The federal government is set to announce Friday that Health Canada has approved the COVID-19 vaccine for children aged five to 11, then later detail plans to ease some of the pandemic-related measures at the border.
The Public Health Agency of Canada is now recommending those at risk of higher exposure and more severe disease outcomes from COVID-19 wear a medical face mask.
At least four people were taken to hospital after an explosion rocked a Vancouver Island military base Thursday.
U.S. President Joe Biden isn't making any promises about whether he's willing to alter his controversial tax credit proposal for new electric vehicles. Biden, meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in the Oval Office, says that's one of the issues the two leaders will talk about.
The director of the United Nations' World Food Programme laid out a plan to spend US$6.6 billion to combat world hunger — a direct response to a back-and-forth with Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who claimed he would sell Tesla stock to fund a plan if the WFP could describe 'exactly how' it would work.
Several Canadians who reached out to CTVNews.ca say their diagnoses of cancers, autoimmune disorders and incurable conditions could have been caught sooner and possibly prevented from advancing to late stages had the COVID-19 pandemic not delayed their annual screenings and checkups.
A water pump station in Abbotsford, B.C. struggling to keep Sumas Prairie from 'catastrophic' flooding has shone a spotlight on a Canada-wide issue. Vital infrastructure across the country is not built to deal with impacts of climate change and severe weather events, experts say.
Devastating flooding, mudslides and strong winds in British Columbia have prompted officials to declare a provincial state of emergency, as work continues to clean up and recover while thousands remain displaced from their homes.
Ontario is preparing to send a pack of five rapid antigen COVID-19 tests home with every school child in the province in time for winter break, in a massive effort to screen kids over the holidays and prevent infected kids from re-entering schools in January.
