Tag Archives: Health
Trudeau takes part in COVID-19 virtual pledging conference led by EU
OTTAWA - Canada joined the global community Monday in helping to raise $11 billion toward a COVID-19 vaccine, amid promises to avoid past pandemic practice and make it available fo...
May 04, 2020
'Numb and very lost': Meat plant reopens as memorial held for Cargill worker
HIGH RIVER, Alta. - The husband of a meat-packing worker who died last month remembered her as "a wonderful wife" who indulged him as he expressed his grief at a memorial Monday, the sa...
May 04, 2020
'Sense of relief' as provinces begin easing COVID-19 lockdown restrictions
Quebecers were shopping for furniture, Winnipeggers were sipping beers on patios and a Regina physiotherapist was treating aches and pains that built up during weeks of isolation. ...
May 04, 2020
Provinces must give emotional support to returning students: education advocates
VANCOUVER - Bored and isolated students are spending too many hours online and some have started using more substances, but all students will need extra emotional support ...
May 04, 2020
Rally outside Mission prison calls for safe release of inmates amid pandemic
MISSION, B.C. - A justice advocacy group says it wants prisoners at a federal institution in British Columbia ravaged by a COVID-19 outbreak to know there are people in the community fighting for...
May 03, 2020
COVID-19 case reported at Meadow Lake Co-op hardware store
In a letter issued to customers on May 2, Meadow Lake Co-op Service Centre hardware store reported one employee had tested positive for COVID-19. General manager Caralee Strome told meadowlakeNOW she ...
May 03, 2020 (Nicole Reis/meadowlakeNOW Staff)
The latest developments on COVID-19 in Canada
The latest news on the COVID-19 global pandemic (all times Eastern): 2:55 p.m. Newfoundland and Labrador's number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 remains at 259, with 232 people having recove...
May 03, 2020
Provinces set to ease restrictions Monday as death toll increases
OTTAWA - Provinces across the country are set to begin easing COVID-19 restrictions on Monday following a weekend in which thousands more cases of the respiratory illness were identified, hundreds mor...
May 03, 2020
Rapid test for COVID-19 recalled after Health Canada expresses concerns
OTTAWA - An Ottawa biotech company is voluntarily recalling a rapid test for COVID-19 after Health Canada expressed concern about its effectiveness, dealing a setback to expanded testing in ...
May 03, 2020
High school grads-to-be grapple with possible ceremony cancellations
Urmila Persaud spent months picturing herself walking across a stage to collect her high-school diploma in front of friends and family. But the COVID-19 pandemic has replaced that vision with a big qu...
May 03, 2020