COVID

“Extending our quarantine program will provide peace of mind to workers, employers and communities that we are doing everything possible to prevent the spread of COVID-19,” says B.C.'s Agriculture Minister Lana Popham.

Sarah Wells pushed past injury to compete at the Olympics in London before just missing out on Rio, and now she’s equipping high school students with the skills to get over their own hurdles.

Crucial investments and actions are missing, the Preventing Pandemics at the Source coalition said, leaving the world playing an “ill-fated game of Russian roulette with pathogens.”

Herbie Barnes is an Anishinaabe actor, writer, director and teacher who grew up in Toronto’s economically disadvantaged Jane and Finch area. As the new artistic director of the city’s Young People’s Theatre, he’s determined to open up more opportunities for young creatives.

In a 183-147 vote held Monday afternoon, the Bloc Québécois motion was supported by Bloc, NDP and Conservative MPs, however Liberals voted against it.

Canada added a single-dose COVID-19 vaccine to its pandemic-fighting arsenal on Friday, approving Johnson & Johnson's product a week after it was authorized in the United States.

Some employees of a central Alberta pork plant that shut down due to COVID-19 are afraid to go back to work, their union president says. 

Tabitha McLoughlin says it was interesting seeing farmers markets being used in such a utilitarian manner during the pandemic.

Health Canada approved its third COVID-19 vaccine on Friday, authorizing the jab made by AstraZeneca and Oxford University after a lengthy review of clinical trial details.

The wine list at Shira Blustein’s restaurant probably won’t be getting much cheaper, but thanks to recent changes to B.C.’s liquor laws, it will soon be more interesting.

Seniors in Canada's two largest provinces are facing significantly different timelines for vaccinations, as increasing spread of COVID-19 variants causes concern for health officials across the country. 

Maurita Prato and her team, with help from other community members, organizations and funders, were able to start a "Good Food Box" program, which delivered free and healthy boxes to people’s homes at the beginning of the pandemic.

Over the weekend, health authorities revealed a number of positive cases of the faster-spreading U.K. COVID-19 variant at seven different schools in Surrey and Delta in B.C.'s Lower Mainland.

A mandatory three-day hotel quarantine for most travellers landing at Canadian airports got off to a rough start on Monday, as some passengers complained of long waits to access the hotel-booking system.

China has been treating COVID-19 patients with probiotics since the pandemic began, and some British hospitals are having luck with high doses of vitamin D. Canada is studying whether probiotics, vitamin D and vitamin C may prove beneficial.