiscamingue, Quebec.
Three coronavirus cases have been detected among charter flights carrying tennis players, coaches and officials to Melbourne ahead of the Australian Open, health authorities and tournament organizers said Saturday.
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.
While Canada's top immunization experts have signed off on provinces delaying the administration of the second Pfizer and Moderna doses in an effort to begin vaccinating more people with a small supply, Procurement Minister Anita Anand says she's heard concerns from the manufacturers that may impact future deliveries.
With a dire nurse shortage, much worse than last spring, the province has asked students and even doctors to help. But all the various strategies won't necessarily help fill the need in the ICU, which has highly specialized staff.
Facing isolation and difficult living situations, advocates are worried some LGBTQ-identifying youth are suffering disproportionately from lockdown measures and the lack of in-person programs and services.
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.
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.
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 541,000 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.
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.
If you’re feeling less-than-delighted about the curfew, think of the women struggling with conjugal violence, for whom the home is far from a safe place.
A perfect storm is battering the brand of politicians across party lines and provincial boundaries, worsened by having leaders caught up in the turbulence, Don Martin writes in his latest column for CTVNews.ca.
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.
Quebec public health officials said Thursday that provincial advisors have recommended a prolonged COVID-19 vaccination schedule of up to 90 days between the first and second dose -- more than double what a national advisory committee recommended a day earlier.
In his first hours as president, Joe Biden plans to take executive action to roll back some of the most controversial decisions of his predecessor and to address the raging coronavirus pandemic, his incoming chief of staff said Saturday.
More than seven in 10 Canadians support or somewhat support barring those who don’t have proof of vaccination from businesses where people are in close contact, according to a new Nanos survey.
While Canada's top immunization experts have signed off on provinces delaying the administration of the second Pfizer and Moderna doses in an effort to begin vaccinating more people with a small supply, Procurement Minister Anita Anand says she's heard concerns from the manufacturers that may impact future deliveries.
With coronavirus vaccines now rolling out across the United States, businesses and schools are considering how, and what it will take, to safely resume in-person operations.
Encrypted chat app Signal remained offline Saturday as the company dealt with technical difficulties amid a surge of new downloads as users flee WhatsApp's new privacy terms.
Bianca Andreescu’s coach, Sylvain Bruneau, has tested positive for COVID-19, one of three confirmed cases that have forced 47 Australian Open players into quarantine ahead of the tournament.
