Category Archives: Covid-19

As British Columbia looks at easing up its COVID-19 restrictions, federal officials say it’s a complex decision. Dr. Tom Wong is the Chief Medical Officer of Public Health with Indigenous Servic...

The province confirmed three deaths due to COVID-19 on Saturday and they occurred at the Northwood long-term care home in Halifax Regional Municipality. That brings the total number of deaths in Nova ...

There has been a fourth COVID-19-related death in Nova Scotia. Dr. Robert Strang, the province's chief medical officer of health, says a woman in her 80s, died in Cape Breton. There were twenty-seven ...

A local MP says all our hard work is starting to pay off. Cape Breton-Canso MP Mike Kelloway says it's not over, but it looks like the curve of COVID-19 is flattening out. Kelloway tells The Hawk Morn...

Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland says she's cautiously optimistic. Echoing comments made by Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Theresa Tam, Freeland says, after weeks of growing COVID-19 case numb...

Canada’s Health Minister says not to get discouraged by a recent spike in COVID-19 cases. Speaking to Acadia Broadcasting’s John Ongaro, Patty Hajdu explains one day of higher numbers does...

A former Port Hawkesbury town councillor says he's disappointed councillors didn't extend his term. Trevor Boudreau had his application for a six-month extension to his term denied at a special counci...

It appears Canada’s message to the United States is “not so fast” when it comes to easing travel restrictions along the Canada-US border. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday our...

The province's 2019-20 4-H season is the latest to fall victim to COVID-19. In a letter to members and parents, Scott Masters, the president of the 4-H Nova Scotia board of directors, says no one know...

The warden of Antigonish Co. says it's too early to tell how much of an impact COVID-19 will have on the municipality's bottom line. Owen McCarron says they had initially hoped to pass their 2020-21 b...