Coronavirus (COVID-19) National News

Ottawa’s approach to creating a taxation process for home office work or relief funding has been an “ad hoc, band-aid process,’ a senior B.C. accountant says.

OTTAWA — The union representing front-line RCMP officers is asking federal and provincial officials to consider Mounties for priority access to COVID-19 vaccination.

UPDATE: 11:20 a.m. The updated mask rules in B.C. classrooms announced Thursday morning come five months after schools were reopened last September.

Ottawa has not been able to confirm how many Moderna Inc. vaccine are set to arrive in Canada later this month amid ongoing delivery delays from the pharmaceutical giant. Maj.-Gen.

MONTREAL — While the prospectof mass vaccination has raised hopes of the COVID-19 crisis soon waning, oncologists and cancer researchers say one of its grim legacies may be a lingering increase in cancer mortality rates.

TORONTO — One saving grace amid the devastation of COVID-19 has been that the vast majority of those infected are able to recover at home, allowing hospitals to cope with what would otherwise have been a system-crushing onslaught of ill, contagious p

Canada has seen nearly a 30 per cent drop in active COVID-19 cases over the past two weeks, but the country's chief public health officer says strict measures should remain in place as more contagious variants of the virus threaten to derail this dow

OTTAWA — Every COVID-19 vaccine maker Canada signed a contract with last summer was asked if they could make the doses in Canada and all of them concluded they could not, Procurement Minister Anita Anand said Thursday.

OTTAWA — The parliamentary budget officer says the federal government could lose out on $260 million from a simplified federal tax measure to let Canadians write off working from home due to the pandemic.

In Canada, where life is decidedly marked by the passing of the seasons, our psyche during the various stages of the COVID-19 pandemic has been influenced by the weather.