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The latest news on COVID 19 developments in Canada for March 28, 2021

The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times Eastern): 10:30 a.m. Ten more people in Ontario have died with COVID-19 as the province reports 2,448 new cases of the disease. Health Min...

Mar 28, 2021

'It's silly:' Director of Bigfoot movie thanks Alberta energy centre for controversy

EDMONTON - The director of a children's movie about Bigfoot wants to thank the Alberta government's energy centre for starting a "ludicrous" fight over the film. Ben Stassen laughed several times as h...

Mar 28, 2021

Path out of pandemic isn't straightforward, but hope lies ahead: experts

TORONTO - There is a light at the end of the tunnel, COVID-19 experts say, even if it's hard to see it while more contagious virus variants plunge parts of Canada into the third wave of the pandemic. ...

Mar 28, 2021

The need for speed: How Canada approved five vaccines for COVID-19 in under a year

OTTAWA - In the last four years, Health Canada has approved more than 1,500 new or updated pharmaceuticals. Ten of them are vaccines. Five of those are for COVID-19. Dr. Supriya Sharma, the chief medi...

Mar 28, 2021

Establishing motive central focus in fatal library attack in North Vancouver: police

VANCOUVER - Police are working to determine the motive of a series of stabbings that left a woman dead and six others injured inside and around a public library in North Vancouver, B.C., on Saturday. ...

Mar 28, 2021

B.C. mining laws raise questions as province looks to implement UN declaration

VANCOUVER - The relationships between Indigenous nations and British Columbia's mining sector are set to change as the province works to match its laws with the United Nations Declaration on the Right...

Aaron Schulze Mar 28, 2021

The latest numbers on COVID-19 in Canada for Saturday, March 27, 2021

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 8:30 p.m. ET on Saturday March 27, 2021. There are 961,083 confirmed cases in Canada. Canada: 961,083 confirmed cases (42,025 active, 896...

Mar 27, 2021

RCMP say multiple stabbings at North Vancouver library, six taken to hospital

VANCOUVER - The RCMP say multiple victims were stabbed inside and outside a library today in North Vancouver, B.C. Police say in a statement on Twitter that a suspect is in custody and there's no ongo...

Mar 27, 2021

‘Stronger’ measures needed across Canada to suppress COVID-19 resurgence: Tam

OTTAWA - As provinces push ahead with plans to reopen their economies, Canada's chief public health officer is warning that current health orders are not enough to stop rapid growth of COVID-19.Dr. Th...

Mar 27, 2021

Ex-colleague of Ontario doctor Brian Nadler 'shocked' to learn of murder charge

HAWKESBURY, Ont. - A former colleague of Brian Nadler, the Ontario doctor arrested this week in connection with suspicious deaths at a hospital, described him as compassionate with patients. Dr. Ahmed...

Mar 27, 2021