Tag Archives: Health
As feds audit landlords over rent aid, businesses fall through cracks of new program
OTTAWA - Documents given to parliamentarians show federal officials audited at least 127 landlords who received aid through a program designed to ease rent costs for small businesses during the COVID-...
Feb 08, 2021
The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada for Monday, Feb. 8, 2021
The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times Eastern): 6:20 p.m. British Columbia now has 40 confirmed cases of fast-spreading variants of COVID-19. Provincial health officer Dr. Bonn...
Feb 08, 2021
A breakdown of Canada's isolation sites as details are revealed on hotel requirements
As concerns about internationally identified COVID-19 variants hit closer to home, public health authorities are asking - and increasingly, ordering - people to isolate safely, away from others in the...
Feb 08, 2021
'A blessing:' Paralyzed Humboldt Bronco finds way back on the ice during COVID-19
AIRDRIE, Alta. - Ryan Straschnitzki says there is nothing like the feel of being back on the ice. The former Humboldt Bronco junior hockey player, paralyzed from the chest down when a semi-trailer ble...
Feb 08, 2021
Chinese-Canadians voice worries about racism, job losses one year in to pandemic
VANCOUVER - COVID-19 has taken a toll on many Canadians, but for Chinese-Canadians the impacts have been magnified by racism aimed at individuals and businesses, community leaders say. Amy Go, the pre...
Feb 08, 2021
Canada's sluggish COVID-19 vaccination program won't get better this week
OTTAWA - Canada's languid vaccination efforts have no chance of improvement this week with just 70,200 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine scheduled to start arriving. Provinces and territories have ...
Feb 08, 2021
Mandatory hotel quarantines could harm lower-income Canadians: Lawyer
OTTAWA - The Canadian Civil Liberties Association is questioning Ottawa's move to require hotel quarantines for international travellers, saying it may harm lower-income Canadians and infringe on citi...
Feb 08, 2021
Quebec passes 10,000 COVID-19 deaths as Ontario reports case of Brazil variant
Canada hit more unwanted firsts in its battle against the COVID-19 pandemic on Sunday, as Quebec became the first province to surpass 10,000 deaths and Toronto reported Ontario's first case of a varia...
Feb 07, 2021
Grief persists for spouses of first responders, soldiers killed in line of duty
OTTAWA - Angela Gevaudan recalls the first year after her RCMP-officer husband was killed on duty as a whirlwind of responsibility and emotion that offered her little time to process her grief and los...
Feb 07, 2021
'Jarring experience' in B.C. psych wards because of 'uniquely problematic' law
VANCOUVER - A peer-support worker who helps youth with mental health challenges says being involuntarily detained in a psychiatric facility half a dozen times has given him insight into the lack of le...
Feb 07, 2021