After a weekend of mounting pressure, Paul Woods has been fired as CEO of the London Health Sciences Centre, the hospital’s board said in an email to staff Monday morning.

In December, Air Canada said it would suspend Sydney, N.S., commercial flights indefinitely.

A father-and-son team of rookie inventors say they pitched their patent-pending COVID-safe lid applicator to Tim Hortons, and got a good response. But after the deal fell apart over a price dispute, they say the chain took their idea without paying a cent.

Ontario’s latest COVID-19 modelling will project the province’s intensive care units to be filled beyond capacity by early February, and will also show how a new more contagious variant of the coronavirus risks accelerating the spread of infections, sources tell CBC News.

A new coronavirus variant has been detected in four travellers from Brazil’s Amazonas state, Japan’s Health Ministry said on Sunday, the latest new mutation of the virus discovered.

Provincial lockdown measures have been extended in Alberta and Manitoba, while Saskatchewan has said it plans to review the status of its Christmas limits on gatherings and retail capacity.

The recent case of a Nunavut woman who flew to Winnipeg to deliver her fifth child and died of COVID-19 points to the risks in relying on interprovincial travel for health care, especially during a pandemic.

Most of the new appointees to the Order of Canada in 2020 were white men, despite some progress made in boosting the diversity of the elite group.

Input Capital, a publicly traded company based in Regina, says it is investigating after its $97.5-million proposed sale to smooth-talking American businessman Eric Blue collapsed two months ago.

Canada’s chief public health officer says the government is closely monitoring the spread of coronavirus variants that have been discovered in the country.