A local doctor who worked in a COVID-19 ICU unit says she and her colleagues are just starting to process how Saturday marks three years since COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic.
An opponent of vaccines who urged violence against scientists, politicians and public health officials during the COVID-19 pandemic was sentenced Monday.
Many countries are bouncing back from the COVID-19 pandemic, but the poorest are not and a significant number are seeing conditions deteriorating, a report from the UN Development Program said Wednesday.
The World Health Organization on Tuesday classified the JN.1 coronavirus strain as a "variant of interest" but said it did not pose much threat to public health.
As 2023 draws to an end, with promises of holiday parties and crowds and lots of inadvertent exchanges of shared air, mask-wearing is much more off than on around the country even as COVID's long tail lingers. The days of anything approaching a widespread mask mandate would be like the Ghost of Christmas Past, a glimpse into what was.
Forty-two per cent of the people in Canada reporting lasting symptoms had them for a year or more, but Canadian doctors and scientists want long COVID patients to know that research is accelerating.
The Kingston General Hospital (KGH) says a surge of emergency department inpatients, including a day that had a near record 580 admissions, has the hospital struggling to keep up as COVID-19 and the respiratory virus season peaks across the province.
The federal government has recovered $40 million of its investment in the now-defunct Quebec-based vaccine developer Medicago as part of a deal with the parent company, the innovation minister announced Thursday.
As flu season sweeps across Canada and new research suggests the disease could come with a more long-term burden for some, health officials and experts are reminding the public of the importance of getting your shot.
Moderna said its Chief Commercial Officer Arpa Garay has stepped down from the role and CEO Stephane Bancel will look over sales and marketing, sending the shares of the vaccine maker down 5% on Tuesday.
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says her government will create a team of specially-trained Alberta Sheriffs tasked with patrolling the Alberta-U.S. border.
Temperatures will start to moderate in the Edmonton area today, although it will continue to be well below average in east-central and northeast Alberta.
A group of knitters, crocheters and sewists in the capital region is as busy as Santa's workshop at this time of year.
A school bus driver was ticketed after a crash in downtown Edmonton on Wednesday.
A man and a woman charged in the killing of a security guard in Edmonton will spend Christmas and New Year's behind bars.
Calgary's new arena will face its final administrative hurdle at city hall on Thursday.
The union representing Canada Post workers says an unfair labour practice complaint over the company's layoffs has been resolved.
Some Edmontonians are finding the recent weather difficult to navigate without the help of city-supplied traction materials.
Alberta's police watchdog has cleared three Edmonton police officers in the death of a civilian in his apartment in 2022.
Students at a Que. school are accusing their teacher of unlawfully selling their art online. Genevieve Beauchemin has the details.
Bent signs bolted to the rail threaten fines and imprisonment should violators cross the boundary into the United States, a warning many people are choosing to ignore simply by walking around the barrier.
Canadians will experience contrasting weather on Thursday, from warmer temperatures in the Maritimes to extreme cold in parts of Ontario, the Prairies and the North.
Two Ontarians who recently found unclaimed money from decades-old investments were told by their banks there were no records of them in their systems.
An 11-year-old girl from Sierra Leone was found floating in the Mediterranean Sea off Italy's southernmost island of Lampedusa, believed to be the only survivor of a shipwrecked migrant boat that had departed from the port of Sfax in Tunisia, a humanitarian group said Thursday.
A large number of mysterious drones have been reported flying over parts of New Jersey in recent weeks, sparking speculation and concern over who sent them and why.
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says her government will create a team of specially-trained Alberta Sheriffs tasked with patrolling the Alberta-U.S. border.
According to court documents, detectives reopened the cold case in 2017 and then worked with a forensics company to extract DNA from Baby Garnet's partial femur, before sending the results to Identifinders International.
The union representing Canada Post workers says an unfair labour practice complaint over the company's layoffs has been resolved.
Some early breast cancer patients can safely avoid specific surgeries, according to two studies exploring ways to lessen treatment burdens.
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says her government will create a team of specially-trained Alberta Sheriffs tasked with patrolling the Alberta-U.S. border.
Calgary's new arena will face its final administrative hurdle at city hall on Thursday.
A Calgary girl who was sitting in her dad's vehicle when it was stolen on Monday night is speaking out about the horrifying experience, along with her father.
There is a building on the University of Saskatchewan campus that has been an eyesore for a few years, and now the historic building is slated for demolition. However, historians want campus officials to rethink the plan to get rid of it.
The return of bitterly cold temperatures has first responders and HVAC technicians on stand-by, ready to respond to emergencies.
A Saskatchewan man who turned a school bus into a warmup shelter says his nonprofit desperately needs donations.
Much of central and southern Saskatchewan, including Regina and Saskatoon, remain under an extreme cold warning Thursday morning.
Regina City Council forgave the Saskatchewan Roughriders of more than $1 million in unpaid rent payments at their meeting Wednesday.
Fire crews were on the scene of a serious blaze at a home on Winnipeg Street early Thursday morning.
Tens of thousands of customers in the Maritimes woke up to no power Thursday morning and several schools are closed as a wet and windy storm makes its way through the region.
Here is a list of school closures and cancellations for Thursday, Dec. 12, 2024.
The union representing Canada Post workers says an unfair labour practice complaint over the company's layoffs has been resolved.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford says his government is introducing a suite of measures to 'address and dismantle' encampments around the province, including steep fines for people who use drugs.
A dog that was inside a vehicle when it was stolen in Toronto on Wednesday has been found, police say.
It’s worth bundling up before heading out the door today as the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) is set to see strong winds that will make it feel frigid.
With the holidays fast approaching, one Montreal restaurant was forced to close its doors after a driver crashed into it on the weekend.
A tiny Timbit is on their way for Montreal Canadiens alternate captain and right winger Brendan Gallagher and his wife, Emma Fortin.
Travel company Transat A.T. Inc. reported a fourth-quarter profit of $41.2 million, up from $3.2 million in the same quarter last year.
Storm Watch is your destination for information about school closures, bus cancellations and road closures in Waterloo region, Guelph, Brantford and the surrounding area.
The union representing Canada Post workers says an unfair labour practice complaint over the company's layoffs has been resolved.
A man has been arrested in Cambridge as part of a nation-wide homicide investigation.
