Canada's chief public health officer said Friday that cases of the Omicron variant have peaked nationwide and the number of new infections has dropped significantly over the past week.

Unions are pressing the Ontario government to reverse a pandemic policy that allows hospital workers to return to their jobs while infected with COVID-19 if a facility's staffing situation becomes dire.

Last week, as Toronto faced its first major snowstorm, photojournalists spent some time with doctors as they saw patients and gave them booster shots of the COVID-19 vaccine.

With Canada's vaccine requirement for travellers, air passengers may presume everyone over 12 on their flight is fully vaccinated. But that’s not necessarily the case, as some travellers, such as unvaccinated Canadians flying home from abroad, are exempt from the vaccine requirement.

The National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) had previously recommended third doses for immunocompromised people 12 years of age and older.

Student nurses joining the front lines of Alberta’s strained health-care system during the fifth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic are eager to help ease the pressure on provincial hospitals.

In this week's issue of our environment newsletter, we look at the challenges of meeting net zero goals without natural gas and hear from one Ontario town that a year ago banned single-use plastic.

The outcomes in two B.C. cases involving the same couple highlight differences in how incidents of intimate partner violence are handled in the criminal court system, where the case is brought forward by the Crown prosecution, and civil court, where the plaintiff can have more control over the evidence brought forward.

Two community leaders tried for years to establish cemeteries for Muslims in Quebec City and the Eastern Townships. On the fifth anniversary of a deadly attack on a mosque in the provincial capital, they explain why the effort was worth it and is a sign of positive change.

Canada is not yet at a stage where people can live with the coronavirus and return to normal activities and it's dangerous to misuse the word "endemic" to suggest that, infectious disease experts and epidemiologists warn.

An all-new Black library is opening in London, Ont., at the end January. It will feature books written by Black authors from Canada and around the world.  

Premier Jason Kenney says he wants to eliminate Alberta's COVID-19 vaccine passport program as soon as it's safe to do so, but noted that it's not yet the right time, as hospitals continue to feel pandemic pressures.

Residents of Beaubassin-Est and Cap-Pelé can now borrow kicksleds to slide on packed snow after winter storms. Similar to a dogsled, but human-propelled, the sleds have two skis and a seat in the front.

Sixteen-year-old Mark Connors says he was the target of racist slurs at a tournament on the island late last year.