NEW THIS MORNING | COVID-19 in Ottawa: Fast Facts for Jan. 18, 2021
The latest on COVID-19 in Ottawa for Monday, Jan. 18, 2021.

The latest on COVID-19 in Ottawa for Monday, Jan. 18, 2021.
Ottawa Public Health is reporting 123 more people in the city have tested positive for COVID-19 and one more resident has died.
An Ottawa doctor used some of her free time this weekend to build a large dragon out of snow on her front lawn.
Betty White says she will mark her 99th birthday on Sunday by staying up as late as she wants to 'without asking permission.'
Turning off the camera during Zoom or video meetings can actually help reduce a person's carbon footprint by 96 per cent, a new environmental study finds.
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Ontario Provincial Police say they pulled over a driver whose car was heavily weighed down on Highway 401 and discovered 58 cases of beer.
Victoria Dark did a watercolour painting of her parents' cottage one day on a whim. Now, she has left her government job and her watercolours of homes and buildings in Ottawa are in high demand.
With people ordered to stay at home because of the pandemic, many families are building backyard rinks.
More than 561,000 Canadians have received a COVID-19 vaccine, according to the COVID-19 Canada Open Data Working Group, in a landmark vaccination effort against the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
Ottawa Public Health is reporting 123 more people in the city have tested positive for COVID-19 and one more resident has died.
Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson says recent news that shipments of Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine to Canada would be temporarily cut in half is a setback, but he's still hopeful life in the city can return to a semblance of normality by the summer.
As COVID-19 vaccines are delivered to local long-term care homes, one Ottawa retirement home is battling an outbreak that has so far claimed the lives of four residents.
The Ottawa Hospital's CEO says if vaccine supply arrives as planned, the entire city will be vaccinated against COVID-19 by the summer.
OCDSB secondary schools plan for return to in-person learning Feb 1, 2021.
The money from the GoFundMe would be divided among Kanata and Stittsville restaurants.
Ottawa's sledding hills and skating rinks will stay open with a 25-person limit during Ontario's stay-at-home order.
Raymond Léveillé has been taking pictures of outdoor rinks to raise funds for charity but, with Ontario's new stay-at-home order, his work is not considered essential, so his photographic mission is being put on hold.
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a lot of worry for small business owners in Ottawa, but some are figuring out a way to make the best of a bad situation.
Gatineau police say they've handed out nearly 40 tickets so far to people breaking Quebec's provincewide curfew.
As B.C. looks into limiting interprovincial travel, representatives of the province's tourism and hospitality industry are speaking up in opposition.
Officers in the Quebec provincial police's organized crime squad have twice broken up gatherings in January and handed out over $32,000 in fines for violating public health measures to members affiliated with the Hells Angels motorcycle club.
The parents of a 27-year-old Calgary man have been charged following an investigation into alleged neglect.
Betty White says she is celebrating her 99th birthday by eating a hot dog, feeding her favourite ducks.
An Ontario man known as ‘COVID Elvis’ has made it his mission to put a smile on people's faces.
Hospitals are seeing a rise in tobogganing and sledding injuries and doctors are warning of the dangers.
Ruth Stryzewski has another reason to celebrate ahead of her 109th birthday after recovering from COVID-19.
A man went to great lengths to bring a young deer to safety after it fell through ice.
A Florida waitress says she knew something was wrong when an 11-year-old boy sitting at one of her tables was forbidden from ordering anything to eat.
A source close to the transition team of U.S. president-elect Joe Biden has told CTV News that the new president will kill the Keystone XL pipeline after taking office.
U.S. President Donald Trump is preparing to issue around 100 pardons and commutations on his final full day in office Tuesday, according to three people familiar with the matter, a major batch of clemency actions that includes white collar criminals, high-profile rappers and others but -- as of now -- is not expected to include Trump himself.
Canada has had more than 708,600 total cases of COVID 19, with more than 18,000 associated deaths.
A new report suggests severe weather events in 2020 cost Canadian insurance companies $2.4 billion, with the most costly events coming out of Alberta.
U.S. defence officials say they are worried about an insider attack or other threat from service members involved in securing President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration, prompting the FBI to vet all of the 25,000 National Guard troops coming into Washington for the event.
Federal Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole pushed back against attempts to link his party to Trump-style politics on Sunday, saying there is 'no place for the far right' in the Tories while accusing the Liberals of divisive dirty tricks.
While critics of Canada's vaccine rollout continue to point to the more accelerated COVID-19 vaccine rollout in the United States, Dr. Anthony Fauci says he isn't planning on American life getting back to some semblance of normality any earlier than Canadian officials are aiming for.
As the first terminally ill cancer patient in Canada to legally use so-called magic mushrooms to treat anxiety, Thomas Hartle is hopeful that more temporary approvals from the federal government signal a permanent regulatory regime may be in the works.
Several Canadian experiences from the first Gulf War were collected by Historica Canada and released on Sunday as part of a new video on what is a largely forgotten chapter of Canada's military history.
U.S. COVID-19 deaths near 400,000, hospitals reach capacity
U.S. President-elect Biden plans to scrap the controversial Keystone XL pipeline. CTV's Richard Madan has the details.
CTV's Abby Kuhathasan provides a closer look into the violent attack on Capitol Hill earlier this month.
As Inauguration Day approaches, D.C. is guarded by more American troops than there are in Iraq and Afghanistan.
A new report from StatsCan says more than 87,000 people have left big cities for smaller nearby communities.