NEW THIS MORNING | COVID-19 in Ottawa: Fast Facts for Jan. 17, 2021
The latest on COVID-19 in Ottawa for Sunday, Jan. 17, 2021.

The latest on COVID-19 in Ottawa for Sunday, Jan. 17, 2021.
Ottawa Public Health is reporting 136 more people in Ottawa have tested positive for COVID-19 and four more people are in the hospital.
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.
CTVNewsOttawa.ca looks at the top five stories that caught your attention this week.
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 541,000 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.
The town of Beaver Harbour, N.B. is preparing for a huge milestone that’s been 110 years in the making.
A snowmobiler who went missing Jan. 8 was rescued by the Ontario Provincial Police on Jan. 9 near Wawa.
An evening walk took an unwelcome turn for a Winnipeg woman who got locked in a cemetery – much to the amusement of many in the city who rallied behind her calls for some help.
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.
The parents of a 27-year-old Calgary man have been charged following an investigation into alleged neglect.
A young woman from Toronto who was lost on a B.C. mountain overnight has died, according to police.
An Ontario MPP who sent Premier Doug Ford a two-page letter calling the provincial lockdown "deadlier than COVID" has been kicked out of caucus for his "irresponsible" comments.
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.
Tika made her claim to fame with a video of all the outfits she wanted to wear in 2020 but couldn't.
Indigenous music trailblazer Shingoose passed away at 74 from COVID-19.
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.
Some of Canada’s biggest cities are seeing an exodus of people as urbanites move to bedroom communities, according to a recent Statistics Canada report.
In his first hours as president, Joe Biden plans to take executive action to roll back some of the most controversial decisions of his predecessor and to address the raging coronavirus pandemic, his incoming chief of staff said Saturday.
Canada's procurement minister urged drugmaker Pfizer-BioNTech to get the country's COVID-19 vaccine delivery schedule back on track as soon as possible as cases of the novel coronavirus surged past the 700,000 mark on Saturday.
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation's former head of counter-intelligence says it fell to him to tell the RCMP about a spy in the Canadian navy, even though the Canadian Security Intelligence Service was already well aware of Jeffrey Delisle's sale of sensitive secrets to the Russians.
A city government in eastern China says the coronavirus was found on ice cream produced there, prompting a recall of cartons from the same batch.
More than seven in 10 Canadians support or somewhat support barring those who don’t have proof of vaccination from businesses where people are in close contact, according to a new Nanos survey.
Ontario has announced it is extending nearly all emergency orders under the Reopening Ontario Act for an additional 30 days.
No winning ticket was sold for the $5 million jackpot in Saturday night's Lotto 649 draw.
Before a province-wide lockdown was ordered, new data shows people flocked to malls outside of where they live.
Pfizer announced they're cutting production of their COVID-19 vaccine by 50 per cent for the next month.
As Inauguration Day approaches, D.C. is guarded by more American troops than there are in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Hospitals are seeing a rise in tobogganing and sledding injuries and doctors are warning of the dangers.
Officials in Flint, Mich. have been charged seven years after the city's deadly tainted water crisis.