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WHO decision on COVID-19 emergency won't effect Canada's response: Tam

OTTAWA - The World Health Organization will announce Monday whether it thinks COVID-19 still represents a global health emergency but Canada's top doctor says regardless of what the international body...

Jan 27, 2023

Ex-Reform leader Preston Manning picked to chair review of Alberta's COVID response

EDMONTON - Premier Danielle Smith has struck a committee to investigate how the Alberta government responded to the COVID-19 pandemic and has appointed former Reform Party leader Preston Manning to ch...

Jan 19, 2023

Smith says she won't pursue COVID pardon legislation on advice from justice officials

EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says she won't introduce legislation to pardon those convicted of COVID-19 public health violations because she has been advised to let the courts handle it. ...

Jan 17, 2023

Smith says no COVID-19 pardons because Canadian system doesn't work like the U.S.

EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says she is no longer pursuing amnesty for COVID-19 health-rule violators because Canada doesn't work that way. "Because we've been so influenced by the (Unit...

Jan 16, 2023

Smith says she urged minister to consider whether COVID prosecutions could succeed

EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has delivered a third version of what she discussed with justice officials over how to handle the prosecution of people charged with breaking COVID-19 health ...

Jan 14, 2023

China reports almost 60,000 COVID-related deaths

BEIJING (AP) - China on Saturday reported nearly 60,000 deaths in people who had COVID-19 since early December following complaints the government was failing to release data about the status of the p...

Jan 14, 2023

Alberta NDP: 'A lot of lying going on' about premier's role in COVID-19 prosecutions

Alberta's Opposition NDP leader says Premier Danielle Smith has entangled herself in a web of lies and needs to come clean over what she has been saying to prosecutors pursuing COVID-19 health violati...

Jan 13, 2023

Pentagon drops COVID-19 vaccine mandate for troops

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Pentagon formally dropped its COVID-19 vaccination mandate Tuesday, but a new memo signed by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin also gives commanders some discretion in how or whethe...

Jan 10, 2023

CP NewsAlert: B.C. to reactivate its COVID emergency operations centres

VANCOUVER - The British Columbia government will reopen 20 hospital emergency operations centres set up for COVID-19 to deal with an expected surge in flu, respiratory illness and COVID cases. Health ...

Jan 06, 2023

Rule requiring negative COVID test before Chinese flights takes effect

VANCOUVER - Airline passengers leaving China, Hong Kong and Macau will have to provide evidence of a negative COVID-19 test when they enter Canada starting today. The Canadian government announced las...

Jan 05, 2023