Canada sets new single-day record with 9,561 COVID-19 infections
Canada reported 9,561 new COVID-19 infections on Thursday, setting a new record for daily cases since the start of the pandemic.

Canada reported 9,561 new COVID-19 infections on Thursday, setting a new record for daily cases since the start of the pandemic.
Alberta reported 1,646 COVID-19 cases on Thursday, the highest single-day count since mid-December.
A longboarder has a broken leg but is otherwise OK, according to officials, after a crash Thursday evening.
A fire official admits crews are "frustrated" after receiving four rescue calls for dogs wandering out onto North Saskatchewan River ice on Wednesday.
An Edmonton man and his dogs were minding their own business when they found out the hard way how territorial and aggressive geese can be.
NDP MLA Thomas Dang spoke out Wednesday night about a racist parody account that linked him to North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un and the Wu-Tang Clan and described him as “unintelligible.”
The mass vaccination clinic at Edmonton's EXPO Centre administered a fraction of the thousands of COVID-19 shots it is capable of on Wednesday.
A Tuesday morning fire destroyed hundreds of hay and straw bales, costing an Alberta farmer thousands.
A large structure fire swept through a commercial building in Stettler, Alta.
The trial for a man charged in the slaying of a family doctor at a central Alberta medical clinic is going ahead as scheduled.
More than 3,000 patients’ electronic health records were improperly accessed at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre.
Mounties say that an investigation by the explosives disposal unit found no explosive devices in or around a vehicle at 103 Hermary Street.
A large rock was thrown through the window of Adriana LaGrange’s constituency office in Red Deer Tuesday, according to the education minister.
EE Football Team veteran Ryan King has called it a career after eight seasons with the Canadian Football League club.
The 2021 Memorial Cup has been cancelled due to COVID-19 restrictions.
The Edmonton Oilers acquired defenseman Dmitry Kulikov from the New Jersey Devils on Monday in exchange for a conditional fourth-round pick in the 2022 NHL Draft.
A U.S. diver stumbled upon a wedding ring while in a river, luckily for the owner who had been looking for the lost band.
An eight-day period of national mourning for the death of Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, is underway in the U.K.
A Cyclone helicopter made a precautionary landing at Nova Scotia's Rainbow Haven Provincial Park after noticing a cockpit indication.
The app, created by Indigenous Vision, shares the locations of historical Blackfoot land sites throughout Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Montana and Wyoming.
A territorial goose attacks an unsuspecting Edmonton man and his two dogs Tuesday, April 13, 2021.
A man who was shot in New York while at a tribute for DMX took cover in the vehicle of the news crew that was covering the event.
Jill Macyshon has the story about animals a little out of their element, and the urging of experts to let them be.
Evan Solomon says 'it's unconscionable' that the U.S. continues to sit on millions of vaccine doses that they aren't using.
Dr. Alex Patel, an Ont. critical care physician, says he knows of three patients who turned down the vaccine and later ended up in ICU.
Infectious disease specialist Dr. Isaac Bogoch wants to see Ontario’s COVID-19 measures reflect the severity of the current situation.
A U.S. software engineer hopes to use VR to fight racism and highlight the dangers faced by Black drivers. Reuter's Francesca Lynagh reports.
Pierre Lévesque filmed police in Sorel-Tracy, Que., as they used road spikes to stop an allegedly stolen truck on Wednesday.
Canada reported 9,561 new COVID-19 infections on Thursday, setting a new record for daily cases since the start of the pandemic.
A gunman killed eight people and wounded several others before apparently taking his own life in a late-night attack at a FedEx facility near the Indianapolis airport, police said, in the latest in a spate of mass shootings in the United States after a relative lull during the pandemic.
A new Twitter account run by volunteers is helping Canadians who are having a hard time finding available vaccination appointments.
A few weeks into what the federal government has billed as the 'ramp-up' phase of Canada's mass vaccination effort, the rollout is still being plagued by delays in Moderna shipments and lingering uncertainty about when and how many doses of AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson's shots will land.
An Ontario doctor is urging people to get a COVID-19 vaccine once a jab becomes available to them after he admitted three patients who turned down shots to the ICU.
When Prince Philip's coffin is conveyed to church for his funeral service, it will be taken in a specially-commissioned Land Rover that the British royal himself helped design.
Following the news that pregnant women are increasingly ending up in ICUs with severe COVID-19, the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada is calling on the government to prioritize this group for vaccines immediately.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford's cabinet is actively considering a variety of stricter measures as COVID-19 modelling shows the province could see up to 18,000 new infections per day by the end of May if current trends continue.
COVID-19 transmission in British Columbia may be beginning to slow down, but the province still has a ways to go, according to the latest modelling data presented by provincial health officials on Thursday.