Tag Archives: Health
Provinces relax COVID-19 restrictions as Trudeau tests positive for virus
Ontario and Quebec began lifting COVID-19 restrictions amid slight decreases in reported hospitalizations Monday while Saskatchewan's premier defended plans to end vaccine requirements there, hours af...
Jan 31, 2022
Alberta premier says truckers' border blockade violates traffic laws and must end
COUTTS, Alta. - Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says a truck convoy that's blockaded a highway at a busy U.S. border crossing as part of a protest against vaccine mandates violates the province's Traffic...
Jan 30, 2022
Protesters show no sign of rolling off as Ottawa residents brace for more disruption
OTTAWA - Many of the horn-honking demonstrators who brought Ottawa to a near standstill showed no signs of budging Sunday as parliamentarians, businesses and school administrators were left wondering ...
Jan 30, 2022
'The devil is definitely in the details': How fuel could have entered Iqaluit's water
IQALUIT, Nunavut - Iqaluit resident Jenny Ell says she couldn't believe it when she turned on her tap a couple of weeks ago and smelled fuel for the second time in a matter of months. Ell, who is preg...
Jan 30, 2022
National standards would help track young Canadians' mental health, experts say
OTTAWA - Concern about the mental health challenges of young Canadians has been growing during the nearly two years of disruptions and repeated isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic. But experts say ...
Jan 30, 2022
Quebec restaurants are reopening, but some former workers don't plan to go back
MONTREAL - Restaurants in Quebec will be allowed to reopen Monday for the first time in more than a month, but some former workers say they won't be looking for new jobs in the industry. Milovan Danie...
Jan 30, 2022
After reflecting on two election defeats, B.C. Liberals get ready to elect new leader
VICTORIA - A new leader will be chosen by British Columbia's Liberals on Saturday after a months-long campaign that often focused on renewal and a new course for a party that has lost successive elect...
Jan 30, 2022
Convoys against mandates in other Canadian cities support of Ottawa truck protest
EDMONTON - Like many of those gathered near the Alberta legislature to support a convoy of trucks that inched their way through Edmonton's downtown streets for several hours on Saturday, Kyla Keulers ...
Jan 29, 2022
Officials decry 'desecration' of monuments during Ottawa protest
Some protesters jumped on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and others fastened an inverted Canadian flag to a statue of Terry Fox as they decried vaccine mandates in the nation's capital on Saturday. T...
Jan 29, 2022
COVID-19 hospitalizations on the decline in Ontario, Quebec as protest jams Ottawa
COVID-19 hospitalizations are ticking down in Canada's two most populous provinces, as thousands swarmed Ottawa Saturday in trucks and on foot to protest public health restrictions and the Liberal fed...
Jan 29, 2022