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Article content My COVID Story: How have you been impacted by coronavirus? Postmedia is looking to speak with people who may have been impacted by COVID-19 here in Alberta. Have you received your vaccine, and if so did you feel any side effects? Send us an email at reply@calgaryherald.com to tell us your experience, or send us a message via this form. Penalties remain to be seen for Edmonton-area church defying public health orders GraceLife Church in Parkland County defied Alberta government public gathering restrictions on the weekend and held a church service where almost 300 people at...

Kelly Geraldine Malone Crosses are displayed in memory of residents who died from COVID-19 at the Camilla Care Community facility in Mississauga, Ont., on Nov. 19, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette January 31, 2021 - 10:17 AM When Thelma Coward-Ince donned her uniform in 1954, she was believed to be the first Black reservist in the Royal Canadian Navy. Decades later, the strong, hard-working great-grandmother moved into the Northwood long-term care facility in Halifax due to dementia. She lived there for five years among other navy veterans until a deadly vi...

More than 20,000 Canadians have now died from COVID-19. Since the first death last March, health officials across the country have shared the grim daily numbers of the pandemic’s fatal toll. There have been grandparents, parents, single mothers and children. Some were health-care workers and others who worked to ensure Canadians had essential supplies. Many who died, like Coward-Ince, were residents of crowded care homes, which served as fuel to the fire of the virus during the first and second waves of the pandemic. Curtis Jonnie, better known as Shingoose, left behind a legacy that m...

Posted: Jan 24, 2021 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: January 24 Workers from the Cargill meat processing plant in High River Alberta protest the plant's reopening in May 2020. It was workers and their union the United Food and Commercial Workers of Canada who exposed the COVID-19 outbreak at the company. (Submitted by UFCW Local 401)

Meatpackers union argues Cargill undermined efforts in outbreak Marcy Nicholson, Bloomberg News VIDEO SIGN OUT Cargill Inc. is facing accusations at a Canadian hearing that it undermined union leaders trying to protect workers at an Alberta beef plant during one of the industry’s worst Covid-19 outbreaks. The United Food and Commercial Workers Local 401 is making its case as hearings continue this week with the Alberta Labour Relations Board, days after a police investigation into a COVID-19 death of a plant employee last May brought renewed attention to Cargill’s actions du...