Premier Doug Ford apologized and said the province moved 'too fast' in announcing sweeping new measures aimed at curbing the third wave of COVID-19 in Ontario and said his government is working on a provincially-run sick leave benefit to curb the spread of infection.
Provincial health officials are now investigating an alarming new trend of people with COVID-19 who are rapidly deteriorating and dying before seeking medical care, Ontario's chief coroner and coordinator of the province’s outbreak response team said Thursday.
As Nova Scotia reports 38 new cases of COVID-19 – the largest single-day case increase in nearly one year – the province's premier announced tighter restrictions in the Halifax area and some surrounding communities in order to help curb the spread of the virus.
Police from across Metro Vancouver gathered to give an update on escalating gun violence Thursday following the region's third shooting death in less than a week.
Doctors in the province are calling on the government to tighten restrictions so the medical system doesn't get overworked.
Truck drivers from Manitoba are receiving their first vaccinations against COVID-19 in North Dakota.
Following the Ontario government's decision to walk back some of its new health measures aimed at curbing the spread of COVID-19, golfers and health experts say the closure of golf courses also needs to be re-evaluated.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is promising to slash Canada's greenhouse gas emissions by 40 to 45 per cent over the next nine years, but without specifics on how to meet the more ambitious goal, which falls short of the target set by its closet ally.
CTV News has learned that Health Sciences North and North Bay Regional Health Centre are receiving COVID-19 patient transfers from intensive care units in southern Ontario Wednesday.
Ontario’s top doctor is hinting the province may have started bending the curve as the province logged fewer than 4,000 new infections on Thursday.
The Supreme Court of Canada will not hear the Crown's appeal of the acquittal of a Quebec author who had been charged with producing child pornography because of fictional scenes in a horror novel.
A new bill could mean Albertans would have to prove gross negligence in order to sue a care home or hospital where their loved one contracted and died from COVID-19.
Ontario has issued two new emergency orders that will help bring more health-care workers into hospitals overburdened by COVID-19.
Quebec is broadening vaccine eligibility to more people with chronic illnesses, gradually ramping up the vaccine campaign to being opened to the general population.
The CRA erroneously declared a Winnipeg woman dead. Now her son is fighting to get her pension and long-term care funding back.
Hope dwindled for Julie and Paul Devigne as a treatment-resistant tumour in their baby's belly swelled so large it restricted his ability to eat, sleep and breathe. Then, in a surgical feat, doctors at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children gave little Felix another shot at life, say the Winnipeg parents.
As the scientific community comes to greater consensus that a significant percentage of COVID-19 transmission is airborne, British Columbia’s health minister is defending key resources remaining unchanged with now-outdated information.
Many of us are proud of our pandemic projects, all the things we wouldn't normally have been able to do without some extra time on our hands.
A Montreal veterinarian has been disciplined after removing 19 teeth from a Yorkshire terrier without the consent of its owner.
Ginette is preparing to share what she never expected to tell: her husband AJ’s story.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has appointed former cabinet minister and longtime Regina MP Ralph Goodale to serve as Canada’s next high commissioner in the United Kingdom.
The 2021 Women’s World Hockey Championship, scheduled to begin May 6 in Halifax and Truro, N.S., has been cancelled by the Nova Scotia government.
'Mortal Komba' may be based on a hit video-game franchise, but Vancouver-raised star Ludi Lin says it serves as an 'apt metaphor' for divisions in the world.
The upcoming health order restricting travel between B.C.'s health authority regions has a lot of people wondering just how it will be enforced.
The District of Muskoka is experiencing a significant spike in COVID-19 cases, with variant strains attributed to driving infection rates.
While much of the economy has been struggling over the last year, the real estate market is hotter than ever.
An Ontario woman who was eight months pregnant has been left paralyzed from the waist down and will likely never walk again after a horrific car crash earlier this week.
A local family is looking to the provincial government to fund a pricey, but life changing treatment for a rare disease.
A 66-year-old man and the driving company he worked for are facing four charges after a runaway wheel unit from his transport struck another vehicle on October 28, 2020.
Dr. Deena Hinshaw reported 1,857 COVID-19 cases on Thursday — Alberta's third highest one-day count since the pandemic began.
Region of Waterloo Public Health officials reported another 83 COVID-19 cases on Thursday.
Waterloo Regional Police say two people have serious injuries after a shooting in Kitchener.
The Region of Waterloo has unveiled how much the local vaccination efforts will cost this year and where they expect to be with the rollout down the road.
Two Toronto police officers have been charged after they attended a gathering at the Church Of God in Aylmer.
What a difference a year makes. When the pandemic first hit and brought the initial provincial lockdown, calls for help to London police dropped, but that’s not the case anymore.
Chatham-Kent police have charged two Windsor men and launched a homicide investigation into the shooting death of a Blenheim man.
Not content to simply wait out the pandemic, a Sault Ste. Marie doctor is using his downtime to write pandemic-themed books in the hope of informing and entertaining readers.
Shocked by last year's study showing toxic metals in fish found in Porcupine Lake, Porcupine native Sherrill Richards wanted a closer look at how the city's notorious sewage dumping is impacting her old neighbourhood.
Greater Sudbury Police said Thursday they are certain there are more people involved in setting a deadly fire in a Sudbury Housing complex on Bruce Avenue on April 11.
The latest on COVID-19 in Ottawa for Friday, April 23.
CTVNewsOttawa.ca look at things to do in Ottawa, eastern Ontario and western Quebec this weekend.
The federal government is imposing a 30-day ban on all commercial and private flights from India and Pakistan effective Thursday at 11:30 p.m. EST, as COVID-19 infections continue to surge in those countries.
Saskatchewan expanded vaccine appointment eligibility to anyone 44 years old and over on Thursday, but low vaccine supply in the province’s two largest cities forced many people to look elsewhere.
The Saskatchewan government announced Thursday that it will ease visitor restrictions at care homes in the province in one week.
Although the CFL announced its intention to start its season in August, some players remain skeptical and are being told to keep options open for 2021.
An Ontario woman who was eight months pregnant has been left paralyzed from the waist down and will likely never walk again after a horrific car crash earlier this week.
The federal government is imposing a 30-day ban on all commercial and private flights from India and Pakistan effective Thursday at 11:30 p.m. EST, as COVID-19 infections continue to surge in those countries.
An increase in COVID-19 infections and restrictions in the Toronto area have resulted in a dramatic reduction in traffic on the Highway 407 toll road.
Chatham-Kent police have charged two Windsor men and launched a homicide investigation into the shooting death of a Blenheim man.
Windsor police have charged a 53-year-old man after the seizure of a large quantity of methamphetamine, fentanyl, cocaine and cash.
The province has faced a tremendous amount of blowback over recent decisions to close playgrounds and other outdoor amenities since announcing new lockdown restrictions last Friday.
Doctors in the province are calling on the government to tighten restrictions so the medical system doesn't get overworked.
The clock is ticking towards a possible lockout at a Manitoba refugee settlement organization.
A Winnipeg carpenter is working to let some felines have fun in the outdoors.
Members of the Yukon Liberals will be sworn-in today as the party aims to form a minority government.
The federal labour minister says the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need to give workers the ability to avoid work emails and text messages as the lines between home and work lives blur.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his wife, Sophie Gregoire Trudeau, are scheduled to receive their first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine on Friday.
Canada could be administering 3.1 million COVID-19 vaccine doses a week, but well into what the federal government has coined the 'ramp-up' phase of Canada's vaccine rollout, the number of shots coming into Canada most weeks is still below what provinces and territories are capable of putting into arms, according to the head of the Public Health Agency of Canada.
Maj. Kellie Brennan says she was subject to unfair power imbalances throughout her years with the Canadian Armed Forces, including those in her relationship with former defence chief General Jonathan Vance, who she says fathered two children with her.
The federal government is imposing a 30-day ban on all commercial and private flights from India and Pakistan effective Thursday at 11:30 p.m. EST, as COVID-19 infections continue to surge in those countries.
Indonesian navy ships were scouring the waters off Bali on Friday as they raced against time to find a submarine that disappeared two days ago and has less than a day's supply of oxygen left for its 53 crew.
Many were posting the original Minneapolis police statement about George Floyd to highlight the distance between the initial police narrative and the evidence that led to the conviction Tuesday, including excruciating video shot by a teenage bystander of Chauvin with his knee on Floyd's neck, even after Floyd had stopped moving.
Derek Chauvin is already locked away in Minnesota's only maximum-security prison, held in a single cell for his own safety, but it will be two months before the former Minneapolis police officer learns his sentence for George Floyd's death.
Sirens wailing, a police convoy escorting a tanker carrying oxygen reached a hospital in India's capital just in time, to the huge relief of doctors and relatives of COVID-19 patients counting on the supply to stave off death.
Russia's defence minister on Thursday ordered troops back to their permanent bases following massive drills amid tensions with Ukraine, but said they should leave their weapons behind in western Russia for another exercise later this year.
The debate over the condict of Israeli soldiers' who shot and killed Osama Mansour at a temporary checkpoint echoes that over the high-profile police killings of Black Americans in the United States.
Premier Doug Ford apologized and said the province moved 'too fast' in announcing sweeping new measures aimed at curbing the third wave of COVID-19 in Ontario and said his government is working on a provincially-run sick leave benefit to curb the spread of infection.
Provincial health officials are now investigating an alarming new trend of people with COVID-19 who are rapidly deteriorating and dying before seeking medical care, Ontario's chief coroner and coordinator of the province’s outbreak response team said Thursday.
As Nova Scotia reports 38 new cases of COVID-19 – the largest single-day case increase in nearly one year – the province's premier announced tighter restrictions in the Halifax area and some surrounding communities in order to help curb the spread of the virus.
Ontario's hospitals and ICUs have been crushed by a punishing third coronavirus wave, as depleted resources and overworked staff push Canada's healthcare system -- often held up as a model for the rest of the world -- to the brink.
Hope dwindled for Julie and Paul Devigne as a treatment-resistant tumour in their baby's belly swelled so large it restricted his ability to eat, sleep and breathe. Then, in a surgical feat, doctors at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children gave little Felix another shot at life, say the Winnipeg parents.
A research paper claiming smokers are 23 per cent less likely to contract COVID-19 compared to non-smokers has been retracted by a European medical journal after it was revealed the study authors had financial ties to the tobacco industry.
Amal Clooney is doing what so many people have been doing during the pandemic: watching 'ER.' But according to husband and actor George Clooney, the many dalliances of Dr. Doug Ross have been met with disapproval.
The U.K.'s flagship music awards ceremony, the Brits, will go ahead with a 4,000-strong crowd, no social distancing and no masks next month, as part of a government trial that offers a peek at how large events can operate in a post-pandemic world.
It may be hard to believe that there are still many 'firsts' left to check off after 93 years of the Academy Awards, and yet this year there were a handful for Asian actors and filmmakers.
The authors behind the Dead Sea Scrolls, famous for containing the oldest manuscripts of the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament), have long eluded historians and scientists alike. But artificial intelligence technology has now unveiled two possible scribes.
NASA and Elon Musk's commercial rocket company SpaceX launched a new four-astronaut team on a flight to the International Space Station early on Friday, the first crew ever propelled toward orbit by a rocket booster recycled from a previous spaceflight.
NASA's Perseverance rover has successfully converted some of the plentiful carbon dioxide on Mars into oxygen.
As it becomes increasingly clear that workplaces are a key transmission location in the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, some Canadian employers are offering paid sick leave to their employees in the absence of government action.
Authorities have placed a half-dozen public hospital employees in southern Italy under investigation for abuse of office after they allegedly allowed a 67-year-old to draw a total of 538,000 euros (US$650,000) in salary over 15 years without ever working.
Global stock markets were mixed Friday after Wall Street fell following a report President Joe Biden will propose raising taxes on the wealthiest investors.
Experts worry that the "full self-driving" feature implies a greater functionality than what Tesla is actually offering.
A Canadian billionaire is developing a new vehicle he believes could solve congestion issues on city streets.
Jaguar Land Rover said Thursday it's suspending production at two U.K. factories, becoming the latest automaker to fall victim to a global shortage of microchips.
A family dog that went missing in Brandon, Man., turned up days later in an Ontario town more than 2,400 kilometres away from home.
The number of Canadians who use cannabis either occasionally or daily has increased in the three years since legalization, with more than one in three reporting an increase in their consumption during the pandemic.
Many of us are proud of our pandemic projects, all the things we wouldn't normally have been able to do without some extra time on our hands.
Following the Ontario government's decision to walk back some of its new health measures aimed at curbing the spread of COVID-19, golfers and health experts say the closure of golf courses also needs to be re-evaluated.
A handsome, golden-colored therapy bunny named Alex came to the ballpark and stole the hearts of San Francisco Giants fans Thursday night, attending the series opener against Miami with owners Kei Kato and Josh Row.
Felix Auger-Aliassime beat Denis Shapovalov 6-2, 6-3 in an all-Canadian third-round match at the Barcelona Open on Thursday.
