While the rate of COVID-19 transmission in Ottawa has declined over the last two weeks, Ottawa Public Health is calling on residents to take further measures — albeit small ones — to combat the respiratory virus. At a virtual news conference on Tuesday, Dr. Vera Etches, the medical officer of […]
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Edmonton sports legend Joey Moss has died at the age of 57. Moss, who was born with Down syndrome, worked as a locker room attendant with the Edmonton Oilers and Edmonton Football Team for decades. He was inducted into the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame in 2015. In a statement, Moss’s family said he […]
The small wooden structure inside Khaleel Seivwright’s rented Cabbagetown workshop looks something like an oversized shoebox, or perhaps a transport crate for a motorcycle. A closer look reveals something more substantial. Its walls are lined with a thick layer of fibreglass insulation normally used in residential construction. There is a door, […]
The latest: Manitoba continues to see steady rise in COVID-19 related deaths linked to hospital outbreak. Ontario reports 827 new COVID-19 cases, testing levels drop to about half of capacity. Quebec reports 963 new COVID-19 cases. Gatherings in private homes restricted in B.C. after province announces record high 817 new cases […]
Ontario reported 827 more cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, while the province’s labs processed fewer than 24,000 tests. Toronto saw 355 new cases, while Peel Region recorded 169 and York Region 89. The seven-day average of new daily cases, a measure that limits noise in the data and provides a […]
Antibodies against the novel coronavirus declined rapidly in the population in England during the summer, according to a preprint posted on Tuesday, suggesting protection after infection may not be long-lasting and raising the prospect of waning immunity in the community. Scientists at Imperial College London have tracked antibody levels in the […]
At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic’s first wave, Dr. Joseph Dahine and his colleagues could spend over an hour huddled around the bedside of a patient in the ICU in Laval, Que., brainstorming treatment options. There were no textbooks to tell them what to do, so they became medical […]
Kids across Canada have a burning question for their parents this week: Are we going trick-or-treating? Like every other aspect of life, Halloween will play out differently as public health and infectious disease experts put measures in place to curb the pandemic. Across the country, health officials are asking people to scale back […]
There are serious questions to be asked about the federal government’s response to the global pandemic. At some point, we’ll need a comprehensive study of how Ottawa has handled the greatest public health crisis to face Canadians in a century. And maybe the House of Commons is the institution to perform such a careful and thorough inquiry. But […]
Manitoba’s health-care system is at the tipping point of a breakdown if the surge in COVID-19 cases isn’t immediately curtailed, a Winnipeg doctor says. “There’s basically a perfect storm of situations that is making things extremely difficult,” said Philippe Lagacé-Wiens, a medical microbiologist and physician at St. Boniface Hospital. There’s an increase […]
