covid

Roughly 200,000 small businesses took on new debt to access the forgivable portion of their pandemic relief loans from the federal government, the Canadian Federation of Independent Business said Tuesday. Many businesses took private bank loans with high interest rates to pay back enough of their Canada Emergency Business Account loans to qualify for partial […]

A judge has ruled it was unreasonable for the Liberal government to use the Emergencies Act to quell “Freedom Convoy” protests in the national capital and at key border points two years ago. In a decision released Tuesday, Federal Court Justice Richard Mosley said invocation of the act led to the infringement of constitutional rights.  […]

About one in nine Canadian adults have had long-term symptoms from COVID-19 infection, according to a Statistics Canada report issued Friday. That amounts to 3.5 million Canadians, it said. Almost 80 per cent of those people with long-term symptoms have them for six months or more, the report said. In addition, more than half of […]

Influenza in the province has bypassed COVID-19 in both cases and deaths in November. That is according to the province’s latest Community Respiratory Illness Surveillance Program (CRISP) report for November 5 to 18. Over that period, there were 1099 influenza cases and five deaths, more than five times more cases than there were for the […]

In the past four weeks, there have been four deaths in COVID-19 cases, all in the 60 years or older group. That is according to the province’s latest Community Respiratory Illness Surveillance Program (CRISP) report. The report for the period of October 8 to October 21 shows that hospitalization due to the virus is on […]

When vaccines against COVID-19 first became available in Canada, public service announcements flooded radio and TV broadcasts and repeatedly popped up online and across social media feeds. More than 80 per cent of people in Canada responded, lining up at mass vaccination clinics or booking appointments for their first two doses. Federal, provincial and territorial […]

Four more people have died due to COVID-19, according to the province’s latest Community Respiratory Illness Surveillance report for September 24th to October 7th. Over the two weeks, there were 499 positive lab tests for COVID-19, an increase from the 276 in the previous two-week reporting period. COVID-19 hospitalizations increased slightly from 127 for the […]

Public health officials say the number of COVID-19 infections is climbing again — just in time for respiratory virus season in the fall and winter, when respiratory syncytial virus and influenza also come on the scene.  Health Canada recently authorized an updated mRNA COVID-19 vaccine, manufactured by Moderna, thattargets the XBB.1.5 Omicron subvariant circulating now. The […]

Saskatchewan reached a grime milestone, as 2,000 people have died of COVID-19 in the province. The provincial government recently released the latest community respiratory illness surveillance program report, reporting five more people due to COVID-19 from June 18 to July 15. Breakdown By Year: February 1, 2020, to January 2, 2021 158 January 3, 2021, […]

Over the last month, 16 people have died due to COVID-19 in the province. That is according to the province’s latest Community Respiratory Illness Surveillance Program report for April 23 to May 20. Also, during that time, 165 people were hospitalized, with 21 being admitted to the intensive care unit. With the latest numbers, there […]