WINNIPEG — Manitoba health officials reported 90 additional COVID-19 cases Tuesday — a significant milestone in the province’s battle against the novel coronavirus.
The Winnipeg Jets aren’t kids this year, says coach Paul Maurice. For years, Maurice has walked into rinks feeling as though his group was stacked with young talent.
WINNIPEG — Vaccine distribution has begun on a handful of Manitoba reserves as a task force reports that 61 per cent of the people with active COVID-19 in the province are First Nations.
WINNIPEG — The owner of a Winnipeg tattoo parlour was fined Monday for opening in violation of COVID-19 restrictions and says he has no choice but to continue ignoring the rule.
OTTAWA — Oversight and transparency took centre stage on Day 1 of a nearly three-week review of the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.’s broadcasting licences, as the rush to furnish digital content butts up against regulatory barriers.
It was a day of disparity in Canada’s protracted battle against the novel coronavirus, with some provinces recording alarmingly high numbers of infections on Sunday while at least one province managed to whittle new cases to zero.
COVID-19 numbers continued to soar in many parts of Canada on Saturday as a long-standing pandemic hot spot imposed the country’s strictest public health measures to date.
OTTAWA — Federal procurement minister Anita Anand says Canada will do “whatever it takes” to get more vaccine doses delivered to Canada faster but there hasn’t yet been any change to the number of doses Canada is expecting to receive this winter and approvals for additional vaccines are still at least several weeks away.
WINNIPEG — Manitoba RCMP have arrested and charged another suspect in the death of a Metis woman.
The arrival of COVID vaccines have stirred excitement and optimism for a swift end to the global pandemic, with some seeing the shot as a “free pass” to soon gather and socialize as they did pre-2020.
Health Canada says it’s delaying its long-awaited overhaul of drug-pricing regulations by another six months.
OTTAWA — Snowbirds are rushing to get inoculated against COVID-19 down south as provincial vaccine rollouts lag north of the border.
