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With Alberta now in the grip of another public health emergency after a summer largely free of COVID-related restrictions, Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau said today Canadians can’t trust Conservatives to run the country during a pandemic. Pointing to Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole’s past praise for the Alberta government’s handling of the pandemic, …

New Delhi: Amid reports and speculations about a possible booster shot of Coronavirus vaccine, the Health Ministry on Thursday said that getting the entire population inoculated by both doses of the jab is government’s first priority at the moment.  Addressing a press conference earlier in the day, India Council of …

Robbie Thompson is no stranger to hospitals, doctors, medical appointments and procedures. The Courtenay, B.C., resident was only five months old when he was diagnosed with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy, which means the left side of his heart was too big for his body and continued to expand. He received …

Burnaby mom and nurse Rika Johnson is getting a tattoo in memory of her husband Jeremy. “We were together for 25 years and he passed a week before our wedding anniversary,” Johnson said. Johnson, Jeremy, and their two sons all contracted COVID-19 around Easter of this year. She had …

Fans of the Sheepdogs’ flocked to Stanley Park for an outdoor concert Friday night. At the same time, the Province kicked off its coyote cull. As Kristen Robinson reports, officials say the decision to lethally remove the aggressive animals from the park was the last resort, but critics disagree. News …

India’s rising output of COVID-19 vaccines and the inoculation of more than half its adult population with at least one dose are raising hopes the country will return as an exporter within months, ramping up from early next year. After donating or selling 66 million doses to nearly 100 countries, …

Chennai: Days after Kerala’s Onam festival, the state once again reported a new high on Wednesday with 31,445 people testing positive for Covid-19, taking the total number of active cases to 1,70,292.  A release from Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said the state tested 1,65,273 samples on Tuesday and the …

In the 26 years that Rick Jackson has worked at the Gables Restaurant in Saint Andrews, N.B., this was the first year the business didn’t receive a single job application. Jackson says Gables has tried putting up Help Wanted signs, ads in the local newspaper and job postings online. Nothing has …

Enlarge / Emergency medicine specialist Dr. Davis Wein walks in a parking garage that was turned into a series of COVID-19 test tents at Tampa General Hospital in Tampa, Florida, on August 19, 2020. As the hypertransmissible delta coronavirus variant continues its rampage through the unvaccinated, several states continue to …

Covid Update: India has registered less than 40,000 cases for the second straight day. The country reported 36,083 new Covid 19 cases, 37,927 recoveries, and 493 deaths in the last 24 hrs, as per Health Ministry. The weekly positivity rate remains below 5% and is currently at 2.00%. The daily …