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Many factors behind COVID-19 outbreaks hitting Quebec's long-term care homes
MONTREAL - As the COVID-19 pandemic has spread across Canada, no places have been harder hit than Quebec's long-term care homes, where single facilities have seen dozens of residents die. Half th...
Apr 14, 2020
WATCH: Officials provide COVID-19 update for April 14
Alberta's Chief Medical Officer of Health, Dr. Deena Hinshaw, and other provincial officials will provide an update on the COVID-19 situation in Alberta Tuesday afternoon. The press conference is sche...
Apr 14, 2020
N.S. COVID model says health care can cope with first peak if 'good compliance'
HALIFAX - Nova Scotia's government is predicting the number of COVID-19 cases could still be comfortably managed by the province's hospital system by the end of June if t...
Apr 14, 2020
Alberta rolls out new wildfire prevention measures
The Province is preparing for the upcoming wildfire season, by rolling out some new enforceable measures.In 2019, Alberta spent over $600-million fighting wildfires, which destroyed over 2-million acr...
Apr 14, 2020
Thomas Braidwood, B.C. judge who led Dziekanski inquiry dies, dies at 89
VANCOUVER - A former judge who led an inquiry into the RCMP's use of a Taser on a man from Poland after he arrived at Vancouver's airport in 2007 has died. Thomas Braidwood, who was a justice on ...
Apr 14, 2020
Health Canada warns against "fraudulent and unauthorized" N95 masks
OTTAWA - Health Canada is warning Canadians about the risks of using fraudulent and unauthorized N95 masks that may not offer protection against COVID-19. The organization said it has r...
Apr 14, 2020
Marner reflects on season, using his charity to help raise money during pandemic
TORONTO - Mitch Marner is usually bouncing off the walls. Whether it's between practice drills, during warmups before a game or in the locker room, the Toronto Maple Leafs' star winger&...
Apr 14, 2020
Cattle group looks for help to weather COVID-19 as meat- packers slow work
CALGARY - A cattle industry group says measures that helped ranchers weather the BSE crisis in the early 2000s should be brought back immediately as the COVID-19 pan...
Apr 14, 2020
Petition urges Alberta to allow golf course to open
A fast-growing number of people feel Alberta golf courses should receive an exemption from mandated business closures resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic.As of Tuesday morning, more than 26,000 peopl...
Apr 14, 2020
Scheer, Conservatives raise concerns about WHO data, relationship with China
OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer says he has serious concerns about the accuracy of the World Health Organization's data and its relationship with China. Scheer also says he was di...
Apr 14, 2020