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CALGARY - RCMP in Alberta are reviewing whether the COVID-19 death of a worker at a Cargill Ltd. meat-packing plant last spring is a criminal matter. The Cargill beef plant in High River, Alta., is shown on Thursday, April 23, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh CALGARY - RCMP in Alberta are reviewing whether the COVID-19 death of a worker at a Cargill Ltd. meat-packing plant last spring is a criminal matter. One of the worker's family members dropped off an information package at the RCMP's High River detachment south of Calgary last week, media relations officer Cpl. Tammy Keibel said...

ADDS background on police investigations Canada's federal police launched an investigation Monday into a work-related Covid-19 death after the victim's family accused his employer of criminal negligence. It is the country's first criminal probe of a death resulting from a workplace infection since the pandemic began early last year, according to local media. Benito Quesada, a 51-year-old immigrant from Mexico, died in hospital in May last year, weeks after he and hundreds of co-workers at a Cargill meat packing plant in High River, Alberta were infected with the novel coronavirus. "The RCMP ...

Calgary pastor defiant despite fine for COVID-19 infractions. Ontario's cabinet meets after presentations on worrisome ICU modelling. Read more:  Experts say regional travel helps seed COVID-19, but there are few good tools to prevent it beyond persuasion; another hospital executive has paid the price for pandemic travel, fired after 5 trips to the U.S. U.S. president-elect Joe Biden receives his second dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine on Monday at the ChristianaCare Christiana Hospital in Newark, Del., just over one week before he takes office. (Tom Brenner/Reuters) RCMP lau...