Relaxed rules allow friends and family to visit long-term-care residents outdoors, but some homes say the sudden announcement Friday gave them little time to prepare.

The country has surpassed the milestone just five months after vaccines were first rolled out.

“There was no doubt in my mind that I was going to die that night,” Chelsey Arkarakas says.

Critical care physicians stress that ICU occupancy due to COVID-19 is almost twice what it was at the peak of Wave 2, and the burden of the virus is preventing overstretched hospitals from tackling a growing backlog of surgeries.

Topham Guerin has worked on conservative election campaigns in New Zealand, Australia and the U.K., and now it’s trying to get Erin O’Toole elected.

Parents and their high-risk kids are heaving a sigh of relief at finally getting protection against the virus that has threatened to derail their already-fragile health for more than a year.

‘Justice belongs to the country, to people,’ says Supreme Court of Canada Justice Rosalie Silberman Abella, in a rare interview after hearing in final case in the top court.

Evidence of a significant fertility drop is mounting across the globe and that could cause significant, long-term problems for Canada’s economy, experts say.

Canadians who work in the digital world say the federal government’s proposed updates to broadcasting regulations could end up hamstringing its own goal of promoting Canadian cultural content.

The author tells Deborah Dundas that ‘We stand once again in the midst of the rubble of truth. And it is for us, writers, thinkers, journalists, philosophers, to undertake the task of rebuilding our readers’ belief in reality, their faith in the ...

Coach Sheldon Keefe says he expects his group to play much better after losing John Tavares and Game 1 of these first round series against the Habs. Follow our live blog for updates all game long.

This version of the Leafs, more recognizable than the one that dropped the series opener against the Canadiens, was animated and flying from the get-go. Auston Matthews set the tone, taking the body at every opportunity, Rosie DiManno writes.

Tavares suffered a knee injury and concussion after falling and colliding with Montreal’s Corey Perry.

Imagine being able to erase an entire season of mediocrity in two weeks. Whatever disappointments you’ve had, everything is better if you win that first series. It happens every year come playoff time — and yet always seems to come as a surprise,...

Meanwhile, California’s top health official says the state no longer will require social distancing and will allow full capacity for businesses when the state reopens on June 15.

A change to visitation guidelines allows residents to meet with two general visitors and two essential caregivers outdoors.

Both Martin and Jordan Groshans, ranked third among Jays prospects, are now focusing on the position, director of player development Gil Kim said recently. That could be tricky, given they both play for the Double-A New Hampshire Fisher Cats.