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Kelly Geraldine Malone The sun rises over the city of Toronto on Monday, April 26, 2021. Ontario has marked a grim milestone with the province’s death toll pushing past 8,000 accelerated by a deadly third wave of the pandemic as Nova Scotia saw a slight decline in new infections. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn April 29, 2021 - 5:16 PM Ontario marked a grim COVID-19 milestone Thursday as its virus-related death toll passed 8,000 and Alberta brought in tighter publ...

Health Minister Christian Dube says appointments will rapidly open to Quebeckers in descending order of age until May 14, when they will be available to people aged 18 to 24

Article content Ontario is expecting a significant influx of vaccines that will allow the province to boost the number of shots given to COVID-19 hot spots in the next few days and open up eligibility for appointments to all adults in the province by the week of May 24, officials said Thursday. The additional supply allows the province to move up its schedule of who can be vaccinated when in Phase 2, including  people who can’t work from home and those who have health conditions that put the...

Brandon Sun By: Kelly Geraldine Malone, The Canadian Press Posted: Last Modified: 7:16 PM CDT Thursday, Apr. 29, 2021 Save to Read Later Ontario marked a grim COVID-19 milestone Thursday as its virus-related death toll passed 8,000 and Alberta brought in tighter public-health measures to try to get rapidly rising infection rates in hot spots under control. The sun rises over the city ...

Article content The latest COVID-19 projections from Quebec’s public health institute (INSPQ) show optimistic scenarios for the Greater Montreal Area, but indicate the regions will remain unstable for a little while longer, even with emergency measures in place. The optimism shown in Thursday’s projections, when compared with previous ones, relies heavily on the vaccine rollout in Quebec. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or COVID-19 projections ...

  OTTAWA -- If you’re holding on to an Air Canada voucher because of a flight cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, you may be one step closer to getting a refund. But the prospects of a refund are still up in the air. Unifor president Jerry Dias says Air Canada has agreed to refund passengers for cancelled or delayed flights during the COVID-19 pandemic in exchange for a federal government bailout.   Unifor also represents airline workers. "The airline industry today is in very, ...

Quebec could see amounts of new daily cases of COVID-19 that dwarf previous records due to the spread of highly-contagious variants of the virus, experts warn.

  MONTREAL -- Epidemiologists have gotten to work predicting the future if highly contagious COVID-19 variants spread through Quebec, and their findings are alarming – especially combined with news that variant cases do continue to climb. As of Tuesday there are 86 people probably infected with COVID-19 variants in the province, with their viral samples being sequenced to identify the variants, said Quebec Health Minister Christian Dubé. Nonetheless, the province is easing some restrict...

“If a variant is more transmissible, it has an advantage and there’s a good chance it will take over the other strains,” says the INSPQ’s Marc Brisson.

The latest developments on the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada (all times eastern): 11:15 a.m. New COVID-19 modelling in Quebec suggests a more contagious