Canada's oil sands region becomes country's COVID-19 hotspot
Canada's remote oil sands region in northern Alberta has become a COVID-19 hotspot, disrupting essential annual maintenance work at its massive oil sands plants.
Canada's remote oil sands region in northern Alberta has become a COVID-19 hotspot, disrupting essential annual maintenance work at its massive oil sands plants.
Pfizer Inc will next week start supplying Canada with COVID-19 vaccine made in its U.S. plant, a senior official said on Friday, making it the second country to receive doses from the Kalamazoo, Mich. facility.
The Toronto Blue Jays say they are severing all ties with Roberto Alomar after the Hall of Famer was placed on Major League Baseball's ineligible list following an investigation into an allegation of sexual misconduct.
One of the more troubling aspects of Canada's third wave of COVID-19 has been the impression that the latest round of infections is proving to be a larger threat to young children. But while the recent surge represents a threat to anyone not yet fully vaccinated, experts say there's little to suggest a meaningful shift in the risk to children.
After a long time in 'lockdown', Jane Webber, an assistant professor of counsellor education and doctoral program coordinator at Kean University in New Jersey, explains how you can prepare yourself as you reemerge into the world as a social being.
At least two Montrealers are among the 45 killed in a stampede at a religious festival on Israel’s Mount Meron Friday.
A U.S.-based YouTuber and a Russian influencer were ordered off Indonesia's resort island of Bali on Friday after recording themselves defying mandatory mask-wearing with some imaginative makeup.
As Nova Scotia grapples with a recent surge in new COVID-19 cases, the province's premier says the aggressive measures they've enacted now will put them in a better place for a summer with fewer restrictions.
Ontario was not prepared for a pandemic and did not have comprehensive plans to protect long-term care residents and staff from COVID-19, making them "easy targets" for uncontrolled outbreaks, an independent commission has found.
A new study has found that boarding passengers seated at the back of an airplane first may double a person's risk of COVID-19 exposure.
A stampede at a religious festival attended by tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews in northern Israel killed at least 45 people and injured about 150 early Friday, medical officials said. It was one of the country's deadliest civilian disasters.
Dozens of people were killed in a stampede at a religious bonfire festival in Israel on Friday, medics said, in what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described as a 'heavy disaster.'
With more than 8,800 active cases of COVID-19 in the city of Calgary, Mayor Nenshi is concerned about the rapid rise of cases that he says is outstripping some of the largest crisis areas elsewhere in the world.
An Ottawa hospital has apologized and said it will reimburse a Toronto woman's family who was forced to pay a private company to bring her uncle's body home after he was transferred to the hospital and later died there of COVID-19.
A three-month study on vaccine side effects found severe allergic reactions to the Pfizer-BioNTech and AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines were rare, affecting less than two per cent of people, while milder reactions such as tenderness and pain at the site of the injection were fairly common.