Nova Scotia is entering a two-week province-wide shutdown as the premier warns COVID-19 is “spreading faster than ever in the province.” As well, gatherings indoors and outdoors will be limited to household bubbles. The province recorded 96 new cases on Tuesday. In a news briefing, Premier Iain Rankin and Dr. Robert Strang, the province’s […]

Nova Scotia announced Monday that all public schools in Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM) and surrounding areas will close Tuesday, and that tighter restrictions will be added as a result of the rising COVID-19 numbers. Nova Scotia reported 66 new cases of COVID-19 Monday — the highest case count recorded since the pandemic began. The […]

Quebec is lowering the minimum age requirement to register for the AstraZeneca brand of the COVID-19 vaccine. Quebec Premier François Legault announced the measure Tuesday, on the heels of other provinces doing the same. Under the plan, any Quebecer who is 45 and older can book their first AstraZeneca dose as of Wednesday morning. […]

This might make Canadians jealous of their American cousins for the first time in a while: the lineup Friday outside a downtown Washington D.C. Apple Store was longer than at one of the city’s largest COVID-19 mass-vaccination sites. Getting the shot at the nearby Walter E. Washington Convention Center — all D.C. residents over […]

A Toronto city councillor and a group of health-care professionals are calling on the province to open COVID-19 vaccine pre-registration to all Ontarians in a bid to improve the rollout of shots. Coun. Josh Matlow and health-care professionals from the University Health Network and the University of Toronto, posted an open letter to Premier […]

The president of the Ontario Hospital Association says hospitals have been directed to “ramp down” all elective surgeries and non-emergency activities starting Monday amid the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. “A major redeployment of staff and resources is required to provide care for a large wave of COVID patients requiring hospitalization,” Anthony Dale […]

A group of children’s health organizations says more needs to be done to protect in-person learning in Ontario as additional school closures were announced in the province Tuesday due to COVID-19. “Schools are closing and more may shut down in-person learning because we haven’t been able to contain community transmission of coronavirus in Ontario,” […]