Active COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations in Ottawa drop on Sunday; 123 new cases, 1 new death
Ottawa Public Health is reporting 123 more people in the city have tested positive for COVID-19 and one more resident has died.

Ottawa Public Health is reporting 123 more people in the city have tested positive for COVID-19 and one more resident has died.
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.
An Ottawa staple for 60 years, J.A. Laporte Flowers and Nursery is permanently closing its doors.
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 556,000 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 Ottawa Hospital's CEO says if vaccine supply arrives as planned, the entire city will be vaccinated against COVID-19 by the summer.
There are 144 new COVID-19 cases in Ottawa, according to Ottawa Public Health, as the province set a record for most deaths in a single day.
OCDSB secondary schools plan for return to in-person learning Feb 1, 2021.
The latest on COVID-19 in Ottawa for Friday, Jan. 15, 2021.
Ottawa Public Health says 179 more people in Ottawa have tested positive for COVID-19 following a one-day drop in new cases.
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.
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.
Federal Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole says there is 'no place for the far right' in the party.
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.
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.
New Brunswick is reporting 36 new cases of COVID-19 on Sunday, bringing the number of active cases in the province to 292, the largest number of active cases in the province since the pandemic began.
A new study out of the University of Saskatchewan has found that the COVID-19 pandemic has increased unhealthy behaviour in post-secondary students, including poor dietary habits, low activity levels, and high alcohol consumption.
RCMP say they have located a scallop dragger that sank off the coast of southwestern Nova Scotia last month and led to the loss of six fishermen.
Apple, along with Amazon and Google, effectively kicked Parler off the internet in the wake of the January 6 U.S. Capitol siege. Despite criticism that Big Tech wields too much power over speech, Apple CEO Tim Cook defended his decision.
Ontario is reporting a single-day increase in the number of new COVID-19 cases, reporting more than 3,400 new infections and 69 additional deaths.
Quebec reported Sunday that 242,714 people have now tested positive for COVID-19 in the province, and 9,055 people have died due to the disease since the start of the pandemic. Hospitalizations went down by 14.
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A new report from StatsCan says more than 87,000 people have left big cities for smaller nearby communities.
Before a province-wide lockdown was ordered, new data shows people flocked to malls outside of where they live.
Officials in Flint, Mich. have been charged seven years after the city's deadly tainted water crisis.
As Inauguration Day approaches, D.C. is guarded by more American troops than there are in Iraq and Afghanistan.