The Government of Canada continues to take unprecedented action to protect the health and safety of Canadians by introducing a new measure to help prevent further introduction and transmission of COVID-19 and new variants of the virus into Canada.
Month: December 2020
Among the seven NHL teams left out of the league’s summer restart to a 2019-20 season suspended in March because of COVID-19, the Ottawa Senators took the ice in an official capacity for the first time in nearly 10 months Thursday.
Microsoft said Thursday in a blog post that hackers tied to a massive intrusion of dozens of U.S. government agencies and private companies sneaked further into its systems than previously thought, although the intrusion doesn’t appear to have caused any additional harm.
When customers at a Vaughan, Ont., Tim Hortons found out that their favourite employee, Vishnu Gopansothilingan, had dropped out of university due to financial constraints, they began to fundraise to help send him back to school.
Centre Pierre-Luc Dubois, who led Columbus in goals, assists and points during the playoffs, signed a two-year, $10 million US contract extension Thursday that keeps him with the Blue Jackets through the 2021-22 season.
The COVID-19 pandemic has created a global crisis that is having a significant impact on the air industry and all travellers. The Government of Canada has multiple measures in place to protect the health and safety of Canadians, and to help prevent air travel from being a source of further introduction and spread of COVID-19 and new variants of the virus into Canada.
On a day frequently marked by celebrations involving large amounts of alcohol, Canada’s chief public health officer is again asking Canadians to go easy on the drinking as they turn the page on 2020.
On December 25, 2020, Douglas Cody Terrico, an inmate from Kwìkwèxwelhp Healing Village died while in provincial custody.
Scott Russell is joined by Jenn Heil, Stephanie Dixon and Marco Di Buono to chat about where we go from here in regards to youth sport in this country now that vaccines are becoming available but case numbers continue to rise. This is the fifth and final panel in a five-part series of discussions on the state of sport in Canada.
Alberta recently recorded its 1,000th COVID-19 death, a grim milestone that arrived in a flash in a marked turnaround for a province that seemed to have the disease under relative control for a time.
On December 23 at approximately 11:00, as a result of the vigilance of staff members, multiple packages containing contraband were seized on the perimeter of Collins Bay institution, a multi-level security facility.
Transport Minister Marc Garneau is expected to provide more details today about the new requirement for air passengers to test negative for COVID-19 before entering Canada.
The Hamilton Tiger-Cats have re-signed 2019 CFL most outstanding player Brandon Banks. The American wide receiver will return for his eighth season with the club in 2021.
On December 31, 2020, Dr. Theresa Tam, Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer, issued the following statement on COVID-19.
The federal government says it has issued an exemption to the mandatory 14-day quarantine period for NHL players and team staff to return to Canada for training camp under “national interest grounds.”
There was no celebration when Becky Hammon took over as San Antonio Spurs head coach on Wednesday night. When Gregg Popovich was ejected in the second quarter, he simply pointed at Hammon and said “You got ’em.” Social media, however, erupted.
The Canadian Coast Guard advises residents of Midland, Ontario that there may be icebreaking operations in the area on or around January 5, 2021.
Correctional Service Canada (CSC) advises that there is currently one resident who has tested positive for COVID-19 at Willow Cree Healing Lodge (WCHL) in Saskatchewan, as well as two people who work at WCHL. The institution’s routine has been modified for health purposes, and contact tracing is currently underway.
Indigenous Services Canada is closely monitoring the number of COVID-19 cases reported in First Nations communities across the country.
On December 23, 2020, at about 8 a.m., as a result of the vigilance of staff members, a package containing unauthorized items was seized at Donnacona Institution, a federal maximum-security institution.
Ontario is reporting a record-high 3,328 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday and 56 new deaths related to the illness.
The National for December 30: Ottawa says travellers coming to Canada will have to get a COVID-19 test first. Plus, a look back on 2020.
The Department of Fisheries and Oceans has released its plan to boost northern cod numbers — a plan that the fisheries union in Newfoundland and Labrador blasts as being more about resettling communities than rebuilding stocks.
The Department of Fisheries and Oceans has released its plan to boost northern cod numbers — a plan that the fisheries union in Newfoundland and Labrador blasts as being more about resettling communities than rebuilding stocks.
Norwegian rescuers deployed drones and dogs to negotiate unstable clay soil in a search for 10 people still missing on Thursday after a landslide in southern Norway swept away more than a dozen buildings the previous day.
Head bent toward her work, Carolyn Simon uses tweezers to carefully pull a porcupine quill through a tiny hole in a piece of birch bark. It’s a technique she’s seen her mom do hundreds of times, and while she’s only seven years old she’s close to mastering it herself.
For good and ill, fishing and farming on P.E.I. are already different because of climate change.
Tonight and tomorrow, the Samuel De Champlain Bridge will sparkle with blue and golden white lighting from sunset to sunrise to welcome the New Year. This special lighting will continue from sunset to 1:00 a.m. on January 2 and 3.
Tonight and tomorrow, the Samuel De Champlain Bridge will sparkle with blue and golden white lighting from sunset to sunrise to welcome the New Year. This special lighting will continue from sunset to 1:00 a.m. on January 2 and 3.
Tonight and tomorrow, the Samuel De Champlain Bridge will sparkle with blue and golden white lighting from sunset to sunrise to welcome the New Year. This special lighting will continue from sunset to 1:00 a.m. on January 2 and 3.
Tonight and tomorrow, the Samuel De Champlain Bridge will sparkle with blue and golden white lighting from sunset to sunrise to welcome the New Year. This special lighting will continue from sunset to 1:00 a.m. on January 2 and 3.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford is expected to have a “very tough conversation” with his finance minister today over a controversial Caribbean vacation.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford is expected to have a “very tough conversation” with his finance minister today over a controversial Caribbean vacation.
Norwegian rescuers deployed drones and dogs to negotiate unstable clay soil in a search for 10 people still missing on Thursday after a landslide in southern Norway swept away more than a dozen buildings the previous day.
This New Year’s Eve is being celebrated like no other, with pandemic restrictions limiting crowds and many people bidding farewell to a year they’d prefer to forget.
Horror landed in 2020 both instructing and judging, as well as thriving. It’s a boom time for the genre, which entered its renaissance only a few years ago and is likely to only be helped by a global pandemic.
Nearly 10 months after Alberta’s first presumptive COVID-19 case was confirmed, mothers across the province are giving birth to what some have dubbed “the coronial generation.”
In a year dominated by a global pandemic and American politics, some might find it fitting that the library book most likely to be checked out across Ontario was a hopeful memoir written by the former first lady of the United States.
A little black and white cat was one of 347 rescued from a single, squalid two-bedroom Toronto apartment in 2019. This year, during lockdowns one and two, she’s become the best thing of her owner’s year.
Sulagna Sanyal and Rajesh Menon opened the first Indian restaurant in the coastal Newfoundland village of Dildo, tapping into a tourism boom heightened by interest from U.S. talk-show host Jimmy Kimmel. But COVID-19 has stopped the community’s plans cold.
Chinese health regulators said Thursday that they have given conditional approval to a coronavirus vaccine developed by state-owned Sinopharm.
“Nicholas did live his dreams,” Suzanne Boweker said of her son, who was found dead Tuesday. “And I am happy that he was happy. I’m not happy that he’s gone but I’m happy that he was able to do so much in his 30 years.
David Weisgarber said he believes son Tequel Willis was set up by someone who asked him to deliver a set of car keys to Surrey.
Lewis Hamilton received a knighthood Wednesday as part of Queen Elizabeth II’s New Year’s honours list, which also recognized British performers, politicians, public servants and people outside the limelight who worked to defeat the coronavirus and its devastating impacts.
Becky Hammon became the first woman to direct a team in NBA history, taking over the San Antonio Spurs on Wednesday night against the Los Angeles Lakers following Gregg Popovich’s ejection in the first half.
A B.C. mom who gave birth while in an induced coma because of COVID-19 says she was released from hospital just in time to spend Christmas at home with her family.
The National for December 30: Ottawa says travellers coming to Canada will have to get a COVID-19 test first. Plus, a look back on 2020.
Less than a week before training camp was set to begin, Zdeno Chara shocked the hockey world by signing a one-year deal with the Washington Capitals.
Health Minister Christian Dubé says Pfizer’s requirement that the second of its two-dose vaccine be held back is bogging down the vaccination effort. Other provinces are plowing ahead regardless.
A 14-year-old from Burnaby, B.C., was killed Monday in what police said was a targeted shooting in Surrey, B.C., the second such shooting in the city in a 24-hour period.