Canada

A six-year-old girl died after she drowned in a swimming pool during a party at an Oshawa home on the evening of June 12. This article contains graphic content that might not be suitable for some readers. According to a statement by Durham Regional Police Service (DRPS), officers responded to a...

British Columbia's police watchdog says a woman suffered potentially life-threatening injuries after she was pulled over in a traffic stop in Castlegar on Saturday. The Independent Investigations Office says an officer ordered the woman who was riding an electric scooter to pull over late Saturday. The office, which investigates all cases...

All Manitobans who received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine on or before May 10 can now make an appointment for a second jab. Health officials expanded eligibility for the second shot by four days on Monday. All Indigenous people in the province, as well as people with certain high-risk medical...

A 22-year-old Brampton man is dead after he was pulled from water off Wasaga Beach on Saturday night. Huronia West OPP says that they were called to Wasaga Beach Area 2 at 5:30 p.m. after a man who had floated several hundred metres off shore on a “flotation toy” and...

New Brunswick is reporting 74.6 per cent of residents aged 12 and older have now received their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. That means another 2,775 people need to receive their first dose to reach the 75 per cent mark, which is necessary to begin loosening pandemic restrictions under...

Waterloo Region public health confirmed 86 new coronavirus cases on Sunday, compared to 65 on Saturday. That puts the overall total at 16,621. Hospitalizations remain stable with 33 people in hospital being treated for the virus --- 20 are in intensive care. The active caseload is up by 37 to 463. Over...

Ottawa Public Health is reporting 34 more people in the city have tested positive for COVID-19. According to the public health unit's COVID-19 dashboard, there have been 27,426 total laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa since March 11, 2020. A total of 585 residents have died due to COVID-19. OPH...

Today, June 13, Nova Scotia is reporting eight new cases of COVID-19 and 11 recoveries. There are four new cases in Central Zone. Two of the cases are close contacts of previously reported cases. One case is related to travel and one is under investigation. One of the cases in...

Seven more people have died from COVID-19 in Manitoba, with the majority of the deaths linked to the B.1.1.7 variant of concern. The deaths were announced in Sunday’s COVID-19 bulletin and bring the provincial death toll to 1,100. The three deaths in the Winnipeg Health region were linked to the B.1.1.7...

Quebec is reporting 151 new COVID-19 infections on Sunday and two more virus-related deaths. This is the eighth straight day that daily infection rates come in below 200 in the province. As of Monday, all regions of the province will see their pandemic-alert levels go down to either yellow or green. Montreal...