The second year of the COVID-19 pandemic may be tougher than the first given how the coronavirus is spreading, especially in the northern hemisphere as more infectious variants circulate, the World Health Organization said Wednesday.

The Ontario government is expected to provide more details at some point Wednesday about its newly issued stay-at-home order, as public health units reported another 2,961 cases of COVID-19 and 74 more deaths of people with the illness. 

Between 8 p.m. and 5 a.m., anybody caught outside, be it driving or jogging, may be stopped and questioned by police. But Sarah Vresk says one Montreal officer took things too far when he insisted on searching her bag.

Every winter, tucked behind churches and at the edges of parking lots, you’ll find temporary kingdoms for Canadian children who get a thrill from scaling filthy piles of snow that have been pushed off parking lots.

The Canada-U.S. border will remain closed to non-essential travel until at least Feb. 21.

The Atlantic Lottery Corporation says it’s preparing to expand a new online casino to allow play by residents of Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia, after quietly launching a website New Brunswickers could access in August 2020.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said today he wants to see every willing Canadian vaccinated before the next election — but pointed out that, as prime minister in a minority Parliament, it’s not entirely up to him.

New Canadian research suggests feelings of burnout were high long before COVID-19 arrived in Canada, particularly among nurses. This is prompting concern that months of heightened pressure is taking even more of a toll on health-care workers and their ability to do their jobs.

If Ontarians don’t significantly reduce their contact with other people during the COVID-19 pandemic, the province’s health system will become overwhelmed and deaths will exceed first-wave totals before a vaccine has time to take effect, new projections suggest.

In the first study of its kind, Statistics Canada is mailing out test kits to tens of thousands of people to study the prevalence of coronavirus in the country. In order to get a good result, the agency is hoping for a minimum 45 per cent response rate.