There’s finally something to celebrate for some Lethbridge small business owners with the province announcing the loosening of some COVID-19 restrictions.
Southern Albertans were cleaning up Thursday after a serious windstorm made its way through the region Wednesday causing substantial property damage and wiping out power for more than 1,000 people.
A powerful wind storm swept through Alberta Wednesday, knocking out power, breaking trees and forcing two Lethbridge School districts to send students home before lunch.
The owner of Peppermint Hippo Tattoo said AHS officials warned they would pull his business license indefinitely if he decided to remain open, in violation of the Alberta government’s mandatory COVID restrictions.
Many southern Alberta business owners who vowed to break COVID-19 restrictions this week were more reserved Monday, instead choosing to book future appointments and speak with clients, instead of violating health orders.
Alberta will be ready to administer up to 50,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine by the end of the month, but a delay in delivery from the federal government will hamper that effort, Health Minister Tyler Shandro said Friday.
Several health-care workers tell CTV News that the online booking system used by the province for vaccine appointments is riddled with complications, often disconnecting users or not allowing schedule changes.
As case and testing numbers decline, Alberta Health Services say two walk-in testing centres in the Calgary Zone will shift to administering immunizations.
A Calgary woman facing terminal cancer says Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada has approved her permanent residency application and her Alberta health care coverage is on the verge of being reinstated.
The World Health Organization's emergencies chief said Friday that the impact of new variants of COVID-19 in places like Britain, South Africa and Brazil remains to be seen, citing human behaviour for some recent rises in infection counts.
A U.S. federal judge on Friday ordered a far-right conspiracy theorist who left an ominous note for Vice President Mike Pence inside the U.S. Capitol to be detained pending trial, saying he participated in a 'violent insurrection.'
Over the next month Canada will be experiencing a 'temporary' delay in Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine shipments due to the pharmaceutical giant's expansion plans at its European manufacturing facility, with the shortage resulting in an average of 50 per cent of coming doses delayed each week.
The spread of COVID-19 continues to surge rapidly across the country and federal officials are urging swift action to avoid Canadian doctors having to make 'impossible choices,' such as who gets an ICU bed.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is leaving the door open to tighter travel restrictions, including a possible ban on outbound air travel as COVID-19 case counts climb across the country.
