The Conservatives have taken the cause of trucker convoy protesters to the floor of the House of Commons, forcing a vote calling for the federal government to present a plan to lift all federal COVID-19 “mandates and restrictions” by the end of the month. Through its opposition day motion onRead More

On Monday, Kangana Ranaut took a dig at Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Instagram. Sharing a post about the ongoing protests in Canada’s Ottawa, Kangana wrote, “Karma strikes again.” Kangana’s statement comes after Justin came forward in support of India’s farmers protest in 2020. Kangana shared a post onRead More

The Canadian government has ordered family members of diplomatic staff in Ukraine to leave the country, though embassy staff will remain in place. In a statement, Global Affairs Canada said that the government has decided to “temporarily withdraw” the children of embassy staff if they are under the age ofRead More

Canada’s battle to contain the Omicron variant continues on multiple fronts today, with three provinces reintroducing public health restrictions and a fourth expanding eligibility for COVID-19 vaccine boosters. British Columbia and Quebec are both capping capacity at bars and restaurants at 50 per cent as of today, while Newfoundland andRead More

Ontario is reporting its highest single-day COVID-19 case total in months with 1,808 new infections logged Wednesday. The last time case numbers in Ontario were this high was on May 21 when 1,890 cases were recorded. Wednesday’s report brings the province’s seven-day average for the number of infections reported toRead More

VANCOUVER – Two B.C. residents who’ve made cross-border day trips to Washington State are now stuck in quarantine due to confusion over an app. On Tuesday, Rick Minchin decided to take advantage of the new rule permitting Canadians to make cross-border trips of less than 72 hours without producing aRead More

TORONTO — Ontario is reporting 748 new cases of COVID-19 as well as five more deaths related to the disease. The new infections logged Thursday represent a significant increase from the 591 cases reported on Wednesday and the 613 cases reported Tuesday. The seven-day rolling average of daily infections nowRead More

TORONTO — 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. Ontario health officialsRead More

OTTAWA — Health Canada has approved a booster of Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine for people over the age of 18, though third doses have already been given to high-risk people across the country. The booster is designed to help people with their first two COVID-19 vaccine doses maintain their protection against theRead More

TORONTO — Ontario health officials are reporting 563 new cases of COVID-19, and five more deaths due to the disease. The last time the province reported more than 500 new infections was on Oct. 10 when officials logged 535 new cases. This past week, officials reported 422 new cases onRead More