The latest on COVID-19 for Tuesday, April 20, 2021.
Showers Tuesday morning will end but strong wind gusts will stick around throughout the day ahead of snow on Wednesday.
The federal government is unveiling $101.4 billion in new spending, aimed at both supporting the country through the third COVID-19 wave, and stimulating the economic recovery post-pandemic, in a historic budget presented by Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland.
Ottawa's mayor says he doesn't think border checkpoints between Ottawa and Gatineau will last a week, while the city's police chief suggests enforcing them is not sustainable.
An Instagram post showing an Ottawa woman's wait for the emergency room is highlighting the toll the COVID-19 pandemic is taking on other people who need critical care.
Ottawa Public Health reported 203 more people in Ottawa have tested positive for COVID-19, but the number of people in hospital with the disease has jumped significantly.
Ontario is expanding the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine eligibility in pharmacies and primary care settings across Ontario to any individual born in or before 1981 starting Tuesday.
Ottawa police, bylaw and public health officials say newly announced policing measures in Ontario, aimed at curbing the spread of COVID-19, could actually make things worse.
Emergency crews responded to the crash on Franktown Road, between Conley Road and Dwyer Hill Road, at approximately 4 p.m.
The federal Liberal government unveiled plans for anew interprovincial transit office at the National Capital Commission in its 2021 budget on Monday.
Ottawa Public Health is reporting another busy week of local vaccinations as the effort to immunize residents against COVID-19 continues to ramp up.
Ottawa police officers will be stationed 24 hours a day, seven days a week on the Ontario side of the Champlain Bridge, Portage Bridge, Chaudiere Bridge and Macdonald-Cartier Bridge.
Essential workers in the capital who cannot work from home could have first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine by the end of June, according to the leaders of Ottawa's vaccine distribution task force.
Ontario Provincial Police say an 86-year-old was among two drivers recently charged with stunt driving in Renfrew County.
At a time when nothing seems the same or normal, Ottawa’s real estate numbers are consistent.
The federal government unveiled its long-awaited spring budget on Monday, with a focus on navigating taxpayers out of the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic and embarking on the long road to economic recovery, with specific attention paid to the most vulnerable.
Police in western Quebec say a missing six-year-old has been found safe after an overnight search in Val-des-Monts.
A UBC student is urging others to think twice before judging a car and its driver based on its licence plates after a note was left on the vehicle, telling the woman to go back to Ontario.
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There is a new takeout option available if you're looking for a quick bite to eat in the ByWard Market and Old Ottawa South – a pizza vending machine.
The latest on COVID-19 for Tuesday, April 20, 2021.
Ontario is expanding the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine eligibility in pharmacies and primary care settings across Ontario to any individual born in or before 1981 starting Tuesday.
An Instagram post showing an Ottawa woman's wait for the emergency room is highlighting the toll the COVID-19 pandemic is taking on other people who need critical care.
Ottawa police, bylaw and public health officials say newly announced policing measures in Ontario, aimed at curbing the spread of COVID-19, could actually make things worse.
Essential workers in the capital who cannot work from home could have first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine by the end of June, according to the leaders of Ottawa's vaccine distribution task force.
Ottawa police officers will be stationed 24 hours a day, seven days a week on the Ontario side of the Champlain Bridge, Portage Bridge, Chaudiere Bridge and Macdonald-Cartier Bridge.
Ontario Provincial Police say their operations did not change on Saturday after the Ontario government announced and then revised new police powers to enforce the provincial stay-at-home order.
CTVNewsOttawa.ca looks at the back to school plans this week as schools in Ottawa and eastern Ontario shift to remote learning.
There is a new takeout option available if you're looking for a quick bite to eat in the ByWard Market and Old Ottawa South – a pizza vending machine.
The Queensway Carleton Hospital had 30 COVID-19 patients on Friday, including 12 in the ICU.
An Alberta wildlife and conservation expert said it’s unlikely that a hiker who was rescued following a grizzly bear encounter at Waterton Lakes National Park was ever in danger, and over-reacted out of his own fear.
A UBC student is urging others to think twice before judging a car and its driver based on its licence plates after a note was left on the vehicle, telling the woman to go back to Ontario.
The moment the man responsible for Canada's worst mass killing was shot and killed at a gas station in Enfield, N.S. on April 19, 2020, his rampage of terror ended – but a year of grief and questions began. Visit CTVNewsAtlantic.ca for some of the key moments that have taken place since that day.
A dozen elite European football clubs' proposed breakaway league has sparked controversy and condemnation.
A UBC student is speaking out after she returned from a day of skiing to find her vehicle had been keyed.
NASA's experimental Mars helicopter achieved the first powered, controlled flight on another planet.
There are only a handful of cases known worldwide of fraternal twins being conceived at different times.
A statue of Fred Sasakamoose will soon be displayed in Saskatoon.
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Opposition parties will get a chance Tuesday to propose a rewrite to the federal government's massive pandemic budget as debate begins in the House of Commons.
The federal government is unveiling $101.4 billion in new spending, aimed at both supporting the country through the third COVID-19 wave, and stimulating the economic recovery post-pandemic, in a historic budget presented by Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland.
Starting today, those aged 40 and over in Ontario and Alberta are able to get the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine.
The federal government unveiled its long-awaited spring budget on Monday, with a focus on navigating taxpayers out of the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic and embarking on the long road to economic recovery, with specific attention paid to the most vulnerable.
Canada has now administered at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine to 29.52 per cent of the country's eligible population.
Chadian President Idriss Deby Itno, who ruled the central African nation for more than three decades, died Tuesday of wounds suffered on the battlefield during a fight against rebels, the military announced on national television and radio.
In the federal government’s first budget since the start of the pandemic, Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland delivered a plan for $101.4 billion in new spending aimed at getting Canadian businesses through the COVID-19 pandemic and stimulating the economy afterwards.
The federal budget proposes a new tax on luxury goods such as yachts, personal aircraft and cars. The tax would be applied to cars and personal aircraft that retail over $100,000; and boats for personal use that retail over $250,000.
The risk of surface transmission of COVID-19 is low, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday. Far more important is airborne transmission -- and people who obsessively disinfect surfaces may be doing more harm than good.
Ontario has walked back new pandemic police powers and playground restrictions following public backlash.
The number of COVID-19 patients in Ontario hospitals keeps reaching record heights.
Businesses in B.C. will have to pay employees if they need to miss work to get their COVID-19 shots.
Video shows a small plane making an emergency landing near a beach shore in Florida on April 17.
O'Toole rips Trudeau over 2021 budget, says it's 'reckless'
