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A new mother from Sanikiluaq, Nunavut, was put in intensive care in a Winnipeg hospital last week when she tested positive for COVID-19 just days after delivering a baby by caesarean section. She and her family are asking people to take the pandemic seriously.
The province’s network of labs processed 39,406 test samples of the novel coronavirus, and recorded a test positivity rate of 4.6 per cent.
Tessa Virtue, who was named to the Order of Canada with ice dance partner Scott Moir on Friday is swamped with school work these days as part of Queen’s University’s Executive MBA program, one of the new pursuits pushing her out of her comfort zone.
A CBC News crew was deported from Uganda this weekend, despite following protocols laid out for foreign journalists entering the country. The deportation happened about a month before the country’s elections, which critics say won’t be free or fair.
Some senators are pondering how far they should go to protect the rights of Canadians seeking access to medically assisted death, as they consider a bill introduced to bring the Liberal government’s law on the matter into compliance with a Quebec Superior Court ruling from last fall.