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Nova Scotia reports single-day record 182 new cases of COVID-19 Thursday; active cases increase to 1,309

Nova Scotia is reporting a single-day record 182 new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, as the active number of cases in the province rises to 1,309

Nurses greet patients at a COVID-19 walk-in clinic in Montreal, on Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2020. (THE CANADIAN PRESS / Paul Chiasson)

N.B. reports province's 40th COVID-19-related death, 11 new cases Thursday

Health officials in New Brunswick are reporting the province's 40th COVID-19 related death on Thursday, connected to a person in their 80s.

The U.S. is beginning to see a resurgence of COVID-19 cases. (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg/Getty Images/CNN)

'I think somebody has him': Grandmother of missing boy says in first interview since his disappearance

Without knowing where their son is, Dylan Ehler's parents did what they know he would love to do — launch little dissolvable boats marked with messages of hope and love, one year after he disappeared.

"I went to tie the dog on her lead and I turn around and Dylan is just gone. Gone. I have no explanation," said Dorothy Parsons, who is Dylan Ehler's grandmother.

'People didn't really clue in,' says Nova Scotia's top doc about failure to take latest COVID-19 outbreak seriously

Nova Scotia's top doctor says there will be another high total of COVID-19 cases on Friday and it will continue for a few more days until we see the effect of the toughest restrictions that were put in place last week.

'COVID is killing people': Friends of N.S. COVID-19 victim share grief, frustration

Karen Turpin was shocked when she suddenly learned last week that her long-time friend, Sherry Slaunwhite, had died at home of COVID-19.

New Glasgow police charge 11 people for violating public health orders

Police in New Glasgow, N.S. have charged six men and five women with violating the province’s Health Protection Act and the Emergency Management Acts, following four separate incidents on Wednesday and Thursday.

P.E.I. reports two new COVID-19 cases Thursday, potential exposure sites

Prince Edward Island is reporting two new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday.

Health care services feeling the strain as COVID-19 cases rise in Cape Breton

While most of Nova Scotia’s confirmed COVID-19 cases are in the province’s Central zone, Cape Breton is also experiencing more cases than ever before, and it’s already having an effect on health care services.

Paying more at the pumps; gas prices rise across the Maritimes

Maritimers will be paying more at the pumps Friday morning.

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Front-line medical workers call for vaccine prioritization as many remain with one dose

Emergency room doctors and nurses in Canada are growing increasingly frustrated that many of them have yet to receive a second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.

ICU health-care workers enter a negative pressure room to care for a COVID-19 patient on a ventilator at the Humber River Hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic in Toronto on Wednesday, December 9, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette

With deliveries expanding, Canada on track to offer doses to all, even those newly eligible: Fortin

The military general leading the logistics of Canada's COVID-19 vaccine rollout says that even with the number of Canadians who are now eligible to be immunized expanding, the country is expecting to have enough doses arriving to offer vaccines to everyone who wants them in the months ahead.

Can we create a universal vaccine for future coronaviruses? These Canadian scientists want to

Researchers in Saskatchewan, along with others around the globe, are working to create a universal vaccine that might be able to work against all future coronavirus-related viruses.

Statistics Canada to say how labour force fared in April

Statistics Canada will say this morning how the labour market fared last month as governments imposed lockdowns and renewed restrictions aimed at slowing the rising spread of COVID-19.

PM's chief of staff offers to testify before defence committee Friday in military misconduct review

The prime minister's chief of staff, Katie Telford, has offered to appear before the House of Commons' defence committee on Friday as part of its ongoing review into sexual misconduct in the Canadian Armed Forces, CTV News has learned.