'He's in our hearts': Family and friends still seek answers one year after Nathan Wise’s disappearance
It’s been a year since Nathan Wise went missing and his family is no closer to finding out what happened to him.
A new poll suggests that the majority of Canadians believe they will eventually contract COVID-19.
The poll from the Angus Reid Institute, released Thursday, found that 55 per cent of Canadians expect to get COVID-19 eventually, regardless of the precautions they take. The percentage rises to 63 per cent among parents of children in grade school.
Regionally, 64 per cent of Manitobans believe they will catch COVID-19 eventually, while just 37 per cent of people in Saskatchewan believe they will catch the virus.
Some health officials do agree that there’s a chance most Canadians will catch COVID-19 at some point.
In March 2020, then Health Minister Patty Hajdu said upwards of 70 per cent of Canadians could become infected with the virus. More recently, Newfoundland and Labrador Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Janice Fitzgerald said she also believed it’s inevitable that most people in her province will get COVID-19 at some point.
"I know we all feel that we are done with COVID, but COVID is not quite done with us,” she said at a provincial briefing in early January. “Living with COVID means celebrating the good days and summoning all our grit and strength to persevere through the bad days.”
According to CTVNews.ca daily COVID-19 tacker, more then 2.6 million Canadians have already contracted COVID-19, including nearly 33,000 new cases on Wednesday.
Given the sense of inevitability surrounding COVID-19 infections in Canada, a relatively high number of Canadians believe all COVID-19 restrictions should end and those at risk can manage themselves.
In total, 39 per cent of Canadians believe Canadians should end restrictions, while 62 per cent of Conservative voters and 89 per cent of unvaccinated people believe it’s time to remove restrictions.
Florida and Texas are two of the notable areas that have already taken this approach to handling the pandemic. More than 10 million people have contracted COVID-19 in both states combined, along with nearly 140,000 deaths, according to tracking data from Google.
The poll also found that few Canadians believe the pandemic will be over in 2022.
Nationally, just 23 per cent of Canadians believe the pandemic will end in 2022, while those in Saskatchewan are most optimistic at 28 per cent. On the other hand, those in New Brunswick are the least optimistic that Canada is close to the end of the pandemic, at just 14 per cent.
When comparing the responses to the respondents vaccination status, 32 per cent of unvaccinated people believe that the pandemic will end in 2022, while 20 per cent of those with the booster believe the pandemic is nearly over.
It’s been a year since Nathan Wise went missing and his family is no closer to finding out what happened to him.
Dozens of Ontarians are expressing frustration in the province’s health-care system after their family doctors either dropped them as patients or threatened to after they sought urgent care elsewhere.
An Ottawa pizzeria is being recognized as one of the top 20 deep-dish pizzas in the world.
Amazon's paid subscription service provides free delivery for online shopping across Canada except for remote locations, the company said in an email. While customers in Iqaluit qualify for the offer, all other communities in Nunavut are excluded.
The fire burning near Fort McMurray grew from 25 hectares to 5,500 hectares over the weekend.
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin began a Cabinet shakeup on Sunday, proposing the replacement of Sergei Shoigu as defence minister as he begins his fifth term in office.
Police are searching for a male suspect after a man was “slashed in neck” on Sunday morning in downtown Toronto and died.
There were some scary moments for several people on a northern Ontario highway caught on video Thursday after a chain reaction following a truck fire.
Health Canada announced various product recalls this week, including electric adapters, armchairs, cannabis edibles and vehicle components.
English, history, entertainment, math and geography: high school trivia teams could be quizzed on any of it when they compete at the Reach for the Top Nationals in Ottawa in June.
An Ottawa pizzeria is being recognized as one of the top 20 deep-dish pizzas in the world.
A family of fifth generation farmers from Ituna, Sask. are trying to find answers after discovering several strange objects lying on their land.
A Listowel, Ont. man, drafted by the Hamilton Tigercats last week, is also getting looks from the NFL, despite only playing 27 games of football in his life.
The threat of zebra mussels has prompted the federal government to temporarily ban watercraft from a Manitoba lake popular with tourists.
A small Ajax dessert shop that recently received a glowing review from celebrity food critic Keith Lee is being forced to move after a zoning complaint was made following the social media influencer’s visit last month.
The Canada Science and Technology Museum is inviting visitors to explore their poop. A new exhibition opens at the Ottawa museum on Friday called, 'Oh Crap! Rethinking human waste.'
The Regina Police Service says it is the first in Saskatchewan and possibly Canada to implement new technology in its detention facility that will offer real-time monitoring of detainees’ vital health metrics.
Just as she had feared, a restaurant owner from eastern Quebec who visited Montreal had her SUV stolen, but says it was all thanks to the kindness of strangers on the internet — not the police — that she got it back.